Berndorf (Lower Austria)

Borough Berndorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	to bathe
License plate :	BN
Surface:	17.55 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 57 '  N , 16 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '34 "  N , 16 ° 6' 13"  E
Height :	314  m above sea level A.
Residents :	9,046 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	515 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2560
Area code :	02672
Community code :	3 06 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Karl-Kislinger-Platz 2–3 2560 Berndorf
Website:	[1]
politics
Mayor :	Franz Rumpler ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (33 members)	12 10 5 3 3 12 10 5 3 3  A total of 33 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 10 LZB : 5 FPÖ : 3 UBV : 3
Location of Berndorf in the Baden district
Aerial view of Berndorf in south direction
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The municipality of Berndorf with 9046 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) is located on the edge of the Vienna Woods in the Triestingtal in Lower Austria. Due to the historical development in the 19th century, it is also known as Krupp City.

Community structure

The city consists of the cadastral communities :

• Berndorf I (Berndorf City)
• Berndorf II ( St. Veit an der Triesting )
• Berndorf III ( Ödlitz )
• Berndorf IV ( Veitsau / Steinhof)

Districts are: Berndorf city, Veitsau (district), Kolonie (Sdlg.), St. Veit an der Triesting (village), Steinhof (village), Ödlitz (village)

Neighboring communities

Pottenstein		Bad Vöslau
		Leobersdorf , Hirtenberg
	Hernstein	Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn

history

Houses in the workers' settlements Sechshaus (left) and Vierhausstrasse 5 (around 1979)

planned streets with Kruppstrasse and Margaretenplatz

Finds from the various epochs of the Stone Age show that settlements were already present in the area.

In 1133, a Perindorf is mentioned in the Göttweiger Salbuch , which probably got its name from a settler named Pero , who settled here with a group around 1070. The Perendorf foundation estate can also be found in the annals of Kleinmariazell Abbey in 1136 .

In the course of the following centuries, Berndorf was often ravaged by the Hungarians and later by the Turks, similar to the other places in the Triestingtal .

Grillenberger Becken (cadastral community Berndorf IV ) with overgrown spoil heaps from the lignite mining operated between 1838 and 1959.

As early as the 18th century, a metalworking trade settled here, such as the Neuhirtenberger Kupferhammer , its successor, the kk priv. Neuhirtenberger Fabrik Metaller Maschinen , as early as 1836, in addition to the water power of the Triesting , the first - locally manufactured - steam engine in Lower Austria began. In the 19th century, the metal industry, due to constant expansion, became the main source of income for the local population. There were around 50 houses with 180 inhabitants around 1844 when the company under Alexander Schoeller and Hermann Krupp began producing cutlery with 50 workers. This company later developed under Arthur Krupp into a global corporation with 6,000 employees. The entire development of Berndorf was closely linked to the history of the Kruppf family . Arthur Krupp built a private elementary school and a public bath in addition to the industrial plants. For the influx of workers and employees, Krupp had the districts of Wiedenbrunn and Margareten built at the company's expense, between 1880 and 1918 a total of 260 houses with over 1,100 apartments. The neo-baroque Margaret Church was also built by Krupp. The urban planning planner and partially executive architect was Ludwig Baumann .

In 1866 Berndorf was raised to a market town and in 1900 to a town. At that time, Berndorf had around 4,300 residents. The Krupp company employed 3,500 people from Berndorf and the surrounding area. With the provincial law of April 26, 1923 , Berndorf, St. Veit an der Triesting, Ödlitz and, until then, part of the local community Grillenberg , the village of Veitsau and the Rotte Steinhof merged to form the community of "Groß-Berndorf" .

After the Anschluss in 1938, the Arthur Krupp company was incorporated into the German Krupp concern.

Due to the local industry, Berndorf was also an important target of the Allied air raids in the later years of the Second World War . During the war years, however, the forces of nature did not stop at Berndorf, with Triesting twice (in 1939 and 1944) causing the strongest floods in its history and causing great damage.

