Haag#

Haag, Lower Austria, town in the district of Amstetten, alt. 346 m, pop. 5,146, area 54.78 km2, situated in western Lower Austria close to its border with Upper Austria - District court, local Chamber of Farmers, branch offices of the District Commission and the Amstetten Employment Services, youth welfare office, festival hall, Caritas and Lebenshilfe welfare organisations, open-air museum (agricultural buildings with furniture and equipment) and museum of the Mostviertel region (since 1969, household and agricultural equipment); zoological garden (33 hectares, in the grounds of Salaberg Castle); schools: Hoehere Bundeslehranstalt fuer wirtschaftliche Berufe (federal commercial college), landwirtschaftliche Fachschule (college of agriculture), adult education centre; sale of buses, large-scale paint shop, production of children´s wear, heat pumps, heating elements, sports goods and sports equipment. - First documented mention 1061/62, granted town status in 1933; late-Gothic parish church, imposing formerly fortified staggered church from the 15th century with reticulated rib vaulting, choir (1433) and tracery windows (1892/93 re-Gothicised); Schloss Salaberg Renaissance castle, extensive buildings from the 16th century with extensions dating from 1637 and 1677, high-Baroque gardens with sculptures and charming bathing grotto, castle chapel consecrated in 1698.

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