!!!Traismauer

Traismauer, Lower Austria, town in the district of St. Poelten, 
alt. 197 m, pop. 5,137, 
area 43.04 km%%sup 2/%, situated to the southwest of the 
confluence of the rivers Traisen and Danube. - Dinosaur Park with an 
area of about 20,000 m%%sup 2/%), 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 9%%sup th/%  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 3%%sup rd/%  and 
4%%sup th/%  centuries, enlarged in the 16%%sup th/%  century.; 
late Gothic parish church (1475-1500) with late Romanesque parts( from 
earlier than 1293, richly worked fortified gate(14%%sup th/% 
 century), organ (1711) and fine pulpit (1799); palace: 
rectangular building from the first half of the 16%%sup th/% 
 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 19%%sup th/% 
 century.

!Literature
A. Mosser, Ein Jahrtausend kirchliches Leben in 
Traismauer, exhibition catalogue, Traismauer 1977; Oesterreichisches 
Staedtebuch vol. IV, part 3, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 
1982; F. Klein, Das alte Traismauer, 1983.


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