Raxendorf#
Raxendorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Melk, alt. 506 m, pop. 1,132, area 36.25 km2. Built around a village green, situated in a deep circular valley west of Jauerling Mountain. - Day-care centre for the disabled (Caritas), recreation centre, quarry. - As a member of the Babenberg family or an emperor was supposedly rescued from mortal danger there, the town was granted a court privilege, documented mention 1263 as "publicum placitum liberorum", confirmed for the last time in 1755. Parish church in Baroque style (1756-1758); pilgrimage church of Heiligenblut (tabernacle miracle in 1411, Chapel of Origin), late Gothic three-nave hall church with pyramidal roof, two-bay choir (mid 15th century), the interior is in late Gothic style. Eight-metre high tabernacle, stained glass (late 15th and 16th centuries), high altar (around 1730); rectory (1784); Hausegg ruins.