!!!Krumau am Kamp

Krumau am Kamp, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Krems an 
der Donau, alt. 370 m, pop. 827, area 26.84 km%%sup 2/%, 
situated in the Kamp Valley near the Thurnberg reservoir. -Krumau-Kamp 
storage power station (16,2 MW, built in 1953), sports and 
leisure-time facilities. -City layout from the 13%%sup th/%  century; 
parish church (rebuilt from 1782-1789), with parts from the Middle 
Ages, tower (1801); castle (first documented mention in 1084, 
reconstructed 1977-1980), tabernacle pier (around 1700). The cadastral 
district of Idolsberg (alt. 430 m, first documented mention in 1164) 
is situated on a forested plateau above the River Kamp east of the 
Thurnberg reservoir, parish church (around 1600) with Baroque eastern 
tower, neo-Gothic high altar and Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary 
(around 1500); castle (16%%sup th/% /17%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
S. Fordinal, Krumau am Kamp: Herrschafts-, Pfarr- und 
Marktgeschichte, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1957.


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