Amstetten

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Amstetten (Austria)
Amstetten
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : Amstetten
License plate : AT THE
Surface: 51.92 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 7 '  N , 14 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '23 "  N , 14 ° 52' 20"  E
Height : 275  m above sea level A.
Residents : 23,816 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes : 3300, 3362, 3363
Area code : 07472
Community code : 3 05 02
NUTS region AT121
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 1
3300 Amstetten
Website: amstetten.at
politics
Mayor : Christian Haberhauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(41 members)
19th
16
3
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19th 16 3 2 1 
A total of 41 seats
Location of Amstetten in the Amstetten district
Amstetten Ardagger Aschbach-Markt Behamberg Biberbach Ennsdorf Ernsthofen Ertl Euratsfeld Ferschnitz Haag Haidershofen Hollenstein an der Ybbs Kematen an der Ybbs Neuhofen an der Ybbs Neustadtl an der Donau Oed-Oehling Opponitz Seitenstetten Sonntagberg St. Georgen am Reith St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde St. Pantaleon-Erla St. Peter in der Au St. Valentin Strengberg Viehdorf Wallsee-Sindelburg Weistrach Winklarn Wolfsbach Ybbsitz Zeillern Allhartsberg NiederösterreichLocation of the municipality of Amstetten in the district of Amstetten (clickable map)
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town hall
town hall
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Amstetten is a city in southwest Lower Austria , the Mostviertel . It is the seat of the district administration Amstetten and has 23,816 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

location

The municipality of Amstetten is located on historically traditional, topographically predetermined thoroughfares - as a bottleneck between the foothills of the Alps in the south and the granite foothills of the Bohemian Plate, the Neustadtler Platte , cut here by the Danube , and borders in the west and east on the lush farming landscapes of the Mostviertel . These factors - transit and agriculture - have also shaped the historical development up to modern times, and especially the development to today's economic and trading center in harmony with historical changes - the loss of the importance of military security, which led Amstetten to the limit of existence, and the increased importance of transport, with which Amstetten's importance is traditionally directly related - promoted.

Today, the city is located on the A 1 western motorway and the western railway and has not only become an important gateway to the Ennstal, but also the economic center of the western Mostviertel with the Amstetten judicial district with around 110,000 inhabitants.

The municipality does not only consist of the actual city core area, but extends over six cadastral municipalities: Edla, Hausmening and Mauer near Amstetten . Preinsbach, Schönbichl and Ulmerfeld are also affiliated to the community.

Waters

In addition to several streams, some of which are quite water-rich (including Gschirmbach, Edlabach, Preinsbach, Mühlbach), there are two rivers in Amstetten: the small Url , which flows into the main river of the water-rich region shortly before Amstetten, the Ybbs . It is also the coat of arms of the Amstetten river. Only extensive dam structures - as the third line next to the railway and the road, which used to separate the urban area, the biggest urban development problem to this day - could prevent the Ybbs from regularly flooding the city. It separates (bridged several times) the southern parts of Allersdorf, Greinsfurth, Ulmerfeld and Hausmening from the rest of the city. The Ybbs, which originally bounded Amstetten in the south and now cuts through, was a popular bathing river of the Amstetten until the 1960s and its water also fed the old open-air swimming pool. But it was almost ruined by the paper and pulp industry in the Ybbstal valley. The river, which used to be used as a wood drift , is now a popular recreational area destination (fishing, swimming) after dramatic measures to improve the quality of the water.

climate

Amstetten is located in the climatic province of the Austrian Alpine foothills and in the transition area between a humid oceanic climate in western Europe and a dry continental climate in the east. Due to the protected location, it is on average 3 to 6 ° C warmer than in the surrounding communities. The average annual temperature is around 9 to 12 ° C. The average annual rainfall is 1,000 mm, with the most frequent rainfall occurring in the form of rain and in the summer months.

Particularly in the autumn and winter months, due to the location of the basin, persistent inversion clouds often occur, which means that the duration of sunshine is very short.

