!!!Helpfau-Uttendorf

Helpfau-Uttendorf, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Braunau, alt. 419 m, pop. 3,109, area 26.43 km%%sup 2/%, 
twin municipality, industrial and commercial market town on the River 
Mattig, north of Mattighofen. - About 67 % of all employed 
persons (1991) work in the manufacturing sector: brickyard, brewery, 
fuel tanks, glassworks, plastics industry, paint manufacture, 
road-marking firm, important building trade. - Graves with grave goods 
from the Hallstatt period were found on the plateau of Lohnau (e.g. 
golden collar). First documented mention of Helpfau 789, Uttendorf 
around 1100. Helpfau Baroque parish church (1724-1735), 1775 restored 
after a fire, high altar (1839); Uttendorf parish church (1770-1780) 
Baroque alterations, high altar (1852); St. Florian Gothic pilgrimage 
church redecorated in Baroque style around 1720, richly ornamented 
high altar (around 1670).


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