!!!Fischamend

Fischamend, Lower Austria, town in the district of Wien-Umgebung, alt. 
156 m, pop. 4,417, area 24.94 km%%sup 2/%, situated at the mouth of 
the River Fischa on the Danube southeast of Vienna; comprises the 
cadastral districts of Fischamend-Markt and Fischamend-Dorf. - Water 
works, sports centre; window manufacturing, chemical industry, air 
containers. - Mentioned as Aequinoctium in the Tabula Peutingeriana 
and the Itinerarium Antonini, it is also mentioned in the late 
classical work Notitia Dignitatum as the site of a cavalry unit 
(equites Dalmatae). Archeologists have excavated Roman findings from 
the 2%%sup nd/%  through the 4%%sup th/%  century A.D. There have been 
two settlements on both the right and left bank of the River Fischa 
since the Middle Ages. Chartered town city since 1986. Baroque parish 
church (1715-1730) with a painting of the Last Supper by F. A. 
Maulbertsch (around 1765), medieval subsidiary church built before 
1400 with Rococo interior. Early Baroque market tower with a museum of 
local history (founded in 1927).

!Literature
E. Molfenter, Fischamend. Ein Heimatbuch, 1964.


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