After the end of the war, the metal goods factory was confiscated by the Soviet Army and incorporated into the USIA . It was only handed over to the Austrian state in 1957 and merged with the Vereinigte Aluminumwerke Ranshofen (VAW) to form the Vereinigte Metallwerke Ranshofen Berndorf AG (VMW) and Austria Metall AG (AMAG).

Due to financial problems of the nationalized industry in the early 1980s, Berndorf was again spun off from the VMW Group in 1984 and privatized separately as Berndorf AG in 1988 through a manager buy-out . In addition, the smaller SME was created, but it is active in the same division as Berndorf.

See also: History of Lower Austria , History of the Vienna Woods

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The Berndorfer Becken bordered by Guglzipf , Hoher Wand , Hoher Mandling (center) and Waxeneck (from left to right, seen from Kremesberg)

Population development

The population development in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries is largely linked to the development of the Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik . At the time of the heyday of this industrial enterprise around 1910, the population had almost quadrupled since the beginning of the statistical records in 1869 and reached the historical high of 12,788 inhabitants. Thereafter, the population gradually decreased before reaching its lowest point in 1981 with 8,160 people. Since then the population has been slowly increasing again.

Partnerships

• Ohasama ( Japan , incorporated into Hanamaki )
• Sigmundsherberg

politics

The municipal council has 33 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 SPÖ, 10 ÖVP, and 4 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 4 FPÖ, and 3 UBV.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 10 ÖVP, 5 Hermann Kozlik - List Future Berndorf (LZB), 3 FPÖ and 3 Our Berndorf Veränder! (UBV).

mayor

• 1851-1862 F. Leidenfrost
• 1862–1870 Matthias Tedler
• 1871–1875 Franz Birk
• 1875–1882 Josef Mitlöhner
• 1882–1887 Karl Johann Mayer
• 1887–1915 Ferdinand Harlles
• 1915–1919 Eugen Essenther
• 1919–1934 Karl Kislinger
• 1934–1938 Ludwig Ehm (government commissioner)
• 1938–1945 Rudolf Krulla
• 1945–1956 Konrad Nimetz (SPÖ)
• 1956–1969 Leopold Steiner (SPÖ)
• 1969–1982 Thomas Kulovits (SPÖ)
• 1982-2002 Josef Leskovec (SPÖ)
• 2002–2020 Hermann Kozlik (SPÖ)
• since 2020 Franz Rumpler (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

City Theater Berndorf

See also:  List of listed objects in Berndorf

• Catholic parish church Berndorf hl. Margareta
• Catholic branch church Berndorf Mariä Himmelfahrt
• Evangelical parish church in Berndorf Dreieinigkeitskirche
• Chapel on the Lind
• City Theater Berndorf
• Krupp mausoleum
• Guglzipf lookout point
• Krupp City Museum
• Wiedenbrunn factory housing estate
• Iron Bear in Idagasse

Education and Research

There are 5 kindergartens, 3 elementary schools, 2 secondary schools, a grammar school, a special education center with a special school and a music school in Berndorf.

• Berndorfer schools
• BG / BRG Berndorf
• Berndorf indoor school , music and special school

The Medauhof is a research facility of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna .

traffic

Berndorf (bottom left) around 1872 (recording sheet of the state survey )

• Road: Berndorf is on the Hainfelder Straße B18, which leads through the Triestingtal.
• Railway: The railway line is the Südwestbahn ( Leobersdorfer Bahn ), which used to run from Leobersdorf to St. Pölten , but has ended in Weissenbach an der Triesting since 2004 .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the township

• Franz Birner , politician of the SPÖ
• Ernst Höger , politician of the SPÖ
• Peter F. Stadler , bioinformatician and chemist
• Franz Slawik , school director, philosopher and former Provincial Councilor of Lower Austria (SPÖ)

literature

• Walter Rieck: Cultural geography of the Triestingtal . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1960, ÖNB , OBV .
• Erwin Schilder: Berndorf - past and present . Municipality, Berndorf 1975, OBV . - In particular (fold-out sheet after p. 127):

• Walter Rieck: The structural development of the city of Berndorf and the Berndorfer metal goods factory . (Building age plan). Taken from issue 4 of the cultural geography of the Triestingtal ( ÖTK section Triestingtal), OBV .