The wind usually blows only weakly to moderate with strengths of 2 to 3 Beaufort, mainly from the west. East winds only occur frequently in high pressure weather conditions. These blow very constantly and often for several days and can be very strong, but rarely reach more than wind force 7.

Strong storms are rather rare, come exclusively from the west, but occasionally reach wind speeds of over 100 km / h, which leads to strong wind breaks in the surrounding forests every few years.

Community structure

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

The community consists of the cadastral communities Amstetten, Edla , Hausmening, Mauer bei Amstetten, Preinsbach , Schönbichl and Ulmerfeld.

Neighboring communities

Ardagger Cattle village
Zeillern ,
Oed-Oehling 		Neighboring communities St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde
Aschbach market ,
Kematen an der Ybbs 		Winklarn ,
Neuhofen an der Ybbs ,
Allhartsberg 		Euratsfeld

history

Parish Church of St. Stephan

As finds show, the area was already populated in the Neolithic , Bronze Age and Iron Age. In the district of Mauer there are important archaeological sites where ancient Roman finds were made, Mauer was part of the Locus Felicis fort in Roman times . In 1937 the most important Roman treasure find in Austria was made here: the inventory of a sanctuary of the god Jupiter Dolichenus . The bronze statuettes and bronze votive standards, silver votives, bronze dishes and iron implements were probably buried around 233 AD. Today they are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna . Amstetten was located on a thoroughfare line that was already important at the time: the Roman Limes Road anticipated all later through roads (B 1). At the time of the Great Migration, the country was largely depopulated again, only Slavs settled. In the 7th century the Avars used the Roman road. Later the armies that Charlemagne led in the fight against the Avars also moved along it . The battle of 788 "In campo Ibose" - on the Ybbsfeld near Neumarkt an der Ybbs - is documented.

In the 9th century the area dubbed "Slavic Land" - many place and field names still go back to Slavic words today - was settled and Christianized from Salzburg and Passau. It is no longer entirely clear whether the parish of St. Stephan with surrounding land and parsonage did not exist in front of the actual town of Amstetten, even if it was not one of the original parishes in the area. In any case, it should be the oldest part, which was called Amstetten. From 903 to 955 the area was initially occupied by Hungarians - up to the Enns. At that time there was probably already a courtyard surrounded by thorn hedges in the Eisenreichdornach district or along a Roman road to St. Georgen .

Period from the 10th century

In 976 Leopold I received a margraviate on the Danube Valley as a fief (from which Austria would later emerge), and this also included Amstetten. In 995, today's Ulmerfeld district was first mentioned in a document as a Freising market. As a place itself it is mentioned in documents as the market of the Bishop of Passau in 1111, and its strengthening, the v. a. was a strengthening of the parish of St. Stephan, was probably simply Passauian pushing back the Salzburg original parish Winklarn , the then "Ipusa" (Ybbs). The name "Amstetten" probably comes from ahd. Ambahtsteti , Amtstätte, Amtstadt. The core of the oldest surviving building in Amstetten also dates from around this time: the northern part of the Gothic (only slightly baroque) parish church of St. Stephan.

In 1321 the castle in Ulmerfeld was under the Freising Bishop Konrad III. and the place was expanded with a city wall with the consent of the first Habsburgs as Roman-German King Rudolf I.

The Amstetten market also received permission to build a fortification, but hardly used it. There were only temporary moats and mounds, some of which can still be seen today. Not least because of this, the history of the market in the late Middle Ages and early modern times is a series of looting, pillage and devastation - through peasant uprisings, Hungarians, Hussites or other disputes. The place burned down completely, among other things in 1509 and in the Turkish Storm in 1529, which is referred to as “its deepest and most terrible decline”, so that the place was deserted and empty until around 1542 and thus also lost its market privileges for decades. The imperial documents were simply burned.

