!!!Schrems

Schrems, Lower Austria, town in the district of Gmuend, alt. 
532 m, pop. 5,925, area 60.82 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town 
in the north-west of the Waldviertel region, near Gmuend. - Day-care 
centre for the disabled (Caritas), industrial and commercial 
vocational schools, Waldviertel Ecological Centre, mud baths, 
Volkshilfe welfare organisation, museum, culture centre, Waldviertler 
Hoftheater theatre, library, multi-purpose hall, adult education 
centre. 3,194 employed persons (1991), approx. 67 % of whom work 
in the processing industry, electrical industry, textile industry, 
construction of prefabricated houses, granite quarries, brewery; peat 
cutting discontinued (following initiatives to convert the moor into a 
nature preserve). - First documented mention 1179, town status since 
1936. Neo-Baroque parish church (destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 
1871) with Baroque high altar (around 1720-1730), altar painting by C. 
Carlone; castle (built after 1635, alterations 1777-1781); pillory 
(16%%sup th/%  century); Vereinspark park (19%%sup th/%  century) and 
main square with modern stone sculptures; many natural ponds in the 
vicinity.

!Literature
O. Moelzer, 40 Jahre Stadt Schrems 1936-76, 1976; 
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 3, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterreichs, 1982; Stadtgemeinde Schrems (ed.), 850 Jahre 
Schrems - 50 Jahre Stadt, 1986.


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