!!!Jedenspeigen

Jedenspeigen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Gaenserndorf, alt. 158 m, pop. 1,115, area 
23.22 km%%sup 2/%, farming and wine-growing town on the River 
March/Morava, in the eastern Weinviertel region, on the border to 
Slovakia. Settled since the Neolithic Period, first documented mention 
in 1113, scene of the Battle of Duernkrut and Jedenspeigen on August 
26, 1278, at which Rudolf von Habsburg defeated Přemysl Otakar. 
Parish church with nave (12%%sup th/%  century, chancel around 1360), 
renovated in Baroque style around 1697, renovated in neo-Gothic style 
by F. von Schmidt in 1880-1886; early Baroque castle (first documented 
mention in 1295, built in the late 16%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
Documentation on the Battle of Duernkrut and Jedenspeigen 
1278, exhibition catalogue, 1978.


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