VOCKLABRUCK

town, Bundesland Obersterreich (federal province of Upper Austria), north central Austria, on the Vckla River southwest of Wels. The fine town square has two old gate towers and a Baroque facade, and there are two 15th-century churches and the Church of St. gidius (1688). Vcklabruck is a busy industrial town with a large asbestos-cement plant and textile, metal, and paper mills. Pop. (1981) 11,039.