!!!Pulkau, Stadt

Pulkau, Lower Austria, town in the district of Hollabrunn, alt. 
289 m, pop. 1,680, area 36.73 km%%sup 2/%, 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-13%%sup th/%  century); unfinished late Gothic 
filial church Heiliges Blut (14%%sup th/% -15%%sup th/%  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 16%%sup th/%  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 (16%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  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.


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