Marchegg#

Marchegg, Lower Austria, town in the district of Gaenserndorf, alt. 143 m, pop. 2,736, area 45.53 km2, centre of the eastern part of the Marchfeld (fertile lowlands near Vienna), situated on the western bank of the River March/Morava at the border to Slovakia; railway bridge across the river. - Customs office, Lower Austrian Hunting Museum and Museum of Africa (in Marchegg Palace), stud-farm of the Vienna Trotting Club, riding club (at Breitensee), office of the Austrian Federal Railways in charge of railway lines for the Vienna/south-east region. - Construction industry, timber processing, trading companies. - Area around Marchegg was already settled between Neolithic and Roman times; first documented mention in 1268; systematically planned and set up by Přemysl Otakar II; parts of the town walls and gates have been preserved. The area within the walls has never been completely built up; Vienna Gate restored in 1962. - Parish church with Gothic choir roofed by a steep saddleback, nave (1789-1790), tower (1853-1856), Baroque high altar (1660, high retable ornamented in the auricular style), side altar created by members of the Vienna Secession Movement (1909); palace built in the 14th and 15th centuries with alterations added in the 17th century and between 1713 and 1720, rooms with cove vaulting and stuccoed mouldings, large forecourt with farm buildings (one storehouse was turned into a hall for public events in 1978); administration building (1907-1910); town hall (1876); Lady Column (18th century).

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