!!!Pressbaum

Pressbaum, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Wien-Umgebung, alt. 317 m, pop. 5,421 (1981: pop. 4,899), area 
58.87 km%%sup 2/%, traditional summer holiday resort (95,163 
overnight stays in 1992) and residential suburb of Vienna on the upper 
course of the Wien River, in the Vienna Woods. - Autobahn maintenance 
depot, convent of Elisabethians and Sacre-Cœur 
(Allgemeinbildende Hoehere Schule (general secondary school) and 
federal training institute for kindergarten teachers); about 80 % 
of the inhabitants in gainful employment work in the service sector 
(1991): mainly personal, social and public services, trade. - New town 
hall (1964), local history museum, Kaiserbruendl fountain, monument of 
Emperor Joseph II. Near Au am Kracking, tumulus with burial 
chamber originally decorated with frescoes (1%%sup st/%  half of 
the 2%%sup nd/%  century A.D.).

!Literature
D. Felbermayer, 25 Jahre Marktgemeinde Pressbaum 
1964-1989, 1989.


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