!!!Hardegg, Stadt

Hardegg, Lower Austria, town in the district of Hollabrunn, alt. 
290 m, pop. 1,652 (1981: pop. 1,904), area 93.37 km%%sup 2/%, 
once Austria´s smallest town, situated on the River Thaya at the 
border to the Czech Republic, in the northern Waldviertel region. - 
Customs office and customs authority department. Hardegg is situated 
between the nature reserves of Thayatal I (1989, 
350 hectares) and Thayatal II (1992, 400 hectares). 
Discussions are currently in progress on the creation of a 
cross-border national park by uniting the Thayatal reserves with a 
nature reserve (6,300 hectares) situated on the other side of the 
River Thaya in the Czech Republic. Summer tourism, popular destination 
for day-trips, agriculture. - First documented mention 1145, 
documented mention as town 1290. Medieval fortification around the 
castle and the parish largely preserved; Romanesque-Gothic-Baroque 
parish church; Romanesque charnel house (around 1150-1160); Hardegg 
Fortress: main structure from the 10%%sup th/%  century, oldest 
preserved wall parts 11%%sup th/%  century, extensions in the 
12%%sup th/%  century, after 1754 ruins; historicist reconstruction as 
Khevenhueller crypt and Maximilian memorial 1878-1905; 1945 destroyed, 
Maximilian of Mexico museum, Khevenhueller collection and items of 
local history and culture.

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 2, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1976; W. Krause and W. Enzenhofer (ed.), Hardegg 
700 Jahre Stadt, 1990.


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