!!!Bad Deutsch-Altenburg

Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Bruck an der Leitha, alt.148 m, pop. 1,275, area 12.58 
km%%sup 2/%, health resort lying along the right (south) bank of the 
Danube, at the foot of Hundsheimer Berg hill (480 m). Waterway 
administration centre for eastern Austria, therapy centre (treatment 
of rheumatism) with thermal indoor pool (hot springs with highest 
iodine-sulphur content in Central Europe with up to 28° C, 
already used by the Romans), spa park, museum Carnuntinum (1904) with 
Roman findings from the excavation site of  Carnuntum (between towns 
Bad Deutsch-Altenburg and Petronell), amphitheatre, Danube bridge, 
popular destination for day trips, health tourism (106,427 overnight 
stays), gravel production. Important Romanesque colonnade basilica 
(13%%sup th/%  century) with Gothic chancel (14%%sup th/%  century) 
and Gothic west tower; late Romanesque ossuary with circular ground 
plan (13%%sup th/%  century), Ludwigstorff moated castle (17%%sup th/% 
 century), Biedermeier mansions.

!Literature
G. Sesztak, Studien zur Ortsgeschichte von 
Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1974; F. Muellner, 
Aus der Geschichte des Kurortes Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, 1979.


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