!!!Maria-Enzersdorf am Gebirge

Maria-Enzersdorf am Gebirge, Lower Austria, market town in the 
district of Moedling, alt. 225 m, pop. 8,594, area 
5.36 km%%sup 2/%, situated to the south of Vienna. A former place 
of pilgrimage and vine-growing, the market town has begun to 
concentrate its economic activities on the service sector. Between 
1960 and 1976 the modern part of Maria Enzersdorf am Gebirge, the 
"Suedstadt", was added to the old centre. - Unit of the Lower Austrian 
provincial government (project team concerned with regional 
development), provincial school of physical education, including the 
"Suedstadt" sports club and intensive training unit, as well as a 
medical care unit and consultation centre for sportsmen, Federal 
Office of Public Works, Lower Austrian Environmental Protection 
Agency, Austrian Service for Development Cooperation (OeED), 
Franciscan monastery and convent of the Poor Clares, Missionary 
training centre St. Gabriel (belongs to the Societas Verbi Divini; 
Neo-Romanesque building dating from 1913, museum of missionary work) 
with printing office; education centre, including a state school of 
secondary education for sportsmen and women (Bundesoberrealgymnasium 
fuer Leistungssportler), and a training college for telecommunication 
engineers maintained by the Austrian postal service, Maria-Enzersdorf 
Festival (at Liechtenstein Castle). In 1992, 4,002 
employees%%sup /%roughly 66 % of which worked in the service 
sector. He Lower Austrian Energy Supply Works (EVN) is a major 
employer. Industry: engineering works, pharmaceutical industry and car 
companies. - Franciscan parish church (built in 1632), hall church 
tower with an outstanding façade (1787), side altars and pulpit 
created around 1760, transept and chancel dating from 1906, peaceful 
and beautifully laid out cemetery; Franciscan monastery built after 
1600. Hunyadi Palace, Late Baroque three-winged building, redesigned 
by J. Patuzzi in 1766 (now centre for cultural events). Small palace 
("Schloesschen auf der Weide"), from 1714-1716, with frescoes by 
J. G. Schmidt (1730); Pfandl Fountain; small Baroque shrine 
shaped like a temple set up along the road which was used by pilgrims 
on their way from Vienna to Mariazell.  Liechtenstein Castle is 
situated just outside the town (ruins, 1873, Nestroy Festival. The EVN 
Centre (built in 1963) provides a venue for public events (G. Peichl, 
1993).

!Literature
F. Hasslinger, Geschichte der Wallfahrtskirche, des 
Klosters und der Gemeinde Maria-Enzersdorf, 1930; S. Petrin, 
Geschichte von Maria-Enzersdorf, 1979.


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