!!!Hörsching

Hoersching, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Linz-Land, 
alt. 296 m, pop. 5,101, area 19.82 km%%sup 2/%, southwest of 
Linz in the Welser Heide plain. Linz Airport: flight coordination 
centre of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, federal office of 
civil aviation (air traffic control), freight departments of 
international airlines, Austrian air rescue service, Austrian Armed 
Forces (military headquarters for Upper Austria, Vogler air base, 
meteorological information service); pumping station, customs office 
and customs authority department. 3,417 employees 1991, service sector 
dominates (numerous large international forwarding businesses, 
transport companies, central depot of a trading chain for Upper 
Austria and Salzburg). Manufacturing industry: dye works, plastics 
industry (Perspex), steel processing (large fitting shop, boiler 
construction), manufacture of shower screens and mirror cabinets, 
mill, concrete factory, production of bituminous emulsion, separation 
plant for industrial waste currently under construction. In the 
vicinity (Rutzing, Holzleiten), ancient cemeteries and Celtic 
settlement (reconstructed). Granted status of market town in 1993. 
Parish church with Romanesque and Gothic components, extensive 
alterations, late-Baroque high altar, painting by F. A. 
Maulbertsch (1771); tombs (16%%sup th/% /17%%sup th/%  centuries)


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