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Spitz, NiederösterreichSpitz, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Krems, alt. 207 m, pop. 1,931, area 24.18 km2, Summer tourist resort (72,946 overnight stays) and wine-growing town in Wachau Valley, built around the "Tausendeimerberg" hill ("Thousand buckets hill"); ship landing place. - District Chamber of Agriculture; tourism, wine and fruit growing. -Palaeolithic finds (no longer extant) in the Mießlingbach valley; Bronze Age settlement. Documented mention in 830; late-Gothic parish church with grave stones decorated with coats of arms, high altar painting (1799) and Lent painting by M. J. Schmidt, monumental crucifix (around 1520); Hinterhaus castle ruin (documented mention around 1243); so-called "Unteres Schloß" ("Lower Castle", reconstruction 16th /17th centuries); Erlahof palace (17th /18th centuries, elaborately decorated portals, museum of shipping since 1970); graveyard with Pastorenturm ("pastor´s tower"); houses in Renaissance and Baroque style. Literature: E. Schöner, Abriß der Geschichte des Marktes Spitz, 1972; idem, Geschichte des Marktes Spitz, 2 vols., 1975-1979. References to other albums:
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