!!!Krumbach, Gemeinde

Krumbach, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Wiener 
Neustadt, alt. 533 m, pop. 2,225, area 43,91 km%%sup 2/%, 
situated in the Bucklige Welt region. - Weisses Kreuz convent (nuns 
occupied with the welfare of the poor); building industry and catering 
trade, joiner's shops. - Parish church of St. Stephan, remodelled in 
the Baroque style, former Gothic fortified church with choir tower; 
parish house ornamented with Baroque pediments; huge fortified castle, 
built from 1548 to 1571 under Erasmus von Puchheim, extended to a 
nearly square building with a keep, double ring work with so-called 
Turkish turrets, castle chapel (middle of the 17%%sup th/%  century), 
today castle hotel; Late Gothic cemetery church on the outskirts of 
the town.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Krumbach (ed.), 800 Jahre Krumbach, 
1182-1982, 1982.


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