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Purgstall an der Erlauf is a market town with 5362 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2022) in the district of Scheibbs in Lower Austria. Purgstall an der Erlauf is located in the Mostviertel in the Lower Austrian Eisenwurzen and calls itself the gateway to the Ötscherland. 

Culture and sights
Catholic parish church Purgstall St. Peter
Catholic Filial Church Feichsen St. Nicholas
The High Court at the lower end of the market, next to the Steinmetz Inn
The fortified tower
The museum in the Ledererhaus is located in a house richly decorated with sgraffito in the center of the village
The Erlauftal Fire Brigade Museum in the fire station in Pöchlarnerstraße 56 shows the historical development of the fire department in Lower Austria.
The natural monument Erlaufschlucht is an essential element of the landscape of Purgstall
In the former prisoner of war camp in Purgstall from 1915 to 1918, people from the "enemy states" of the time were kept under guard.
The book village Purgstall was created in 2000, based on the model of the book village in Hay-on-Wye. 
In the district of Schauboden, the "Path of Peace" was established for this purpose.