!!!Langenlois

Langenlois, Lower Austria, town in the district of Krems, alt. 
219 m, pop. 6,367, area 67.13 km%%sup 2/%, important wine 
growing area and local taverns ("Heurigen") at the mouth of Loisbach 
stream, at the end of lower Kamp valley, on the south-eastern border 
of the Waldviertel region. - District court, local agricultural 
authority, district Chamber of Agriculture, training centre for the 
building trades in Lower Austria (Schloss Haindorf). Gymnasium, 
tourist and wine tasting centre. Schools: Training institutions for 
agriculture, horticulture, commercial school run by the Franciscan 
Tertiaries, vocational school for the construction industry; water 
works, wine growing, wine cellars and wine trade (Gruener Veltliner, 
Rheinriesling etc.), machine construction, summer tourism. - 
Settlement from the Old Stone Age (mammoth bones used as support for 
the walls in huts). Heritage museum with exhibits from prehistory, the 
history of the town and folk culture. First documentary mention in 
1082. - Parish church from the late Romanesque, early Gothic period 
(first documentary mention in 1309) with choir in late Gothic style, 
Baroque south tower and Gothic west façade (1754/55), wooden 
beam ceiling in early Gothic style, fresco fragments (1340-1350), 
altar-piece by M. J. Schmidt, high altar and side altars in late 
Gothic style by H. Kies (1964); Nikolaus church with stained-glass 
windows from the late Gothic period (around 1430); former hospital 
church in late Gothic, early Baroque style (first documentary mention 
in 1120, restoration in 1752); former Franciscan monastery and church 
(15%%sup th/%  to 17%%sup th/%  century, now completely rebuilt); 
attractive buildings around the Kornmarkt (grain market); plague 
column (1713); town hall (late Gothic style, adapted in Baroque style 
in 1728); lower palace building in the Haindorf part of the town 
(built before 1624, since 1973 a training centre for the building 
trades), upper palace building (built in the 16%%sup th/%  and 
17%%sup th/%  centuries, turned into a residential building); Baroque 
palace with Renaissance nucleus, Gothic basilica and Baroque west 
tower in Gobelsburg, branch of the Austrian Folklore museum.

!Literature
Stadtgemeinde Langenlois (ed.), Heimatbuch fuer den Bezirk 
Langenlois, 1956; H. Pruckner, Festschrift 900 Jahre Langenlois - 50 
Jahre Stadt, 1975; Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 2, Die 
Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1976; L. Rausch, Stadtbuch Langenlois, 
1992.


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