!!!Marchegg

Marchegg, Lower Austria, town in the district of Gaenserndorf, alt. 
143 m, pop. 2,736, area 45.53 km%%sup 2/%, 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 14%%sup th/%  and 15%%sup th/%  centuries with 
alterations added in the 17%%sup th/%  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 (18%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
E. Mueck, Die Geschichte von Marchegg, 8 instalments, 
from 1959; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 2, 
Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1976.


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