!!!Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge

Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge, Lower Austria, town in the district of 
Bruck an der Leitha, alt. 212 m, pop. 3,796, area 
29.80 km%%sup 2/%, centre of trade and industry situated on the 
north-western foothills of the Leithagebirge Mountains. - Two slighty 
sulphurous springs (22°). Trade and industry constitute the 
town´s main economic sectors (offering jobs to roughly 59 % 
of the work-force in 1991): limestone quarries, cement plant, numerous 
medium-sized companies (in the fields of masonry, plumbing, plastics 
production etc.), trading companies. Town charter in 1989. - Ancient 
graveyard dating from the early  La Tène Culture; archeological 
finds of the region are exhibited in the museum of local history. - 
Early Baroque parish church (1638) with an imposing façade, a 
central tower, statues fitted to the niches and an 18%%sup th/%  
century interior; palace (around 1600, possibly re-built in parts by 
J. E. Fischer von Erlach in the 18%%sup th/%  century), 
outstanding façade with pilaster ornamentation; splendid 
staircase, as well as a hall with ceiling frescoes; town hall built 
between the 17%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  centuries; 17%%sup th/%  
century plague column; chapel consecrated to St. Donatus; ruins of 
cells and a monastery church which once belonged to a Carmelite 
hermitage called "In der Wueste" ("In the desert", 1644-1783), ruins 
are surrounded by a park; ruins of Scharfeneck Castle with imposing 
towers and a circular donjon.


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