!!!Mauer bei Amstetten

Mauer bei Amstetten, Lower Austria, village in the district of  
Amstetten, alt. 300 m, situated between the River Ybbs and the 
Url stream, cadastral district of the town of Amstetten. - Dynamic 
economic structure characterized by numerous manufacturing companies 
and trading enterprises in the Amstetten-West commercial district. - 
Major Roman excavation site (graveyard and castle which perhaps formed 
part of the ancient Locus Felicis). In 1937 the most magnificent 
archaeological finds of Austria were discovered at Mauer bei Amstetten 
when a Roman shrine dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus was opened. Its 
contents comprised bronze statuettes, bronze votive standards, silver 
votive offerings, bronze dishes and iron appliances. The shrine was 
probably hidden in the ground around 250 A.D. (today exhibited in 
the Kunsthistorisches Museum). - According to designs by C. von Boog, 
several Art Nouveau pavilions were erected between 1898 and 1902 which 
have since housed the provincial hospital and nursing home for 
mentally handicapped persons (today called Provincial Centre for 
Nervous Diseases).

!Literature
R. Noll, Das Inventar des Dolichenusheiligtums von Mauer 
an der Url, 1980.


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