!!!Stockerau

Stockerau, Lower Austria, town in the district of Korneuburg, alt. 
176 m, pop. 13,608, area 37.41 km%%sup 2/%, traffic and 
school centre northwest of Vienna, at the northern edge of the Tulln 
Basin. - District court, youth welfare office branch office of the 
district commission, Prinz-Eugen-Kaserne barracks, forest 
administration office of the town of Stockerau, outpost of Mittersteig 
prison, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Labour, district Chamber of 
Farmers, local health and social insurance office, hospital, 
Kolpingwerk apprentice relief organisation centre, Hilfswerk relief 
organisation, psycho-social services, St. Koloman monastery, 
Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium secondary schools, commercial 
school with computer centre, school of domestic science (private), 2 
vocational schools, adult education centre, technological and 
vocational centre for women, district museum (mainly archaeological 
finds) and culture centre in the Belvedereschloessl, automobile 
museum, leisure and sports centre, waterworks, district headquarters 
of the EVN AG Lower Austrian power services; 6,127 employed persons 
(1992), of which approx. 58 % work in the services sector (mainly 
personal, social and public services; central warehouse of a trade 
chain), pump factory, manufacture of mineral wool, public-service 
vehicles, self-assembly furniture and wooden boards. - Documented 
mention 1012 as "Stoccaerouwe", trade centre from the Middle 
Ages, industrial location in the 19%%sup th/%  century, granted town 
status in 1893. Parish church with 88 m high Baroque west tower 
(1722-1725) and impressive high altar (around 1777), parsonage 
(medieval core) with magnificent Baroque portal (1709), town hall 
(1738/39 Baroque alterations) with grand staircase displaying an oil 
painting (1720) by J. G. Schmidt; Belvedereschloessl (formerly 
gazebo built around 1672-1701); Trinity column (first documented 
mention 1713/16); beautiful Pietà (1756-1762), old houses of 
relatively homogeneous appearance (18%%sup th/%  - 19%%sup th/%  
centuries).

!Literature
H. Krehan et al., Geschichte von Stockerau, 1979; 
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch vol. IV, part 3, Die Staedte 
Niederoesterr., 1982; E. Lauermann, 15 Jahre archaeologische 
Forschungen im Gemeinde-Gebiet Stockerau, Niederoesterreich (1978-92), 
1993.


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