!!!Kirchberg am Wechsel

Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Neunkirchen, alt. 581 m, pop. 2,394, area 51.18 km%%sup 2/%, 
summer resort (54,714 overnight stays) situated in the Feistritz 
Valley at the foot of the Wechsel hills. - Forestry office of the 
Archdiocese of Vienna, monastery of the Sacerdotes a Corde Jesu, 
secondary school of the Archdiocese of Vienna in Sachsenbrunn. In 1991 
about 78 % of the 683 gainfully employed people were working in 
the service sector, especially social and public services; Kirchberg 
has a large DIY store, restaurants and guesthouses, sawmills and fruit 
processing facilities. - Late Baroque parish church (1754/1755) with 
Baroque stucco-work and fine Rococo interior, high altar (1755); 
former convent of Augustinian nuns (founded before 1236, dissolved in 
1782), four-cornered structure built in 1657, altered in1703; column 
of the Virgin Mary (1713); late Gothic, formerly fortified church in 
St. Wolfgang (around 1420), restored between 1860 and 1862, 
rebuilt between 1925 and 1928 being struck by lightning, fine west 
portal, paintings by M. J. Schmidt (1794) and J. Spillenberger 
(1672), fresco of St. Christopher by J. Prunner (from the 
mid-15%%sup th/%  century); information and documentary centre 
dealing with L.  Wittgenstein, to the northwest of Kirchberg is the 
Hermannshoehle, a cave with stalactite formations.


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