Oberwaltersdorf

market community Oberwaltersdorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	to bathe
License plate :	BN
Surface:	13.57 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 59 '  N , 16 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '37 "  N , 16 ° 19' 31"  E
Height :	214  m above sea level A.
Residents :	4,800 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	2522
Area code :	02253
Community code :	3 06 23
Address of the municipal administration:	Badenerstrasse 24 2522 Oberwaltersdorf
Website:	www.oberwaltersdorf.at
politics
mayor	Natascha Matousek ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (23 members)	13 4th 3 1 1 1 13 4th 3 1 1 1  A total of 23 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 4 GREEN : 3 PRO-OW : 1 FPÖ : 1 NEOS : 1
Location of Oberwaltersdorf in the Baden district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Oberwaltersdorf is a market town with 4800 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Lower Austria in the Baden district .

geography

Neighboring communities

	Trumau
Traiskirchen		Ebreichsdorf
to bathe	Tattendorf	Pottendorf

Oberwaltersdorf (right) and the surrounding area around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey )

Oberwaltersdorf is located on the Triesting , in the Vienna Basin , approx. 9 km east of the district town of Baden near Vienna and 25 km south of Vienna on Badener Straße (B 210). A railway connection has existed since 1881 via the Aspang Railway .

politics

Local council election 2010

Municipal Office

3534 people were eligible to vote, 2352 votes were cast, which corresponds to a turnout of 66.55%. 2290 valid votes were opposed to 62 invalid votes.

The following result brought the choice:

• SPÖ : 869 votes, 37.95%, 9 seats² (-4 seats> 2005)
• List ÖVP : 733 votes, 33.76%, 8 seats (+2 seats> 2005)
• ILO: 373 votes, 16.29%, 4 seats (± 0 seats> 2005)
• FPÖ : 176 votes, 7.69%, 1 mandate (+1 mandate> 2005)
• UFO: 99 votes, 4.32%, 1 mandate

The SPÖ Oberwaltersdorf lost the absolute majority it had held since 1945. In October 2009, three local councilors left the SPÖ and founded the Independent Forum Oberwaltersdorf (UFO) in November.

²On May 6th, an SPÖ member resigned from the parliamentary group and did not resign from his seat.

Municipal council election 2015

3939 people were eligible to vote, 2315 votes were cast, which corresponds to a turnout of 58.77%. 2265 valid votes were compared to 50 invalid votes.

The following result brought the choice:

• ÖVP list : 1,102 votes, 48.65%, 12 seats (+2 seats> 2010)
• SPÖ list : 567 votes, $ 25.03, 6 mantatas
• Greens list : 234 votes, 10.33%, 2 seats
• FPÖ : 199 votes, 8.79%, 2 seats (+1 seat> 2010)
• UFO: 111 votes, 4.90%, 1 mandate
• NEOS list : 52 votes, 2.33%, no mandate

City council election 2020

4,337 people were eligible to vote, 2,364 votes were cast, which corresponds to a turnout of 54.51%. 2333 valid votes were compared to 31 invalid votes.

The following result brought the choice:

• List of ÖVP : 1242 votes, 53.24%, 13 seats (+1 seat> 2015)
• SPÖ : 436 votes, $ 18.69, 4 mantatas
• List of Greens : 314 votes, 13.46%, 3 seats (+1 mantat> 2015)
• FPÖ : 114 votes, 4.89%, 1 mandate (-1 mandate> 2015)
• List NEOS : 101 votes, 4.33%, 1 mandate (+1 mandate> 2015)
• PRO-OW: 126 votes, 5.40%, 1 mandate (+1 mandate> 2015)

The community, which was a stronghold of the SPÖ for over 60 years, now has an absolute majority of the ÖVP.

Population development

census	Residents
2011	3,939
2001	3,343
1991	2,416
1981	2,030
1971	2,020

Source: population development of Oberwaltersdorf. (PDF) Statistics Austria

history

Church and Europe Fountain

Oberwaltersdorf Castle

From the 5th millennium BC, namely from around the 47th century BC. BC, the first ceramic finds come from. The first arrowheads, battle axes and chert points date back to the 30th century BC. BC back. From the 7th century BC Further ceramic finds come from BC.

middle Ages

In 991 the first German settlement was built in this area. The name Waltrichsdorf was first mentioned in writing in 1108 in documents from the Göttweig monastery . Oberwaltersdorf was pledged by Duke Friedrich II in 1234. In 1252 the church of St. James is mentioned for the first time. At the Church of St. James there is an exterior fresco from 1325. In 1264, the Göttweig Abbey handed over the property to Ottokar II. The Roman King Albrecht II , who was also Duke Albrecht V of Austria, granted the people of Baltharsdorf a fair right on April 7, 1437 after the Jacob's Day at the request of Hans von Ebersdorf . As owners of the Oberwaltersdorfer Castle or as landowners, aristocrats of various noble families determined the history of the community significantly.

In 1462 the place was devastated by mercenary troops.

Modern times

The place and the church were destroyed by the Ottomans in 1529 during the first of the Austrian Turkish Wars.

The former spinning mill on Fabrikstrasse

In 1818 the Gradner brothers and Anton Girardoni built a spinning mill that went into operation in 1819 and was owned by Josef Poschon and sons in 1869 .

