!!!Gumpoldskirchen

Gumpoldskirchen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Moedling, alt. 250 m, pop. 2,982, area 8.11 km%%sup 2/%, 
wine-growing town at the foot of the Anninger mountain (674 m) on 
the edge of the Vienna Basin; 1938-1945 part of "Greater Vienna". - 
Federal Winery Inspectorate (external office), control station of the 
1%%sup st/%  springwater pipeline to Vienna, sports centre, College of 
Viticulture (since 1898); approx. 64 % of the working population 
employed (1991) in the production sector: leather factory, production 
of preserved fruit and vegetables, chemical industry, machine and 
apparatus construction, lime and stone-crushing works; wine-growing 
and wine taverns, tourism (29,303 overnight stays). First documented 
1120-1130,by the Middle Ages already an important wine-growing and 
wine trade town; today 200 wine-growers with an annual production of 
about 17,000 hectolitres, typical wines are the "Zierfandler", 
"Rotgipfler" and "Spaet-Rotgipfler". - Parish church, former church of 
the Teutonic Order (1%%sup st/%  half of the 15%%sup th/%  century), 
with massive tower and former commandery house (late Baroque palace), 
surrounded by the remains of a fortified wall; Renaissance town hall 
(16%%sup th/%  century) with prominent corner tower and arcades; 
typical winegrowers´ houses (6%%sup th/%  -18%%sup th/%  
centuries), some with Biedermeier façades; pillory (1563).

!Literature
J. Hagenauer, 850 Jahre Gumpoldskirchen, 1990; K. 
Neumaier, Heimatbuch von Gumpoldskirchen, 1948.


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