!!!Bad Leonfelden

Bad Leonfelden, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Urfahr-Umgebung, alt. 750 m, pop. 3,419 (1981: pop. 3,048), area 
40.29 km%%sup 2/%, leading town of the central Muehlviertel region at 
the edge of the Bohemian Forest near the Czech border, health resort 
known for its mud bath and Kneipp therapy (therapy after the German 
priest S. Kneipp combining cold water treatment, diets and outdoor 
exercise). District Court, health insurance office for the province of 
Upper Austria, custom house, Austrian study group for independent 
regional development, therapy centre (treatment of heart and vascular 
diseases), therapy home, culture and leisuretime centre; schools: 
Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, School of Tourism, 
boarding school of the Upper Austrian Studentenwerk (independent 
institution for social assistance of students); tourism (71,372 
overnight stays), textiles and gingerbread production; local history 
museum and school museum for the province of Upper Austria in former 
hospital church; woodland trail, Gothic St. Bartholomew church (late 
Gothic Mount of Olives statues, altered 1877), town hall (1608), 
pilgrimage church Maria Schutz in Bruendl (part of the town, 1761, 
Rococo interior) with fountain underneath the high altar, remains of a 
medieval fortification (Schwedenschanze).

!Literature
B. Hofer, Die Geschichte des Marktes Bad Leonfelden, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1954.


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