!!!Waldhausen im Strudengau

Waldhausen im Strudengau, Upper Austria, market town in the district 
of Perg, alt. 470 m, pop. 2,891, area 46.74 km%%sup 2/%, in 
the valley of the Sarmingbach stream. - Electric power station; 
tourism (approx. 25,000 overnight stays in 1992); building trade. - 
Parish church (first documented mention 1142), extensions by H. Eder 
1610-1612, important example of post-Gothic architecture in Austria, 
with tabernacle and frescoes (around 1610), high altar (around 1680); 
on the Schlossberg hill lie the remains of a monastery of the 
Augustinian Canons Regular (founded 1147, suspended in 1785, 1800-1810 
largely demolished) and an early-Baroque former collegiate church 
(1650-1693), built by C. Colomba and C. Canevale, rich stucco work, 
richly decorated altar (around 1670) with paintings by J. Sandrart and 
J. de Herdt.

!Literature
H. F. Mueller, Gruendungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 
des Augustiner-Chorherren-Stiftes W. Oberoesterreich bis zum Ausgang 
des 16. Jahrhunderts, doctoral thesis, Innsbruck, 1959.


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