Great Krut

market community

Great Krut

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Mistelbach

License plate :

MI

Surface:

38.46 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 39 ' N , 16 ° 43' E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '37 " N , 16 ° 43' 22" E

Height :

181 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,619 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

42 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

2143

Area code :

02556

Community code :

3 16 17

NUTS region

AT125

Address of the
municipal administration:

Poysdorfer Strasse 3
2143 Großkrut

Website:

www.grosskrut.at

politics

Mayor :

Franz Wagner ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

15th

4th

15th 4th

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 15
SPÖ : 4

Location of Großkrut in the Mistelbach district

town hall

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Großkrut (until 1922 Böhmischkrut ) is a market town with 1619 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria.

geography

Großkrut is located in the hill country of the northeastern Weinviertel in Lower Austria, around ten kilometers east of Poysdorf .

The area of the market town covers 38.45 square kilometers. 1.66 percent of the area is forested. The landscape is characterized by arable farming and viticulture .

Community structure

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

Althöflein (274)
Ginzersdorf (230)
Great Krut (957)
Harrersdorf (158)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Althöflein, Ginzersdorf, Großkrut and Harrersdorf.

Neighboring communities

history

BÖHMISCHKRUT cancellation in 1901.

The place is first mentioned in a document in 1055 .

On the road to Bernhardsthal there is a former gallows , the so-called court column . The last conviction by the high court in Bohemia and execution of the execution "on the gallows, outside the village" took place on November 8, 1743.

Until 1922 the municipality was called "Böhmischkrut", but changed the name in 1922, among other things, because the delivery of mail was often delayed because the name supposedly suggested a location in Czechoslovakia. However, the name was more of a demarcation to the place Dürnkrut .

In the last days of the Second World War , on April 20, 1945, Großkrut became the scene of a short battle between soldiers of the Waffen SS and the Red Army , in which 4 civilians were killed. In Ginzersdorf, 3 civilians were killed in fighting and by fire from Stalin organs , and 11 buildings were destroyed.

Population development

After several decades of a negative birth balance , it became positive for the first time in 2017.

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.

mayor

until 2019 Franz Schweng (ÖVP)
since 2019 Franz Wagner (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Großkrut

Kellergasse Lundenburgerstrasse in Althöflein

Catholic parish church Großkrut hl. Stephan

economy

In 2010 there were 71 agricultural and forestry holdings, 43 of which were full-time farms that cultivated 90 percent of the area. In 1999 there were 139 companies, of which 43 were also full-time. In the manufacturing sector there were six establishments employing 84 people, 81 of them in construction. The service sector employed 173 people in 54 companies, more than half of them in social and public services.