Nevertheless, in 1662 another “hospital master” of an episcopal hospital, which was soon handed over to the citizens, is mentioned in the annals. And this although the majority of the population was Protestant from the middle to the end of the 16th century, and market rights had fought back despite the Catholic market rulers, the Passau bishops. Due to the Counter-Reformation until the beginning of the 17th century, tough measures resulted in a real "population exchange" with the remarkable indication of the "moderate spirit" of the inhabitants, because there was not a single witch trial in the entire Amstetten area. Although the market worked its way up against strong competition from Seisenegg (with the Regional Court for Criminal Law) and Ardaggers, it soon became the most important place in this part of the Mostviertel, but it was always overshadowed by the much more important iron towns of Waidhofen and Steyr. Amstetten was noticeably missing important factors that were everywhere else characteristics of bourgeois-urban development: a monastery and Jews.

The Thirty Years' War did less damage to this soaring than expected, because the area was tax-privileged due to its proximity to the war-important "Eisenwurzen" (as an armory) thanks to imperial privileges. Nevertheless, Amstetten, which got its first post office in 1640, was bled and weakened by billeting and supply obligations, but also by the plague. Even if the Merian engraving from 1649, with what is probably the historically most famous view of the market, shows it again with a sizable line of brick town houses around the central main square.

The place slowly rose again towards the end of the 17th century. With the economic position as a marketplace, the importance as a place of jurisdiction and tax increased, but still only with market law. The fact that the register books of the oldest parish, St. Stephan, show an extremely high proportion of marriages with “foreigners” speaks for the astonishing development of supra-regional relationships. Often those who had previously found work in Amstetten.

The spirit of optimism of the baroque era - which also affected Amstetten via the blossoming pilgrimage ( Sonntagberg with over a million pilgrims a year at times) - could also be influenced by the worst European plague onset of 1679, which half depopulated the place, or the devastating epidemic of 1684 with around 110 deaths wear little. When the Turks and Tatars broke in again in 1683, which panicked the whole country, and where the fortified Ulmerfeld became a refuge for the Amstettner, imperial troops actually succeeded in defending the bare place and saving it from the worst devastation. In any case, it organized the supply of troops "from the country". Why is not clear - Amstetten is likely to have lost its market rights again throughout the 18th century. A parish report from 1718 from St. Stephan shows 1870 adults and 523 children including the Viehdorf branch church .

19th century

In 1803, the rulership rights of the two ecclesiastical principalities of Passau and Salzburg ended with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . In 1805 there was a major battle near Amstetten. The French advancing from Bavaria after the victory over the Austrians near Ulm (who had to evacuate Bavaria) against Vienna met the retreating Russians under Kutuzov, who had "established themselves on the heights of Amstetten" (Napoleon) and were defeated here. As a result, the place was also looted and largely burned down. Napoleon reports in his memoir "My Life" about 400 dead and wounded as well as 1500 captured Russians. The battle is also mentioned by Lev Tolstoy in "War and Peace".

In 1850 and 1868, Amstetten became the seat of the district administration for the district. It received a district court with a prison in the same year.

Amstetten finally experienced its breakthrough during this time, with the opening of the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Westbahn, today's Westbahn (1858) and above all the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Bahn (1872). The latter was an "emergency solution" because the citizens of Blindenmarkt had spoken out against the expected pollution and noise pollution, so the railway line could not be run in the village itself, as in Amstetten. Amstetten had thus become an important railway junction with the Styrian ore and wood regions and the Ennstal. The importance of the railway for Amstetten cannot be overestimated, and not only because the emperor stopped here from time to time on his trip to Bad Ischl , for example to visit the newly opened monastery church of the school sisters. One of the most momentous foundations of the 19th century for the town. Its significance as a school site was the establishment of a branch by the school sisters of Judenau in 1876, which soon became their largest. In the first half of the 20th century. there were periods - for example during the Second World War - when up to 5000 people were employed at and around the station . At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's population grew.

