!!!Mauerkirchen

Mauerkirchen, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Braunau, 
alt. 407 m, pop. 2,372, area 3.06 km%%sup 2/%, situated in 
the Mattig Valley south-east of Braunau. - District court, vocational 
school of agriculture, companies producing prams, staples and shoulder 
pads, plastics industry (insulating glass). - Neo-Gothic parish church 
(1867-1872), Gothic west tower (1504); Baroque Trinity Chapel 
(formerly annexed to a hospital) ornamented with stuccowork by 
J. M. Vierthaler and a fresco by J. G. Reischl (1739), high 
altar (around 1730-1740). Spitzenberg Palace (1700).


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