Bad Deutsch-Altenburg

Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (until April 9, 1928 Deutsch-Altenburg ) is a market town with 1785 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Lower Austrian district of Bruck an der Leitha ; it is located on the right bank of the Danube, southwest of Hainburg an der Donau am Pfaffenberg .

history

Mass grave of Hungarian-Jewish slave laborers who were murdered during the death march to Mauthausen concentration camp at the cemetery in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg.

At a quarry near Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Hollitzer quarry), over 100 remains of bears were found in caves. Teeth, skeletal remains (including a foreleg skeleton) and a brain print provided the opportunity for detailed scientific comparative studies, such as the division into brown bears and cave bears. In this area, finds from the early Palaeolithic were also made, approx. 800,000 years old rubble devices of Homo erectus (Archaeologia-Austriaca, Volume 88/2004)

From the 1st to the 5th century AD, the municipality of Bad Deutsch-Altenburg was in the area of the Roman legion camp and the civil city of Carnuntum. This was temporarily the capital of the Roman province of Pannonia. It gradually fell into disrepair after a major earthquake.

The place, first mentioned in 1297, was built around a castle from the 11th century; In 1579 he was granted market rights. The addition of "German" to the name serves to differentiate it from the western Hungarian town of Mosonmagyaróvár (Hungarian Altenburg).

From 1915 to the 1980s there was a large radio station for commercial radio in (Bad) Deutsch-Altenburg, see radio station Deutsch-Altenburg .

In the summer of 1928, the passenger stop on the Danube was reopened after nine years, and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg could be reached by steamer from the landing stage opposite Vienna's Urania in one and a half hours.

Ceremonial reopening of the landing stage on the Danube (1928)

On October 20, 1929, the commissioning of the new, second water pipeline was honored with a ceremony.

From October 1944, Hungarian Jews were deployed to work on the “ Südostwall ” in the Engerau (now Bratislava) and Bruck an der Leitha sections . At the end of March 1945 the Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers were evacuated on death marches via Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, where they were loaded onto barges in the direction of Mauthausen concentration camp . There were numerous deaths during these marches as the guards shot exhausted Jews. At the Bad Deutsch-Altenburg cemetery, a memorial stone still bears witness to a Jewish mass grave.

On January 1, 1972, the municipality was renamed from Bad Deutsch Altenburg to Bad Deutsch-Altenburg .

In April 2010, Ernest Windholz was elected the new mayor with the votes of the SPÖ in the local council. The politician became known in 2000 by quoting the SS slogan “ Our honor means loyalty ”.

On August 8, 2013, the highest temperature ever recorded in Austria was reached in the community at 40.5 degrees Celsius.

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 lists? And 6 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ, 6 FPÖ, and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 SPÖ, 7 FPÖ, and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 5 list Windholz, 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, 5 ERNEST, 2 WIR, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ERNEST, 5 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 2 WIR, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 2 Team A, 6 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ, 1 WIR, and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

1908–1919 Leopold Eder (1852–1930)
until 2010 Josef Gittel (SPÖ)
2010–2013 Ernest Windholz (FPÖ / BZÖ)
2013-2014 Natascha Perger (SPÖ)
2014–2015 Robert Strasser (SPÖ)
2015-2017 Hans Wallowitsch (SPÖ)
2017-2020 Franz Pennauer (ÖVP)
since 2020 Hans Wallowitsch (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Parish church Bad Deutsch-Altenburg

Carnuntinum Museum

Deutsch-Altenburg Castle from the 17th century
Catholic parish church Bad Deutsch-Altenburg Assumption of Mary
Karner Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
Carnuntum military camp and Carnuntum civil town
Museum Carnuntinum with finds from Carnuntum

traffic

Bad Deutsch-Altenburg is on Pressburger Strasse (B9). The Bernstein Straße (B 49) branches off directly behind the city limits on the Hainburger district, which leads over the Andreas-Maurer-Brücke to the northern bank of the Danube.

The Pressburger Bahn has a stop in the city, which is served by regional trains and trains on the S7 line of the Vienna S-Bahn .

spa

The thermal spring is one of the strongest iodine-sulfur springs in Central Europe.

