!!!Mönichkirchen

Moenichkirchen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Neunkirchen, alt. 967 m, pop. 721, area 16.30 km%%sup 2/%, 
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 (15%%sup th/%  century) with diamond net vaults and 
splendid Baroque high altar (1720) with late Gothic statue of the 
Virgin (15%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
F. Bergauer (ed.), Moenichkirchen 860-1960, 1961.


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