Seitenstetten

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Seitenstetten
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Amstetten
Mayor	Franz Deinhofer
Basic statistics
Area	30.48 km² (11.8 sq mi)
Elevation	349 m (1145 ft)
Population	3,172 (12/06/2008)
- Density	104 /km² (270 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal code	3353
Area code	07477
Website	www.seitenstetten-gv.at Coordinates: 48°1′0″N 14°39′0″E / 48.01667, 14.65

Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.

One Udalschalk or Udiskalk, first mentionned in 1109, founded a monastery there in 1112 and gave all of his properties in Seitenstetten, Grünbach, Heft and Stille (in today's Upper Austria). In 1114, Benedictine monks from Göttweig Abbey were installed there. In 1116, Bishop Ulrich I. von Passau, related to the Udalschalk family, consacrated the abbey's church and donated the large Aschbach parish. In 1142, parish Wolfsbach was added. Those two major parishes were, by the time, split up into the fourteen parishes of which the abbey is in charge up to now.

Around 1180, Wichmann von Seeburg, Archbishop of Magdeburg, donated large woods near the Ybbs river.