Breitenstein (Lower Austria)

Breitenstein
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Neunkirchen
License plate :	NK
Surface:	20.24 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 40 ′  N , 15 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 41 ″  N , 15 ° 49 ′ 27 ″  E
Height :	779  m above sea level A.
Residents :	316 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	2641, 2673
Area code :	02664
Community code :	3 18 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 19 2673 Breitenstein
Website:	www.breitenstein.at
politics
Mayor :	Engelbert Rinnhofer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (13 members)	10 3 10 3  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 10 SPÖ : 3
Location of Breitenstein in the Neunkirchen district
View of Breitenstein and the Adlitzgraben
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

North view of the district of Klamm with the castle ruins of the same name and the parish church of St. Martin

Breitenstein is a municipality with 316 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria .

geography

Breitenstein is located in the Adlitzgraben at the foot of the Semmering at an altitude of 705 to 1,545 meters, directly on the Semmering Railway in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 20.24 km², 75.95% of the area is forested.

Community structure

There are no other cadastral communities apart from Breitenstein. The districts of the municipality are:

• Breitenstein
• Klamm
• Orthof
• Kreuzberg
• Adlitzgraben

Neighboring communities

Reichenau on the Rax		Payerbach
		Gloggnitz
Spital am Semmering	Semmering	Schottwien

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

The name of the place "Preittenstein" is mentioned for the first time in 1220 in a document in which the various possessions of the lords of Klamm were mentioned.

In April 1945 the area around Breitenstein was the scene of fierce fighting between the later German 9th Mountain Division (East) and the Red Army , which tried to penetrate into Styria via the Semmering Pass . In the course of these fighting, buildings such as the Hotel Sonnhof or the Pertl farm group were destroyed.

Population development

The community has a disproportionate number of people who are not permanently resident. 330 main residences are compared to 335 second residences.

religion

According to the data of the 2001 census , 80.6% of the population are Roman Catholic and 3.8% Protestant , 1.1% are Muslims , 1.3% belong to Orthodox churches , and 11.9% of the population have no religious denomination.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded to the Lower Austrian state government by decision of August 14, 1991. At the same time, the municipal colors “green-yellow” decided by the municipal council were approved.

Blazon : "A green shield, divided diagonally to the left by a silver wave bar, below on a growing golden rock is a ruin of the same kind with a left-hand keep and black loopholes, at the top a two-storey golden bridge with four arched openings above and two below."

The handover took place on April 5, 1992 by the Lower Austrian Governor Siegfried Ludwig and his deputy Ernst Höger .

politics

The municipal council has 13 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, and 3 SPÖ.

mayor

The mayors of the municipality since 1919

1919-1928	Johann Hanl
1929-1933	Adolf Poppa
1934-1938	Johann Hanl
1938-1942	Leopold hay
1942-1945	Josef Althammer
1945–12.01.1946	Josef Mies
January 12, 1946 - August 28, 1946	Karl Wallner
08/28/1946– 05/15/1955	Ignaz Wallner
May 15, 1955– July 25, 1961	Ludwig Tritt
August 12, 1961– April 19, 1975	Rudolf Sagbauer
April 19, 1975– August 17, 1984	Karl Stocksmayer
09/03/1984 - 04/29/1985	Rudolf Hanl
April 29, 1985– May 31, 1992	Leo Schellenbacher
June 10, 1992– April 13, 2010	Friedrich Koger
since April 13, 2010	Engelbert Rinnhofer (ÖVP)

Sanatorium "Recreation Home Breitenstein"

Adlitzgraben of the double riding Expect seen

In Breitenstein, almost forgotten today, there was a remarkable public sanatorium, the Breitenstein sanatorium and recreation home built in several stages from 1903 . It was one of the partially world-famous sanatoriums (albeit not an explicit lung sanatorium , such as the Wienerwald sanatorium , the Felbring convalescent home, the Strengberg sanatorium, or the Hochegg sanatorium, to name but the best known) in the eastern Alpine foothills and at the same time the first of the Henriette Weiss, a highly socially committed public sanatorium. During the First World War , Henriette Weiss (1864–1931), historically one of the most important advocates of nursing training for women, founded the Wällischhof rest homes in Maria Enzersdorf and Sans Souci in Mauer near Vienna, and in 1914 the Vienna War Forest School for children. After the First World War, Weiss succeeded as head of the Alland sanatorium, which was badly damaged by the war . In 1928, the care home for the elderly was launched in Baden near Vienna .

