Amali village eel fishing

Amaliendorf-Aalfang is a scattered settlement with an extensive network of trails. The settlement is located in the middle of large forests in the northwestern Waldviertel. The embedding in the granite zone of the “Bohemian mass” is decisive for the living space. It is a former mountain range that arose during the Variski mountain formation around 350 million years ago and was later removed to form a hull landscape.

Granite shapes the natural and cultural landscape of Amaliendorf-Aalfang in many ways. Aalfanger granite is economically mined in two quarries. Due to the weathering of wool sacks , huge granite blocks come to light in many places and form bizarre rock shapes, such as the famous Wackelstein von Amaliendorf or the so-called Bichl, d. H. Rocky mounds that appear in small areas in the middle of the field and mostly form dry edaphic locations with birch and pine trees . Granite disintegrates in a creepy manner and tends to form acidic brown earths up to agriculturally unusable podsol soils when there is high precipitation . The late settlement of this area is crucially related to this.

Community structure

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

Eels (342) including Oberaalfang and Unteraalfang
Amaliendorf (729)
Falkendorf (37)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Aalfang, Amaliendorf and Falkendorf.

Amaliendorf-Aalfang is a member municipality of the small region Waldviertler StadtLand .

Neighboring communities

		Heidenreichstein

Schrems

history

The community consists of three districts of different ages:

the eel catching in the valley of the Braunau and the Romaubach , which according to the sources was founded around 1600 at the latest
the district of Falkendorf on the slope of the Machoberges, which was created around 1730 by the Falkenhayn lordship in Schrems and
the Amaliendorf founded in 1799 by Count Strassoldo , the owner of the Schwarzenau lordship.

In 1627 the "Weirs of Alennfang" were first mentioned. They were built after the confluence of the Braunau and Romau rivers and were used to catch the eels that came up the Elbe to this point. Until the 19th century, the spellings Eilfang and Ailfang were also common for eel fishing .

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria was the namesake of the village of Amaliendorf, founded in 1799 by Count Vinzenz von Strassoldo , her Colonel-Hofmeister.

On September 6, 1967, the decision was made to merge the municipalities between Amaliendorf and Aalfang. On January 28, 1999 the community was raised to a market community.

coat of arms

Population development

After a decline in the number of inhabitants, it has stabilized since 1981. The reason for this is that emigration has been stopped, and there has even been a positive migration balance since 1991 . However, the birth balance is negative.

politics

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The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 3 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 1 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP, 1 FPÖ and 1 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ and 5 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

until 2015 Karl Prohaska (SPÖ)
since 2015 Gerald Schindl (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Local chapel for the Assumption of Our Lady in Amaliendorf

The local chapel for the Assumption of Our Lady, built in 1818, stands on the thoroughfare in Amaliendorf.
In the district of Wielandsberg there is a path chapel from 1857.
Already to the municipality of Schrems belonging Wackelstein in Schrems Forest is just 650 meters from Amaliendorf.

economy

In 2001 there were 40 non-agricultural workplaces and 15 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey. There were 481 persons in employment at the place of residence according to the 2001 census. The 2001 employment rate was 41.88%.

traffic

In Aalfang there is a station of the Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways .

health

A general practitioner ordains in the ward.

education

In Amaliendorf-Aalfang there is a kindergarten and a primary school.

Sports

The football club SC Amaliendorf, founded in 1932, played after relegation in the 2006/07 season from the Lower Austria regional league again in the 2nd regional league West.
The Amaliendorf-Aalfang tennis club was founded in autumn 1998. Since 1999 he has been successfully participating in the championship of the Lower Austrian Tennis Association (Northwest District).

Personalities

Klaus Peter Arnold (* 1942), economic geographer, lives in Amaliendorf
Ernest Gabmann (* 1949), politician (ÖVP)
Robert Rada (1949–2016), state school inspector and politician (SPÖ)
Laura Kamhuber (* 1999), singer

literature

Petra Eschelmüller: The origin of the place Amaliendorf and its development up to the end of the First World War. A statistical evaluation based on the analysis of the Langegg parish registers . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1999.
Othmar Zaubek : Local history of Amaliendorf, Lower Austria . Amaliendorf municipality, Amaliendorf 1967.
Klaus Arnold: Geography and history of Amaliendorf-Aalfang. Amaliendorf 2011. As CD and download at: Arnold-Research.eu.