!!!Ostermiething

Ostermiething, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Braunau, 
alt. 423 m, pop. 2,516 (1981: 2,197), area 
21.69 km%%sup 2/%, on the eastern bank of River Salzach (at the 
border to Bavaria), on the southern border of Oberer Weilhart forest, 
upper Innviertel region. - Customs office, road administration office, 
Riedersbach I (built 1969) and II steam power plants (built 1986, 
partly in the municipality of St. Pantaleon); dairy, building and 
construction companies. - Parish church (1676-1683, by J. Vilzkotter) 
with Baroque interior and Rococo stuccowork; former vicarage (1462) 
now a hospital, with Gothic fresco cycle (uncovered in 1941).

!Literature
A. Haitzinger, Ein Dorf im oberen Innviertel, 
master´s thesis, Vienna 1984.


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