!!!Brunn am Gebirge Brunn am Gebirge, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Moedling, alt. 221 m, pop. 8,573, area 7.26 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the fringe of the southern Vienna Woods between Vienna and Moedling. - Monastery and congregation of the School Sisters, girls' boarding house, golf course, museum of local history and culture with a memorial to R. Steiner; army clothing institution; hotel for seminars; around 63 % of all employed people work in the service sector; expanding trade; numerous production firms: glass industry, zinc coating, production of insulating material, lattice, pumps, plastic, paper, candles, fine-mechanical devices and gingerbread; machine tools, electric machines, concrete works, furniture factory; viticulture. - Neolithic settlement (6000 B.C.); Roman grave portrait (woman in Noric-Pannonian costume, around 100 AC; only example of a painted grave portrait in Austria, exhibited in the museum of local history and culture); late Gothic pilgrimage church (15%%sup th/% -16%%sup th/% century) with tracery windows and Baroque altar (17%%sup th/% century), church re-Gothicised. !Literature F. Opll, Perchtoldsdorf, Brunn am Gebirge, Maria Enzersdorf am Gebirge, 1984. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Brunn_am_Gebirge|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]