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AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ") , an archduchy and crownland of Austria, bounded E. by Hungary, N. by Bohemia and Moravia, W. by Bohemia and Upper Austria, and S. by Styria. It has an area of 7654 sq. m. and is divided into two parts by the Danube, which enters at its most westerly point, and leaves it at its eastern extremity, near Pressburg. North of this line is the low hilly country, known as the Waldviertel, which lies at the foot and forms the continuation of the Bohemian and Moravian plateau. Towards the W. it attains in the Weinsberger Wald, of which the highest point is the Peilstein, an altitude of 3478 ft., and descends towards the valley of the Danube through the Gfohler Wald (2368 ft.) and the Manhartsgebirge (1758 ft.). Its most south-easterly offshoots are formed by the Bisamberg (I18o ft.), near Vienna, just opposite the Kahlenberg. The southern division of the province is, in the main, mountainous and hilly, and is occupied by the Lower Austrian Alps and their offshoots. The principal groups are: the Voralpe (5802 ft.), the Durrenstein (6156 ft.), the Otscher (62o5 ft.), the Raxalpe (6589 ft:) and the Schneeberg (68o6 ft.), which is the highest summit in the whole province. To the E. of the famous ridge
Lower Austria belongs to the watershed of the Danube, which with the exception of the Lainsitz, which is a tributary of the Moldau, receives all the other rivers of the province. Its principal affluents on the right are: the Enns, Ybbs, Erlauf, Pielach, Traisen, Wien, Schwechat, Fischa and Leitha; on the left the Isper, Krems, Kamp, Gollersau and the March. Besides the Danube, only the Enns and the March are navigable rivers. Amongst the small Alpine lakes, the Erlaufsee and the Lunzer See are worth mentioning. Of its mineral
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capital , Vienna (q.v.); but in the region of the Wiener Wald up to the Semmering, owing to its many waters, which can be transformed into motive
paper , leather and silk; cloth, objets de luxe and millinery; physical and musical instruments; sugar, tobacco factories and food-stuffs. The very extensive commerce of the province has also its centre in Vienna. The population of Lower Austria in 1900 was 3,100,493, which corresponds to 405 inhabitants per sq.. m. It is, therefore, the most densely populated province of Austria. According to the language in common use, 95 % of the populationIT was German, 4.66 %was Czech, and the remainder was composed of Poles,'lovaks, Ruthenians, Croatians and Italians. According to religion 92'47 % of the inhabitants were Roman Catholics; 5'07% were Jews; 2.11% were Protestants and the remainder belonged to the Greek church. In the matter of education, Lower Austria is one of the most advanced provinces of Austria, and 99.8% of the children of school-going age attended school regularly in 1900. The local diet is composed of 78 members, of which the archbishop of Vienna, the bishop of St Polten and the rector of the Vienna University are members ex officio. Lower Austria sends 64 member.,- to the Imperial Reichsrat at Vienna. For administrative purposes, the province is divided into 22 districts and three towns with autonomous municipalities: Vienna (1,662,269), the capital (since 1905 including Floridsdorf, 36,599), Wiener-Neustadt (28,438) and Waidhofen on the Ybbs (4447) Other principal towns are: Baden(12,447), Bruck on the Leitha (5134), Schwechat (8241), Korneuburg (8298), Stokerau (10,213), Krems (12,657), Modling (15,304), Reichenau (7457), Neunkirchen (10,831), St Polten (14,510) and Klosterneuburg (11,595),The original
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See F. Umlauft, Das Erzherzogtum Osterreich unter der Enns, vol. i. of the collection Die Lander Osterreich- Ungarns in Wort and Bild (Vienna, 18811889, 15 VON.); Die osterreichisch-ungsrische Monarchie in Wort and Bild, vol. 4 (Vienna,18861902, 24 vols.);. M. Vansca, Gesch. Rieder- u. Ober-Osterreitrhs (in Heeren's Staatengesch., G6tha,' 1905). . End of Article: AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ") If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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