!!!Hoheneich

Hoheneich, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Gmuend, alt. 
521 m, pop. 1,539, area 15.60 km%%sup 2/%, near Gmuend in 
the northwestern Waldviertel region; numerous ponds in the area. 
Textile industry, manufacture of windows. First documented mention 
1345; late-Baroque/early-Classicist parish and pilgrimage church 
(1776-1778), high altar (around 1780) with Gothic statue of the Virgin 
Mary (around 1480-1490); Baroque Our Lady of Lourdes chapel (1740) 
with dome modelled on that of Jerusalem.

!Literature
K. Vogl, Ortsgeschichte von Hoheneich, 1953; W. Winkler, 
Festschrift 50 Jahre Marktgemeinde Hoheneich, 1978.


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