!!!Mattighofen

Mattighofen, Upper Austria, town in the district of Braunau, alt. 
454 m, pop. 4,715, area 5.14 km%%sup 2/%, centre of trade 
and industry on the bank of the River Mattig, situated at the western 
edges of the Kobernausserwald hills in the northern part of the 
Innviertel (one of Upper Austria´s four main regions).- District 
court, forestry enterprise of the Oesterreichische Bundesforste AG 
(Austrian Federal Forests), branch office of the district commission 
responsible for the education and welfare of young people, counselling 
centre run by the Lebenshilfe charity, office of the Caritas Roman 
Catholic welfare organization, branch office of the local health and 
social insurance company, waste material centre, vocational school of 
trades and crafts. In 1991 approximately 60 % of a total of 3,204 
persons worked in the industrial and commercial sectors (e.g. engine 
construction, car industry, manufacture of heaters and cookers, 
plastics industry, electrical precision engineering, leather factory, 
numerous trading companies (DIY hypermarket, large stores selling 
shoes and electrical appliances)). - In the 7%%sup th/%  century the 
territory around Mattighofen was made a palatinate of the Bavarian 
Agilolfinger family; first documented mention of Mattighofen between 
757 and 788; became one of the seats of the Carolingian Dynasty; fell 
to Austria in 1779; was granted its town charter in 1986. - Baroque 
parish church (1774-1779) with both the choir and the west tower 
designed in Gothic style, frescoes by J. N. della Croce (1780), 
Early Classicist altars, statues by T. Schwanthaler (1676), tombs with 
stone monuments created between the 15%%sup th/%  and the 17%%sup th/% 
 centuries. Gothic cloisters (1438) with Renaissance ornamentation 
(1550) in the provost´s house (1739-1741), which had belonged to 
the former collegiate monastery (monastery building now houses the 
presbytery); town houses erected between the 17%%sup th/%  and 
19%%sup th/%  centuries; Renaissance Palace (16%%sup th/%  century), 
redesigned at the beginning of the 19%%sup th/%  century, now houses 
the town´s forestry administration.

!Literature
F. Sonntag, Heimatbuch Gemeinde Mattighofen, 1984.


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