Haugsdorf#
Haugsdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Hollabrunn, alt. 204 m, pop. 1,775, area 21.23 km2, situated in the wine-growing region of the Pulkautal, in the northern Weinviertel region. - Local Chamber of Farmers, customs office; emphasis on wine growing and merchandising, Austria's "Rotweingemeinde" (red wine municipality), best-known types are the Blauer Portugieser and the Blauburger; print shop. - Gothic parish church (14th - 15th century) with high altar from 1778; parsonage (1695); so-called "Schloss" (former socage farm, 16th - 17th centuries, alterations around 1800), later town hall; village multi-purpose centre in the barn of the former socage farm.
Literature#
E. Ulsperger, Haugsdorf, in: E. Bezernek and W. Rosner (ed.), Vergangenheit und Gegenwart des Bez. Hollabrunn, 1993.