!!!Rossatz-Arnsdorf

Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Krems, 
alt. 225 m, pop. 1,127, area 39.04 km%%sup 2/%, on the 
southern bank of the Danube, in the Wachau Valley. - Wine and fruit 
growing, huchen breeding station, summer tourism (25,579 overnight 
stays in 1992). Important shipping station from the 14%%sup th/%  to 
the 19%%sup th/%  centuries. - Gassengruppendorf village with houses 
built around a triangular green; Gothic parish church at centre, 
extended in basilican form in the 18%%sup th/%  century; palace 
(1592-1600); statue of Johann Nepomuk (1721); pillory (1633); town 
hall with council chamber (1624); vintner houses typical of the 
Wachauer region; remains of a siege tower dating from late Antiquity 
in the Windstallgraben trough  Arnsdorf.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Rossatz-Arnsdorf (ed.), 1000 Jahre 
Rossatz-Arnsdorf, 1985.


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