!!!St. Valentin

St. Valentin, Lower Austria, town in the district of Amstetten, alt. 
268 m, pop. 8,791, area 45.62 km%%sup 2/%, railway junction 
in Lower Austria's western Alpine forelands near the Upper Austrian 
border. - Employment services, branch office of the youth services 
office of the district commissioner, Thurnsdorf weir belonging to the 
Ennskraftwerke AG utility company; 3,402 employed persons (1991), 
approximately half are employed in the production and service sectors: 
OMV tank storage area, agricultural machinery and automobile industry, 
production of machinery for injection moulding, plant for 
prefabricated cement products, plastics processing, construction 
firms, commercial enterprises. City charter in 1983. - Late Gothic 
hall church (1476-1522) with rich stellar and reticulated ribbed 
vaults (box-shaped capitals), neo-Gothic interior design; Rems filial 
church with late Romanesque portal and late Gothic wooden organ 
balustrade; Hofkirche filial church with Romanesque nave and Gothic 
presbytery; Langenhart parish church (1957); historical museum 
(archaeological finds, including objects from a graveyard dating from 
late Antiquity or the early Christian period).

!Literature
O. Angruener, 900 Jahre Pfarre Sankt Valentin, 1950; R. 
Mayrhofer, Stadt Sankt Valentin, 1983; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, 
vol. IV, part 1, Die Staedte Niederoesterr., 1988.


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