!!!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.


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