Ansfelden is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in Upper Austria

Upper Austria

Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, located 289 metres above sea level

Sea level

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, with a population of about 15300. The rivers Traun and Krems

Krems (Upper Austria)

The Krems is an approximately 60 kilometer long tributary of the Traun in Upper Austria.It originates at the foot of the mountain "Kremsmauer" in Micheldorf, runs northwards in the Traunviertel through the Upper-Austrian Alpine foothills, and flows into the Traun in Ebelsberg, a district of...

 run through the municipality. The town is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of the composer and organist Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...

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Ansfelden has two museum

Museum

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s, the Anton Bruckner Museum and a museum of musical instruments.

In the town's coat of arms

Coat of arms

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, granted on October 28, 1985, the wavy stripe represents the rivers; the organ pipes, Anton Bruckner; and the cog-wheel, the town's paper-mills and other industries.

Between 1945 and 1964 the DP Camp Haid

DP Camp Haid

The DP camp Haid, officially Wohnsiedlung 121 Haid, was a camp for displaced persons first under the American administration, then the Upper Austrian administration. It was located in the district of Haid, Ansfelden in Upper Austria...

was located in the district Haid.