Angern an der March is a market town

Market town

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 in the district of Gänserndorf

Gänserndorf (district)

Bezirk Gänserndorf is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.*Aderklaa*Andlersdorf*Angern an der March**Angern an der...

 in the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n state of Lower Austria

Lower Austria

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

Weinviertel

The Weinviertel or Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg is located in the northeast of Lower Austria....

 region, within the northern Marchfeld basin of the Morava

Morava River (Central Europe)

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  river, about 40 kilometres (24.9 mi) northeast of Vienna

Vienna

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. The river forms the border with the village of Záhorská Ves

Záhorská Ves

Záhorská 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 border between Slovakia and Austria...

 in Slovakia

Slovakia

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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 Duchy of Austria

Archduchy of Austria

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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 Baroque

Baroque architecture

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 St Roch

Roch

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 Chapel at Mannersdorf was built in 1635. Anger Castle was finally demolished in World War II

World War II

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The area is the site of several vineyard

Vineyard

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Subdivisions

• Angern
  Angern
  Angern is a municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....
  
  
• Grub
• Mannersdorf
• Ollersdorf
• Stillfried (de)

Transportation

Angern has access to the Northern Railway

Northern Railway (Austria)

The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway was the name of a former railway company during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Its main line was supposed to connect Vienna with salt mines in Bochnia near Kraków...

 (Nordbahn) line from Vienna to Brno

Brno

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. It also lies at the junction of the Bundesstraße

Bundesstraße

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