!!!Sieghartskirchen

Sieghartskirchen, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Tulln, 
alt. 205 m, pop. 5,812, area 61.59 km%%sup 2/%, between the 
northern edge of the Vienna Woods and Tullnerfeld Plain. - Office 
building of the Lower Austrian environmental protection agency; 
butchery and meat trade, wood processing. - Gothic parish church with 
Romanesque tower (second half of the 13%%sup th/%  century), altered 
and furnished in Baroque style around 1740, large high altar, Johann 
Nepomuk column (1726); column of St. Florian (first half of the 
18%%sup th/%  century); parish church of Ried am Riederberg (1824) 
with Classicist high altar and pulpit, ruin of a Franciscan monastery, 
founded in 1456, burnt down in 1506, destroyed in 1529.


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