!!!Neulengbach

Neulengbach, Lower Austria, market town in the district of St. 
Poelten, alt. 251m, pop. 6,147, area 51.63 km%%sup 2/%, at the 
River Grosse Tulln at the west edge of the Vienna woods. - District 
court, District Chamber of Agricultural and Allied Workers, 
Custozza-Kaserne barracks, highway maintenance depot, workers´ 
home, nursing home for psychiatry and neurology, Volkshilfe charitable 
organisation, Sisters of the Holy Cross; 1,959 employees (1991), 
predominant sector: service industries (especially personal, social 
and public services, trade), plastics processing (plastic pipes), 
construction and related trades, some summer tourism. - Name derived 
from the transfer of the residence of the Barons von Lengenbach 
(Altlengbach). - Early Baroque parish church constructed 1623-1627 
(formerly Franciscan conventual church) according to the model of a 
Gothic mendicant order church, 3 Rococo altars. Early-Baroque cloister 
in the former monastery; Renaissance city hall (around 1560) on the 
square that was laid out below the castle. Late Renaissance castle 
with four wings (late 16th century) overlooking the town (Gothic parts 
around 1420), Renaissance tower and archway.

!Literature
R. Buettner, Burg und Herrschaft N., 1951; R. Buettner and 
P. Mueller, Neulengbacher Heimatbuch, 1984.


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