Pregarten#

Pregarten, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Freistadt, alt. 425 m, pop. 4,199, area 27.78 km2, north-west of the confluence of Feldaist and Waldaist rivers, in the Muehlviertel Region. - District court, forestry inspectorate, local branches of the district commission and the regional health and social insurance agency, bridge and road maintenance depots, slaughterhouse, mill, steel construction company, brickworks, building industry, carpenter´s workshops, warehouse, trading firms. -Neo-Gothic parish church (1893-1897); Reichenstein Palace, altered from a medieval castle into a Renaissance palace in 1576, now in ruins; early Gothic castle chapel with stained glass windows (early 14th  century), altars (1740-1750), castle museum.