Berndorf, Niederösterreich

Berndorf, Lower Austria, town in the district of Baden, 312 m, 826 inhabitants, 17.56 km^{2/SUP>, centre of the Triesting valley. - Municipal theatre; Bundesgymnasium secondary school; in 1991, approx. 52 % of all 2560 employed persons worked in commercial enterprises and skilled trade, especially in the metal-processing industries, Berndorf AG (formerly Vereinigte Metallwerke Ranshofen-Berndorf and Krupp-Metallwarenfabrik, founded in 1843). - First mentioned in a document in 1133, became a town in 1900, workers' housing estates and public buildings financed by the Krupp company (e.g. town theatre - built from 1897 until 1899 as the Kaiser Franz-Joseph-Jubiläums-Theater, 2 schools with classrooms in 11 different architectural styles were built in 1909), Margarethenkirche, new Baroque church (1910-1917), town hall (1882/83); badly damaged during World War II. In St. Veit an der Triesting there is a Baroque parish church (late 17th century) with side altar pieces by J. Bergl (around 1770).}

Literature: Österreichisches Städtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die Städte Niederösterreichs, 1988.