Schenkenfelden#

Schenkenfelden, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Urgahr-Umgebung, alt. 734 m, pop. 1,343, area 25.61 km2, situated on a plateau in the north-east Muehlviertel region west of Freistadt. - Wood processing. In 1951 a fire destroyed most of the town. - Late Gothic hall church (1525) with Mount Olive chapel; Baroque Calvary church on the Tierberg mountain (built by J. M. Prunner in 1712) with Stations of the Cross (axial arrangement); Jakobs-Bruendl chapel (around 1730).