Under Mayor Johann Wagmeister, dams were also built on the Ybbs, which later had to be raised after renewed floods. The devastating fire of June 17, 1877 brought a setback: Almost the entire place burned down, which explains the small number of older buildings. In 1897, Emperor Franz Joseph I made Amstetten a town. This grew strongly: Greimpersdorf, Edla, Dornach, Eggersdorf were incorporated. In 1898 the construction of the Sacred Heart Church began, which from 1939 became the center of the second city parish.

From the monarchy to the Second World War

Red Army memorial in the school park

Amstetten was also the garrison town of the Austro-Hungarian Army , the Austrian Armed Forces (Melk Command), which was absorbed into the Wehrmacht in 1938 . In 1978 it was decided to build the "Ostarrichi" barracks , which were ceremoniously opened in September 1982. In the strategic considerations of the Cold War , Amstetten was a “ key military area ”. A large war memorial in the city park points to the high blood toll on the population in the world wars of the 20th century, a memorial at the “new cemetery” to the victims of ideological persecution in 1934 and 1938–1945, and two to the victims of the Soviet liberators and dead occupation soldiers Monuments in prominent places.

In 1937, the most important Roman treasure in Austria, Jupiter Dolichenus, was made in Mauer near Amstetten and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

From 1938 to 1945 there were two subcamps of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Amstetten . Only a few residents of the city said after the end of Nazi rule that they saw or knew anything about the local Nazi crimes.

The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Amstetten existed from 1861 to 1938.

End of the war and reconstruction

As a railway junction, Amstetten was of strategic importance as a war target during the war and was therefore heavily bombed several times by the Americans and later by the Soviet troops. The repair work on the infrastructure was mainly carried out by concentration camp inmates. The city, which was crammed with refugee groups and retreating armed forces, suffered the heaviest bombardment in the last days of April 1945, triggered by a long pointless anti-aircraft reaction by the SS troops stationed to guard the concentration camp prisoners. This attack alone claimed more than 200 deaths, in addition to the most severe destruction, including one of the few remaining structures from the Middle Ages, the "Kilian Fountain", on the site of the medieval pillory.

Bricks have been baked in Amstetten since the 16th century, which gave the town its topographical character in the western part (Kreuzberg and Sonnleitenberg). This was an important factor in the fact that reconstruction after 1945 proceeded comparatively quickly.

Shortly after the war there was a re-establishment of democratic structures, which in today's struggle for Austrian identity and shape in disputes between the "blacks" (ÖVP) and the "reds" (SPÖ) that are almost Don-Camillo-like. with the weekly papers Amstettner Bote (later Niederösterreichische Nachrichten ; founded in 1946 by Josef Wagner and Franz Biberauer) and Amstettner Zeitung (expropriated by the Nazis from private ownership of the Queiser family, handed over to the SPÖ by the Russians in 1946, abandoned in 1947), accepted by the Soviet military administration played with true "shield citizenship".

The municipality of Amstetten reached its current size in 1972 under Mayor Johann Pölz (see: "Pölz-Halle", the town hall) with the incorporation of the then independent communities of Preinsbach, Mauer and Ulmerfeld-Hausmening, whereby Ulmerfeld and Hausmening were merged earlier. Amstetten has thus finally become the economic and educational center of western Lower Austria, even if the high growth has first been digested and Amstetten has to wrestle again for its historical face.

Thanks to ongoing construction work, Amstetten now has a very modern infrastructure. Last but not least, the city center has been completely redesigned in recent decades, so that Amstetten has the character of a pure transit place, industrial and banking area, the local area of ​​which is jagged by the Westbahn high-speed line and major federal roads (B 1 and B 121 Weyerer Straße into Ybbstal) lost something. A change of image, which should also be accomplished through international musical summer productions.

In 2008 the city attracted worldwide attention with the Josef Fritzl case .

population


politics

The municipal council has 41 members.

