!!!St. Pantaleon-Erla

St. Pantaleon-Erla, Lower Austria, municipality in the district of 
Amstetten, alt. 242 m, pop. 2,208, area 28.30 km%%sup 2/%, 
situated in the flatlands of the Danube near St. Valentin. - 
commercial school (private), Sankt Pantaleon-Erla run-of-river power 
plant (built in 1964, 27.1 MW), two gravel pits, wood processing. 
- Grave find dating from the Hallstatt period; Roman coins was found 
in Kleinerla, Roman legionaries' barracks found in  Albing, late Roman 
ceramic oven and watch tower; Slav grave field; late Gothic parish 
church with a crypt (early 12%%sup th/%  century) which, along with 
Goess (Styria) and Ranna (Lower Austria), is one of the oldest in 
Austria; castle (16%%sup th/%  century, formerly a moated castle), 
additions in the 18%%sup th/%  century. In Erla, former abbey of 
Benedictine nuns (dissolved in 1783, the oldest in Lower Austria), now 
a castle with a quadruple-winged layout; parish church (former abbey 
church), late Gothic hall church (1438-1448), high altar (1867), 
numerous gravestones (14%%sup th/% -17%%sup th/%  centuries).

!Literature
J. Keil, Geschichte von St. Pantaleon 
(Niederoesterreich), 1967.


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