!!!Pottenstein

Pottenstein, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Baden, 
alt. 324 m, pop. 2,671, 
area 33.39 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the River Triesting. - 
District court, district Chamber of Agriculture, road maintenance 
depot, Merkenstein teaching and research estate of the Vienna 
University of Veterinary Medicine, Lower Austrian Provincial Youth 
Home, "Lebenshilfe" association (engaged in life-counselling), 
Ferdinand Raimund multi-purpose hall; building trade, tool 
manufacture, wood processing, print shop, trade. - pilgrimage church 
of Maria Trost im Elend (Gothic remnants, rebuilt 1802-1809), late 
Romanesque ossuary (13%%sup th/%  century); house where Ferdinand 
Raimund died; "Urlauberkreuz" (pilgrims' cross; 16%%sup th/% 
 century).

!Literature
W. Strauss, 300 Jahre Geschichte um Pottenstein 
(1400-1700), master's thesis, Vienna 1959; L. Wirtner (editor), 900 
Jahre Pottenstein, 1974.


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