Pottendorf#

Pottendorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Baden, alt. 218 m, pop. 5,482, area 39.82 km2, in the south east of the Vienna Basin. - Industrial and commercial business, Labour Market Service, regional health and social insurance agency, Caritas; carpet factory, manufacture of plastic products and gate drives, large-scale distribution of beverages, from 1801 yarn manufacture, textile industry, closed down in 1976. - Baroque parish church built over a ground plan in the shape of a cross (designed and built by J. L. v. Hildebrandt between 1714 and 1716) with altar-pieces by Peter Strudel and J. G. Schmidt (1717); moated castle (first documented mention in 1136); late Gothic palace chapel, four-wing building from the 16th  century, extended at the beginning of the 18th  century, since 1945 in a state of dilapidation; English garden.

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