!!!Aspach

Aspach, Upper Austria, market town (town status conferred 1928) in the 
district of Braunau, alt. 443 m, pop. 2,225, area 
31.46 km%%sup 2/%, Kneipp hydrotherapy resort town in the upper 
Innviertel region at the northern edge of the Kobernausserwald hills. 
- Health resort and rest home of the Marian Sisters, Institute for 
Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine; health resort tourism (28,282 
overnight stays), small trade businesses, brewery. - Originally 
Romanesque parish church (first documented 1047) rebuilt in Gothic 
style (15th/16th centuries) with high-quality Baroque interior 
(1676-1689) by the Zuern-Werkstaette and the Schwanthaler Family. Tomb 
of Hans von Dachsberg (1513) by Joerg Gartner. E. S. Piccolomini (Pope 
Pius II) was parish priest 1444-1447, probable patron of the Altar of 
the Twelve Apostles.

!Further reading
G. F. Koller, Aspach und Umgebung, 1985.


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