The

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

of Bad Fischau-Brunn is an

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in the

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Wiener Neustadt-Land Bezirk Wiener Neustadt-Land is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. Municipalities Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Bad Erlach **Brunn bei Pitten, Erlach, Linsberg * ...

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

. It is situated some 50 km south of

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at the edge of

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. Bad Fischau-Brunn is divided into two ''

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n'':Ortsverzeichnis 2001
Statistik Austria *Bad Fischau *Brunn an der Schneebergbahn.

History

The oldest traces of settlement in the area of the municipality date back to the

Hallstatt culture The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western Europe, Western and Central European Archaeological culture, culture of Late Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe ...

(8th-6th century BC). A

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passed through the area, and the sources of Fischau were already used in the Roman era. The name ''Fischau'' was first mentioned in the 9th century. It was mentioned as a market town in 1166, and was site of the

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, too. However, it lost its importance after

Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...

, founded at the end of the 12th century, became the site of the mint.Landesmuseum Niederösterreich
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s of Fischau took a rise in 1872, when the spa resort (''Kristalltherme'') was opened. It was rebuilt and expanded to its current state in 1900. The prefix ''"Bad"'' (spa town) has been added to the name in 1929. The current market town was formed in 1969 by merging the municipalities of Brunn an der Schneebergbahn and Bad-Fischau.

Population

Culture and sites of interest

*The thermal springs (19 °C), dating from 1900 in its present form. *The church, built in the 12th century, received its present classicist shape in 1796-1798. *The castle *The cave ''Eisensteinhöhle''

References

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