Mannswörth
Mannswörth is a village with around 1600 inhabitants in Lower Austria and belongs to the political municipality of Schwechat . The village is the only settlement in the 25.21 km² cadastral municipality of the same name , on whose territory most of Schwechat Airport is located.
location
The street village that emerged from a riverside village is located at the confluence of the Schwechat into the Danube . Today it is bounded to the south by the extensive area of the Schwechat refinery or the east motorway and to the north by the Danube.
history
The place is first mentioned in 1058 as Mandeswerde , which means island of a man named Mand , and has been an original parish since the middle of the 11th century. Independent municipality from 1850, Mannswörth was separated from Lower Austria in 1938 and incorporated into Vienna. From 1946 the place belonged again to Lower Austria and was united with Schwechat in 1954.
Parish and parish church
Mannswörth is an original parish that was subordinated to the Diocese of Passau before 1147 . It extended over Schwechat, Himberg, Schwadorf, Wienerherberg, Rauchwarth and Ebergassing.
The church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is located on the eastern outskirts and is surrounded by a spacious churchyard. The elongated hall church consists of a baroque nave, a Gothic five-storey defense tower and a Gothic choir. On the south side of the nave is an octagonal chapel built in the middle of the 17th century. The high altar is a remarkable late baroque-early classical tempietto from the mid-18th century.
Contaminated sites
From 1965 to 1979, an abandoned gravel pit near the White Cross was used to deposit household and household-like waste, with very high proportions of plastic film, shredded car tires and paper being filled in in some cases. These deposits show high levels of outgassing, which in themselves are hardly dangerous, but allow conclusions to be drawn about the deposits. Leachate from the deposit area causes pollutants to enter the groundwater. The spread of pollutants in the groundwater is limited, but these old deposits pose a significant risk to the environment.
Personalities
- Rudolf Hausleithner (1840–1918), academic painter
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Johannes Pauser: The history of the parish and church St. Georg - Kagran , dissertation of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1994 DOC
- ↑ Contaminated site N84: Landfill B 9 at the White Cross at altlasten.gv.at
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 43 ″ N , 16 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ E