!!!Spitz Spitz, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Krems, alt. 207 m, pop. 1,931, area 24.18 km%%sup 2/%, Summer tourist resort (72,946 overnight stays) and wine-growing town in Wachau Valley, built around the "Tausendeimerberg" hill ("Thousand buckets hill"); ship landing place. - District Chamber of Agriculture; tourism, wine and fruit growing. -Palaeolithic finds (no longer extant) in the Miesslingbach valley; Bronze Age settlement. Documented mention in 830; late-Gothic parish church with grave stones decorated with coats of arms, high altar painting (1799) and Lent painting by M. J. Schmidt, monumental crucifix (around 1520); Hinterhaus castle ruin (documented mention around 1243); so-called "Unteres Schloss" ("Lower Castle", reconstruction 16%%sup th/% /17%%sup th/% centuries); Erlahof palace (17%%sup th/% /18%%sup th/% centuries, elaborately decorated portals, museum of shipping since 1970); graveyard with Pastorenturm ("pastor´s tower"); houses in Renaissance and Baroque style. !Literature E. Schoener, Abriss der Geschichte des Marktes Spitz, 1972; idem, Geschichte des Marktes Spitz, 2 vols., 1975-1979. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Spitz|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]