!!!Burgschleinitz-Kühnring

Burgschleinitz-Kuehnring, Lower Austria, market town in the district 
of Horn, alt. 376 m, pop. 1,313, area 41.85 km%%sup 2/%; situated 
south of Eggenburg on the eastern edge of the Waldviertel region. - 
Burgschleinitz castle, three-winged complex built around 1589; 
Romanesque parish church in the centre, with Baroque decorations from 
1728; frescoes and round charnel house dating from the 15%%sup th/%  
century. Ruin of Kuehnring castle (former seat of the Kuenring 
family), with Romanesque chapel which was altered in 1594 and 1660 and 
which now serves as parish church of Kuehnring; round charnel house 
dating from the 14%%sup th/%  century. The moated castle of 
Harmannsdorf was built around a medieval tower in the 16%%sup th/%  
century and enlarged around 1866; park attached to the castle laid out 
in 1760.

!Literature
B. Gaspar, Aus der Vergangenheit unserer Gemeinde, 1988.


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