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Weiten is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

On the night of 16 September 2013, Austrian police received a call about a suspected poacher in the woods near Annaberg, Lower Austria. Police officers sought to inspect the vehicle of 55-year-old Alois Huber, but he sped off and later crashed his car in a ditch near Annaberg. While on the run, Huber killed several police officers and a Red Cross paramedic. He also kidnapped another officer while fleeing to his house in Melk. There, a standoff with the police occurred with about a hundred police and military officers present in armored vehicles. After the house was searched on 17 September, a fire was discovered burning in a secret basement, with the charred remains of a man in it; the body is suspected to be that of Huber.

Klein-Pöchlarn is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Artstetten Castle (German: Schloss Artstetten, pronounced [ˌʃlɔs ˈaʁtʃtɛtn̩] (listen)) is a Schloss near the Wachau valley in Lower Austria, in the municipality of Artstetten-Pöbring. It is the resting place of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.

Artstetten-Pöbring is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Emmersdorf an der Donau is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Stiftsgymnasium Melk (German: Melk Abbey's gymnasium) is a Roman Catholic Benedictine-run gymnasium located in Melk, Austria. The gymnasium is located within and run by the well-known monastery Melk Abbey. Founded in the 12th century as a monastic school, it is also the oldest continuously operating school in present-day Austria.

Melk Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley. The abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and the remains of several members of the House of Babenberg, Austria's first ruling dynasty.

Bezirk Melk (Central Bavarian: Beziak Möck) is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria.

Erlauf is a river of Lower Austria and of Styria, Austria. Its drainage basin is 632 km2 (244 sq mi).The Erlauf springs at the foot of the mountain Gemeindealpe It is a right tributary of the Danube in Pöchlarn.

The Pielach Formation is a geologic formation in Lower Austria, Austria. It preserves fossils dating back to the Chattian stage (late Kiscellian to early Egerian) of the Oligocene period. The formation unconformably overlies basement rock, and is overlain by the Melk Formation.

Pöchlarn (Bavarian: Böchlarn) is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. The painter and writer Oskar Kokoschka was born here in 1886.