Sonntagberg

Sonntagberg
Coat of arms
Sonntagberg Location within Austria
Coordinates: 48°00′N 14°46′E / 48.000°N 14.767°ECoordinates: 48°00′N 14°46′E / 48.000°N 14.767°E
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Amstetten
Government
• Mayor	Johann Eblinger
Area
• Total	18.41 km^2 (7.11 sq mi)
Elevation	340 m (1,120 ft)
Population (1 January 2014)[1]
• Total	3,795
• Density	210/km^2 (530/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	3333
Area code	07448
Website	www.sonntagberg.gv.at

Sonntagberg is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria. It is an important Catholic pilgrimage center.

Geography

Sonntagberg lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 29 percent of the municipality is forested.

Sights

It has a baroque church that was, in its current form, built in 1706–1732 by Jakob Prandtauer and Joseph Munggenast. The ceilings were painted by Daniel Gran (1738–43). In 1964, Pope Paul VI gave it the title Basilica minor.

For a short while, Sonntagberg was the location of what would then become Summerhill School.^[2]

References

1. Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2014-01-01.
2. "Summerhill - Early days". Summerhill. Retrieved 2008-01-28.