!!!Waidhofen an der Thaya

Waidhofen an der Thaya, Lower Austria, town in the district of 
Waidhofen an der Thaya, alt. 510 m, pop. 5,553, area 
46.03 km%%sup 2/%, located on a terrace along the upper part of 
the River Thaya (also called "Deutsche Thaya"), in the 
northern Waldviertel region. - District commission, district court, 
employment services, tax and surveying office, chamber of labour, 
economic chamber, district chamber of farmers, local health and social 
insurance office, Caritas day-care centre, marriage, family and 
personal guidance services, main operating office of the EVN Lower 
Austrian power services, sports hall, municipal hall, 3 museums, 
sports and leisure centre, Volksheim educational association, adult 
education centre, Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium secondary 
schools, commercial academy, waterworks; 3,727 employed persons 
(1991), about half of them work in the services sector (mainly 
personal, social and public services) and half in the manufacturing 
sector: electrical industry, plastics-processing industry, concrete 
factory, manufacture of doors, building trade. - Regularly laid-out 
fortified town founded in the 12%%sup th/%  century, first documented 
mention in 1171 as "Waidehouen", granted town status in 1337 
and again in 1375; town fortification and 2 towers largely preserved, 
impressive high altar with altar painting by M. Moelk, frescoes by 
J. L. Daysinger, in the Baroque parish church (1716-1723); 
Baroque citizens´ hospital church (17%%sup th/%  century) with 
Gothic choir; castle (rebuilt in 1770); farmers´ town residences 
from the late Renaissance and the Baroque periods; Trinity column 
(1705-1709); hammer mill (19%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
R. H. Ježek and E. Neuwirth, 800 Jahre Waidhofen 
an der Thaya, 1971; R. H. Ježek, Die Stadt Waidhofen an der 
Thaya von ihrer Gruendung bis zum Jahre 1946, doctoral thesis, Vienna, 
1976; H. Hitz (ed.), Waidhofen an der Thaya, Werden und Wandel einer 
Stadt, 1980; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 3, 
Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1982; H. Hitz and A. Biedermann, 
Waidhofen an der Thaya, Portrait einer Stadt, 1996.


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