!!!Neuhofen an der Krems

Neuhofen an der Krems, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Linz-Land, alt. 303m, pop. 4,665 (1981: 4,199), area 
18.00 km%%sup 2/%, in the Lower Kremstal valley to the south of 
Traun.

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District court, church of the Reformed Church, recreation 
centre, branch of the Wagner-Jauregg provincial psychiatric clinic; 
dynamic economic structure with several businesses: production of 
trapezoidal corrugation sheet, plastics manufacturing, knitwear 
factory, brickworks, steel construction, wood processing, building 
enterprise.

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First documented mention in 888, armourer´s 
workshop in the 17th and 18th century, cloth weaving mill in the 18th 
century. Market town with late-Gothic parish church (first documented 
mention at the end of the 9th century), Baroque alterations in 1658; 
column dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1713); market fountain (17th 
century). Former castle in Geschwendt/Gries (first documented mention 
in 1347), 2 wings of the originally fortified moated castle of 1682 
have been preserved.



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