!!!Senftenberg

Senftenberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Krems, alt. 
254 m, pop. 2067, area 34.76 km%%sup 2/%, in the lower Krems 
Valley, northwest of Krems an der Donau. - (Private) 
rehabilitation centre; metal working, dental laboratory, wine-growing. 
- Excavations dating from the Old Stone Age; castle ruin (dating from 
the 12%%sup th/% and 13%%sup th/%  centuries, devastated in 1645, 
archaeological excavations) with two towers; parish church (former 
fortified church) equipped with defensive walls, choir redecorated in 
Baroque style, sumptuously decorated pulpit (18%%sup th/%  century); 
central market square with houses dating from the Late Middle Ages.

!Literature
F. Fux, Am Anfang war der "Vorst". Die 
Waldaemter der Gemeinde Senftenberg, 1983.


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