!!!Drosendorf-Zissersdorf

Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Lower Austria, town in the district of Horn, 
alt. 421 m, pop. 1,414, area 53.46 km%%sup 2/%, located on 
the River Thaya, at the border with the Czech Republic in the northern 
Waldviertel region. - Border crossing (Oberthuernau). - First 
documented mention 1188, laid out as fortified town on a rocky knoll 
at the end of the 12%%sup th/%  century; fortifications partly 
preserved: curtain wall, Horner Tor gate to the east, Raabser Tor gate 
to the west (16%%sup th/% -17%%sup th/%  century), town castle 
(12%%sup th/%  century), converted into a palace in the 17th and 18th 
centuries, late-Gothic parish church (partially renovated in the 
17%%sup th/%  century), late-Gothic (1461-63) church of St. Martin 
with old gravestones decorated with coats of arms, Baroque 
alterations; town hall, town houses (16%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  
century), pillory, Trinity column.

!Literature
I. Franz, Drosendorf an der Thaya, 1959; Oesterr. 
Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1988.


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