!!!Himberg

Himberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Wien-Umgebung, 
alt. 172 m, pop. 5,173, area 47.63 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town 
on the Kalter Gang river in the northern part of the Vienna basin. - 
Research institute of Vienna University for the breeding of laboratory 
animals, golf course. About 60 % of all 2,042 employees (1991) 
work in the manufacturing sector: centre of the recycling industry in 
Lower Austria (recycling of waste and rubble, manufacture of granules, 
composting), chemical industry (e.g. silicone production), plastics 
industry (drain traps, mould-making), manufacture of sports and ski 
wear, packaging materials and seeds, manufacture of precast concrete 
units, print shop, metal-working industry, building trade; important 
commercial sector (building material, electronic elements, machinery, 
camper vans, etc.). - Gothic parish church with Romanesque 
(12%%sup th/% -13%%sup th/%  centuries), high-Gothic and 
late-Gothic elements (choir 14%%sup th/%  century, west tower 
15%%sup th/%  century); Velm Biedermeier palace (after 1800).

!Literature
M. Gaertner, Geschichte des Marktes und der Herrschaft 
Himberg bis 1749, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1942.


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