!!!Leonding Leonding, Upper Austria, town in the district of Linz Land, alt. 289 m, pop. 21,209, area 24.05 km%%sup 2/%, industrial and residential town west of Linz, at the eastern border of the Kuernberger Wald mountain. - public library, sports and multi-purpose hall Leonding-Hart, Kuernberg hall (multi-purpose complex), shooting-range of the Federal Armed Forces (Alharting), children´s village St. Isidor. 8,932 gainfully employed persons (1991), about 55 % in trade and industry: factories for batteries, fire-extinguishers, spinning machines, industrial furnaces, electronic industry; trade (shopping centre, do-it-yourself store, etc.). Chartered in 1976. - Parish church remodelled in Baroque style with modern central building, towers of the Linz fortification of 1830-1833; Holzheim Palace rebuilt in 1726. !Literature W. Knoglinger (ed.), Stadt Leonding anlaesslich der Stadterhebung 1976, 1976; F. Reiter, Sozialstruktur der Gemeinde Leonding, master´s thesis, Linz 1977. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Leonding|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]