!!!Ternitz

Ternitz, Lower Austria, town in the district of Neunkirchen, alt. 
398 m, pop. 15,445, area 65.33 km%%sup 2/%, situated at the 
confluence of the Sierning stream and the River Schwarza, at the 
western end of the Steinfeld plain. - Local health and social 
insurance offices, advisory centre for foreigners, workshop for the 
disabled, library of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (OeGB), 
municipal library, adult education centre, multipurpose complex, 
sports and community halls, Stadtpark, Kurdish cultural centre, 
control station of the 1%%sup st/%  Vienna Spring Water Main; 4198 
people in gainful employment, of whom approx. 60 % in production 
(as of 1991): medical technology, oilfield equipment technology, 
computer technology, plant and apparatus construction (production of 
high-grade steel tubes, aluminium pressure-die casting, production of 
tools, machine tools and saw blades), quartz production, wire mill, 
production of refractory construction materials. - First documented 
mention in 1352, municipality since 1923, town status since 1948; 
traditional industrial town in Lower Austria (home of the 
Schoeller-Bleckmann company, which was split up into 19 separate 
companies in 1989); modern parish church (1959); Protestant church 
(1964); Romanesque-Gothic fortified church in St. Johann with frescoes 
(from around 1270 and the 14%%sup th/%  /15%%sup th/%  centuries); 
observation vantage point on Gfieder hill (609 m).

!Literature
Stadtgemeinde Ternitz (ed.), Ternitz. 50 Jahre Gemeinde, 
25 Jahre Stadt, 1973; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch vol. IV, 
part 3, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1982; Stadtgemeinde 
Ternitz (ed.), Ternitz, die Stadt im Aufbruch, 1988.


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