!!!Horn

Horn, Lower Austria, town in the district of Horn, alt. 311 m, 
pop. 6,264, area 39.23 km%%sup 2/%, centre of administration, 
education, traffic and economy in the Horn basin (rim bay of the 
molasse zone) in the eastern Waldviertel region. - District 
commission, district court, employment services, tax office, surveying 
office, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, local Chamber of Farmers, 
Chamber of Agricultural and Allied Workers, Radetzky-Kaserne barracks, 
hospital, local health and social insurance office, counselling centre 
of the psycho-social services, club house; schools: secondary school, 
Aufbaugymnasium (upper secondary school), commercial college, 
Fachschule fuer wirtschaftliche Berufe (commercial college), 2 
Bundeskonvikte (residential schools for boys and girls), Canisiusheim 
seminary for adult theology students, nursing school, civil defence 
school of the Niederoesterreichischer Zivilschutzverband; waterworks, 
pig auctioning hall. Large number of commuters from the surrounding 
areas (3,847 employed persons 1991), service sector (about 64 % 
of all employees, mainly personal, social and public services, e.g. 
hospital with 600 employees) and building trade dominate; large print 
shop, development and manufacture of electronic measuring equipment 
(laser guns, space engineering), textile industry; the "Kulturpark 
Kamptal" is an important tourist attraction (completed in 1996 in 
cooperation with 10 other municipalities). - First documented mention 
around 1045-65, fortress and town built 1150-1160, surrounded by a 
wall (built before 1304), extended in the 16%%sup th/%  and 
17%%sup th/%  centuries (tower 1594), of particular importance in 
the Reformation Period ("Horner Bund"). Gothic-Baroque cemetery 
church, early-Baroque high altar (1647), late-Gothic stone pulpit; 
parish church (1594-97 built as Protestant plain hall church) with 
paintings by M. J. Schmidt (1779); Piarist church (1658-62) with 
altar painting by M. J. Schmidt (1777); former Piarist monastery 
(Renaissance core, Baroque parts, 19%%sup th/%  century 
alterations, now culture centre); former citizens´ hospital 
(founded 1395, now Hoebarth museum and Mader museum, including 
agricultural engineering); castle (built in the 12%%sup th/% 
 century, alterations 1539, the Landgericht court building was 
added in 1591) with English gardens; former brewery (first documented 
mention 1588); houses from the Renaissance, Baroque and Biedermeier 
periods; Baroque memorial columns (column dedicated to the Virgin Mary 
1679, tabernacle pillar 1642, Tuscan column 17%%sup th/% 
 century) and Floriani fountain (1727); Breiteneich Renaissance 
castle (1541).

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 2, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1976; R. Andraschek-Holzer, Historischer Fuehrer 
durch die Stadt Horn, 1992.


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