Schwechat
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Schwechat is a town southeast of Vienna recognised for the Vienna International Airport and Schwechater beer. The town is home to the refineries of the Austrian countrywide oil employer OMV. Schwechat is known as after the river Schwechat, which flows thru the centre of town. The metropolis subdivisions known as Katastralgemeinde are Kledering, Mannsworth, Rannersdorf and Schwechat. Home to the settlement Ala Nova of the Roman Empire, the town was first noted in a file in 1334. The meeting at Schwechat of Emperor Leopold I with Jan Sobieski in 1683, after the liberation of Vienna, is venerated by means of an obelisk.
The imperial troops defeated the Hungarian insurgents in a war fought here in October 1848. In 1724, a textile factory became installed in Schwechat. Schwechat profited vastly from the Austrian industrialisation wave of the 19th century, the various organizations established then nevertheless present nowadays. Schwechat have become a town in 1924 and changed into integrated into Vienna in 1938. The city's oil refinery changed into a bombing goal of the Allied Oil Campaign of World War II, with the southern aviation plant complicated of the Heinkel firm additionally centered in past due 1943 and lasting thru the spring of 1944.
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