!!!St. Oswald

St. Oswald, Lower Austria, municipality in the district of Melk, 
alt. 658 m, pop. 1,116, area 32.12 km%%sup 2/%, settlement along 
a road located west of the Yspertal valley. - Saw mill, wood 
processing, small and medium-sized enterprises. - First documented 
mention in 998, became a market town in the 13%%sup th/%  century 
(later moved to Altenmarkt in the Yspertal valley); Romanesque parish 
church with Gothic choir (15%%sup th/%  century), redone in Baroque 
style in 1739; presbytery (18%%sup th/%  century).


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