Weitersfeld#

Weitersfeld, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Horn, alt. 441 m, pop. 1,842, area 87.20 km2, in the north-east of Waldviertel Region. - Wood processing industry (firebrigade building and the musicians' home built of wood in modern style); alcohol distillery, production of fuel from oil-seed rape, warehouse cooperative. - Parish church with Gothic choir, nave (1728-1731), tower raised in 1721, late-Baroque interior (1774) and splendid late-Rococo altar (1774), remarkable Renaissance tombstones; pillory (1544). In the cadastral district of Sallapulka is the pilgrimage church of Maria im Gebirge, with Romanesque remains and Gothic tower; the present nave was added in 1647.

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