!!!Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting

Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting, Upper Austria, market town in the district 
of Wels-Land, alt. 387 m, pop. 2,300, area 24.32 km%%sup 2/%, spa 
town on a terrace near mud bath, health tourism (28,800 overnight 
stays); Austrian Mud and Pelotherapy Research Institute, mud and 
pelotherapy museum in the Paracelsushaus, museums of local history, 
traffic and young marksmen, Budweis railway museum, steel 
construction, wood working, button factory. First documentary mention 
in 1103, development as a spa town after 1940, Baroque parish church 
(altered 1688-1691 by C. A. Carlone, remains of the earlier Gothic 
parts of the church), palace (13%%sup th/%  century, existing in its 
present form since around 1730), ruin site of the former moated castle 
of Neydharting (approx. 1525), Roman "villa rustica" (approx. 100 
A.D., unearthed in 1951) in the Totenhoelzl woodland, Neydhartinger 
Moor nature reserve.

!Literature
O. Stoeber, Ewiges Moor von Neydharting, 1970.


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