!!!Böheimkirchen

Boeheimkirchen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of St. 
Poelten, alt. 247 m, pop. 4,145, area 45.58 km%%sup 2/%, situated in 
the Upper Perschlingtal valley on the edge of the Alpine foreland east 
of St. Poelten. - River regulation depot; wood and metal processing (2 
furniture-production companies, large metalworking shops). - 
Fortification from the early Bronze Age on the Boeheimkirchen plateau 
(bronze processing); also rich pottery finds (several tons), 
fortification is therefore thought to date from the 17%%sup th/% 
-16%%sup th/%  centuries B.C. Parish church (1731-1734) with Gothic 
choir and late Gothic western tower. Area around Boeheimkirchen: 
Romanesque subsidiary church at Lanzendorf with leaning western tower 
(Gothic); church of St. Peter am Anger at Ausserkasten (early Baroque 
high altar), Carmelite convent of Maria Jeutendorf, Neutenstein castle 
at Untergrafendorf.

!Literature
W. Haeusler, Geschichte von Boeheimkirchen, 1985.


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