!!!Eggenburg

Eggenburg, Lower Austria, town in the district of Horn, alt. 
329 m, pop. 3,625, area 23.52 km%%sup 2/%, on the river 
Schmida, at the northeastern edge of Manhartsberg hill, on the border 
between the regions of Waldviertel and Weinviertel. - District court, 
Chamber of Agricultural and Allied Workers. - Fire-brigade 
headquarters, branch of the provincial government of Lower Austria 
(building and construction department), office of weights and 
measures, special hospital, Krahuletz Museum (established 1902, named 
after the gunsmith J. Krahuletz; documents the prehistoric period and 
folklore of the Eggenburg region), Technological and Motorcycle 
Museum, multi-purpose complex, "Lindenhof" apprentices´ home of 
the City of Vienna, media and communications centre of northern Lower 
Austria, multi-purpose hall; professional school for car mechanics, 
adult education centre; services are dominant, especially the 
personal, social and public service sectors (apprentices´ home, 
hospital); of a total of 1,817 people employed in E. in 1991, service 
sector employment accounted for 58%, large-scale forwarding agency; 
industries include metal processing (special-purpose locks and keys, 
wire mesh), electronics (telecommunications) and synthetic materials, 
large butchery, pasta factory and sawmill.

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Ancient area of settlement (Palaeolithic age, Hallstatt period), first 
documented mention 1125, castle town; late Gothic town parish church: 
hall church with three naves, high Gothic choir (around 1340), 2 
Romanesque towers (12%%sup th/%  century), winged altar-piece 
(1521) and stone pulpit (1515), which resembles the stone pulpit 
carved by A. Pilgram in St. Stephen´s Cathedral in Vienna; 
Franciscan monastery (1460-1787), since 1833 Redemptorist monastery 
and church (Gothic nucleus), citizens´ hospital with Gothic 
chapel (Stone Museum); medieval town fortification mainly preserved 
(walls with a height up to 8 m with towers from the 15%%sup th/%  
century, former moat); former castle; main square with medieval 
foundation elements ("Bemaltes Haus" - "painted house" built 1547), 
Baroque carved columns (Zogelsdorf sandstone); Calvary east of 
Eggenburg at Vitusberg (Stations of the Cross, 1725-1729).

!Literature
H. Brandstetter, Eggenburg, Geschichte und Kultur, 1986; 
L. Brunner, Eggenburg, Geschichte einer niederoesterreichischen Stadt, 
2 vols., 1933/39; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreich, 1988.


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