!!!Hohenau an der March

Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Gaenserndorf, 155 m, pop. 2,815 (1981: pop. 3,205 ), area 
23.38 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the northeastern Weinviertel 
region, on the border to Slovakia. Customs office, customs authority 
department; sugar factory. Burial site of the Hallstatt culture with 
cremation sites and funerary objects (e.g. pottery); early-Baroque 
parish church (1693) with Romanesque elements (choir, windows), high 
altar from 1737; charnel house (1728) with chapel; parsonage 
(1785/86); plague column (1679); Schwedenkreuz cross (1600); south of 
Hohenau an der March lie the Fuerstenwald wetlands along the River 
March/Morava.

!Literature
A. Schultes, Heimatbuch der Marktgemeinde Hohenau 
an der March, 1934, 1968.


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