!!!Gaming

Gaming, Lower Austria market town in the district of Scheibbs, alt. 
431 m, pop. 3,793, area 243.94 km%%sup 2/%, popular 
destination for summer tourists (145,743 overnight stays), situated by 
the Gamingbach stream in the Eisenwurzen region. - District Chamber of 
Agriculture, Lower Austrian Youth Centre, agricultural school, 
hydroelectric power station (established 1923-1926) formerly called 
Pockau, today Gaming 1 (38,831 MWh), power station 
Gaming 2 (6,027 MWh), both supplied with Alpine spring water 
from the Vienna water mains; production of steel bottles. Previously, 
hammer mills between Kienberg and G. (only "Grabner-Hammer" 
hammer mill preserved as a museum), abandoned hard-coal mine. - Former 
Carthusian monastery with 20 monk's cells, founded 1332, dissolved 
1782; monument to Albrecht II and his spouse, Johanna von Pfirt, 
today hotel and centre for cultural events (Chopin Festival since 
1985), with two courts as the architectural centre of the complex. 
Abbey church (1332-1342) with tripartite choir (renovated around 
1620), elaborate marble portal (1631). Splendid library interior with 
Baroque frescos by W. L. Reiner. Late-Gothic parish church in the 
centre of the village; pillory (1643). Herminenquelle spa to the east 
of G. Oetscher-Tormaeuer national park with Treffling waterfalls and 
Oetscher stalactite cave.

!Literature
650 Jahre Kartause G.: Vielfalt des Heilens - 
Ganzheitsmedizin, exhibition catalogue, Kartause Gaming, 1992.


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