!!!Ebenfurth

Ebenfurth, Lower Austria, town in the district of Wiener Neustadt, 
alt. 230 m, pop. 2,359, area 23.57 km%%sup 2/%, minor 
traffic junction on the river Leitha, in the southern part of the 
Vienna Basin, on the border between Lower Austria and Burgenland. - 
Water engine of the Baden water works, transformer station; building 
and construction industry, trade (especially building machinery), 
manufacture of upholstered furniture, satellite aerials, wood 
processing. - Border town, in the 19%%sup th/%  century important 
industrial centre. Originally Gothic parish church of St. Ulrich, 
later remodelled in Baroque style, high altar paintings (1721) by 
J. G. Schmidt, fragments of Gothic frescoes (15%%sup th/%  
century); Trinity obelisk (1713); the castle goes back to a 
13%%sup th/%  century moated castle, it was reconstructed as a 
two-towered castle in the 17%%sup th/%  century and rebuilt in the 
18%%sup th/%  century (French gardens), ceiling frescoes by F. A. 
Maulbertsch (1754).

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die 
Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1988.


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