Waizenkirchen
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Place in Upper Austria, Austria
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Waizenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Grieskirchen in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Waizenkirchen lies in the Hausruckviertel. About 10 percent of the municipality is forest, and 80 percent is farmland.
History
On 4 May 1945, when a parked tank at the 1st Battalion Command Post caught fire, putting nearby vehicles at risk from flames and exploding ammunition, Technician 5th Grade Eugene B. Spade from Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart's 261st Infantry Regiment raced through bursting 90-mm shells and .50 caliber cartridges to prevent a disaster.
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Municipalities in the district of Grieskirchen
- Aistersheim
- Bad Schallerbach
- Eschenau im Hausruckkreis
- Gallspach
- Gaspoltshofen
- Geboltskirchen
- Grieskirchen
- Haag am Hausruck
- Heiligenberg
- Hofkirchen an der Trattnach
- Kallham
- Kematen am Innbach
- Meggenhofen
- Michaelnbach
- Natternbach
- Neukirchen am Walde
- Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis
- Peuerbach
- Pollham
- Pötting
- Pram
- Rottenbach
- Sankt Agatha
- Sankt Georgen bei Grieskirchen
- Sankt Thomas
- Schlüßlberg
- Steegen
- Taufkirchen an der Trattnach
- Tollet
- Waizenkirchen
- Wallern an der Trattnach
- Weibern
- Wendling
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