Pulkau, Stadt#
Pulkau, Lower Austria, town in the district of Hollabrunn, alt. 289 m, pop. 1,680, area 36.73 km2, situated in the Pulkau Valley where the Pulkau river flows down from the Manhartsberg mountain on the north-western edge of the Weinviertel region. - Vineyards, small and medium-sized businesses. City charter in 1985. - Romanesque-Gothic parish church (redone in Baroque style in 1645), charnel house (mid-13th century); unfinished late Gothic filial church Heiliges Blut (14th -15th century) with a late Gothic winged altar (1515-1525), a major work of the Austrian Danube school, attributed to the "Master of the Historia Friderici et Maximiliani"; Renaissance edifice "Roter Hof" (late 16th century); city hall (1659), former "Stiftshof" (under the patronage of St. Poelten) rebuilt in 1709; Baroque column dedicated to the Holy Trinity (1778); pillory (1542); old patrician houses (16th -18th century).
Literature#
E. Heilinger, Chronik von P., 1933; H. Puschnik, Pulkau. Geschichts-, Kunst- und Kulturfuehrer, 1984; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die Staedte NOe., 1988.