Altenburg (Lower Austria)

Altenburg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	horn
License plate :	HO
Surface:	28.1 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 39 '  N , 15 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '0 "  N , 15 ° 35' 0"  E
Height :	388  m above sea level A.
Residents :	817 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	3591
Area code :	02982
Community code :	3 11 01
Address of the municipal administration:	Zwettler Strasse 16 3591 Altenburg
Website:	www.altenburg.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Markus Reichenvater ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	11 3 1 11 3 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 3 FPÖ : 1
Location of Altenburg in the Horn district
View of Altenburg.
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Tower of the collegiate church Altenburg.

Fresco library Altenburg Abbey.

Altenburg is a municipality in Lower Austria in the Horn district in the Waldviertel . The responsible judicial district is Horn .

geography

The place is four kilometers southwest of Horn in the Waldviertel in the federal state of Lower Austria . The altitude in the town center is 388 meters. The area of ​​the place covers 28.1 km². The population is 817 (as of January 1, 2020).

Community structure

The municipality includes the following five localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Altenburg (440)
• Burger Meadows (156)
• Fuglau (105)
• Mahrersdorf (72)
• Steinegg (44)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Altenburg, Burgerwiesen, Fuglau, Mahrersdorf and Steinegg.

The Altenburg community is a member of the Kamp-Taffatal region .

Neighboring communities

Röhrenbach	St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen	horn
Pölla District Zwettl		Rosenburg mold
	St. Leonhard am Hornerwald district Krems-Land	Gars am Kamp

history

The Altenburg Benedictine Abbey, founded in 1144, has played a key role in shaping the history of Altenburg. The current municipality of Altenburg emerged from the merger of Altenburg (with the districts Burgerwiesen and Steinegg) and Mahrersdorf on January 1, 1968 and the incorporation of Fuglau on January 1, 1970.

La Tène settlement on the Kamp

In the Kampschlinge ( Umlaufberg ) near Altenburg, a Celtic settlement from the Latène period was excavated in the first third of the 20th century . Fireplaces, iron smelters, stone settings and paving were exposed. The finds were scattered finds from the Neolithic Age (11,500 to 2,200 BC) and the Hallstatt Period ( 800 to 475 BC), but above all from the La Tène period (5th to 1st century BC). ) available. Iron tools (knives, nails, staples), sword scabbard parts, hatchets, glass beads and ceramics (fragments of clay pots, bowls) indicate an unfortified settlement. The main focus of settlement was in the Middle and Late Latène Periods, but some ceramic fragments point to a settlement up to the 1st century AD.

coat of arms

With the decision of the Lower Austrian provincial government of June 25, 1996, the municipality of Altenburg was awarded a municipal coat of arms.
Blazon : "Diagonally divided on the left, above in blue a rectangular silver tower with five battlements, open gate and arched window, below in silver on a green three-hill a left-leaning rose bush with three red roses and green leaves."
The community colors are blue. White.

Population development

The number of inhabitants has been increasing since 1981, which is mainly due to the positive migration balance.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• until 2010 Johann Sodeck (ÖVP)
• since 2010 Markus Reichenvater (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Tursenstein ruins

Steinegg castle ruins

Mahrersdorf castle ruins

Burgerwiesen bell tower

Fuglau parish church

Mahrersdorf local chapel

Rauschermühle

See also:  List of listed objects in Altenburg (Lower Austria)

• Ruin Tursenstein (also Ödes Castle, Stein am Kamp, Lichtenstein)
• Steinegg castle ruins
• Mahrersdorf castle ruins
• Altenburg Abbey
• Burgerwiesen bell tower
• Rauschermühle

economy

In 2010 there were 29 agricultural and forestry holdings, 14 of which were full-time farms. In the manufacturing sector, 32 workers were employed in five factories, fifteen in the manufacture of goods and seventeen in construction. The service sector employed 110 people in 33 companies, three quarters in social and public services (as of 2011).

Established businesses

• Klein Fahrzeugbau GmbH, Altenburg
• Wögenstein bakery, Altenburg
• Painting company Manfred Strupp, Fuglau
• Hair studio Rabl, Burgerwiesen

• Automobile race track Nordring Fuglau : In Fuglau located to the north ring (originally Muckgrubenring and Britaxring ) an automobile race track, since the mid-1970s, national and international Rallycross - and autocross are held -race, including already many FIA - European championship races . The operator of the Nordring is the Fuglau innkeeper Franz Eisenhauer.

traffic

• Street: Altenburg, Burgerwiesen and Fuglau are on Böhmerwald Straße B 38.
• Bus: The PostBus bus company runs to several stops on the 1923 line ( Horn - Rastenfeld ) in Altenburg, Burgerwiesen and Fuglau .
• Train: The closest ÖBB train station is Rosenburg an der Kamptalbahn . * Cycle path: The 115.6 km long Kamptalweg with its starting point in Altenwörth and its destination in Zwettl leads through Altenburg.

