Orth an der Donau#

Orth an der Donau, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Gaenserndorf, alt. 150 m, pop. 1,773, area 33.42 km2, in the southern Marchfeld region, on the northern edge of the Danube wetlands. - Museums of fishing, local history, the Danube, and beekeeping (in the castle), Federal Experimental Station in Fuchsenbigl (plant breeding), Lower Austrian mountain and nature conservation authorities, office of the waterways administration (Marchfeld flood prevention dam), research and production centre for chemical medicine and biotechnology (Immuno). - First documented mention in 864; parish church (formerly fortified church, built in the 15th and 16th century, remodelled in Baroque style in 1689); moated castle (main structure built in the Middle Ages, addition in 1550) with Renaissance windows; Neuschloss ("New Palace", 17th /18th  century); Mariensaeule (monument dedicated to the Virgin Mary, 1711); pillory (16th  century); houses with late historicist façade ornamentation.