Seebenstein is a town in the district of
Neunkirchen in the
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n state of
Lower Austria
Lower Austria ( , , abbreviated LA or NÖ) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Major cities are Amstetten, Lower Austria, Amstetten, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which ...
. It is often called the "Pearl of the Pitten valley" ("Perle des Pittentals") due to its preserved nature.
Geography
Seebenstein is in the industrial quarter of Lower Austria. The town covers 9.09 square kilometers and is 62.71 percent forested. The town includes the Seebenstein nature park and it borders the historic ruin of the Türkensturz. The town is overlooked by the
medieval
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castle
Burg Seebenstein.
History
In ancient times, Seebenstein was part of the Celtic kingdom of
Noricum
Noricum () is the Latin name for the kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube to the north, R ...
.
On April 16, 1972, Seebenstein was the center of a magnitude 5.3 earthquake
Historical population
Demographics
In the 2001 census the population was described as 84.4% Roman Catholic, 3.8% evangelical, 0.5% Muslim, 0.3% Orthodox Christian, and 9.4% with no religion.
Additional to the current population of 1470, around 500 people have a
summer house in Seebenstein.
References
Cities and towns in Neunkirchen District, Austria
Bucklige Welt
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