Moosbrunn

Moosbrunn, Lower Austria, municipality in the district of Wien-Umgebung (environs of Vienna), alt. 186 m, pop. 1,466, area 16.91 km², situated on an inlet of the river Piesting, in the Vienna Basin. - Transformer station, pumping station of the municipality of Mödling water works; short-wave transmitting station of the ORF (Austrian broadcasting corporation) for their foreign news service (target areas Europe and overseas), consisting of 4 transmitters with directional, rotatable and omnidirectional aerials on a total area of 800,000 m², the biggest aerial curtain being 75 m high and 85 m wide. Plastics and metal processing industries, printing shop. - Village with wide roads; parish church, originally Gothic, converted in Baroque style. Animal sculpture from former late Romanesque tower in the Museum Mödling.