!!!Raabs an der Thaya

Raabs an der Thaya, Lower Austria, town in the district of Waidhofen 
an der Thaya, alt. 450 m, pop. 3,295 (in 1981 pop. 3,748), area 
134.65 km%%sup 2/%, located at the confluence of the Moravian arm 
of the River Thaya and its German arm, in the northern part of the 
Waldviertel Region. - Road maintenance agency, Museum of the History 
of the Border Region (Grenzlandmuseum); warehouse, building and 
construction enterprises, summer tourism (21,970 overnight stays in 
1992). - Documented mention around 1100 as "Racoucz", was 
conferred the status of a town in 1926; parts of the town 
fortification have been preserved. Parish church originally in 
Romanesque style (Gothic extensions in the 15%%sup th/%  century); 
Raabs Castle (2%%sup nd/%  half of the 11%%sup th/%  century) 
with Hungerturm and Ochsenturm towers and 2 halls with murals 
(16%%sup th/% century); hall church with Romanesque core and Baroque 
west tower at Eibenstein; ruins of Eibenstein Castle (documented 
mention around 1194) on a rock projection located east of the town, 
one of the strategic fortifications built along the Thaya river during 
the Middle Ages.

!Literature
K. Barta, Heimatbuch der Stadt Raabs an der Thaya, 1965; 
O. Knapp, 900 Jahre Pfarre Raabs an der Thaya, 1982; Oesterreichisches 
Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 3, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1982.


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