education

• Altenburg elementary school
• Education and Heimatwerk Niederösterreich - Regionales Bildungswerk Altenburg

safety

• Altenburg volunteer fire department
• Fuglau volunteer fire brigade

societies

• Village renewal association Altenburg
• Parents Association Altenburg
• "In medias res" association for art and new media
• Youth group "step by step"
• Comradeship Association Altenburg-Fuglau
• Catholic men's movement Altenburg
• Altenburg senior citizens' association
• Rural youth Altenburg
• StiftsKirchenChor Altenburg
• Altenburg music band

Personalities

• Leopold Pau (e) r (1735–1800), lawyer, town planner, hygienist.
• Berthold Gamerith (1758–1834), Austrian Cistercian and abbot
• Honorius Burger (1788–1878), Benedictine priest and historian, lived in Altenburg Abbey.
• Christian Haidinger (* 1944) was abbot of Altenburg Abbey from 2006 to 2014.
• Dieter O. Holzinger (1941–2006), author, film, television and theater director, 1987–2004 director of the Altenburg Summer Games.
• Michael A. Mohapp (1958–2015), actor and cabaret artist, 2004–2011 director of the Altenburg Summer Games.
• Raymundus Regondi (1652-1715), was abbot of Altenburg Abbey.
• Thomas Renner (* 1971), ruling abbot of Altenburg Abbey

See also : List of Abbots of Altenburg Abbey

literature

• Honorius Burger: Historical representation of the founding and fate of the Benedictine monastery S. Lambert zu Altenburg in Lower Austria, its parishes and estates, and several local events. Vienna 1862.
• Albert Groiß, Werner Telescope: Altenburg Abbey. Medieval monastery and baroque cosmos. Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85033-103-6 .
• Thomas Hofmann, Erich Rabl, Wolfgang Stangl: Horner mosaics - pictures and texts from the Horn district . Weitra 2005, ISBN 3-85252-683-3 , pp. 199-200.
• Wilhelm Scheidl: A contribution to the local history of Altenburg. In: Das Waldviertel 31st vol., H. 1-3 (1982), pp. 4-13.
• Wilhelm Scheidl: Local history of Altenburg 1938–1946. Altenburg 1991.
• Gregor Schweighofer: Poigreich leader. 2nd edition, Horn 2008, ISBN 978-3-85028-464-6 .
• Renate Seebauer: Historical journey through seven centuries. Altenburg - Burgerwiesen - Fuglau - Mahrersdorf - Steinegg. LIT, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-643-50722-8 .

Web links

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

• Entry on Altenburg in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

• 31101 - Altenburg (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Website of the Altenburg community
• Literature about Altenburg in the Lower Austrian State Library
• Pictures of Altenburg in the topographical collection of the Lower Austrian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Thomas Hofmann, Erich Rabl, Wolfgang Stangl: Horner Mosaike - Images and texts from the Horn district . Weitra 2005, ISBN 3-85252-683-3 , pp. 199-200.
3. ^ Susanne Sievers / Otto Helmut Urban / Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A-K and L-Z; Announcements of the prehistoric commission published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , p. 42 f.
4. ^ Announcement of the Lower Austrian provincial government ( memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of August 29, 1996.
5. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Altenburg, population development. (PDF) Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
6. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on April 16, 2020 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed April 16, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on April 16, 2020 . 
9. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on April 16, 2010 . 
10. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 16, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on April 16, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Markus Reichenvater is the new local chief. February 21, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 . 
13. ^ Entry by Gerhard Reichhalter on Tursenstein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 7, 2016.
14. ↑ Entry about the Tursenstein castle ruins on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
15. ↑ Ruin Steinegg on altemauern.info
16. ↑ Entry on the stone ruins of the stone ruins in Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
17. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Altenburg, population development. (PDF) Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
18. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Altenburg, workplaces. (PDF) Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
19. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Altenburg, employees. (PDF) Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
20. ^ Website of the Altenburg elementary school
21. ^ Website of the regional educational institute
22. ↑ About us. Website of the StiftsKirchenChores Altenburg, accessed on May 21, 2019 . 
23. ^ Martin Wadsack: Musica sacra. (PDF) In: Pfarrblatt Altenburg, April 2019. P. 2 , accessed on May 21, 2019 . 
24. ^ Renate Seebauer: Leopold Pau (e) r (1735–1800). The lawyer and his city in dreams - city planners, hygienists ... fantastic and master of self-presentation. In: Waldviertler Biographien , Volume 4, Waidhofen / Thaya 2015; Pp. 73-90. ISBN 978-3-900708-31-3 .