!!!Ardagger

Ardagger, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Amstetten, 
alt. 250 m, pop. 3,123, area 47.28 km%%sup 2/%, comprises the towns of 
Ardagger Markt and Ardagger Stift, north of Amstetten at the entrance 
to the Strudengau valley. - Pumping plant of the Oesterreichische 
Donaukraftwerke AG (Austrian Danube power plant operator). - 
Gothic-Baroque parish church of St. Nicholas in Ardagger Markt. - 
Ardagger Stift: The collegiate monastery (founded in 1049) with its 
17th-century buildings was closed in 1784 and transformed into a 
palace in 1813. Earlier collegiate church of St. Margaret, late 
Romanesque basilica (consecrated 1063, altered in the 2nd quarter of 
the 13th century) with raised choir and crypt beneath; Baroque stucco 
interior (1678). St. Margaret's window (1230-1240) is the oldest 
figural stained-glass work in Austria. The municipality is also home 
to a "Wehrmachtsmuseum" (military museum) with World War II weapons 
and the like.


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