Braunsdorf (municipality of Sitzendorf)

Braunsdorf ( village ) locality cadastral community Braunsdorf
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Hollabrunn  (HL), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Sitzendorf on the Schmida
Coordinates	48 ° 38 '9 "  N , 15 ° 56' 11"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '9 "  N , 15 ° 56' 11"  E
height	259  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	174 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	6.19 km²
Post Code	3714 Sitzendorf an der Schmida
Statistical identification
Locality code	03857
Cadastral parish number	09005
Counting district / district	Braunsdorf (31043 005)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Braunsdorf is a place and a cadastral municipality of the market town Sitzendorf an der Schmida in the Hollabrunn district in the western Weinviertel in Lower Austria . Braunsdorf was a separate municipality until 1970.

geography

The triangular village with street group-like extensions and elevated castle with church is located about 3.5 kilometers north of Sitzendorf between Goggendorf and Roseldorf east of the Schmida and is accessed by the state roads 49 and 1145 as well as the state road B2 passing north of the village .

history

The first settlement took place in the 6th century by the Lombards . The place, first mentioned in 1170, belonged to the rule of the Braunsdorf family and after the Braunsdorf family died out, it came to Stephan von Eyczing in the second half of the 15th century at the latest .

Another change in the rulership structure in Braunsdorf is handed down from November 13, 1575 when Adam Freiherr von Puchheim auf Karlstein sold the village to his sister-in-law, Clara Freiin von Thannhausen , née Roggendorf . The patronage remained with the Karlstein rule. This fell to the crown in 1620 with the patronage of Braunsdorf . Braunsdorf was shown partly as an own and partly as an imperial fiefdom , as is passed down from a purchase letter from 1666. Until the end of the manorial rule in 1848, the rule changed hands several times before Braunsdorf became an independent municipality in 1850.

Between 1830 and 1870 Braunsdorf was hit by numerous disasters and bad harvests. There were several fires and the place was ravaged by cholera several times , which meant that the parish cemetery had to be enlarged. In addition, after the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, Prussian troops were quartered in the village. All these facts, combined with the oppressive tax burden, which was increased by the poor harvests, led to a corresponding burden on the population, which was only alleviated in 1848/49 after the abolition of the manor.

When building a sand pit in 1907, a Lombard burial ground was found , and four skeletons were destroyed. A salvaged mug with a handle came to the museum in Hollabrunn in 1914 . In 1932, two more body burials were recovered from the sand pit, which had now grown overgrown .

Braunsdorf remained an independent municipality until 1970, before it was merged with Sitzendorf an der Schmida on January 1, 1971 .

Culture and sights

Parish Church of Braunsdorf

• Braunsdorf Castle
• Catholic parish church Braunsdorf Hll. Peter and Paul
• Wayside shrine Johannes Nepomuk
• Wayside shrine Maria Immaculata
• Wayside shrine Jesus at rest
• Wayside shrine dinghy cross

literature

• Dehio Handbook Lower Austria. The art monuments of Austria. Topographical inventory of monuments. Vol. 7: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Schroll, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
• Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (Ed.): At home in Sitzendorf. Home book of the market town Sitzendorf an der Schmida. Marktgemeinde Sitzendorf an der Schmida, Sitzendorf 2006, ISBN 3-200-00577-7 .
• Ernst Lauermann: The dark centuries of the Weinviertel , Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504475-4-5

Web links

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

• KG Braunsdorf on the website of the municipality Sitzendorf , accessed on September 14, 2016

Remarks

1. ↑ In the Heimatbuch the date is given as 1205

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry about Braunsdorf Castle at Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
2. ↑ Dehio p. 71
3. ↑ Lauermann: The dark centuries of the Weinviertel , p. 72
4. ↑ Heimatbuch p. 227 ff.