!!!Waizenkirchen

Waizenkirchen, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Grieskirchen, alt. 367 m, pop. 3,602, area 
34.23 km%%sup 2/%, on the Aschach river, in the hills of the 
northern Hausruckviertel region. - Agricultural trade school; 
manufacture of agricultural machinery and lifts, weaving mill, bakery, 
building trade, commercial firms; sand pit. - First documented mention 
around 1150; late-Gothic parish church, Baroque alterations 1738-1748, 
neo-Baroque altar decoration with paintings by M. J. Schmidt 
(1799), life-size figures of saints (2%%sup nd/%  quarter of the 
18%%sup th/%  century); Altenheimkapelle chapel (1647) with 
late-Baroque altar; Weidenholz Castle (first documented mention 1276), 
a moated castle completely renovated in 1876; collection of items of 
local historical and cultural value (founded 1957) in the house where 
the composer W.  Kienzl was born, with memorial room dedicated to him.


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