!!!Groß-Gerungs

Gross-Gerungs, Lower Austria, town in the district of Zwettl, alt. 
675 m, pop. 4,812, area 105.88 km%%sup 2/%, in the valley of 
the River Zwettl, in the western Waldviertel region. - Youth welfare 
office (District Commission of Zwettl), District Chamber of 
Agriculture, construction department of the Lower Austrian provincial 
government, mineral baths (rehabilitation centre) for heart-disease 
patients, diverse economic structure: commercial and industrial 
enterprises (textile factory, production of building materials and 
windows, wood processing), construction industry, trade, social 
services (health resort), bi-seasonal tourism (55,699 overnight 
stays). - First documented in 1261; Romanesque-Gothic parish church 
(12%%sup th/%  -14%%sup th/%  centuries), parts redecorated in Baroque 
style (1760), gallery added in 1953; town houses of landowners 
("Ackerbuergerhaus", 19%%sup th/%  century) and column dedicated to 
the Virgin Mary (1697) on the main square.

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, 
Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs., 1988; Stadtgemeinde Gross-Gerungs 
(ed.), Heimatbuch Gross-Gerungs, 1999.


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