!!!Theresienfeld

Theresienfeld, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Wiener 
Neustadt, alt. 282 m, pop. 1963 (1518 in 1981), area 
11.42 km%%sup 2/%, in the Steinfeld Plain. - Vocational school of 
trade and commerce, waterworks; Wiener Neustadt-Ost airfield, 
construction industry, galvanising plant, carpentry, transport. - 
Theresienfeld was founded as a settlement for Tirolean farmers by 
Empress Maria Theresia in 1763; the network of irrigation canals still 
in existence today dates from that time. Late Baroque parish church 
(1768) with an outstanding façade on the west tower; monument 
in honour of Maria Theresia; monument in remembrance of the Turkish 
wars (1664).

!Literature
E. Sohm, Festschrift anlaesslich der Markterhebung der 
Gemeinde Theresienfeld und ihrer 200jaehrigen Gruendungsfeier 
(Festschrift on the occasion of the granting of market town status to 
Theresienfeld and the 200%%sup th/%  anniversary of the founding of 
the municipality), 1963.


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