!!!Yspertal

Yspertal, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Melk, alt. 498 
m, pop. 1,834, area 47.66 km%%sup 2/%, in the valley of the River 
Grosse Ysper, at the foot of the Grosser Peilstein mountain (alt. 1061 
m) in the southern Waldviertel region. - Advanced-level school of 
ecology and economics with boarding house (private); concrete works, 
trade; Waldviertel workshops, popular destination for day-trips 
(Ysperklamm gorge). - At Ysper, parish church with Gothic core and 
Baroque nave, massive tower and neo-Gothic interior. Pillory (early 
17%%sup th/%  century); late-Romanesque/Gothic parish church in 
Altenmarkt, altered in Baroque style in 1738/39, copies of Gothic 
stained glass; museum of local history and culture in former school 
building.


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