!!!Döllersheim

Doellersheim, former market town in Lower Austria, district of Zwettl, 
1934: pop. 754, 173 houses, area 13.97 km%%sup 2/%. The whole area 
between Allentsteig and Kamp, Zwettl Monastery and Neupoella (42 
villages, 6 farm buildings, 10 mills, 1,389 buildings, pop. 6,800, 
alt. 470-630 m) was cleared from 1938 on and used as a  Training 
Area by the German Wehrmacht. In 1941/42 the municipality was 
dissolved and a military district created instead. From 1945 to 1955 
the military training area was used by the Soviet army, since 1957 
used by the Austrian army, reduced in size to 157 km%%sup 2/% and 
named after  Allentsteig. The church and cemetery in Doellersheim have 
been renovated and the ruins of the Citizens' hospital preserved.

!Literature
M. Schindler, Wegmuessen. Die Entsiedelung des Raumes 
Doellersheim, 1988; Der Truppenuebungsplatz Allentsteig, Studien und 
Forschungen des Niederoesterreichischen Inst. fuer Landeskunde 17, 
1991.


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