Angern an der March () is a

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 rura ...

in the district of

Gänserndorf Gänserndorf () is a town on the Marchfeld in the state of Lower Austria, Austria and is the capital of Gänserndorf district. It lies about 20 km northeast of Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in ...

in the

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n state of

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. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden ''Angern, Grub, Mannersdorf, Ollersdorf'' and ''Stillfried''. Angern is situated in the

Weinviertel The (; ) or ; "Area below the " is located in the northeast of Lower Austria. In the east, the borders Slovakia at the March River. In the south, it borders and , its limits being the Wagram, the Danube and the . Its western neighbor is ...

region, within the northern ''Marchfeld'' basin of the Morava () river, about northeast of

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. The river forms the border with the village of

Záhorská Ves Záhorská Ves (previous name: ''Uhorská Ves''; ; ) is a village situated north of Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia. It is part of the Malacky District and Bratislava Region. The village is located on the Morava river, which forms the bo ...

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, it is crossed by a small car ferry while plans for rebuilding a former bridge are currently under discussion. The settlement of ''Anger'' in the

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was first mentioned in 1260 deed and already referred to as a market town in 1495, a title that it again received in 1970. The

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Chapel at ''Mannersdorf'' was built in 1635. Anger Castle was finally demolished in

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. The area is the site of several

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Subdivisions

* Angern *

Grub GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, commonly referred to as GRUB) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Free Software Foundation's Multiboot Specification, which provides a use ...

* Mannersdorf * Ollersdorf * Stillfried (de)

Transportation

Angern has access to the Northern Railway (''Nordbahn'') line from Vienna to

Brno Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...

. It also lies at the junction of the

Bundesstraße ''Bundesstraße'' (, ), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km. German ''Bundesstraßen'' are labelled with re ...

''B8 Angerner Straße'' highway from Vienna with the ''B49 Bernstein Straße'', part of the ancient Amber route.

References

Cities and towns in Gänserndorf District {{Austria-hist-stub