Miesenbach#

Miesenbach, Lower Austria, municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt, alt. 450 m, pop. 722, area 34.14 km2, scattered settlement on Miesenbach stream, between Duerre and Hohe Wand hills. Wood processing industries (sawmills, cable drum production plants, etc.). To the west, Gauermannhuette mountain refuge, (1,154 m). Ruins of Castle Scheuchenstein (13th century), situated on a steep rock, in ruins since 1672; Gothic-Baroque parish church Scheuchenstein, in churchyard, grave of the painter F. Gauermann, whose local birthplace houses the Gauermannmuseum (1976), where his life and work is documented.