!!!Artstetten-Pöbring

Artstetten-Poebring, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Melk, alt. 395 m, pop. 1,170, area 27.28 km%%sup 2/%, north 
of Poechlarn. - Artstetten Palace with its 6 Renaissance towers was 
acquired by the Emperor Franz I in 1823 and came into the 
possession of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1896, who was buried with 
his wife Sophie in the tomb of the Palace's parish church (designed in 
1909, with painting by Kremser Schmidt and objects from Franz 
Ferdinand's possessions). The Archduke Franz Ferdinand Museum has now 
been integrated into the Palace, which is now owned by Franz 
Ferdinand's descendants.


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