!!!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.


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