!!!Wieselburg

Wieselburg, Lower Austria, town in the district of Scheibbs, alt. 
269 m, pop. 3,095, area 5.43 km%%sup 2/%, at the confluence 
of the Rivers Grosser Erlauf and Kleiner Erlauf in the northern Alpine 
foothills. - Federal Research Institute of the Federal Experimental 
Agricultural Laboratories (Landwirtschaftliche 
Bundesversuchswirtschaften GmbH), swimming facilities and recreation 
centre, Bundesgymnasium secondary school, Bundesrealgymnasium 
secondary school, Francisco-Josephinum federal advanced level 
secondary school of agriculture (Weinzierl Castle), Fachhochschule, 
waterworks, power station; 2,274 people in gainful employment, around 
50% in the production sector (metal-processing industries, tools, 
lamps, brewery, sawmill, construction) and 50% in service industries 
(especially trade). - First documented mention 976/979, was given the 
status of a town in 1976; parish church St. Ulrich, with 
pre-Romanesque core (octagon, one of the oldest churches in Lower 
Austria), formerly part of a mediaeval castle mound with early 
mediaeval monumental paintings up to the dome (late 10th/early 11th 
century), 1500-1555 addition of a two-aisled Gothic nave, further 
extensions in 1953-1958, late-Gothic statue of St. Mary (16th 
century), high altar from Gaming Charterhouse, 13th century, late 18th 
century, Wieselburg castle (three wings), original building probably 
from the 13th century, main tract of the present building from the 
late 18th century, alterations in 1824. Annual public festival in June 
since 1928, Lower Austrian Agricultural Fair since 1975, Construction 
and Energy Trade Fair, Leisure Trade Fair, fair for farm goods and 
produce, market for used agricultural machines, museum of prehistory 
and early history, brewery museum.

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 3, 
Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1982; H. Birklbauer, Das Oktogon von 
Wieselburg, in: Ostarrîchi - Oesterreich, Menschen, Mythen, 
Meilensteine, exhibition catalogue, St. Poelten/Neuhofen an der 
Ybbs 1996.


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