!!!Ottensheim

Ottensheim, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Urfahr-Umgebung, alt. 270 m, pop. 3,796, area 
11.84 km%%sup 2/%, centre of trade and industry where the River 
Rodl flows into the Danube, west of Linz. - Ottensheim-Wilhering 
run-of-river power station (erected in 1973, 179 MW), highway 
maintenance depot; building industry and secondary building firms, 
warehouse, brickworks, transportation. - Documented mention in 1146, 
right to hold markets given in 1228; late-Gothic parish church 
(1462-1467, net vault around 1500, renovated); Pietà (1410) in 
parish house; former Spitalskirche church (1400) desecrated in 1778; 
mediaeval castle (documented mention in 1148, rebuilt in 1896) with 
mediaeval keep and arcades.


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