!!!Vöcklabruck

Voecklabruck, Upper Austria, town in the district of Voecklabruck, 
alt. 430 m, pop. 11,239, area 15.59 km%%sup 2/%, lying at 
the confluence of rivers Voeckla and Ager, south of the Hausruck 
mountains; gateway to the Salzkammergut region and main town of the 
Attergau region. - District Commission, district court, district 
school inspectorate, district office of the rural police 
(gendarmerie), employment services, inland revenue office, office of 
weights, measures and surveying, office of animal husbandry, work 
inspectorate, office of the Chamber of Labour including training 
centre, Vocational Training Institute of the Austrian Federation of 
Trade Unions (BFI), district office of the Chamber of Agriculture, 
office of the Economic Chamber, vocational training institute of the 
Austrian Economic Chamber (WIFI), branch office of the regional health 
insurance institution including outpatients department, hospital, 
offices of the Volkshilfe and Caritas charities, 2 day-care centres 
and hostel operated by Lebenshilfe charity, office for psycho-social 
assistance, Kolpinghaus centre, youth and drugs advice centre, town 
library, "Delta" sports complex, "Voralpen" 
stadium, schools and training institutions: Bundesgymnasium secondary 
school, upper secondary school of engineering, commercial academy, 
Oberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school run by the School Sisters, 
advanced-level commercial school, federal institute of kindergarten 
teaching run by the Daughters of our Lady Help of Christians, school 
of trade and commerce school and foremen´s school of the 
Vocational Training Institute of the Austrian Federation of Trade 
Unions (BFI), school of agriculture, vocational school of agriculture, 
adult education centre; museum of people expelled from their home 
country, waterworks, power substation, small power plant (private), 
Duernau power plant (Energie AG Oberoesterreich). About 59% of the 
9,875 gainfully employed persons (figures from 1991) work in the 
service sector (personal, social and public services, commerce); 
production industries: Eternit plant (fibre cement panels), 
electronics industry, fittings plant, foundry, automobile supplying 
industry, printing office.

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First documented mention in 1134, documented as a town in 1353; 
medieval town centre: 2 Gothic gate towers (1957 discovery and 
restoration of insignia frescoes from the era of Maximilian I), 
Gothic burgher houses with Baroque façades; late Gothic parish 
church St. Ulrich, late 15%%sup th/%  century, interior altered in the 
Baroque style; Baroque St. Aegidius church built in 1688 by C. A. 
Carlone, frescoes by C. A. Bussi and paintings by C. von 
Reslfeld (late 17%%sup th/%  century); adjoining vicarage altered in 
1690 by C. A. Carlone; Ascension of the Virgin filial church at 
Schoendorf (documented mention in 824), which was the parish church 
until 1785, now cemetery church, late Gothic hall church (1450-1476) 
with 2 impressive west towers, remarkable frescoes (15%%sup th/%  
century) on the exterior of the choir, impressive rib vault with 
six-pointed star, Virgin Mary statue (around 1440), statues on the 
west gallery by J. G. Schwanthaler (1772), graves (15%%sup th/% 
-20%%sup th/%  century); Heimathaus centre (founded 1929) in the 
"Benefiziaten" (beneficiary) house (15%%sup th/%  century), 
collection of local history including finds from lake dwellings at 
Lake Attersee; Wagrain palace (documented mention in 1491), buildings 
from around 1600, major alterations in the first half of the 
18%%sup th/%  century, St. Anna church in Oberthalheim (altered in the 
Baroque style, chancel from 1497, nave from 1668-1671), opulent 
stuccowork (1690), graves from the 16%%sup th/%  century; 
Altwartenburg castle and palace in Wartenburg (1%%sup st/%  half of 
the 17%%sup th/%  century), Neuwartenburg palace built 1730-1732 by 
A. E. Martinelli, grand hall with fresco by B. Altomonte (1737).

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. 1, Die Staedte 
OOe., 1968; A. Zauner, Voecklabruck und der Attergau, 1971; F. Leitner 
(ed.), Voecklabruck einst und jetzt, 1984; E. Baumgardinger and G. 
Grabner, 850 Jahre Voecklabruck. 850 Jahre Frieden?, 1984; F. 
Satzinger, Voecklabruck - eine Stadt mit Tradition und Zukunft, 
%%sup 2/%1996.


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