Petzenkirchen#
Petzenkirchen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Melk, alt. 258 m, pop. 1,177, area 2.90 km2, in the Erlauftal valley, north of Wieselburg. - Federal Institute for Cultivation Technology and Water Table Management, branch office of the research department of the Federal Institute for Plant Protection; large bakery, gravel processing plant and concrete factory. - Old parish founded by the diocese of Passau; late Gothic parish church (around 1520), hall church with 2 naves and chancel (end of the 15th century), stellar vaults and ribbed vaults (Gothic branch-motif ornamentation), tombstones (15th and 16th centuries); palace (17th century, once imperial estate) with impressive gate tower.