!!!Steinakirchen am Forst

Steinakirchen am Forst, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Scheibbs, alt. 324 m, pop. 2,319, area 34.97 km%%sup 2/%, 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 (15%%sup th/%  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).

!Literature
F. Schragl, Steinakirchen am Forst. Geschichte der Pfarre 
und ihrer Orte, 1975.


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