!!!Pitten, Markt

Pitten, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Neunkirchen, 
alt. 320 m, pop. 2,460, area 13.09 km%%sup 2/%, where the 
Pitten valley opens out into the Steinfeld region. - Children's home; 
paper-mill, cellulose works. - Graves from the Bronze Age with rich 
furnishings (Bronze jewellery, Pitten local heritage museum); 
pre-historic fortification on Burgberg hill; Slavic grave field from 
the early 9%%sup th/%  century; documented mention in 869, in the 
11%%sup th/%  century main town of a county and seat of a large mother 
parish; iron ore deposits (evidence of mining since 1607); remains of 
a castle (16%%sup th/%  /17%%sup th/%  centuries), already mentioned 
in the "lament" of the Nibelungenlied (epic poem in Middle 
High German), converted into a hunting lodge in the 19%%sup th/%  
century; Baroque parish church (1732) incorporated into the 
fortifications; parish house (1651-1664) with stuccowork and facade 
(1728).

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Pitten (ed.), 1100 Jahre Pitten (869-1969), 
1969 and 1992; "Fuersten" der Bronzezeit in Pitten, 1983; F. 
Hampl et al., Das mittelbronzezeitliche Graeberfeld von Pitten, 
1978-1985.


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