!!!Herzogenburg

Herzogenburg, Lower Austria, town in the district of St. Poelten, alt. 
229 m, pop. 7,461, area 46.03 km%%sup 2/%, town in the lower 
Traisen valley, north of St. Poelten. - District court, branch office 
of the District Commission St. Poelten (youth welfare office), 
local Chamber of Farmers, Volksheim cultural centre, waterworks. - 
Manufacturing sector dominates (about 59 % of all 3,287 employees 
1991): metal-working industry (foundry with manufacture of locks and 
engine parts, manufacture of galvanised sheet iron), production of 
feeds, industrial gases, concrete and glassware as well as 
prefabricated concrete ceilings, chimney manufacture, mills; important 
trade sector (tractors, livestock, large central depot for textiles, 
etc.). - Settlements in the Herzogenburg area since the Neolithic 
period; first documented mention 1014. The name Herzogenburg derives 
from a fortress owned by the counts Wilhelm and Engelschalk (approx. 
865-870); granted town status 1927. Monastery of the Augustinian 
Canons (1244, founded 1112 in St. Georgen an der Traisen); 
collegiate church (consecrated 1286), rebuilt 1743-48 under F. 
Munggenast, tower (1766/67) by M. Munggenast, elaborate interior 
decoration with Rococo stucco, frescoes by B. Altomonte (1753-1755), 
high altar (1769/70), painting by D. Gran (1746), side altar paintings 
by B. Altomonte (1760-1771); remains of the medieval monastery have 
been preserved, Baroque monastery based on plans by J. Prandtauer, 
finished by J. Munggenast (1714-1740), main hall of the east wing 
(1716-1718) by J. B. Fischer v. Erlach; ceiling frescoes (1772) 
by B. Altomonte; medieval works of art (around 1500) in the 
monastery´s museum, in the Baroque picture gallery, works from 
the 17%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  centuries; important library, 
archaeological collection (finds from the Traisen valley, e.g. Roman 
visored helmet 2%%sup nd/%  century A.D.). Village of 
Heiligenkreuz-Gutenbrunn with church (1755-1758) by J. Ohmeyer; 
ceiling paintings and side altar paintings by A. F. Maulbertsch; 
high altar (1757) by J. Hetzendorf von Hohenberg. Palace (17%%sup th/% 
 century), façade altered 1755-1758, chapel with ceiling 
paintings by P. Troger (1759). Since 1964 Baroque museum.

!Literature
H. L. Werneck, Heimatbuch der Stadtgemeinde 
Herzogenburg, vol. 1., 1961; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, 
part 2, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1976; H. Egger, Stift 
Herzogenburg, 1982; A. Rupp and H. D. Schmidtbauer, Herzogenburg, 
1991.


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