!!!Pöggstall

Poeggstall, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Melk, alt. 
462 m, pop. 2,732, area 58.87 km%%sup 2/%, in the valley of 
the Weitenbach stream, in the southern Waldviertel Region. Due to its 
mild climate called "Merano of the Waldviertel Region"; near 
(Wuernsdorf) Hoelltal valley. - Branch office of the district 
gendarmerie and of the Federal Armed Forces, District Chamber of 
Agriculture, Economic Chamber, Road Management Authority, woodland 
nursery, multi-purpose hall; wood processing, storehouse, building 
firms, trade, transport companies - First documented mention 
1135/1140; St. Anna parish church, late Gothic hall church 
(former castle church) with medieval stained glass and late Gothic 
double-winged altar (15%%sup th/% /16%%sup th/%  century); late Gothic 
filial church of St. Anna im Felde (Saint Anna in the field) with 
murals (14%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/%  century), Renaissance tomb (in 
1590), tomb stones with coats of arms; in the palace (enlargement 
between 1478 and 1601), museum of the history of law (with preserved 
chamber of torture), imperial hall with stucco ceiling; dairy farm 
(16%%sup th/%  century), pilgrimage church Neukirchen in Gothic 
style with Romanesque core (12%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
L. Neunlinger, Beitraege zur Geschichte der Herrschaft 
Poeggstalls, master's thesis, Vienna 1970.


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