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Wilhelmsburg#

Wilhelmsburg, Lower Austria, town in the district of St. Poelten, alt. 321 m, pop. 6,572, area 45.73 km2, industrial town on the River Traisen. - Gymnasium, children's home, waterworks, supervising authority of the Second Vienna Spring Water Supply System; around 65% of all 1,738 persons in gainful employment work in industry and processing trades; factories producing ceramics and sanitary equipment ( OeSPAG); building and construction industry. - Presumably founded in the 9th century, first documented mention 1110, granted the status of town in 1959, parish church (14th century), probably built on Romanesque foundations, extended and fortified in 1457; chapel dedicated to St. Mary, palatine chapel (1320) connected to the parish house, deconsecrated since 1786; Kreisbach Castle (first documented mention 1180), demolished except for a chapel (middle of the 17th century) and the Renaissance gate; Plague Column (1678).

Literature#

Stadtgemeinde Wilhelmsburg (ed.), Wilhelmsburg - Stadt unter dem Herzogshut, 1959-1979, 1979; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, part 3, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1982.

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