!!!Korneuburg

Korneuburg, Lower Austria, town in the district of Korneuburg, alt. 
169 m, pop. 9,730 (1981: 9,112), area 9.72 km%%sup 2/%, situated on 
the northern banks of the River Danube, northeast of Vienna.- District 
administration office, district court, district office of the 
gendarmerie, provincial court and jail, labour court, employment 
services, financial administration office, land surveying office, 
regional construction office of Lower Austria, office of the 
provincial government of Lower Austria (building section), federal 
institute of agriculture and chemistry (research institute), Dabsch 
barracks, port, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Labour, district office 
of the Chamber of Agriculture, regional health insurance agency, 
hospital, provincial residential home for young people with vocational 
school, Muslim cultural and aid organisation, Stadtsaal multi-purpose 
hall, Musikfreundesaal concert hall, town library, music festival 
Korneuburger Musiktage (in May), Austrian Wine Institute, schools: 
Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium secondary schools, 
Handelsakademie (commercial academy), data processing school, adult 
education centre; thermal power plant with 4 blocks: plant 1 (built in 
1962, inactive), plant 2 (built in 1975, 277 MW), plant A (built in 
1959, inactive), plant B (built in 1961, 125 MW), car ferry. 5,396 
people employed (1991), paper-processing industry, printing house, 
leather-processing industry, chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics 
industry, structural steel engineering, machine industry (e.g. 
cableway construction), metal-working industry, plastics processing, 
trading firms (building materials, household- and kitchen appliances, 
ironware etc.); shipyard, closed in 1993.- In the Middle Ages 
Korneuburg was an important crossing point on the River Danube and a 
commercial centre (salt, wine, grain), around 1220 it was separated 
from Klosterneuburg, large parts of Korneuburg were destroyed during 
the 2%%sup nd/%  World War; Late Gothic parish church with neo-Gothic 
vault in the nave (1846) and southern tower (1900-1902); former 
Augustinian monastery and church (rebuilt and remodelled in 1773, 
stucco ornaments in the sacristy, frescoes by F. A. Maulbertsch 
(around 1773); ruins of the oldest preserved synagogue (after 1308) in 
Austria, neo-Gothic town hall (1894/1895) with integrated tower 
(1440-1447) and Trinity statue (1747) on the main square; some of the 
houses date from the 16%%sup th/%  century; town museum.

!Literature
Bezirks-Schulrat Korneuburg (ed.), Heimatbuch des 
politischen Bez. Korneuburg, 2 vols., 1957-1961; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, 
vol. IV, part 2, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1976; R. Finz, 
Korneuburg von der Jahrhundertwende bis heute, 1984.


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