!!!Pottenbrunn

Pottenbrunn, Lower Austria, village in the district of 
St. Poelten, alt. 244 m, east of the River Traisen, 
part of St. Poelten since 1972. Road maintenance depot, old 
peoples' home, Volksheim, manufacture of sanitary fittings, bus 
enterprise. - Graves from the La-Tène period with rich funerary 
objects, Slavic grave fields from the early 9%%sup th/%  century; 
first settlements during the Carolingian period. Market town since 
1927; parish church (first documented mention in 1248), with Gothic 
parts, altar-piece by J. G. Schmidt; Renaissance moated palace 
(16%%sup th/%  century, since 1970 Austrian museum of pewter 
figures, exhibitions) with open gallery, in 1961 parts of its tower 
collapsed, 3 years later it was totally rebuilt (1964); Neuschloss 
Palace (17%%sup th/%  century). In the vicinity, Moated Castle 
(1%%sup st/%  half of 16%%sup th/%  century, reconstruction 
between 1698 and 1718 and around 1923), contains frescoes by D. Gran 
(1718), castle gardens.

!Literature
J. Buchinger, Pfarrgeschichte von Pottenbrunn, 1936; 
Oesterreichisches Zinnfigurenmuseum im Schloss Pottenbrunn, exhibition 
catalogue, %%sup 3/%1984.


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