  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 23 SPÖ, 16 ÖVP and 2 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 SPÖ, 9 ÖVP, 5 List Bündnis Aktiv, 4 Greens and 4 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 22 SPÖ, 13 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 3 Greens.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 24 SPÖ, 13 ÖVP, 2 Greens, 1 FPÖ and 1 Green Offensive List Kitzler-Furtner.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 24 SPÖ, 10 ÖVP, 5 FPÖ and 2 Greens.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 20 SPÖ, 10 ÖVP, 7 FPÖ, 3 Greens and 1 NEOS.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 16 SPÖ, 3 Greens, 2 FPÖ and 1 NEOS.
mayor
  • 1934–1938 Hans Höller (CSP)
  • 1938–1945 Wolfgang Mitterdorfer
  • 1945–1945 Hans Höller (CSP)
  • 1945–1950 Peter Golser
  • 1950–1955 Edmund Zeilinger
  • 1955–1965 Josef Schmid (ÖVP)
  • 1965–1978 Johann Pölz (SPÖ)
  • 1978–1988 Josef Freihammer (SPÖ)
  • 1988–2011 Herbert Katzengruber (SPÖ)
  • 2011–2020 Ursula Puchebner (SPÖ)
  • since 2020 Christian Haberhauer (ÖVP)

Mayoress, Deputy Mayor and City Councilors
  • Mayor: Christian Haberhauer (ÖVP)
  • 1st Vice Mayor: Markus Brandstetter (ÖVP)
  • 2nd Vice Mayor: Mag.Gerhard Riegler (SPÖ)
  • 3rd Vice Mayor: Dominic Hörlezeder (Greens)
  • City councilor for economy, digitization, clubs and sport : Peter Pfaffeneder (ÖVP)
  • City councilor for building matters : Bernhard Wagner (SPÖ)
  • City Councilor for Human Resources and Education : VDir. Doris Koch, M.Sc. (ÖVP)
  • City Councilor for Health, Funeral Services, Civil Protection and Disaster Protection : Beate Hochstrasser (SPÖ)
  • City Councilor for Culture and Tourism : Stefan Jandl (ÖVP)
  • City councilor for leisure, youth and generations : Elisabeth Asanger, BA (SPÖ)
  • City councilor for mobility, urban development and agriculture : Vzbgm. Markus Brandstetter (ÖVP)
  • City Councilor for Administration, Law and Europe : Vzbgm. Mag.Gerhard Riegler (SPÖ)
  • City Councilor for Finances and Public Utilities : Heinz Ettlinger (ÖVP)
  • City council for the environment, energy, social affairs and housing : Vzbgm. Dominic Hörlezeder (Greens)
  • Chairman of the Examination Board : Christopher Hager (Greens)

On February 10th, the ÖVP Amstetten and Die Grünen Amstetten agreed on a coalition and a labor agreement.

Culture and sights

Edla Castle
Ulmerfeld Castle
Amstetten-Herz Jesu parish church
Branch church Eisenreichdornach
State Hospital Mauer
See also:  List of listed objects in Amstetten

In the urban area of ​​Amstetten itself, which is traversed by several streams, there are natural walking paths and parks. Including the Edla Park with the special feature of a landscape park, which, according to the ideal of the Renaissance, represented a compendium of the flora of the world known at the time, with the simple country palace Edla. There is also the school park with large memorials to favors, as well as the Hofmühlpark in Hausmening. The town hall on the main square (with regular markets), which has now been transformed into a pedestrian zone, retained its classicist facade almost in its original state during the modernization renovations carried out in the 1980s, while the building core was completely renewed.

An important, mostly underestimated industrial building monument is the former water tower on the still huge train station area (around 1880), which cannot be viewed from the inside and was used for leisure purposes. The same can be said about the power station on the Ybbs in Klein-Greinsfurth, which - modernized - still provides a large part of the Amstettner power supply.

The mental hospital in Mauer was built in Art Nouveau style by Carlo von Boog .

