Vienna area

The Vienna-Umgebung district was an administrative district of the Province of Lower Austria . It was created in 1954 through the dissolution of Greater Vienna ; at the end of 2016 it was dissolved and divided among the neighboring districts. At the time of its dissolution, the Vienna-Umgebung district consisted of 21 communities , including six towns and seven market communities. Its license plate number was WU with the exception of the town of Schwechat ( SW ).

history

During the time of National Socialism in 1938 a number of independent communities were united with Vienna to form Greater Vienna . When Vienna was redimensioned to its present size in 1946 (decision) and 1954 (implementation), 80 affiliated municipalities became independent again and several of them were brought together in the new Lower Austrian district of Vienna.

The Vienna-Umgebung district consisted of three isolated areas: around Schwechat in the southeast and Gerasdorf as a much smaller area in the northeast and the Klosterneuburg - Purkersdorf area (north) west of Vienna .

The latter area was constricted between a region to the west of Vienna and a region to the north-west on the short border between the municipality of Mauerbach (north of Purkersdorf) and the municipality of Klosterneuburg (further north) to a width of about 700 m and had none Area connecting road on. Therefore, the district authority had its own offices in both parts of the area and the district as a whole was often incorrectly represented as consisting of four isolated areas.

On September 1, 1954, the new district administration Vienna-Umgebung began its activities in the former building of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Vienna 1., Löwelstrasse 20. In 1969 the district authority (BH) Wien-Umgebung moved to Vienna 9., Alserbachstrasse 41. With a resolution of the Lower Austrian provincial government of April 9, 1991, the headquarters of the BH Wien-Umgebung was moved to Klosterneuburg. On June 18, 1998, the new official building in Klosterneuburg, Leopoldstrasse 21, went into operation. Branch offices were located in Purkersdorf, Schwechat, Gerasdorf and in Vienna's Herrengasse .

In 1956, Gablitz , Mauerbach , Pressbaum , Tullnerbach and Wolfsgraben were removed from the Sankt Pölten-Land district and joined the Vienna-Umgebung district.

Former district captains

Franz Baumgartner 1954–1963
Gustav Herrmann 1963–1964
Alfred Kriegl 1964–1965
Franz Schmidt 1965–1969
Kurt Hürbe 1969–1987
Albert Hamböck 1987–1995
Helmut Leiss 1995-2000
Wolfgang Straub 2000-2014
Andreas Strobl 2014–2016

resolution

In September 2015, Lower Austrian Governor Erwin Pröll announced that the Vienna-Umgebung district would be dissolved on January 1, 2017 and that its 21 municipalities would be divided among the neighboring districts of Lower Austria. This was decided on September 24, 2015 by the Lower Austrian state parliament . The state government then reallocated the municipalities to the adjacent districts:

Division of the Vienna-Umgebung district from 2017: the 21 municipalities are marked in the colors of the districts to which they have been allocated.

Klosterneuburg was connected to the Tulln district .

The Korneuburg district was expanded to include Gerasdorf .

Gablitz , Mauerbach , Pressbaum , Purkersdorf , Tullnerbach and Wolfsgraben fell to the St. Pölten-Land district .

The district of Bruck an der Leitha was expanded to include Ebergassing , Fischamend , Gramatneusiedl , Himberg , Klein-Neusiedl , Lanzendorf , Leopoldsdorf , Maria-Lanzendorf , Moosbrunn , Rauchwarth , Schwadorf , Schwechat and Zwölfaxing .

Originally, Gerasdorf should have been connected to the Gänserndorf district ; In a public survey, however, 99% of the participants spoke out against this variant. The allocation of Mauerbach and Gablitz (intended for the Tulln district ) and Leopoldsdorf, Lanzendorf and Maria-Lanzendorf (intended for the Mödling district ) has also been adjusted.