Zwentendorf an der Donau#

Zwentendorf an der Donau, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Tulln, alt. 185 m, pop. 3,280, area 53.86 km2, on the southern bank of the River Danube, in the Tullnerfeld Plain. - The opening of Austria´s only nuclear power plant was prevented by public protests and a plebiscite on November 5, 1978. The Duernrohr thermal power plant (built in 1986, block 1: 405 Mw, block 2: 352 Mw, makes use of the infrastructure of the non-operational nuclear power plant), Duernrohr transformer station, Altenwoerth Danube power plant (built in 1976, 328 Mw) with river and lock supervision (shipping police), provincial measuring point of the association for the protection of bodies of water and nature conservation (Verband fuer Gewaesser- und Umweltschutz), Volkshilfe. Yacht harbour. The economy is dominated by the energy sector, in addition, there are chemical plants (production of artificial fertilizers), production of latex and gypsum products and sulphuric acid. - West of Zwentendorf is a Roman castrum, of which more than half has been washed away by the River Danube; remains of buildings give evidence of alterations in various styles up until Late Antiquity (towers with horse-shoe or fan-shaped ground plans); settlement from the 5th century; graves dating back to the 10th  and 11th  centuries; parish church redecorated in Baroque style (1700-1710); castle (1750) with octagonal corner turrets, altered at the end of the 19th  century.

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