!!!Scheibbs

Scheibbs, Lower Austria, town in the district of Scheibbs, alt. 
339 m, pop. 4,389, area 45.82 km%%sup 2/%, main town in the 
district, administrative and economic centre of the central Erlauf 
valley, in the Eisenwurzen region. - District commissioner, district 
court, district police headquarters, district Chamber of Agriculture, 
employment service, inland revenue and surveying offices, Economic 
Chamber, Chamber of Labour, regional health insurance agency, 
hospital, Volkshilfe centre, diocesan family counselling centre, 
Caritas counselling services, central office for the support of asylum 
applicants and refugees, children´s recreation home of the 
Vienna Jugendhilfswerk youth support agency, sport centre, Buddhist 
cultural centre, Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school (with 
boarding school), adult education centre, Brandstatt electricity 
plant; approximately 63 % of the 2,159 employed (1991) are in the 
service sector (primarily personal, social and public services); 
elevator manufacturing, paper plant, construction firms; tourism 
(18,726 overnight stays in 1992). - First documented mention in 
1159/1160, former centre of the iron industry, city charter in 1926. - 
Medieval painting of the town shows fortified city walls and gate 
towers (1495); late Gothic parish church (hall church with reticulated 
vaults) with Baroque interior (five altars 1704-1712), high altar 
(1704); Baroque Capuchin church (1678-1684), altar painting by 
M. J. Schmidt (1777); former castle with arcaded courtyard (1511, 
now houses government offices and a hunting target museum); 
riflemen´s club house (17%%sup th/%  century); museum of local 
history located in city hall; Renaissance houses on the main town 
square; medieval bridge located below the town. In Neubruck (built in 
1830) iron mills were built and used between 1819-1873 by A.  Toepper, 
which were later transformed into a paper plant.

!Literature
H. Jelinek, Stadt Scheibbs - Festschrift zur 600-Jahrfeier 
der Stadterhebung 1352-1952, 1952; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch vol. 
IV, part 3, Die Staedte Niederoesterr., 1982; R. Springinsfeld, Die 
Stadtgemeinde Scheibbs. Wirtschaftsgeographie einer Kleinstadt in den 
Niederoesterreichischen. Eisenwurzen, master´s thesis, Vienna 
1983; W. Loewenstein, Chronik der Bezirksstadt Scheibbs, 1989.


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