Langenlois

Langenlois, Lower Austria, town in the district of Krems, alt. 219 m, pop. 6,367, area 67.13 km², important wine growing area and local taverns ("Heurigen") at the mouth of Loisbach stream, at the end of lower Kamp valley, on the south-eastern border of the Waldviertel region. - District court, local agricultural authority, district Chamber of Agriculture, training centre for the building trades in Lower Austria (Schloß Haindorf). Gymnasium, tourist and wine tasting centre. Schools: Training institutions for agriculture, horticulture, commercial school run by the Franciscan Tertiaries, vocational school for the construction industry; water works, wine growing, wine cellars and wine trade (Grüner Veltliner, Rheinriesling etc.), machine construction, summer tourism. - Settlement from the Old Stone Age (mammoth bones used as support for the walls in huts). Heritage museum with exhibits from prehistory, the history of the town and folk culture. First documentary mention in 1082. - Parish church from the late Romanesque, early Gothic period (first documentary mention in 1309) with choir in late Gothic style, Baroque south tower and Gothic west façade (1754/55), wooden beam ceiling in early Gothic style, fresco fragments (1340-1350), altar-piece by M. J. Schmidt, high altar and side altars in late Gothic style by H. Kies (1964); Nikolaus church with stained-glass windows from the late Gothic period (around 1430); former hospital church in late Gothic, early Baroque style (first documentary mention in 1120, restoration in 1752); former Franciscan monastery and church (15^th to 17^th century, now completely rebuilt); attractive buildings around the Kornmarkt (grain market); plague column (1713); town hall (late Gothic style, adapted in Baroque style in 1728); lower palace building in the Haindorf part of the town (built before 1624, since 1973 a training centre for the building trades), upper palace building (built in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, turned into a residential building); Baroque palace with Renaissance nucleus, Gothic basilica and Baroque west tower in Gobelsburg, branch of the Austrian Folklore museum.

Literature: Stadtgemeinde Langenlois (ed.), Heimatbuch für den Bezirk Langenlois, 1956; H. Pruckner, Festschrift 900 Jahre Langenlois - 50 Jahre Stadt, 1975; Österr. Städtebuch, vol. IV, part 2, Die Städte Niederösterreichs, 1976; L. Rausch, Stadtbuch Langenlois, 1992.