!!!Vorchdorf

Vorchdorf, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Gmunden, alt. 
413 m, pop. 6,868, area 48.00 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town 
between the Alm stream and the Laudach river. - 2,773 inhabitants in 
gainful employment (1991), of whom 74 % are employed in the 
production sector: Automobile components industry, garden furniture 
manufacturing plant, window production plant, metal processing 
industry, environmental technology, galvanising shop, brewery, 
building and construction industry, ecological furniture production 
plant, dairy. - Late Gothic parish church (documented mention in 
1196), around 1700 redecorated in Baroque style, high altar (1691) 
with sculptures by M. Zuern the Younger, late Gothic crucifix (1520); 
Holy Cross chapel, crucifixion group by M. Zuern the Younger (1690); 
Baroque-style burghers´ houses; Hochhaus Palace (around 1600) in 
Renaissance style, local heritage museum since 1985.

!Literature
R. Schwarzelmueller, Vorchdorf, 1959.


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