• Peter Philipp Czernin: K. u. K. Workers' and factory town of Berndorf / Lower Austria. The Austrian prime example of the interaction between industrial and urban development . Dissertation. Graz University of Technology, Graz 1978, OBV .
• Wilhelm Rausch (Ed.), Hermann Rafetseder (Ed.): Area and name changes of the municipalities of Austria since the middle of the 19th century . Research on the history of cities and markets in Austria, Volume 2. Landesverlag, Linz (an der Donau) 1989, ISBN 3-900387-22-2 .
• Helene Schießl, Erwin Schindler, municipality of Berndorf (ed.): Berndorfer Gemeindechronik, published on the occasion of 100 years of the city of Berndorf . Berndorf 2000.
• Dietmar Lautscham: Arthur, the Austrian Krupp. Arthur Krupp (1856–1938), a large industrial dynastic character, one of the last feudal lords of private capital, a brilliant patron, the creator of the working-class town of Berndorf . Kral, Berndorf 2005, ISBN 3-902447-12-5 .

Web links

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

• Entry on Berndorf in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Krupp City Museum

• 30605 - Berndorf (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 45. Berndorf . In: Austrian official calendar online . Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2002–, OBV .
2. ↑ Eva Wald: The beginnings of the industry in the Vienna basin and its geographical basis . Dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 1954, p. 246, OBV .
3. ^ ASL:  The workers' colony of the Berndorfer metal goods factory Arthur Krupp in Berndorf. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1912, (Volume LXXVII), p. 43 f. (Text) (Online at ANNO ). and
   A. SL:  the workers' colony of the Berndorfer metal goods factory Arthur Krupp in Berndorf. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1912, (Volume LXXVII), pp. 11–15 (plans) (online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Nö LGBl 1923/73. In:  Landesgesetzblatt für die Land Niederösterreich , year 1923, p. 79 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ^ Leopold Kammerhofer: Lower Austria between the wars - economic, political, social and cultural development from 1918 to 1938 . Grasl, Baden 1987, ISBN 3-85098-179-7 , p. 110.
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Berndorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on July 1, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Berndorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Berndorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 6, 2020 . 
9. ^ Literature - books about Berndorf ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: berndorf.gv.at , accessed on June 15, 2011.

Remarks

1. ↑ These districts, I to IV, are only expressly mentioned as such in the 1923 and 1951 indexes, no longer as such from the 1961 index. On the part of the municipality, however, there are still “city districts”; In the cadastral municipalities information of the Austrian official calendar 1988/89, there is mention of "Berndorf I. Bez.", "Berndorf II. Bez." etc. The correct designation of the cadastral municipalities according to the location directory 1981 or the cadastral municipality directory of the Federal Office for Eich- and surveying is, however, Berndorf I, Berndorf II, Berndorf III and Berndorf IV. - In: Rausch / Rafetseder, Territory and Name Changes , p. 78.
2. ↑ The component accessible through Pawlatschengang dates before 1885, the one next to it in the picture on the right between 1919 and 1937. - Rieck: The structural development .
3. ↑ In the picture further back: the forest clearing within which from 1898 a cable car (instead of the downhill transport by horse and cart), the brown coal from surface mining - coal seam over the Guglzipf to the heating points of the factory did. - In: Schilder, Berndorf , p. 164.
4. ↑ The state law does not mention Ödlitz in any form, neither as a cadastral nor as a local community. - According to Rausch / Rafetseder, area and name changes , p. 79, the local community of Sankt Veit an der Triesting came to the city of Berndorf in 1923 (after a referendum), with the two localities or cadastral communities of Oedlitz (list of locations 1869 and 1890 "Edlitz" ) and Sankt Veit an Triesting. This results in the cadastral communities or districts “Bemdorf III” (Oedlitz, as part of the village after 1945 “Ödlitz”) and “Bemdorf II” (Sankt Veit an der Triesting). From 1961 onwards, Ödlitz and Sankt Veit an der Triesting appear as part of the village of Berndorf.