Museums

In the municipality are:

  • the Mostviertel Farmer's Museum owned by the Distelberger family
  • the private collection of a native Mostviertel resident about the simple life of earlier epochs
  • the Urschitz Historical Weapons Collection, an Amstettner who until a few years ago produced the weapons of the Swiss Guard of the Vatican.
Regular events

Georgi-Kirtag is celebrated annually on April 24th in the Ulmerfeld district and Michaeli-Kirtag on September 29th. A weekly farmer's market on Thursday and Saturday in the pedestrian zone is part of the permanent establishment.

Amstetten offers a wide range of cultural activities: On the one hand, the concert and theater program of the Amstetten event operations (AVB) is extremely popular both regionally and nationally. On the other hand, the city culture office offers other cultural activities such as cinema in the park, the courtesies, display exhibitions, town hall gallery, exhibitions in Ulmerfeld Castle or the Street Art Festival

Since November 2017, sessions have been held in the city every last Thursday of the month . These are organized by the JAMstetten association - making music together.

City Marketing Amstetten ensures a good atmosphere in the center all year round, for example with the Amstetten shopping night, the city flea market, the car mile and much more

Culinary specialties

Amstetten as the center of the Mostviertel deliberately tries to offer products that the soil there produces. Above all, the must should be mentioned, whose brandy products already enjoy a European reputation. Many Heurige , but also restaurants, often almost hidden country inns in Amstetten and its immediate surroundings offer a cuisine that is aware of its own strengths and in individual cases climbs up to award-winning level . Here, too, a renovation took place in recent years, after Amstetten slid into an identity crisis in this area after a decade-long period of enormous gastronomic levels of middle-class cuisine, from which it has, however, convincingly freed itself again at certain points.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy and life

As the seat of the district authority, the police headquarters of the region, several administrative and state authorities, schools and training centers, as well as the seat of international corporations, Amstetten is the central location of the western Mostviertel and one of the most important cities in Lower Austria. Due to its commercial structures and large industrial companies, its economy is of remarkable international importance in mechanical engineering, metal and wood processing, the construction industry, the paper industry, transport, chemistry, and has become a shopping center for the entire region in the last few decades.

Most of the industrial and service companies are located in the districts of Amstetten Stadt, Greinsfurth, Hausmening, Mauer and Neufurth, while the districts of Preinsbach, Edla and Schönbichl are mainly rural and still have numerous agricultural and forestry operations.

Amstetten has become a modern business, school and administrative center with one of the highest purchasing power comparisons in Lower Austria. The city has struggled to determine its identity, especially in the last 100 years, in accordance with the rapid change, but also with the geographic location that has been matched. Their range goes from the civil and civil service town to the workers town, from the center of agriculture in the region to the modern economic center. And the paradox shows: prosperity and prosperity contrast with comparatively high juvenile delinquency and population fluctuation - with at the same time high life satisfaction of the original population.

traffic

Entrance of the Amstetten train station

Amstetten is on the western line , to the south-west there is also a connection to the Rudolfsbahn with the Amstetten – Kastenreith railway .

On Amstetten station long-distance trains of keeping ÖBB ( IC , EN ) and the Western Railway on the relation (Salzburg -) Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna (Budapest). Local trains ( REX , R ) connect Amstetten to the east with Sankt Pölten and Vienna, to the west with St. Valentin, Linz and Passau, to the southwest with Waidhofen / Ybbs and Selzthal.

There are 2 P&R facilities near the train station. The P + R facility in Graben has a total of 650 parking spaces and space for 600 car parking spaces has also been created outside. The Park & ​​Ride facility on Eggersdorfer Straße has a total of 333 parking spaces.

Important traffic connections are the West Autobahn A 1 (exit Amstetten-West), Wiener Straße B 1, Weyerer Straße B 121 and B 121A.

Amstetten also has an extensive network of cycle paths, which is also very well developed nationwide.

Biomass heating plant of the local heat supplier at the park settlement with graffiti for the design of the public space by Lukas Friedl and Christoph Lettner; right part of the housing estate to be supplied

Established businesses

media

As early as the late 1970s, the then far-sighted expansion of a cable network began by private companies, the infrastructure of which is now used for cable television and the Internet. Various media companies are based in the area, including the local broadcaster M4TV, AmPULS (news of the municipality of Amstetten), district papers, tips and the Lower Austrian news .