“Aryanized” in 1938 , the Breitenstein sanatorium was badly affected during the Nazi era and - as a result of the illegal appropriation - was left to decay in the decades after the Second World War. In misjudgment of its historical value, the sanatorium located at 880 m above sea level, including the architecturally not uninteresting part from 1908, had to be demolished in winter 2006/07 at the instigation of the community.

Culture and sights

Castle ruin Klamm with Schottwien valley crossing

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

• Castle ruin Klamm
• Catholic parish church Klamm am Semmering hl. Martin
• Catholic branch church in Breitenstein. Motherhood of Mary
• Ghega Museum: In the immediate vicinity of the Kalte Rinne viaduct , this museum shows a permanent exhibition on the Semmering Railway and its builder Carl Ritter von Ghega .

economy

In 2001 there were 18 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 23 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 154. The 2001 activity rate was 43.93%.

traffic

Breitenstein train station

• By train: At the Southern Railway which lies Breitenstein station . Regional trains in the direction of Payerbach-Reichenau and Semmering or Mürzzuschlag stop here . There are also regional express trains to Vienna and Mürzzuschlag in the morning and in the evening during the week .

Personalities

• Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), Salonnière of the (Viennese) art, music and literature scene of the first half of the 20th century; A villa was built for Alma Mahler-Werfel in 1913
• Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), the inventor of the Kaplan turbine, lived as a toddler with his parents Karl Viktor and Johanna Kaplan from July 16, 1877 to November 12, 1879 in Breitenstein. Father Karl Viktor was station chairman of the Southern Railway Company there. The family's apartment was on the 1st floor of the still-existing railway keeper's house 164, which is located about 200 m west of the Breitenstein train station.
• Arthur Halberstadt (1874–1950) was a Lower Austrian folklorist, folk song researcher and bank branch manager.

Web links

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

• Entry on Breitenstein in the database of the state's memory for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Site of the municipality of Breitenstein
• 31805 - Breitenstein (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Topothek Breitenstein historical picture material, located, tagged and dated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipality of Breitenstein: History ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 16, 2013) 
2. ↑ Website: Breitenstein.topothek.at: The Hotel Sonnhof on historical postcards , accessed on January 3, 2014
3. ↑ Website Breitenstein.topothek.at: Semmering, Fleischmann Viadukt, Pertl-Hof , accessed on January 3, 2014
4. ^ Journal of the Troops Service of the Austrian Armed Forces Issue 5/2003: Semmering, April 1945 - The battles for the southern railway dairy , author Friedrich Brettner
5. ↑ RIS-BKA: Announcement 114/91 about the award of a municipal coat of arms and the approval of the municipality colors for the municipality of Breitenstein  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document. 20 kB; accessed on April 16, 2013)  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Anita Wodl and Monika Palka in 80 years of the parish hall in Breitenstein and how it came about , published by the parish of Breitenstein, 2008 (PDF document, 4.04 MB; accessed on April 16, 2013)
7. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Breitenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Breitenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Breitenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
10. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Breitenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
11. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Breitenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Breitenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
13. ↑ In Memoriam. Henriette Weiss . In: The Austrian . No. 8/1931 (Volume IV), p. 7.
14. ^ Henriette Weiss: Pictures from the Vienna War Forest School . Perles, Vienna 1917, catalog sheet ( ÖNB) .
15. ^ Ghega Museum

Remarks

1. ↑ Formerly located on Maurer Langen Gasse between Kaserngasse and Kroissberggasse.
2. ↑ Opened on January 12, 1928. - See: Local. (...) Opening of the local old people's home “Worry-Free”. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 4/1928 (IL. Volume), January 14, 1928, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
   Sorgenfrei was an adaptation of the convalescent home Körnerpark . At the address Baden, Kaiser-Franz-Ring 27, there has been a building of the social insurance institute for the commercial economy for decades (newly built in the years before 2012) .