Kaumberg#

Kaumberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Lilienfeld, alt. 494 m, pop. 942, area 43.01 km2; lies on the Kaumberg stream just upstream of its confluence with the River Triesting, - Manufacture of metal screw joints, forestry; - Late Gothic fortified church (14th -15th  century), massive fortified tower (1502) and choir with fine tracery windows (around 1400); glass paintings by F. Kueffer (1959); ruins of Araburg castle (first documented mention in 1209 destroyed by the Turks in 1683), tower (13th  century) with a wedge-shaped base that looks like a beak ("Schnabelturm"), gate towers and St. George´s chapel (15th century).