!!!Grieskirchen

Grieskirchen, Upper Austria, town in the district of Grieskirchen, 
alt. 335 m, pop. 4,960, 11.70 km%%sup 2/%, north-west of 
Wels, in the Trattnachtal valley. - District Commission, district 
court, inland revenue office and employment services, provincial 
health and social insurance offices, hospital of the School Sisters, 
Chamber of Labour and District Chamber of Agriculture, Economic 
Chamber, Vocational training Institute, function hall, Trattnachtal 
Stadium, Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school; art centre in 
Parz Castle; service sector predominant (approx. 54 % of the 
working population, 1991, mainly personal, social and public services, 
finance and insurance, trade); production of agricultural machinery, 
boilers, loading platforms and containers for lorries, metal gratings, 
toys, lamps, traditional mountings and fittings, cooking cheese; 
brewery, malthouse, flour mill (one of the most modern in Europe). - 
First mentioned in 1075, first mentioned as market town in 1343, town 
since 1613. Early Gothic parish church, Baroque alterations in 1702, 
pier altars in the nave (1766) by M. Goetz; Calvary Chapel (1734), 
Rococo town hall, folklore museum (focus on the history of the 
weaver's guild). Town houses from the period around 1600 with Rococo 
façades, arcades and oriel windows.

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. I, Oberoesterreich, 1968; H. 
Leeb, Beitraege zur Geschichte von Grieskirchen und Umgebung, 1956.


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