!!!Ybbs an der Donau

Ybbs an der Donau, Lower Austria, town in the district of Melk, alt. 
224 m, pop. 5,770, area 23.82 km%%sup 2/%, lying on the 
right (south) bank of the River Danube, to the west of the confluence 
of the Rivers Ybbs and Danube; ship landing stage, bridge over the 
Danube; the Nibelungengau region begins at Ybbs an der Donau. - 
District court, branches of the Melk district commission (youth 
office), regional chamber of agriculture, Stadthalle multipurpose 
complex (1964), town library, Volksheim recreation centre, commercial 
academy, commercial school, adult education centre, therapy centre of 
the municipality of Vienna in Ybbs an der Donau (former psychiatric 
hospital of the city of Vienna in the former Franciscan monastery in 
Piesenegg) with training centre for psychiatric nursing and boarding 
house, School Sisters, water works, road works agency in charge of the 
motorway, power supply centre (private), Ybbs-Persenbeug Danube power 
station (constructed in 1954-1959, 236.5 MW). 2,721 persons in gainful 
employment (1991), dominating service sector (especially personal, 
social and public services); production sector: especially wood 
processing (furniture, carpentry, windows etc.), also metal 
processing, building and construction industry. - In Roman times, site 
of the  "Adiuvense" camp and transfer point of Danube trade; 
first documented mention 863; castle, first mentioned in 1073, 
documents granting privileges (exploitation of forests, 1311, fishing 
and ferrying privileges, 1314, judicial power over life and death, 
1317), granted the status of a town during the 1%%sup st/%  half of 
the 14%%sup th/%  century, confirmed in 1377. The town is made up of 
the old centre and the suburbs of Angern, Piesenegg and Trewald; 
remains of the mediaeval town wall (3 gates) and the town moat are 
still extant; parish church, late-Gothic staggered church (around 
1490) with choir (1512), Baroque western part and tower (1721), 
Baroque interior (around 1720) and tombstones (14%%sup th/%  - 
18%%sup th/%  century); fountain with statue of a knight (1613), 
former 17%%sup th/%  century castle (now an apartment house); 
Schiffsmeisterhaus (shipmaster´s house, 17%%sup th/%  - 
19%%sup th/%  century); town hall (formerly salt authority building, 
16%%sup th/%  century); Virgin Mary column; memorial to Emperor 
Franz-Joseph (1878); liberty monument.

!Literature
O. Ebner, Ybbs an der Donau, 1963; Heimatbuch der Stadt 
Ybbs an der Donau, 1967; Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. IV, 
part 3, Die Staedte Niederoesterreichs, 1982; Unsere Stadt im 
Rueckblick. Ybbs an der Donau 1985-1990, 1990; C. Caravias, Ybbs an 
der Donau, 1991.


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