!!!Gänserndorf

Gaenserndorf, Lower Austria, town (1958) in the district of 
Gaenserndorf, alt. 167 m, pop. 6,509 (1981: pop. 4,916), area 
30.56 km%%sup 2/%, economic and administrative centre of the 
northern Marchfeld region. Due to the good transport link with Vienna 
(rapid transit lines) G. has become a residential suburb with 
commuting to Vienna. - Headquarters of the district authority, 
district and labour courts, tax office, employment services, Chamber 
of Labour, Economic Chamber, District Chamber of Agricultural and 
Allied Workers, district headquarters of the fire brigade, health and 
social insurance agency, Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut (WIFI, 
Institute of Economic Research), co-ordination centre for applicants 
for political asylum and refugees, social centre of the Lower Austrian 
Hilfswerk welfare organisation, local history and petroleum museum, 
riding grounds, safari and adventure park (since 1972, approx. 50 
species), sports hall, Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium 
secondary schools commercial academy (Handelsakademie, HAK). 4,071 
persons employed in 1991: especially petroleum and mining industry 
(petroleum and natural gas company of the OMV group), service sector, 
social and public services, manufacturing crafts and industries; 
windows factory, production of food preservatives, concrete mixing 
works. - First documented mention 1115; basically late-Romanesque 
parish church with Gothic choir, Baroque reconstruction 1695 (expanded 
1960/61); town hall (former nobleman´s house, originally 
16%%sup th/%  century); monumental fountain (1964).

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1988; F. Mueller, Gaenserndorf, 1989.


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