!!!Allentsteig

Allentsteig, Lower Austria, town in the district of Zwettl, alt. 
550 m, pop. 2,447, area 71.42 km%%sup 2/%, in the headwater 
region of the Kleine Thaya. - District Farmers´ Chamber, 
hospital, Liechtensteinkaserne barracks and military training area, 
army forest administration, Waldviertler Jugenddorf Allentsteig 
(Waldviertel region youth village), Lower Austrian Provincial Youth 
Home; economy dominated by the garrison. - First documented 1150; 
church and former castle of the Kuenringers (around 1100, rebuilt 16th 
century), with keep; dairy farm (16th century, 
Aussiedlermuseum/Evacuee Museum). Villages evacuated ( Doellersheim) 
for construction of military training area (1938), which has been used 
by the Austrian Federal Army since 1957.

!Further reading
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1988.


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