!!!Traun, Stadt

Traun, Upper Austria, town in the district of Linz Land, 
alt. 276 m, pop. 22,260, 
area 15.45 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the River Traun between 
Wels and Linz. - District Commission, branch office, employment 
services and health insurance office, psychiatric ward of the 
Wagner-Jauregg-Hospital Linz, social centre, Caritas, 
Bundesrealgymnasium secondary school, commercial academy, town 
gallery, sports centre and district sport facilities, waterworks; in 
1991 56% of the 10,236 gainfully employed people worked in industry 
and trade: plastics industry (windows) and metal working (die casting, 
vehicles), specialised paper mill, optical works, production of sports 
goods, food, beverage and tobacco industry, trade. Traun was chartered 
in 1973. - Neo-Gothic parish church (1882-1890) with wooden statue 
from 15%%sup th/%  century; palace (rectangular building from the 
second half of the 16%%sup th/%  century) with renovated manor 
house.

!Literature
Stadtgemeinde Traun (ed.), Stadt Traun, 1986; Stadtamt 
Traun (ed.), Traun. Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1993.


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