!!!Ottenschlag

Ottenschlag, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Zwettl, 
alt. 849 m, pop. 1,130, area 26.15 km%%sup 2/%, in the 
southern Waldviertel region. - District Chamber of Agriculture and 
Allied Workers, highway maintenance depot, agricultural trade school, 
airport for motor gliders; warehouse, building enterprise. - Centre of 
the Lower Austrian peasants´ uprising in 1596. Late-Gothic 
parish church in the centre of the town (enlarged after 1696) with 
Baroque decorations; castle (16%%sup th/%  century) with 3 corner 
towers and Renaissance portal (1554).


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