Pöchlarn () is a town on the Danube River in the district of
Melk
Melk (; older spelling: ) is a city in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,257 (as of 2012). It is best known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery named ...
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 ...
. The painter and writer
Oskar Kokoschka was born here in 1886.
Population
Personalities
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Rüdiger von Bechelaren
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Oskar Kokoschka, painter
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Johann Rasch
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Ursula Strauss, actress
References
Establishments in the Margraviate of Austria
Cities and towns in Melk District
Populated places on the Danube
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