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The name Mostviertel comes from the apple and pear must made there. The lands between the Rivers Ybbs and Enns possesses the necessary conditions for growing fruit trees and forms the heartland of the must industry. Typical for the Mostviertel are vast meadows of mixed orchards surrounding a farmhouse, in the center of which is usually a square court yard, and the lightly rolling foothills of the Alps. Business and IndustryEconomyThe economy of Mostviertel is still mainly based in iron and steel, as well as in forestry. In earlier times, when iron ore was still mined at Erzberg, the work was done in hammer mills; today the steel millstake the half-finished product from the blast furnaces of Linz and Donawitz and turn it into blades for machines. In the Mostviertel, there is one large sawmill, as well as many small one, which process the wood taken from the forests. However, most of the economy is made up of small and middle-sized operations.
MustFor many years, must has been held in the greatest cultural importance. Today it is seen as an identifying characteristic. Most of this years must is put into homemade meals, pastries, schnaps, and other cookery. In part, the variety of musts is large: there is a clear difference between apple must and pear must, but also a common form that is a mixture of the two.GeographyThe Mostviertel is made up of the following districts:* Amstetten * Waidhofen an der Ybbs * Scheibbs * Melk south of the Danube * Lilienfeld * Tulln south of the Danube :::::::: The City of St. Pölten and St. Pölten-Land References*The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.External links* Mostviertel Dialect* Mostviertel * Moststraße
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