!!!Amstetten

Amstetten, Lower Austria, town in the district of Amstetten, alt. 
281 m, pop. 21,972 (1981: pop. 21,989), area 
52.19 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town in Ybbstal Valley in the 
Alpine foothills. - Most important district centre in southwestern 
Lower Austria; school centre, railway junction (since 1872), garrison 
(Ostarrichi-Kaserne barracks), District Commission, District Court, 
Tax Authority and Standards Authority (calibrations for weights and 
measures), Employment Services, District Chamber of Agriculture and 
Allied Workers, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Labour, Chamber of 
Agricultural and Allied Workers, hospital, outpatient clinic, hostel 
of the Salesians of Don Bosco, J. Poelz Hall, electrical power plant 
(Allersdorf); schools: Bundesgymnasium secondary school, 
Handelskademie (commercial academy), Hoehere Bundes-Lehranstalt for 
business professions, Federal Institution for pre-school education, 
specialised school, vocational school for metalworking trades; summer 
operetta festival (since 1982); more than 50% of the 15,060 employed 
people (1991) are in the service sector (esp. commerce, public 
service, health care); also timber processing and metal processing 
(Umdasch Industrie GmbH, Baumetall Amstetten 
Ges. m. b. H.), chemical, concrete and artificial 
stone, paper, glass, clothing and food industries. - Incorporated as 
town in 1897; lentiform market square, town hall (1898); landowners' 
town houses with historicist and art nouveau façades; parish 
church of St. Stephen: staggered Gothic church (14th-15th 
centuries), reticulated vault (around 1500), baptistry with irregular 
star-ribbed vault, fresco remnants and epitaphs from the 16th century; 
Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Sacred Heart Church, 1899) in neo-Romanesque form, 
completed 1931; Heilandskirche Protestant church (1955-1957); 
St. Agatha filial church in Dornach, first documented 1275, 
Gothic fortified church, Romanesque core, with high, raised 
late-Gothic choir (1513). Most important find of the Roman treasure in 
Austria in the cadastral district of  Mauer bei Amstetten; Roman 
burial finds in Hausmening; Castle of Ulmerfeld (14%%sup th/% 
-15%%sup th/%  century) with castle keep, Gothic chapel ("Life of 
Mary" frescoes, around 1360) and museum of local history. Castle 
of Edla, with armoury collection.

!Further reading
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, 
part 1, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1988; L. Pelzl, 
Heimatgeschichte Amstetten von der Urzeit bis 1683, 1991; 
Stadtgemeinde Amstetten (ed.), Amstetten. 100 Jahre Stadt, 1997.


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