Sankt Valentin

Sankt 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.