!!!Alkoven

Alkoven, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of Eferding, alt. 
268 m, pop. 4,776, area 42.60 km%%sup 2/%, between Linz and 
Eferding at the confluence of the Innbach river and the Danube. - 
Production of work clothing, plastic profiling and polyester 
synthetics, metal processing, zinc coating. - First documented in 777 
as "Allinchofa", late Gothic staggered church (around 1500, renovated 
in 19th century), pilgrimage destination in the 17th century 
(Annaberg), Hartheim Renaissance palace (completed 1610, "euthanasia 
and annihilation institute" 1940-1944, now Institute for the Disabled 
of the Oberoesterreichischer Landeswohltaetigkeitsverein/Upper 
Austrian Provincial Charity Association); memorial to the Peasants' 
Wars in Emlingerholz (in 1626 3,000 farmers were killed in battle 
there).


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