!!!Deutsch-Wagram

Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, town in the district of Gaenserndorf, 
alt. 159 m, pop. 6,111 (1981: pop. 5,021), area 
30.61 km%%sup 2/%, centre of the north-western Marchfeld plain on 
the Russbach river; good traffic connections (rapid transit line, 
northern railway) made it a residential suburb of Vienna. - 
Headquarters of the Marchfeld Canal Company, regional headquarters of 
the EVN AG (Lower Austrian Energy Network); economic structure 
dominated by industry and commerce: production of concrete and cast 
stones, building materials, metal furniture, corrugated cardboard, 
equipment for electric cranes and a large service centre for railway 
carriages; some trade. - First documented around 1250 as "Wachrain", 
scene of the battle between Archduke Karl and Napoleon (July 5 and 6, 
1809), end of the 1%%sup st/%  Austrian steam railway line from 
Floridsdorf to Deutsch-Wagram 1838; oldest railway station building in 
Austria (1847); oldest water station (1852); town status since 1984; 
parish church (1956-1958) with late Gothic choir (15%%sup th/%  
century) and Romanesque tower.

!Literature
O. Schilder, Deutsch-Wagram. Vom Angerdorf zur 
Stadtgemeinde. 1258-1984, 1985; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, 
part 1, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1988.


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