!!!Mailberg

Mailberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Hollabrunn, 
alt. 217m, pop. 598, area 15.74 km%%sup 2/%. Economy: agriculture 
and vine-growing. Mailberg is situated in the north-western part of 
the Weinviertel region to the east of Buchberg hill (417 m). - 
Palace vineyard, a wine cellar and a museum owned by the Order of the 
Knights of Saint John. - First documented mention of Mailberg in 1055; 
in 1082 Margrave Leopold II suffered defeat against the Bohemians near 
Mailberg - Sights: Parish church (originally Gothic with Baroque 
elements) which forms part of the palace and houses Gothic carved 
statues and a relief of the Lamentation of Christ (early 16%%sup th/%  
century), cemetery church with a Romanesque and Gothic nave and a 
winged altar (around 1460-1470), the palace (mainly medieval with 
Renaissance and Baroque alterations) which became the home of the 
Order of the Knights of Saint John in 1145/50 and was turned into a 
commendam later on (the oldest one of Austria); numerous wine press 
buildings (dating from the 18%%sup th/%  and 19%%sup th/%  centuries).


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