!!!Perchtoldsdorf

Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Moedling, alt. 265 m, pop. 14,051, area 12.59 km%%sup 2/%, 
summer resort (51,185 overnight stays in 1992), wine growing area and 
residential suburb situated at the southwestern border of Vienna, 
where the Vienna Woods slopes towards the Vienna Basin. - Cultural and 
educational centre, recreation resort and sports centre, youth centre, 
sports hall, water works, Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium 
secondary schools, Lower Austrian provincial infant nursery at 
Schwedenstift monastery; Perchtoldsdorf Summer Festival takes place 
every year in July, Vienna's first Spring Water Supply System (1. 
Wiener Hochquellenleitung). - In 1991 the services sector employed 
about 73 % of the 3,673 employed persons, mainly commercial 
activities, production of adhesive tapes, car equipment, bathroom 
accessories and dyes, candle factory, textile industry, publishing 
houses, wine growing. - Documented mention after 1130, economic 
flowering during the Middle Ages, destroyed by the invading Turks in 
1683. Three-nave parish church in Gothic style (14%%sup th/%  and 
15%%sup th/%  centuries), hall church with three choirs, rib vaults, 
lower church, decoration in Baroque style (beginning of the 
18%%sup th/%  century), forming the central feature of a fortified 
complex which also contains the ruins of a ducal castle (the nucleus 
dating back to the 12%%sup th/%  century, other parts from the 
14%%sup th/%  to the 16%%sup th/%  centuries, it now contains the 
municipal cultural centre), other parts of the complex are the 
free-standing defensive tower (15%%sup th/%  century, 45 m high, 
six storeys, now a museum, with monument to T.  Ebendorfer) and 
late-Gothic chapel of St. Martin (charnel house dating back to 1514, 
now war memorial chapel). Hospital church (around 1400). Reliefs and 
statues of the plague monument on the market square (1713) are by 
J. B. Fischer von Erlach. Town hall (end of the 15%%sup th/%  
century) with arcaded courtyard, Renaissance burgher houses and 
Knappenhof mansion (18%%sup th/%  century); Hugo Wolf museum in his 
former residence, fire-brigade museum. Buschenschenken (simple wine 
taverns selling new wine during limited periods of the year, when a 
bundle of twigs is displayed). Wine harvest festivities accompanied by 
traditional customs such as the guardians' procession with 
"Hiatapritschn" taking place on the Sunday after St. 
Leonhard's feast-day (November 6). The Perchtoldsdorf heath, on a 
slope near the village, has a small conservation area (since 1943).

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Perchtoldsdorf (ed.), Heimatbuch 
Perchtoldsdrof, 1958; R. Franta, Die Marktgemeinde Perchtoldsdorf 
Wirtschaftsgeographische Untersuchung einer Stadtrandgemeinde Wiens, 
master's thesis, Vienna 1980; S. Petrin, Geschichte des Marktes 
Perchtoldsdorf, 2 vols., 1983; P. Katzberger, 1000 Jahre 
Perchtoldsdorf, 991-1991, 1993.


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