Sonntagberg#

Sonntagberg, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Amstetten, alt. 340 m, population 4,288, area 18.41 km2, Holy Trinity pilgrimage centre of supraregional significance, on a hill east of the Ybbstal Valley. - Commercial school (private school, located in Gleiss); Volkshaus community centres (in Boehlerwerk-Bruckbach); iron and steel processing, production of light-weight insulation boards, hydraulic engineering, construction industry. - Baroque church (1706-1732) by J. Prandtauer and J. Munggenast, high altar (1755) and pulpit (1757) by M. Hefele, altarpiece sculptures (1752-1756) by J. Schletterer, miracle-working representation of the Holy Trinity (1614), ceiling frescoes by D. Gran (1738-1743), side-altar paintings by M. J. Schmidt (1767), sculptures by J. G. Dorfmeister (1768), confessionals in Rococo style, treasury with goldsmithery products, sacristy chest (1681); chapel near Tuerkenbruendl (1745).

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