!!!Lunz am See

Lunz am See, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Scheibbs, 
alt. 601 m, pop. 2,154, area 101.42 km%%sup 2/%, bathing 
resort at the north-west shore of Lake Lunzer See, (67,236 over-night 
stays). - Lunz am See Biological Station, Department of Apiculture of 
the Hoehere Bildungslehranstalt (secondary school) for wine and fruit 
growing, provincial youth centre of Lower Austria, monitoring centre 
of the second Vienna spring water supply system, Lunz-Kasten power 
station (private). Various businesses, commuter town; formerly the 
residence of Hammerherren (owners of metal-working shops and forges in 
the 17%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  centuries). - Late Gothic parish 
church with two naves, rebuilt around 1503, tower with Baroque helm 
roof (1753), Madonna in Majesty with Child (15%%sup th/%  century, 
damaged by Turkish scimitar in 1529); former Hammerherren house 
(Amonhaus) with sgrafitto paintings (around 1551), now the museum of 
local history and culture (Palaeolithic finds,  Herdengel Cave, 
neo-Baroque Seehof Palace, formerly monastery of Gaming.

!Literature
F. Eppel, Die Eisenwurzen, 1968; E. Kraus-Kassegg, Chronik 
der Marktgemeinde Lunz am See, 1979; Pfarre Lunz am See (ed.), 600 
Jahre Kirche in Lunz am See 1392-1992, 1992.


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