Public facilities

The public institutions in Amstetten include the district authority for the district of Amstetten and the Austrian Health Fund (ÖGKK). There is also a

Finance, a surveying office , the city ​​police , the Chamber of Labor and Commerce and the trade union office.

Medical care is provided by the Amstetten Regional Hospital and the Mauer Regional Hospital.

The Amstetten Hospital began at its current location in a small epidemic pavilion. Through targeted expansion over decades, it has become a medical and technical state-of-the-art specialized clinic with the best reputation, v. a. in surgery, gynecology and urology. The “Landesnervenheilanstalt Mauer”, which is dedicated to neurological and mental illnesses of all kinds, is located in the Mauer district.

With the Amstetten 2010+ energy concept , the municipality is promoting the long-term use of alternative energies. For this reason, Amstetten was named the most innovative municipality in Austria in 2006 (for the third time) .

education

New middle school Amstetten

Numerous educational institutions are represented in the urban area. In addition to all the various elementary schools, there is a federal commercial school and academy (BHAK / BHAS), the federal high school and federal high school, the higher federal college for economic professions (HLW), the agricultural college Gießhübl, the educational institute for elementary education (BAFEP), the state vocational school for mechatronics, Electrical and metal processing industry, as well as a training center for health and nursing that is connected to the hospital.

Leisure time

The range of tourist beds in Amstetten or the surrounding area has improved significantly over the last few decades and is now of the highest and highest standard at all levels.

In terms of leisure facilities, the district town offers, in addition to a city of this size, more than adequate gastronomy, cinema or shopping, the use of the outdoor pools in Amstetten and Hausmening as well as the modern natural pool. In addition, the multi-purpose hall is available for major events or as an ice rink in winter.

A specialty of Amstetten is the offer as a base, which can come up within 20 minutes by car or train with an offer that ranges from the delightful beauties of the Danube of the Nibelungengau near Grein and Hößgang to the mountains of the foothills of the Alps. In addition, there is the proximity to well-developed ski areas (Hochkar, Forsteralm) and cross-country skiing trails, as well as numerous natural ice rinks, which enable sporty leisure activities and sightseeing tours in winter and summer. In the summer, when numerous bathing lakes in the Ybbsebenen, tennis, golf, fishing, cycling, etc. beckon. Not to forget the world- famous cultural monuments - Seitenstetten Abbey , Sonntagberg , Wachau as the best known - which Amstetten ideally offer as a starting point for day trips. Around mid-April, the Mostviertler Höhenstraße blooms every year in white splendor, namely when the thousands of pear trees are in bloom. The natural spectacle attracts thousands of visitors to Amstetten and the surrounding area every year.

Leisure and sports facilities

Bathing and swimming facilities

Sports facilities

  • Umdasch Stadium (athletics, soccer, American football)
  • SKU Ertl-Glas-Stadion
  • Stock sport facilities
  • Soccer fields
  • Johann Pölz Sports Hall
  • Fun courts, playgrounds
  • A-Toll youth center
  • Beach volleyball courts

sports clubs

Twin cities

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Honorary citizen

  • Adolf Hitler , (see Adolf Hitler as an honorary citizen ), 2011 revocation of honorary citizenship
  • Paul Scherpon, community politician ( SPÖ ), member of the NSDAP, district administrator of the Amstetten district during National Socialism, revocation of honorary citizenship is being examined
  • Josef Freihammer, former mayor
  • Herbert Katzengruber, Former Mayor

People who work or worked in Amstetten

Web links

Commons : Amstetten  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ambstetten in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Amstetten  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Oberleitner: Dolichenus find from the wall at the Url: Jupiter-Dolichenus-Statuette. In: uni-klu.ac.at. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Charles E. Ritterband : Abuse: Looking away and looking. In: The Standard . May 21, 2008, accessed May 5, 2020 .
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