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Schönkirchen-ReyersdorfSchönkirchen-Reyersdorf, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Gänserndorf, alt. 161 m, pop. 1,725 (1981: pop. 1,343), area 17.75 km2, located on the Weidenbach stream, among the oil fields at the northern edge of the Marchfeld plain. - Petroleum extraction (300 bores in the municipality), gas storage centre and flooding facility of the OMV AG; manufacture of steel tube furniture. - Parish church (medieval core, Baroque building 1695-1698) with high altar painting (1835) by L. Kupelwieser; Baroque castle (1695, alterations and Classicist façade added 1882); late-Gothic wayside shrine; Gothic Church of St. Leonhard (first documented mention 1356) with Gothic interior in Reyersdorf. Literature: E. Bezemek (ed.), Schönkirchen-Reyersdorf: eine Ortskunde, 1994.
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