!!!Matzen-Raggendorf

Matzen-Raggendorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Gaenserndorf, alt. 189 m, pop. 2,501, area 
35.54 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the southern part of the 
Weinviertel region near the Marchfeld plain. - Youth centre maintained 
by the Lower Austrian provincial government, sports centre, ice rink; 
oil production (largest Central European oilfield extending from 
Matzen-Raggendorf to the municipalities of Prottes, 
Schoenkirchen-Reyersdorf, Bockfliess and Auersthal, exploited by the 
OMV group, Austria´s biggest chemical and petroleum group), 
viticulture. - First documented mention in 1194. Parish church 
(1958/59) with a south tower that was preserved from an earlier 
Gothic/Baroque church; Matzen-Raggendorf Palace (first documented 
mention in 1194), was altered in the 17%%sup th/%  century and in 
1827, heavily damaged in 1945, rebuilt between 1963 and 1965, today 
the rooms of the palace are open to the public.

!Literature
A. Hofer, Matzen-Raggendorf Ein Dorf - seine Bewohner - 
seine Geschichte, 1994.


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