!!!Loosdorf

Loosdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Melk, alt. 
234 m, pop. 3,366, area 11.91 km%%sup 2/%, at the lower 
River Pielach, at the southern border of the Dunkelsteiner Wald hill 
region, south-east of Melk. - Children´s home of the 
Schulschwestern (female religious educational order), waterworks; 
building block works (Ytong), metal-works, warehouse, regional 
planning office, manufacture of building materials (e.g. tile 
adhesives) with wholesale businesses. - 1574-1619 Protestant 
Mustergymnasium (model Gymnasium-type school), whose school 
regulations became famous; parish church built in 1587 as Protestant 
church, rebuilt in early Baroque style, massive tower from 1734, 
interior around 1730.

!Literature
G. Flossmann, Loosdorf an der Westbahn (400 Jahre Markt), 
1984.


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