!!!Ybbsitz

Ybbsitz, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Amstetten, alt 
414 m, pop. 3,915, area 104.17 km%%sup 2/%, 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 18%%sup th/%  
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 17%%sup th/% /18%%sup th/%  
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).

!Literature
E. Meyer, 1480-1930. Festschrift anlaesslich der 
450jaehrigen Markterhebungsfeier von Ybbsitz, 1930; A. Brunthaler 
(collection), Ybbsitz. 500 Jahre Markt, 800 Jahre Pfarre, 1980; B. 
Riegler, Ybbsitz. 500 Jahre Markt, 800 Jahre Seelsorge, 1981.


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