!!!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 km%%sup 2/%, 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 1%%sup st/%  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 17%%sup th/%  century) at 
Tuttendoerfl.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Langenzersdorf (ed.), Langenzersdorf im 
Wandel der Zeiten, 1960.


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