KLOSTERNEUBURG  , a

town of Austria, in Lower Austria, 5z m . N.W. of Vienna by rail . Pop . (1goo) , 11,595 . It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, at the foot of the Kahlenberg, and is divided by a small stream into an upper and a lower town . As an important pioneer station Klosterneuburg has various military buildings and stores, and among the schools it possesses an academy of wine and fruit cultivation . On a hill rising directly from the banks of the Danube stand the magnificent buildings (erected 1730-1834) of the Augustine canonry, founded in I Io6 by Margrave Leopold the Holy . This foundation is the oldest and richest of the kind in Austria; it owns much of the land upon which the north-western suburbs of Vienna stand . Among the points of interest within it are the old chapel of 1318, with Leopold's tomb and the altar of Verdun, dating from the 12th century, the treasury and relic-chamber, the library with 30,000 volumes and many MSS., the picture gallery, the collection of coins, the theological hall, and the wine-cellar, containing an immense tun like that at Heidelberg . The inhabitants of Klosterneuburg are mainly occupied in making wine, of excellent quality . There is a large cement factory out-side the town . In Roman times the castle of Citium stood in the region of Klosterneuburg .

The town was founded by

Charlemagne, and received its charter as a town in 1298 .