!!!Mautern an der Donau

Mautern an der Donau, Lower Austria, town in the district of Krems an 
der Donau, alt. 201 m, pop. 3,037, area 9.14 km%%sup 2/%, 
situated on the south bank of the River Danube right opposite the town 
of Krems, on the north-eastern edges of the Dunkelstein Woods; bridge 
crossing the Danube. - District Chamber of Agriculture, Raab Baracks, 
Roemerhalle multipurpose hall; production of beverages, vinegar and 
apricot brandy, trading companies, fruit-growing, viticulture. - Roman 
Castle, partly preserved towers (Hufeisenturm, Faecherturm) along the 
west side of the fortifications; ruins of an early Christian church; 
which might have belonged to the monastery of Saint  Severinus, who 
died at  Favianis in 482; Roman clay masks exhibited in the museum of 
Krems. First documented mention of Mautern an der Donau as "civitas" 
in 899, mentioned in the Nibelungenlied (Middle High German epic poem) 
as "Mutaren", mentioned in the Raffestetten Customs Regulations in 
904. - Originally Gothic parish church (first documented mention in 
1050), altered in Baroque style in 1697, staggered construction with a 
rectangular choir and Stations of the Cross by M. J. Schmidt 
(1770), presbytery (1708); four-winged palace (built between the 
15%%sup th/%  and the 18%%sup th/%  centuries) with its own chapel 
(1620); Gothic Chapel of St. Margaret (houses the museum of local 
history, first documented mention in 1083), decorated with frescoes 
(around 1300); the wine-growing estate of Nicolaihof with St. Agapit 
Chapel; Janaburg building in the centre of Mautern an der Donau with a 
columned doorway (1576).

!Literature
Oesterr. Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 2: Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1976; M. Buxbaum, Die Stadt 
Mautern an der Donau von 1945 bis 1955, master´s 
thesis, Vienna 1993.


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