!!!Kautzen

Kautzen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Waidhofen an 
der Thaya, alt. 525 m, pop. 1,389, area 35.42 km%%sup 2/%, 
situated in the northern Waldviertel near the Czech border. - Customs 
post, small combined heating and power station; textile industry ( 
since the 17%%sup th/%  century production of woven textiles, now 
terry and felt materials are produced); originally Gothic-Baroque 
parish church with façade tower from 1806/1807, altered between 
1868 and 1870, historicist design; former paper mill (main part from 
the 17%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
H. Rauscher, Heimatbuch der Pfarre Kautzen, 1954; F. 
Fraissl, Das Werden der Grossgemeinde Kautzen 1938-1988, 1988.


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