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VöcklamarktVöcklamarkt, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Vöcklabruck, alt. 488 m, pop. 4,513, area 27.36 km2, lying on the river Vöckla in the Attergau region. - Road administration office, children´s museum (Walchen palace), sports centre, 1,773 gainfully employed persons (figures from 1991): wood processing and metal working industries (tank building, machine building), commerce. - Late Gothic parish church, hall church with 2 naves, chancel by S. Wultinger (1457), interior altered in Baroque style from 1720 to 1730, west tower with double onion helm (1721); Calvary chapel (1723); remains of Roman buildings, milestone (201 A.D.); Walchen Palace; in the vicinity, Hausham plain (Peasants´ Revolt memorial, municipality of Pfaffing). Literature: H. Humer, Vöcklamarkt. Werden und Gegenwart, 1967; A. Wilhelm, Geschichte von Vöcklamarkt, Pfaffing and Fornach, 1975.
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