!!!Poysdorf

Poysdorf, Lower Austria, town in the district of Mistelbach, alt. 
225 m, pop. 5,447, area 97.24 km%%sup 2/%, winegrowing 
village (first documented mention 1334) in the valley of the Poybach 
stream, in the north-eastern Weinviertel Region. - District Court, 
local branch of the District Commission, chamber of agriculture of the 
district of Mistelbach, road maintenance depot, local branch of the 
federal office and research centre for agriculture, social care 
centre, day-care centre for the disabled, family counselling, 
agricultural trade school, municipal museum with St. Barbara 
chapel, wine trail; cable production, Lagerhaus agricultural 
co-operative, production of winepresses; new industrial region 
(15 hectares) in the development stage, some tourism. - Near 
Kleinhadersdorf burial ground of the  Linear Pottery Culture, very 
densely populated during the New Stone Age; Germanic settlements from 
the Roman era; graves of the Langobardi, early Slavic cremation urn 
pit (7%%sup th/%  century); documented mention as 
"Poistorf" in 1194/1196; town since 1923; early Baroque 
parish church (1629-1635) on a hill, gravestones (18%%sup th/% 
 and 19%%sup th/%  centuries) in the former churchyard wall; 
Maria Bruendl pilgrimage church (1740); Vogelsangmuehle residence 
(main structure dates back to 1589); Trinity column (1715); 
winepressing houses with Baroque core.

!Literature
J. Mattner, Geschichte der Stadt Poysdorf und ihrer 
Katastralgemeinden, 1981; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 
2, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1976.


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