On June 19, 1897, the Ernst Ritter von Boschan and Comp. belonging factory buildings and put 210 workers on involuntary strike .

In 1944, Hungarian Jews were used as slave labor.

Personalities

The former house of the Koller family, Pfarrgasse 15

• Oskar Helmer , one of the leading political personalities of the Austrian post-war period, lived in Oberwaltersdorf. The elementary and secondary school, a street and the former “Kulturheim” are named after him.
• Broncia Koller-Pinell and her husband Hugo Koller. Mrs. Koller-Pinell was a painter of the Viennese Art Nouveau . She was close to the Vienna Secession , especially Gustav Klimt and his circle. The Koller-Pinell couple bought a house on the Mühlbach and had it converted according to plans by Josef Hoffmann . Broncia Koller designed the interior together with Koloman Moser . This house has become a popular meeting place for artists, philosophers and intellectuals. Among others, Franz von Zülow and Egon Schiele also frequented here . The daughter Sylvia Koller (1889–1963) also achieved artistic honors, the son Rupert was a conductor and briefly married to Anna Mahler .
• Lore Krainer (1930–2020; cabaret artist, singer, composer and author): The Graz-born artist lived in Oberwaltersdorf.
• Franz Kutschera : SS- General and de facto Gauleiter of Carinthia in place of Hubert Klausner , National Socialist and war criminal .
• Hans Landauer ( Spain fighter , book author): Hans Landauer (born April 19, 1921 in Oberwaltersdorf; † July 19, 2014 there) was one of the youngest Austrians who voluntarily participated in the Spanish Civil War. He was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in 1941 . After the liberation he worked as a criminal investigator and later in his pension for the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance .
• Gerald Messlender , former professional footballer (defender), grew up in Oberwaltersdorf, played a. a. at the Bundesliga clubs Admira Wacker, FC Tirol and Vfb Mödling and was used in the Austrian national soccer team.
• Prince Alexander zu Solms-Braunfels (1855–1926): The first president of the Trabrennverein zu Baden bei Wien , elected in 1892, owned Gut and Schloss Oberwaltersdorf from 1898 to 1920, where he installed electrical lighting from the Austrian Schuckert Works in 1898 - and had power transmission built.
• Frank Stronach : In 1994 Stronach acquired the castle, including the estate, distillery and part of the associated agricultural property. The old manor and the distillery had to give way to the new building and were demolished. The Magna European headquarters, a golf course with club restaurant and indoor tennis center, and the Fontana housing estate on the Magnagelände were gradually built. In addition to these, a new district was created on the castle lakes.
• Walter-Josef Zupan : Honorary citizen of the market town of Oberwaltersdorf, founding member and first president of the Think European campaign , who gave the idea for the Europe fountain built in Oberwaltersdorf in 1997 .

economy

The 2008 Austrian Open at the Fontana Golf Club

Among other companies, the best-known is Magna Holding AG , which had its European headquarters in Oberwaltersdorf, but moved it to Vienna at the end of 2013. The Fontana Golf Club was also built by Magna and is the venue for the Austrian Open PGA golf tour every year. Historicizing villas were built around the complex.

An older company is the meat and sausage manufacturer Aibler , which is part of the Schirnhofer family holding company .

literature

• Helmut Frais: On the trail of the past - Oberwaltersdorf. History, landscape, culture. From the beginning to the Austrian State Treaty , Verlag St. Gabriel, Mödling 1983, OBV .
• Rudolf Maurer: Baden and Oberwaltersdorf. Paths of a common history . Catalog sheets of the Rollettmuseum Baden, Volume 71, ZDB -ID 2101396-2 . Municipal collections of Baden (City Archives, Rollett Museum), Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-901951-71-8 .

See also

• List of listed objects in Oberwaltersdorf

Web links

Commons : Oberwaltersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 30623 - Oberwaltersdorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Hösch: Location typology of industrial companies in the quarter under the Vienna Woods until 1850. Dissertation Technical University Vienna 1984, OCLC 636465269 , text volume, p. 355 f. - Full text online .
2. ^ Correspondences. (...) Ober-Waltersdorf. Fire in the cotton spinning mill. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 50/1897 (17th year), June 23, 1897, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Forced labor camp for Hungarian Jews in Austria, entry Oberwaltersdorf on deutschland-ein-denkmal.de
4. ↑ Hans Hobik, Gerhard Reichebner, Viktor Wallner : 100 years of trotting club in Baden near Vienna . New Badener Blätter, entertaining and interesting facts from the spa town of Baden near Vienna, Volume 3.3, ZDB -ID 2161928-1 . Society of Friends of Baden and the Municipal Collections - Rollett Museum Archive, Baden 1992, OBV , p. 13.
5. ↑ Marktgemeinde Oberwaltersdorf: The history of the municipality of Oberwaltersdorf ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: oberwaltersdorf.at , accessed on February 16, 2013. 
6. ↑ Executed and planned systems. Austria-Hungary. a) Austria. (...) Oberwaltersdorf ad Aspangbahn . In: Johann Sahulka (Red.): Journal for electrical engineering . Volume 16.1898, issue 13/1898, March 27, 1898, ISSN  1013-5111 . Lehmann & Wentzel ( Commission ), Vienna 1898, p. 156. - Text online .
7. ^ Foundation of the association . In: europabrunnen.de , accessed on February 16, 2013.