Hinterbrühl#

Hinterbruehl, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Moedling, alt. 254 m, pop. 4,150, area 16.94 km2, day-trip destination and residential area located in the narrow valley of the Moedlingbach stream ("Bruehl"), in the southern Vienna Woods, west of Moedling. Special therapeutic needs centre of the province of Lower Austria, convalescent homes, residential home for young people, SOS-Kinderdorf Wienerwald children's home, Seegrotte grotto with lake (former gypsum mine, largest subterranean lake in Europe (6,200 m2), navigable with electric boats; 1944 pumped dry and converted into an airplane factory). Service sector predominates (about 83 % of all employees 1991), mainly personal and social services (residential homes), manufacture of ribbons, some summer tourism. - Classicist parish church (1831), extension 1959/60 by E. Boltenstern; Husarentempel monument (1813) by J. Kornhaeusel. "Sparbach" nature and deer park with Johannstein ruins and mill.

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