!!!Petronell-Carnuntum

Petronell-Carnuntum, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Bruck an der Leitha, alt. 175 m, pop. 1,202, area 
25.36 km%%sup 2/%, on the south bank of the River Danube, between 
Fischamend and Hainburg an der Donau. - Remains of the Roman 
settlement of  Carnuntum ( Heidentor, Amphitheatre), 
"Petronell-Carnuntum Archaeological Park" (also comprises  
Bad Deutsch-Altenburg) with open-air museum and excavation museum, 
Donau-Auen National Park Institute; woodworking enterprise, wine 
growing. - Parish church (documented mention in 1125; Romanesque 
building around 1200, Gothic elements from the end of the 14%%sup th/% 
 century); Romanesque circular chapel (12%%sup th/%  century), one of 
the most important Romanesque circular buildings in Austria, 
originally with fortifications, now burial place; castle (former 
mediaeval moated castle; redecorated in the 17%%sup th/%  century by 
D. Carlone); Trinity column (1700). Remains of Turkish bulwarks. 
Festival Art Carnuntum.

!Literature
J. Grubmueller, Geschichte der Marktgemeinde Petronell 
(Carnuntum), 1933 (new edition 1965).


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