!!!Windischgarsten

Windischgarsten, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Kirchdorf an der Krems, alt. 602 m, pop. 2,104, area 
4.91 km%%sup 2/%, climatic health and bi-seasonal tourist resort 
(85,207 overnight stays in 1992) near the confluence of the Rivers 
Dambach and Teichl, surrounded by the Warscheneck Mountains, the 
Sensengebirge Mountains and the Haller Mauern Mountain Range. - 
District Court, Youth Welfare Centre of the District Administration of 
Kirchdorf an der Krems, Caritas welfare centre, workshop for 
handicapped people, health and social insurance office, summer 
toboggan run, recreation homes, Skihauptschule (secondary school for 
trainee skiers); building and construction industry, trade (especially 
wood processing). - Excavated Roman finds; parish church (first 
documented mention 1119), re-built 1463, with late-Gothic choir and 
tower, Rococo side altars (around 1770), Baroque gravestones on the 
outer walls; Calvary chapel (1843); market fountain (1745); 
17%%sup th/% century town houses with Baroque façades. Nearby 
sulfur, Glauber's salt and brine springs, mud baths.

!Literature
H. Krawarik, 850 Jahre Windischgarsten, 1970; idem (ed.), 
Windischgarsten. 550 Jahre Markt (1444-1994), 1994.


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