Berg (Lower Austria)

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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Bruck an der Leitha
License plate :	BL
Surface:	9.44 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 6 '  N , 17 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '12 "  N , 17 ° 2' 16"  E
Height :	154  m above sea level A.
Residents :	905 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2413
Area code :	02143
Community code :	3 07 03
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 33 2413 Berg
Website:	www.gemeindeberg.at
politics
Mayor :	Andreas Hammer ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	8th 6th 1 8th 6th 1  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 8 ÖVP : 6 FZBERG : 1
Location of Berg in the Bruck an der Leitha district
View of the town on the ascent to the Königswarte
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Berg is an agricultural and wine-growing community with 905 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Bruck an der Leitha district in eastern Lower Austria .

geography

The community lies on the slope of the Hundsheimer Berge , more precisely at the foot of the Königswarte (344 m) and its foothills, the Unterschilling . The border with Burgenland runs near the long triangular village, the next town is Kittsee . The Slovakian border is also in the immediate vicinity , where an international border crossing is in operation on the Pressburger Straße B 9 to Bratislava .

To the north-east of Berg, by a bathing lake, there is the Berg weekend house settlement .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 862 as Pagus ad Pergo . Due to the unfavorable border location with Hungary, the place was often victims of the fighting of different peoples (especially Turks and Hungarians ), but was always rebuilt. From 1914 to 1946 the place had a railway connection through the Pressburger Bahn , the station was next to the Bundesstraße 9 before the intersection with the Pressburgerstraße.

During the Second World War , the place belonged to the municipality of Engerau from 1942 until the end of the war . In 1942, Bernhard Berghaus built a light metal factory here, in which components for the aircraft industry and rocket production, as well as cartridge cases, were to be manufactured. In 1944, the plant employed 1,600–2,000 people in trial operation, including a large number of forced laborers . 6000 people should have worked here in full operation, but that never happened. On April 4, 1945, the Red Army occupied the site and the plant was placed under the administration of USIA . The plant's machines and equipment were brought to Yugoslavia as reparation for the war damage .

From 1972 to 1996 the place formed together with Wolfsthal the municipality Wolfsthal-Berg , this connection was canceled again by a unanimous decision of the municipal council.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Berg (Lower Austria)

• Catholic parish church Berg hl. Anna: The church was first mentioned as a chapel in 1748 and built as a parish church in 1789.
• The Pottenburg was built between 955 and 1025 and was first mentioned in a document in 1240. Taken by the Turkish storms and badly damaged by artillery hits in World War II , only the remains of the wall and a defensive tower are left of the Pottenburg.
• There are three cellar rows parallel to the main street, see list of cellar lanes in Berg (Lower Austria)
• On Pressburger Strasse there is a memorial stone to Arne Karlsson , who was shot by a Soviet military post on June 11, 1947 while working for the Swedish aid organization Rädda Barnen while carrying out his humanitarian work .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 3 Liste Freizeitzentrum (LFZ).
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 1 LFZ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 1 LFZ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 SPÖ and 5 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 1 LFZ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP, and 1 FZBERG.

mayor

• 1945–1950 Florian Denk (ÖVP)
• 1997-2017 Georg Hartl (SPÖ)
• since 2017 Andreas Hammer (SPÖ)

coat of arms

In 1999 the municipality of Berg was given a coat of arms.

Partner communities

• Tomášov (Slovakia)
• Halászi (Hungary)

Personalities

• Florian Denk (1884–1962), farmer and mayor of Berg

Web links

Commons : Berg (Niederösterreich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Berg

• 30703 - Berg (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The light metal factory . In: Municipality of Berg (ed.): Municipality newspaper Berg . Special edition, March 2013, p. 6th f . ( Online on the website nachkriegsjustiz.at (PDF; 2.2 MB)).
2. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 70, 140 , accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
3. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Berg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
4. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Berg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
5. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Berg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the 2010 municipal council election in Berg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Berg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2019 .