Schwanenstadt#

Schwanenstadt, Upper Austria, town in the district of Voecklabruck, alt. 389 m, pop. 3,787, area 2.58 km2, on the Ager River, at the edge of the Hausruck mountain. - District court, youth welfare office of the district commission; 2,760 people employed (1991), approximately half of whom in the service sector (esp. trade in upholstered furniture and crane installations, large forwarding agency) and the other half in the production sector; the fairly limited area of the town led to close economic co-operation with neighbouring villages and towns: abattoir and meat industry, wood-working industry (joinery), cheese factory, textile industry, metal (crown caps) and plastics processing (also in Ruestorf), hotel furnishings, mixed feed producers. - Documented mention in 790 as "Suanse", declared a town in 1627. Parish church (1900-1902) by M. Schlager; late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary and Mount of Olives relief (15th  century); Gothic Calvary church (around 1488), redecorated in Baroque style, on Philippsberg hill with Stations of the Cross; mechanical "Lenten crib" (i.e. scenes from Lent and the Passion of Christ); hospital church altered in Baroque style (1750), today Protestant church; local heritage museum in the town hall (1939).

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