Traismauer#

Traismauer, Lower Austria, town in the district of St. Poelten, alt. 197 m, pop. 5,137, area 43.04 km2, situated to the southwest of the confluence of the rivers Traisen and Danube. - Dinosaur Park with an area of about 20,000 m2), port for boating and water sports, Oberndorf power station, sewage treatment plant of the Traisen outfall sewer; around 63% of the 1,270 gainfully employed people (1991) work in industry and trade: ironworking (saw blades, machine knifes) and plastics industry, food industry, mill; wine growing. - Chartered in 1958; Traismauer is situated roughly at the place where the Roman naval base "Augustiana castra" was located, abundant prehistoric finds; owned by the Archbishopric of Salzburg from the 9th  century (in 833 christening of the Slav duke Priwina); settlement has about the same size as the "Augustiana castra", remains of late medieval town walls (museum of local history and tradition): fortified (Roman) gate and gate tower (Hungerturm), foundation walls from the 3rd and 4th centuries, enlarged in the 16th  century.; late Gothic parish church (1475-1500) with late Romanesque parts( from earlier than 1293, richly worked fortified gate(14th  century), organ (1711) and fine pulpit (1799); palace: rectangular building from the first half of the 16th  century with early Baroque arcades, today used as provincial museum for early history; houses built in Renaissance style; Floriani column (1779); Baroque Johannes-Nepomuk statue and bakers´ cross (1674); Traismauer nativity plays performed since the 19th  century.

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