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Marchtrenk is a town in Upper Austria in the district of Wels-Land in the Hausruckviertel. Marchtrenk is located at an altitude of 304 m on the border with Traunviertel.

Culture and sights

    Old parish church hl. Stephanus, now cemetery church
    New parish church of St. Stephen
    Protestant Peace Church
    Water tower (of the K.u.k. prisoner of war camp), built in 1915 by Bohr company, was in operation only for 2 years
    War cemetery World War I
    Parish yard
    Ufermann Chapel
    Marchtrenker Mauthaus (to the former wooden bridge over the Traun River built by the Brückenverein in 1893)
    Marchtrenker Wiege: A historical curiosity of the municipality is the painted and with sayings provided "Marchtrenker cradle", which is today in the castle museum Linz. It is also called the "cradle of the elderly". The Marchtrenk judge Johann Kötzinger had it made in 1702 to punish quarrelsome spouses. These were grasped like babies in swaddling clothes, placed in the cradle and publicly cradled for the amusement of the townspeople. Later, a joke was also written about the "Marchtrenk cradle".