Steinakirchen am Forst#

Steinakirchen am Forst, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Scheibbs, alt. 324 m, pop. 2,319, area 34.97 km2, in the valley of the River Kleine Erlauf; forms an administrative unit with the municipalities of Wang and Wolfpassing. - District office of the Austrian Water Guard, golf course; trades. - Late-Gothic parish church (15th century), hall church with abundant stellar and net ribbed vaults (box-shaped capitals), high altar (1693); castle (1530-1540) in Ernegg, irregular rectangular construction with arcaded courtyard, altered in 1836; chapel (1330, renovated in 1675).

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