Ybbsitz#

Ybbsitz, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Amstetten, alt 414 m, pop. 3,915, area 104.17 km2, municipality with trading and industrial enterprises at the confluence of the Rivers Prollingbach and Schwarze Ois, at the foot of Prochenberg mountain. Town with ancient traditions in producing small iron products. - Health resort for the blind; production sector predominant (especially metal-processing: metalware, sectional iron, machines, tools); enamelwork production, some tourism. - Parish church, late-Gothic hall church, choir (1519), nave (1489-1497) with Baroque spire (1784), marble high altar (from the middle of the 18th century) from the Carthusian monastery in Gaming, in Ybbsitz since 1784, late-Gothic statue of the Virgin, stone pulpit; rectory (1778-1786); manor houses of the "Hammerherren" (owners of metalworking shops and forges in the 17th /18th century) with Rococo façades; ancient forge hammers (e.g. Fahrngruber-Hammer) along the iron road in the Haselgraben rift valley and In der Noth road (smithery trail and theme trail); renovated pickaxe forge shop; Kremayr Museum; observation tower and mountain refuge on Prochenberg mountain (1,123 m).

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