!!!Ebreichsdorf

Ebreichsdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Baden, 
alt. 202 m, pop. 7,353 (1981: pop. 5,607), area 
43.23 km%%sup 2/%, road junction, industrial and commercial 
centre in Piestingtal valley in the southern part of the Vienna Basin. 
- Golf course, social welfare department of Baden youth office, 
cultural centre; in 1991, 55 % of the workforce were engaged in 
manufacturing, dominant sector is metal processing (Nirosta products, 
special-purpose machinery, apparatus engineering, steel 
constructions); others include wood processing (large-scale joinery), 
production of fodder and prefabricated houses, book printing; 
important service sectors are trade, personal, social and public 
services. - Former cloth factory (18%%sup th/%  century); late Gothic 
parish church of St. Andrew with some Romanesque elements, 
reconstructed in Baroque style in 1705/06. Trinity obelisk from the 
early 18%%sup th/%  century; Renaissance castle (1581-1588), with two 
towers and arcaded courtyard, in 1704/05 and 1890 historicist 
reconstruction; Gothic chapel (around 1400). In the village of 
Weigelsdorf, Gothic parish church (documented before 1282) with 
Romanesque elements and stone reliefs which are thought to be 
pre-Romanesque.

!Literature
O. Pasteka, Pfarrgeschichte von Ebreichsdorf, 1983.


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