!!!Imbach

Imbach, Lower Austria, village in the district of Krems, alt. 
229 m, located in the Krems Valley northwest of Krems, cadastral 
district of Senftenberg. - Metal-working industry. - Parish church of 
the Nativity of the Virgin (built in early Gothic style), originally 
the church of the former Dominican convent (founded in 1269, dissolved 
in 1782); oldest preserved 2-nave hall church in Austria (consecrated 
in 1285); enclosed by a wall dating from the 14%%sup th/%  century; 
Gothic chapel of St. Catharine, rededicated to St. Joseph with 
sandstone statue of the Virgin Mary (1320-1330), in Baroque setting; 
chapel of the Holy Sepulchre (18%%sup th/%  century); Madonna of the 
Rosary by M. J. Schmidt (around 1749); ruins of the former Imbach 
Castle.

!Literature
F. Fux, Unter Schleier und Krummstab. Geschichte von 
Imbach, Gemeinde Senftenberg, 1989.


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