!!!Haslach an der Mühl

Haslach an der Muehl, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Rohrbach im Muehlkreis, alt. 530 m, pop. 2,529, area 12.41 
km%%sup 2/%, situated at the confluence of the Steinerne Muehl and the 
Grosse Muehl rivers, near the border to the Czech Republic. - Customs 
authority post, hospital; school: Webereifachschule (weaving college); 
a centre of the textile industry in the Muehlviertel region (weaving 
began in 1833, today 2 large and several small weaving mills); 
some summer tourism. - First documented mention around 1256; 
late-Gothic parish church with elaborate net vault (around 1500, 1680 
rebuilt after a disastrous fire); detached former defence tower 
extended in 1906/07; remains of medieval fortified gate have been 
preserved; column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1745); town houses 
with Gothic core, mostly late-Baroque - classicist façades. 
Museum of local history and culture (weaving museum, merchant museum).


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