Personalities

Anton Durcovici (1888–1951), Roman Catholic clergyman
Leopold Eder (1852–1930), Mayor of Deutsch-Altenburg from 1908 to 1919
Thomas Helbich (* 1963), doctor (radiologist), university professor
Carl Leopold Hollitzer (1874–1942), caricaturist, singer and cabaret artist
Anton Graf Ludwigstorff (1845–1929), landlord, owner of the iodine-sulfur bath
Gustav Raab (1938–2006), bank manager
Hannes Swoboda (* 1946), politician
Peter Swoboda (1937–2006), economist
Ernest Windholz (* 1960), politician
Walter Krems (1919–2004), author, photographer, artist
Hartmut Frick (* 1944), medical director of Reutte / Tyrol hospital

literature

German Altenburg and the Hundsheimer Berge around 1873 (recording sheet of the state recording )

Johann Wilhelm Mannagetta : Ludwigstorffisch-Baad-Buch or description of the extraordinary virtue ... of the Baad well located at the time of rulership ... Teutschen-Altenburg on the Danube in Austria under the Ennß 8 miles from Vienna. 2nd ed. Heyinger, Vienna 1710, full text online .
Well-examined description of the so-called Teutsch-Altenburger-Bad, located eight miles from Vienna, (...) . In: Johann Maximilian Dietmann, Johann Wenzel Ignaz Lehr, JAC v. S. (Translator from Latin): Actual description of their famous dreyen health baths in the Ertz-Hertzogthum Austria under the Enns as Baaden, Teutsch-Altenburg and Pyrenwarth . Published by Johann Paul Krauss, Nuremberg / Vienna 1734, full text online .
Janos Kreuziger: The Bad Deutsch-Altenburg in Lower Austria VUWW printing and commission publishing by C (arl) F (riedrich) Wigand , Pressburg 1856, full text online .
Iodosulfur bath Bad Deutsch-Altenburg cures rheumatism, gout and sciatica. Season opening: March 1st . (Pictorial representation). Scripture poster, 1 sheet. Wicho, Vienna 1950, Image online .
Franz Müllner: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg from the early days to the present . Market community Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg 1973, OBV .
Gertrude Sesztak: Studies on the local history of Bad Deutsch Altenburg . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1974, OBV .
Gertrude Geng-Sesztak: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Image of an area . Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 2000, ISBN 3-205-99150-8 .
Käthe Springer (concept): Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Chronicle 1999–2001 . Market municipality Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Ed.), Bad Deutsch-Altenburg 2001, ISBN 3-9501471-0-1 .

Web links

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

Wiktionary: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Entry for Bad Deutsch-Altenburg in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

30702 - Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

From the week. (...) Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. (...) Processes in the Franz & Emil Hollitzer gravel works, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. In: People's Post. Social democratic weekly paper for the districts of Schwechat, Hainburg and Bruck ad L. , No. 44/1929 (XI. Year), November 2, 1929, p. 8, column 3, below. (Online at ANNO ). .

Stefan Rechnitz: Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. In: Illustrierte Kurorte -Zeitung , No. 3/1930 (LVI. Volume), July 20, 1930, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / brj.

Individual evidence

↑ 50. Announcement of the n. Ö. Provincial government of April 10, 1928, LA VI / 1-3218 / 10-XXII, about the change of the place name of the local community Deutsch-Altenburg to “Bad Deutsch-Altenburg”. In: Landesgesetzblatt für die Land Niederösterreich , year 1928, Nö LGBl 1928/50, p. 31 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / lgn.

^ Gernot Rabeder, Martina Pacher, Gerhard Withalm: Early Pleistocene Bear Remains from Deutsch-Altenburg (Lower Austria) / The Old Pleistocene Bears from Deutsch-Altenburg (Lower Austria) . Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW. Communications of the Commission for Quaternary Research, Volume 17. Verlag der ÖAW, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6827-0 (print), ISBN 978-3-7001-6934-5 (online).

