!!!Aggsbach

Aggsbach Markt, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Krems an 
der Donau, alt. 214 m, pop. 735, area 13.72 km%%sup 2/%, on 
the northern bank of the Danube in the Wachau Valley, at the mouth of 
the Endlingbach stream. - Wachau fireworks factory. - First documented 
in 1148 as "Accusabah"; Late Romanesque parish church (end of 
13th century) changed to Baroque style, old residential houses 
(16th century). The  "Venus von Willendorf" (Venus of Willendorf) was 
found within the market town of Aggsbach; in addition, Paleolithic 
cooking hearths, stone instruments, and a human molar from around 
25,000 B.C. were found there.


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