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Sankt ValentinSankt Valentin, Lower Austria, town in the district of Amstetten, alt. 268 m, pop. 8,791, area 45.62 km2, railway junction in Lower Austria's western Alpine forelands near the Upper Austrian border. - Employment services, branch office of the youth services office of the district commissioner, Thurnsdorf weir belonging to the Ennskraftwerke AG utility company; 3,402 employed persons (1991), approximately half are employed in the production and service sectors: OMV tank storage area, agricultural machinery and automobile industry, production of machinery for injection moulding, plant for prefabricated cement products, plastics processing, construction firms, commercial enterprises. City charter in 1983. - Late Gothic hall church (1476-1522) with rich stellar and reticulated ribbed vaults (box-shaped capitals), neo-Gothic interior design; Rems filial church with late Romanesque portal and late Gothic wooden organ balustrade; Hofkirche filial church with Romanesque nave and Gothic presbytery; Langenhart parish church (1957); historical museum (archaeological finds, including objects from a graveyard dating from late Antiquity or the early Christian period). Literature: O. Angrüner, 900 Jahre Pfarre Sankt Valentin, 1950; R. Mayrhofer, Stadt Sankt Valentin, 1983; Österreichisches Städtebuch, vol. IV, part 1, Die Städte Niederösterr., 1988.
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