!!!Eferding

Eferding, Upper Austria, town in the district of Eferding, alt. 
271 m, pop. 3,152, area 2.81 km%%sup 2/%, main town and 
economic centre of the Eferding Basin. - District Commission, district 
court, district Chamber of Agricultural and Allied Workers, district 
waste management association, local branch of district health and 
social insurance agency, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, sports 
hall, HAK - commercial academy, sports aerodrome, Carmelite Sisters of 
Mary, Convent of St. Clare at Pupping.

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Crafts and trades, industry (construction) and commercial firms 
employed about 54 % of the 2,803 employed persons in 1991, 
important sectors are the production of office furniture, synthetic 
materials and textile industry (work clothes, jeans), building 
carpentry, acoustic installations (plaster boards for sound 
insulation), transport and building enterprises, fruit and vegetable 
growing and wholesale trade (about 30 traders). E. supplies 
agricultural products to the industrial towns of Linz and Wels. In the 
neighbouring municipality of Hinzenbach: brick industry, fruit and 
vegetable canning; in Fraham production of curtain rails and 
fire-resistant doors.

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Settlement dating back to Roman times (finds from the 2%%sup nd/%  
half of the 1%%sup st/%  century A.D.), was in possession of Passau in 
the 12%%sup th/%  century, later residence of the Counts of  
Schaunberg and the Counts of  Starhemberg (1559-1848). The gate and 
the moat of the town fortifications have been preserved. Late Gothic 
parish church of St. Hippolytus, enormous hall church with the 
aisles lower than the nave (1451-1497), with an impressive tower, high 
Baroque and neo-Gothic altars, late Gothic sculptures as well as late 
Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque memorials; hospital church, with 
Gothic nucleus (14%%sup th/%  century), later redecorated in Baroque 
style, high altar (1623); high Gothic Magdalen chapel with frescoes 
(around 1430); Protestant church (1831-1834); castle (first documented 
mention 1255, now houses the Town Museum and the  Starhemberg Family 
Museum), irregular rectangular construction, parts of the town 
fortification which was built in 1416 and in the 16%%sup th/%  century 
have been preserved, gardens (1784); late Gothic burgher houses with 
Baroque and Classicist façades.

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. I, Oberoesterreich, 1968.


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