↑ Daily news. (...) Ships are mooring again in Deutsch-Altenburg. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , No. 134/1928 (XLI. Volume), May 14, 1928, p. 3, column 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze;
From near and far. Bad Deutsch-Altenburg can finally be reached again by ship. (...). In: Niederösterreichischer Grenzbote with illustrated (em) entertainment sheet “Der Feierabend” , No. 19/1928 (XVII. Year), May 6, 1928, p. 3, bottom right (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / non.

↑ From the week. Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. (...) The new water pipe. In: People's Post. Social democratic weekly paper for the districts of Schwechat, Hainburg and Bruck ad L. , No. 42/1929 (XI. Year), October 19, 1929, p. 3, column 1 (online at ANNO ). .

^ Eleonore Lappin: The death marches of Hungarian Jews through Austria in the spring of 1945. Institute for the History of Jews in Austria, 2008.

↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 147 , accessed on February 11, 2019 .

↑ Windholz becomes mayor in Lower Austria . The press. April 20, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2012.

^ FPÖ man quoted the SS slogan . Mirror online. June 5, 2000. Retrieved July 27, 2012.

↑ New heat record: 40.5 ° C in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg . Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics. August 9, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2013.

^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

^ Result of the 2005 municipal council elections in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 3, 2020 .

↑ Bad German Altenburg on www.oesterreich-info.at accessed 31 May 2010

↑ From near and far. Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (former mayor ...). In: Niederösterreichischer Grenzbote with illustrated entertainment sheet “Der Feierabend” , No. 33/1930 (XIX. Year), August 17, 1930, p. 5, column 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / non.

[1] 50. Announcement of the n. Ö. Provincial government of April 10, 1928, LA VI / 1-3218 / 10-XXII, about the change of the place name of the local community Deutsch-Altenburg to “Bad Deutsch-Altenburg”. In: Landesgesetzblatt für die Land Niederösterreich , year 1928, Nö LGBl 1928/50, p. 31 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / lgn.

[2] Gernot Rabeder, Martina Pacher, Gerhard Withalm: Early Pleistocene Bear Remains from Deutsch-Altenburg (Lower Austria) / The Old Pleistocene Bears from Deutsch-Altenburg (Lower Austria) . Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW. Communications of the Commission for Quaternary Research, Volume 17. Verlag der ÖAW, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6827-0 (print), ISBN 978-3-7001-6934-5 (online).

[3] Daily news. (...) Ships are mooring again in Deutsch-Altenburg. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , No. 134/1928 (XLI. Volume), May 14, 1928, p. 3, column 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze;
From near and far. Bad Deutsch-Altenburg can finally be reached again by ship. (...). In: Niederösterreichischer Grenzbote with illustrated (em) entertainment sheet “Der Feierabend” , No. 19/1928 (XVII. Year), May 6, 1928, p. 3, bottom right (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / non.

[4] From the week. Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. (...) The new water pipe. In: People's Post. Social democratic weekly paper for the districts of Schwechat, Hainburg and Bruck ad L. , No. 42/1929 (XI. Year), October 19, 1929, p. 3, column 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / vpt.

[5] Eleonore Lappin: The death marches of Hungarian Jews through Austria in the spring of 1945. Institute for the History of Jews in Austria, 2008.

[statat-6] Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 147 , accessed on February 11, 2019 .

[7] Windholz becomes mayor in Lower Austria . The press. April 20, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2012.

[8] FPÖ man quoted the SS slogan . Mirror online. June 5, 2000. Retrieved July 27, 2012.

[9] New heat record: 40.5 ° C in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg . Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics. August 9, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2013.

[NÖGrw1995_30702-10] Result of the local council election 1995 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_30702-11] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_30702-12] Result of the 2005 municipal council elections in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_30702-13] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_30702-14] Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_30702-15] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 3, 2020 .

[16] Bad German Altenburg on www.oesterreich-info.at accessed 31 May 2010

[17] From near and far. Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (former mayor ...). In: Niederösterreichischer Grenzbote with illustrated entertainment sheet “Der Feierabend” , No. 33/1930 (XIX. Year), August 17, 1930, p. 5, column 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / non.