!!!Prottes Prottes, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Gaenserndorf, alt. 162 m, pop. 1,221, area 13.71 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the southern edge of the Weinviertel region, bordering on the Marchfeld plain. - Indoor sports facility, oil and natural gas extraction (ca. 210 probes within the town limits), construction firms. - Romanesque-Gothic parish church (rebuilt in Baroque style in 1740) with a baptismal font dating from 1554. Open air museum with educational trails on the extraction of oil and natural gas. !Literature L. Gartner, Prottes, 1961. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Prottes|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]