!!!Schärding

Schaerding, Upper Austria, town in the district of Schaerding, alt. 
318 m, pop. 5,446, area 4.08 km%%sup 2/%, situated at the 
confluence of the River Pram and the River Inn opposite the Bavarian 
town of Neuhaus am Inn. - District commissioner, district court, 
district chamber of agriculture, district police headquarters, 
district school board, district indoor sports centre, inland revenue 
office, office of surveying, customs office, security police, 
department for road maintenance, Schaerding water gauge (hydrographic 
service), agencies of the Economic Chamber and Chamber of Labour, 
vocational training institute, hospital, Kneipp therapy centre of the 
Kights Hospitaller and Gugerbauer health hotel, library, sport centre, 
Bundesgymnasium secondary school, commercial academy, vocational 
school for trade and commerce, Inn-Danube school for ship captains, 
waterworks, district heating plant, Schaerding-Neuhaus run-of-river 
power plant (built in 1961, 48 MW); 3,884 persons employed (1991) of 
which 70 % in the service sector: primarily personal, social and 
public services, tourism (77,685 overnight stays in 1992); two 
breweries, construction firms. - First documented mention in 804 as 
"Scardinga", medieval fortified settlement located on 
important trade and transportation routes. Because the town changed 
hands so many times, it was granted a city charter on several 
occasions (1316, 1364); originally a Bavarian town, Schaerding has 
belonged to Austria since 1779. - Two town squares, remains of the 
fortifications (14%%sup th/% /15%%sup th/%  century) with Wassertor, 
Linz and Passau gates, so-called Capuchin bulwark (17%%sup th/%  
century) and castle ruins in the Schlosspark; parish church with a 
Gothic choir and nave 1720-1726 which was redesigned in the Baroque 
style and renewed in 1814, marble high altar (1677, from Regensburg), 
St. Theresia´s altar with a painting by J. M. Rottmayr, a 
figural gravestone (1428) in the bell tower, wrought-iron grave 
crosses (17%%sup th/% -18%%sup th/%  centuries); Baroque church of the 
Knights Hospitaller in the Kneipp therapy centre (1635-1638) 
originally a Capuchin church, renovated in 1930); former St. 
Sebastian´s church (Protestant church since 1954), built by 
J. B. Viscardi in 1635-1640, crucifix (17%%sup th/%  century); 
town square with homogeneous townscape elements; burghers houses 
(16%%sup th/% -19%%sup th/%  century) with sweeping Baroque gables and 
square bays: city hall, "bemaltes Haus" ("painted 
house") with fresco dating back to around 1640; city museum 
located in the former outer city gate.

!Literature
D. Frey, Die Denkmale des politichen Bez. Schaerding, 
1927; Anonymus, Festschrift 650 Jahre Stadt Schaerding, 1966; 
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch vol. I, Die Staedte Oberoesterr., 
1968.


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