Mönichkirchen#

Moenichkirchen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Neunkirchen, alt. 967 m, pop. 721, area 16.30 km2, bi-seasonal tourist resort (62,812 overnight stays) at the Wechsel pass in the extreme southeast of Lower Austria. Panoramic view as far as the Bucklige Welt hills, Upper Styria and south Burgenland - weather station of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics). The writer A. Wildgans spent much time here (village of "Uebelbach" in his verse epic "Kirbisch"). Late Gothic parish church of St. Mary (15th century) with diamond net vaults and splendid Baroque high altar (1720) with late Gothic statue of the Virgin (15th century).

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