!!!Dobersberg

Dobersberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Waidhofen an 
der Thaya, alt. 465 m, pop. 1,801 (1981: pop. 1,897), area 
47.60 km%%sup 2/%, on the River Thaya, near the border to the 
Czech Republic in the northern Waldviertel region. - District Chamber 
of Agriculture, Lower Austrian district agricultural authorities, 
civilian airfield, landscape preservation area (includes the cadastral 
districts of D., Riegers and Merkengersch), nature preserve; wood 
manufacturing, production of textiles. - First documented in 1112, 
parish church with Gothic choir, Baroque nave and late Gothic 
tabernacle, Dobersberg castle (around 1570, altered in 1805, renovated 
in 1972) with collections of insects and minerals and large park, now 
municipal administrative offices.

!Literature
Naturparkverein Dobersberg (ed.), Thayatal Naturpark 
Dobersberg, 1982.


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