Langenzersdorf#

Langenzersdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Korneuburg, alt. 170 m, pop. 6,139 (pop. in 1981: 5,388), area 10.68 km2, elongated settlement on the south-west foot of the Bisamberg hill, situated at the Wiener Pforte gap of the Danube valley. - Sports and recreation centre for the employees of the Austrian National Bank, Anton Hanak and Siegfried Charoux museums of sculpture, Goetzhof pilot farm of the Advanced-Level School and Research Institute for Wine and Fruit growing, with institute for bee-keeping studies, inlet of the 1st flood protection weir of the diversion canal, a part of the thermal power station Korneuburg is in the area of the municipality. In 1991: 2,067 employed persons, predominance of tertiary sector: about 71 % of employed people work in trade (branches of several marketing chains). Wine growing, fruit orchard of the Klosterneuburg Cistercian monastery. - Settlement of the Lengyel Culture of the New Stone Age at the foot of the Bisamberg hill (female clay figurine). Archaeological finds and historical exhibits in the local heritage museum. First documentary mention in 1108; St. Katharina parish church (early Gothic staggered basilica with Baroque alterations and late Baroque south tower), Tuttenhof (farm dating from the 17th century) at Tuttendoerfl.

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