Schwadorf#

Schwadorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Wien-Umgebung, alt. 163 m, pop. 1,692 (1981: pop. 1,488), area 11.37 km2, on the Fischa River, southeast of Vienna. Situated in a seismic area above a geological fault, the "Schwadorf Dome"; often subject to minor local earthquakes, last serious earthquake causing significant damage on October 8, 1927. - Spinning mill. - Late Gothic parish church with Baroque nave (1724) and Rococo interior; palace (17th century), altered at the beginning of the 19th  century; plague monument (1691).

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