!!!Kaumberg

Kaumberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Lilienfeld, 
alt. 494 m, pop. 942, area 43.01 km%%sup 2/%; lies on the 
Kaumberg stream just upstream of its confluence with the River 
Triesting, - Manufacture of metal screw joints, forestry; - Late 
Gothic fortified church (14%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/%  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 (13%%sup th/%  century) with a wedge-shaped base 
that looks like a beak ("Schnabelturm"), gate towers and St. 
George´s chapel (15%%sup th/%  century).


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