Breitenlee

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Breitenlee
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Breitenlee was an independent municipality in Lower Austria until 1938 and is now part of the 22nd district of Vienna ( Donaustadt ) and one of the 89 Viennese cadastral communities .

geography

Breitenlee (above) and its neighboring towns, which have already been incorporated into Vienna, on a city map from 1912

Breitenlee is located in Marchfeld and borders in the north on the Süßenbrunn district and the Lower Austrian municipality of Aderklaa , in the east on the Essling district , in the south on the Aspern district and in the west on the Hirschstetten district . The cadastral community extends over an area of ​​1007.47 hectares .

history

Breitenlee was first mentioned in 1160 as "Preitenle". Through an umbrella letter from Duke Leopold VI. , the glorious, the village came to the Schottenstift as landlord in 1200 . In 1258, Breitenlee counted 28 peasant fiefs, the tithe was shared by the prince-bishop of Passau , the Schottenstift, the canons of St. Dorothea and the prince. The Kurucs and Turks caused severe damage to the village. In 1529 all residents of Breitenlee were killed in the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna .

Breitenleer parish church

It took 165 years for the Schottenstift to rebuild the village by selling low-income goods. Scots Abbot Sebastian Faber drew up a detailed plan for the reconstruction in 1694, after the second Turkish siege of Vienna, whereby the courtyards were aligned in the style of the Baroque period according to the four cardinal points and the estate of the Schottenstift, built in 1698, was the focus. The Breitenleer parish church , which was dedicated to Saint Anne, was built in the years 1697–1699. The church, built in the rural Baroque style, is the only one in Marchfeld to have ten meter high towers. In 1696 the existing inn of the Scots was founded opposite the church with the name Lindenhof .

Since the surrounding parishes feared for their rights, Breitenlee remained assigned to the Gerasdorf parish a few kilometers further north . The clergy of the Schottenstift were buried in the church cemetery built in 1807. In 1818, Breitenlee received its first schoolhouse, which was expanded in 1898 and again expanded in 1967/1968.

The northern line of the Eastern Railway (Laaer Ostbahn) was built here by 1870 .

In 1904/1905 the communities Floridsdorf , Jedlesee , Großjedlersdorf , Donaufeld , Leopoldau , Kagran , Hirschstetten , Aspern , Stadlau and parts of Breitenlee were incorporated into Vienna and combined to form the new 21st district, Floridsdorf. In 1920 Vienna became a separate federal state and has not been part of Lower Austria since.

Starting in 1916, construction of the Breitenlee marshalling yard began here with great effort and the use of prisoners of war . Due to the chaos of war and post-war economic crises, the project was finally discontinued around 1925 and only remnants were used.

When Austria was annexed to the German Reich , the NSDAP regime separated Aspern, Hirschstetten and Stadlau from the 21st district with effect from October 15, 1938 and formed together with the part of Breitenlee, which was incorporated in 1904 and which was still independent until 1938, and with Essling , Süßenbrunn and 15 other Marchfeld communities the huge 22nd district, Groß-Enzersdorf , part of the new National Socialist Greater Vienna .

After the Second World War, 15 Marchfeld communities came back to Lower Austria in 1954 , Breitenlee and some other parts of the district together with Kaisermühlen and Kagran formed the new 22nd district, Donaustadt, with the boundaries of the previous 22nd district greatly changed.

present

Breitenlee is now a district with considerable areas for the construction of settlements in the coming decades. In addition, Breitenlee is the largest “farming community” in Vienna, in which many gardeners who have resettled from Kagran have found new cultivation areas.

Breitenleer Straße leads westwards to the exit of the same name from the north edge expressway S2, which is connected to the north motorway A5 and the Vienna south- east bypass A23, and to the stop of the same name on the Laaer Ostbahn , which is currently not served by passenger trains. South of the village, connected by Hausfeldstraße, is the Marchegger Ostbahn stop named after the street, where regional and regional express trains (one per hour) via Simmering (U3) to Vienna Central Station and regional and regional express trains to the east ( one per hour) to Marchegg ; the hourly regional express trains continue to Bratislava .

Like the neighboring Süßenbrunn to the north, Breitenlee still has a volunteer fire brigade , which was founded in 1880. (All other former volunteer fire brigades in the area of ​​the City of Vienna have long since disbanded or have merged into the Vienna professional fire brigade .)

Personalities

  • Emil Kuntner (1902–1999), principal school director and politician

Web links

Commons : Breitenlee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '  N , 16 ° 30'  E