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Pöggstall is an Austrian market town in the district of Melk in Lower Austria with 2401 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2022). Pöggstall is located in the valley of the Weitenbach in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel.
Culture and sights
Pöggstall Castle, also called Rogendorf Castle: Pöggstall Castle with a traffic circle (barbican) was originally built as a moated castle in the 13th century. An Advent market is held regularly in the castle grounds. Pöggstall Castle is home to several museums. In 2017, it hosted the Lower Austrian provincial exhibition Alles was Recht ist.
Museum of Legal History with Torture Chamber: The Museum of Legal History brings interesting facts about the development of legal history up to the 19th century, about the representation of punishments of honor, corporal punishment, imprisonment and death, as well as about the history of torture. The visit of the torture chamber is only possible within the framework of a cultural mediation.
The exhibition Schloss Pöggstall - zwischen Region und Kaiserhof (Pöggstall Castle - between the region and the imperial court) is dedicated to the findings of building research and the ownership history of Pöggstall Castle.
Franz Traunfellner Documentation
Filial church St. Anna im Felde: St. Anna im Felde is located on a hill near Pöggstall. The church is the successor of a church built in the 12th century. The interesting Gothic building was erected in the 14th and 15th centuries and features a hall typical of the period. Particularly noteworthy in the former Pöggstall parish church (until 1810) are the Gothic wall paintings (around 1400 and around 1500, respectively) and the grave monuments of former castle owners, including the Renaissance tomb of Georg Ehrenreich von Rogendorf (1590).
Parish Church of St. Anna: The two-nave, late Gothic hall church was built around 1480 by Caspar von Rogendorf as a castle and burial church and has been a parish church since 1810. It contains important works of the late Gothic period, including a magnificent winged altar (around 1490).
Pilgrimage church Parish church Neukirchen am Ostrong Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Neukirchen am Ostrong: The originally Romanesque hall church was rebuilt and extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. The church has a massive west tower. It is one of the oldest Marian pilgrimage churches in the Waldviertel and contains many art treasures worth seeing.
