!!!Kirchdorf an der Krems

Kirchdorf an der Krems, Upper Austria, town in the district of 
Kirchdorf an der Krems, alt. 450 m, pop. 3,738, area 
2.78 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the upper Krems Valley in the 
attractive Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen region. - District Commission, district 
court, district rural police command, Employment Services, Office of 
Weights and Measures, provincial hospital, district home for the 
elderly, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Agriculture, 
District Health Insurance Office, Kremstal-Barracks, workshop for 
handicapped people, ice rink, Bundesrealgymnasium and  
Bundesoberrealgymnasium secondary schools, commercial academy, federal 
school for business professions, nursing school, power station (built 
in 1968). Around 64 % of the 3,578 gainfully employed people work 
in the service sector (in 1991); metal working (tool manufacturing, 
motor car components: e.g. petrol pumps, building components), cement 
works, plastics industry and manufacturing of agricultural machines; 
summer resort, chartered in 1975. - Late Gothic parish church, 
re-designed in Baroque style with late Gothic winged altar from 
Wartberg an der Krems (1490) and with modern, abstract stained glass 
windows by Lydia Roppolt; Neupernstein castle (built 1717 after plans 
by J. Prandtauer).

!Literature
K. Weinbauer (ed.), Heimatkunde des politischen Bezirks 
Kirchdorf an der Krems, 3 vols., 1937-1939.


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