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There are traces of human settlements from Stone Age and Bronze Age in the area. The first permanent settlement in the area to be mentioned in written sources was Ulmerfeld , mentioned in 995 . The first mention of Amstetten itself is dated to 1111 . In 1858 the town was linked with the rest of the Austria-Hungary by a rail road. Since 1868 it is also a seat of the local district administration. During the World War II Amstetten was a seat of one of the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp . |
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