Altlichtenwarth

Altlichtenwarth
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Mistelbach
License plate :	MI
Surface:	20.43 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 39 '  N , 16 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '52 "  N , 16 ° 47' 45"  E
Height :	231  m above sea level A.
Residents :	766 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2144
Area code :	02533
Community code :	3 16 01
Address of the municipal administration:	Florianigasse 150 2144 Altlichtenwarth
Website:	www.altlichtenwarth.at
politics
Mayor :	Gerhard Eder ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	12 3 12 3  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 12 SPÖ : 3
Location of Altlichtenwarth in the Mistelbach district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Altlichtenwarth is a municipality with 766 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria .

geography

View of Altlichtenwarth

Altlichtenwarth is located in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 20.45 square kilometers. 0.99 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

There is only the cadastral community Altlichtenwarth.

Neighboring communities

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history

The place name of Altlichtenwarth is explained as follows: Lichtenwarth, (official Altlichtenwarth); first documented mention in 1232 as Liehtenwart , 1357 as Altenliechtenwart , etymologically literally "at the lichten Warte", which probably means a "vantage point in a clearing", Middle High German "waiting" for a place from which people can peek.

The first church was built in the 12th century on a loess hill on the northern edge of the village, not far from a castle belonging to the Lords of Liechtenstein . Altlichtenwarth and its surroundings were the original property of the Liechtenstein family since the 12th century, and the founding of the parish at that time is likely to go back to this family. On June 7, 1232, the document was issued in Vienna in which Altlichtenwarth is mentioned for the first time. In terms of content, it was about a legal matter signed by the Babenberg duke Friedrich the controversial. Among the witnesses mentioned is the pastor of Marchwardus de Liehtenwart . During his term of office the major renovation of the church took place in 1230/40. However, the beginnings of the parish go back much further. A seal from 1258 shows that Heinrich I von Liechtenstein also named himself after Lichtenwarth . In 1391 the Liechtensteiners exchanged the parish Altlichtenwarth for the church Maria am Gestade in Vienna, in 1409 this exchange was reversed. Altlichtenwarth remained the patronage parish of the Princes of Liechtenstein until 1978 .

In the course of the First Turkish Siege of Vienna and the Turkish War , Ottoman soldiers also invaded Altlichtenwarth. In 1645, 46 people died of the plague during the Thirty Years' War . In the same year and the following year, 309 Altlichtenwarth residents were killed in the course of fighting against Swedish troops under Lennart Torstensson and his allied Hungarian troops under Georg I. Rákóczi . The legend of the carnage on Kirchweihtag , which has survived in Altlichtenwarth , probably also relates to his troops . It is reported that the people came out of their hiding places and celebrated the church festival after the soldiers left the village murdering and scorching. But the retreating enemy heard the ringing of the bells, returned and caused such a slaughter in the church that "the blood ran in streams over the church threshold".

In 1679 a plague epidemic in Altlichtenwarth claimed another 134 dead. Even today, a procession to the plague chapel is held on a certain day. In the course of the Kuruc uprisings under Franz II. Rákóczi , 77 inhabitants of Altlichtenwarth died in 1706, so there is a list of all those who faded in earth stables in the death register . In 1849, cholera claimed 103 deaths within one month, so that more than 10% of the population died of just under 1,000 inhabitants.

In the First World War , 57 Altlichtenwarther died as soldiers at the front.

During the Second World War Altlichtenwarth mourned 74 Fallen. Towards the end of the war, the village itself was also a theater of war. There is a detailed report on this in the archive of the Army History Museum . Accordingly, Altlichtenwarth was initially left without a fight to the Red Army on April 18, 1945 , which occupied the place. On the evening of April 18, many women and girls were raped by Red Army soldiers. The German troops holed up on the Hutsaulberg and the Silberberg and prepared with three tanks for a counterattack. This took place on the night of April 19, whereby soldiers of the Waffen SS with the support of light artillery succeeded in pushing the Soviet troops out of the place. This also led to hand-to-hand fighting , which claimed many victims on both sides (59 German and 27 Soviet soldiers were buried in Altlichtenwarth). While the German soldiers occupied the village until the morning of April 20, most of the residents managed to escape in the direction of Waldviertel and Upper Austria , with only 50 very old people staying behind. On the morning of April 20, 1945, the German troops finally had to give way to superior Soviet strength. Altlichtenwarth was completely looted in the days and weeks that followed, especially since the residents did not return until weeks or months after their escape. In the course of the fighting, 50 buildings were completely destroyed, and another 40 were badly damaged by fire, so that not a single house was left without damage. In the period from May to October 1945, an average of 50 residents, often women and girls, had to go to forced labor in the border town of Rabensburg , where they had to look after horses and do housework. At this point in time, too, the women and girls were abused and contracted serious illnesses. Until the end of 1945 soldiers of the Red Army held Altlichtenwarth.

Population development

The migration balance has been positive since 1991 .

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 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: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2014 Franz Gaismeier (ÖVP)
• since 2014 Gerhard Eder (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Altlichtenwarth

War memorial from 1923

Silberberg basement lane

See also : List of listed objects in Altlichtenwarth  and List of cellar lanes in Altlichtenwarth

• Catholic parish church Altlichtenwarth hl. Nicholas

economy

In 2010 there were 42 agricultural and forestry holdings, of which 23 were full-time farms that cultivated over three quarters of the area. In 1999 there were 76 companies, 30 of which were full-time. In the manufacturing sector there were five establishments employing fourteen people, mostly in construction. The service sector employed 44 people in 21 companies, almost half of them in social and public services (as of 2011).

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in the community.

traffic

• Altlichtenwarth airfield

Web links

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

• 31601 - Altlichtenwarth. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Website of Altlichtenwarth (Austria)
• Street map at openstreetmap.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BUB II, 138
2. ↑ Hanns, pastor to Altlichtenwart, Paul the Tungossinger etc., sell their free property in Mödring to the Garsten monastery . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 7, No. DXXI, September 28, 1357, p. 530 (“Hanns pfarrer ze Altenliechtenwart” as seller).
3. ↑ Schuster, Elisabeth: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names, Vienna 1990, p. 42
4. ↑ The certificate at lehre.hki.uni-koeln.de , accessed on March 24, 2013
5. ↑ Description of the observation point on the Hutsaulberg
6. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (HGM / MHI), Military History Research Department (MilFoA), study collection, inventory 1945, box 5, fasc. 45/9, municipality reports Lower Austria, District Mistelbach
7. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Altlichtenwarth, population development. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
8. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Altlichtenwarth. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
9. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Altlichtenwarth. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
10. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Altlichtenwarth. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
11. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Altlichtenwarth. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
12. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Altlichtenwarth. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Altlichtenwarth. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Altlichtenwarth municipality, municipal office and politics. Retrieved February 2, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Altlichtenwarth, agriculture and forestry operations. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
16. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Altlichtenwarth, workplaces. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Altlichtenwarth, employees. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
18. ^ Altlichtenwarth parish, School and Education. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .