!!!Wilhelmsburg

Wilhelmsburg, Lower Austria, town in the district of St. Poelten, alt. 
321 m, pop. 6,572, area 45.73 km%%sup 2/%, 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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