Ebenfurth

Ebenfurth, Lower Austria, town in the district of Wiener Neustadt, alt. 230 m, pop. 2,359, area 23.57 km², minor traffic junction on the river Leitha, in the southern part of the Vienna Basin, on the border between Lower Austria and Burgenland. - Water engine of the Baden water works, transformer station; building and construction industry, trade (especially building machinery), manufacture of upholstered furniture, satellite aerials, wood processing. - Border town, in the 19^th century important industrial centre. Originally Gothic parish church of St. Ulrich, later remodelled in Baroque style, high altar paintings (1721) by J. G. Schmidt, fragments of Gothic frescoes (15^th century); Trinity obelisk (1713); the castle goes back to a 13^th century moated castle, it was reconstructed as a two-towered castle in the 17^th century and rebuilt in the 18^th century (French gardens), ceiling frescoes by F. A. Maulbertsch (1754).

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