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Key Facts
State:	Lower Austria
Region:	Mostviertel
Districts of Austria:	Melk
Area size:	25.71 km²
Inhabitants:	5.222 (Census of 2001)
Population density:	203 people per km²
Sea level:	213 m
Postal code:	3390
Area code:	0 27 52
Geographic coordinates:	48°13′37″N, 15°20′38″E
Registration plate code:	ME
Official Municipality Code:	3 15 24
Address of Municipality Office:	Rathausplatz 11
Official website:	www.niederoesterreich.at/melk
E-Mail Address:	stadtamt@stadt-melk.at
Politics
Mayor:	Thomas Widrich

Melk seen from the abbey

Stift Melk

Melk (older spelling: Mölk) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. With a population of 5.222 (as of 2001), it is also the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery named Stift Melk. Just outside the city limits is a renaissance castle named Schallaburg. Melk received market rights in 1227 and became a municipality in 1898. In a very small area Melk presents a great deal of architectural variety from many centuries. The Forsthaus, which accommodates the city archives and the tourist information office, is the starting point of the tour. Beside the Forsthaus the Zaglauergasse meets with the Wiener Straße. The Zaglauergasse is restricted on one side by remnants of the ancient city wall. At this junction one could find the Wiener Tor until 1874. It has been, as well as the Linzer Tor on the other side of the city, one of the two entrances to Melk throughout the centuries. 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After several metres, the Wiener Straße opens to the affectionately restored Rathausplatz, which got its name from the 1575 built Rathaus. The facade of the town hall was redesigned 150 years ago and the highly elaborate entrance door, made of wood and copper, is the town hall's most outstanding feature. Small-town post office and town hall A city hall, or town hall is the headquarters of a citys (or towns) administration. ...

To its left you can find the former Lebzelterhaus, which dates back to 1657 and which nowadays is a pharmacy. To the right you can see a secular building from the middle ages. The Kolomanbrunnen (market fountain), which is a gift from the abbey to the city, is in the centre of the Rathausplatz. On the top of the fountain the statue of the Holy Koloman can be seen.

The old bread store with its tiny towers is about 400 years old and still covered with the original shingle roof. Behind the old bread store extends the oldest lane in Melk, the Sterngasse, which used to be the main street of the town. The interesting wall paintings on the houses indicate what they used to be. Some other houses contain fascinating courtyards.

The hidden Haus am Stein (house at the rock) is the oldest building of Melk. It was built during the 15th century. Its facade is covered by a protected ancient vine. At the arm of the Danube river, parts of the former city walls and the Round Tower can be recognised. Following the Nibelungenlände and passing the Salzhof, the visitor reaches the Schiffsmeisterhaus with its high water level marks on the facade. The Danube reached 15.8 metres above the usual water level in 1501.

The Haus auf dem Stein (house on the rock) was built less than 50 years after this high water disaster. It was used as an atelier by the well-known Austrian painter Walter Prinzl. The counterpart of the Wiener Tor, the Linzer Tor, was located at the end of the Linzer Straße. Both gates do not exist anymore, but historical illustrations can be found at the city archives. At the corner of the Stadtgraben (moat), there is the defence tower, where parts of it are still in original condition. The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats were deep and wide water-filled trenches, excavated to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications. ...

At the end of the moat you can see the Ancient Post Office, which was built in 1792. Its facade is decorated with a beautiful relief created at the end of the baroque period. The Ancient Post Office is now used as an event- and convention centre. The church court is dominated by the Gothic Parish Church. Designed in the late gothic period and embedded in the northern facade, is the Kalvarienberggruppe, a significant sculpture. Before the main road connects to the Rathausplatz, a tablet commemorates the great Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In the arts, Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the artistic style that dominated it. ... See also Gothic art. ... Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824–11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era. ...

• District of Melk

The district Melk west the lower-Austrian state capital St. ...

External links

• Monastery Stift Melk
• Renaissance Castle Schallaburg