!!!Ansfelden

Ansfelden, Upper Austria, town in the district of Linz-Land, alt. 
275 m, pop. 14,636, area 31.41 km%%sup 2/%, on the River 
Traun south of Linz. - Agricultural vocational school; strong economic 
ties to Linz (4,822 employed in 1992, of whom 2,381 were in processing 
trades and industry: Nettingsdorf paper factory, timber processing, 
light metal construction, prefabricated house construction and sales, 
jewellery production, steelworking, window manufacturing machine 
recycling), commerce. - First documented 777, birth house of A. 
Bruckner (now a memorial), Bruckner Center (1996); Gothic-Baroque 
church (first documented 1113), parish house by C. A. Carlone 
(1690-1707); remnants of Ziehberg Castle.

!Further reading
J. Fuchshuber, A. einst und jetzt, 2 vols., 
1987.


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