Burgschleinitz-Kühnring

Burgschleinitz-Kühnring is located in the Waldviertel on the northeastern edge of the Manhartsberg between Eggenburg and Maissau . The area of the market town covers 41.84 square kilometers. 20.03 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Amelsdorf (3.01 km²) Burgschleinitz (5.48 km²) Buttendorf (1.70 km²) Geiersdorf (1.49 km²) Harmannsdorf (3.23 km²) Kühnring (8.20 km²) Matzelsdorf (2.66 km²) Reinprechtspölla (7.83 km²) Sachsendorf (2.32 km²) Sonndorf (2.43 km²) Zogelsdorf (3.50 km²)	Amelsdorf (D) Burgschleinitz (M) Buttendorf (D) Harmannsdorf (D) Kühnring (D) Matzelsdorf (D) Reinprechtspölla (D) Sachsendorf (D) Sonndorf (D) Zogelsdorf (D)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

The municipality includes the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

The market town of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring is a member of the small region of Manhartsberg .

Two postcodes are used in the municipality of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring. The places Burgschleinitz, Kühnring, Sonndorf and Zogelsdorf have the postcode 3730. The other places have the postcode 3713.

Neighboring communities

Rosenburg mold	Meiseldorf	Eggenburg
Gars am Kamp		Straning-Grafenberg
Schönberg am Kamp	Maissau

history

At the place where the parish church of Kühnring stands today, Hadmar I built the ancestral castle of the Kuenringer , the castle Kühnring, in the first half of the 12th century .

In Harmannsdorf Castle , the Austrian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner wrote her novel Die Waffen Nieder!

The birth house of the important prehistoric researcher Josef Höbarth is in Reinprechtspölla .

The Zogelsdorfer stone mined in the community was a stone that was valued for stone carving in the Baroque and Historicism periods .

Reinprechtspölla is a monastery parish of Klosterneuburg, around 1735 the church was enlarged and baroque by master builder Leopold Wißgrill . The plans for this are from the baroque architect of Klosterneuburg Monastery, Donato Felice d'Allio . In the course of the liturgy change, the interior of the church was changed, so the tabernacle was moved to the side altar, etc. The grave of the composer and all-round talent Otto M. Zykan (1935-2006) is located in the Reinprechtspölla cemetery .

In 1944/1945 around 30 Hungarian Jews had to do forced labor in Wisent Castle. Her guard was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 1947 for mistreating the workers.

From 1938 to 1945 Burgschleinitz was part of the Eggenburg municipality; then the local church was restored. In 1967 the communities of Burgschleinitz, Kühnring, Amelsdorf, Buttendorf, Matzelsdorf, Sachsendorf, Sonndorf and Zogelsdorf were merged to form the large community of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring; Reinprechtspölla was added in 1971, followed by Harmannsdorf (with KG Geiersdorf) in 1972. In 1987 the market survey took place.

coat of arms

With the decision of the Lower Austrian provincial government of March 30, 1982, the municipality of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring was awarded a municipal coat of arms. His blazon : “A divided shield above blue, below in the golden field four black bars, covered with a silver, red-armored eagle.” The community colors are blue-white-black.

Population development

After both the birth balance and the migration balance were positive from 1991 to 2001 , the population has been falling since then due to emigration from the municipality.

politics

Municipal council elections

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The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

until 2007 Gerhard Krell (ÖVP)
2007–2014 Andreas Ullreich (ÖVP)
since 2014 Leopold Winkelhofer (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Burgschleinitz Castle

Harmannsdorf Castle

Zogelsdorf Castle

Wisent Castle

Parish church Burgschleinitz

Kellergasse Hintaus in Kühnring

Harmannsdorf Castle
Zogelsdorf Castle
Burgschleinitz Castle
Wisent Castle in Amelsdorf
Catholic parish church Burgschleinitz hl. Michael with the Karner Burgschleinitz
Parish Church of St. Philipp and Jakob in Kühnring
Parish church of St. Pankratius in Reinprechtspölla
Barbarakapelle in Zogelsdorf
International Bertha von Suttner Association based in Harmannsdorf

economy

In 2001 there were 36 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 109. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 670. In 2001, the activity rate was 48.76 percent.

Established businesses

In 2016 the organic bakery Joseph Brot opened a new 400 m² bread factory on Retzer Strasse in the Burgschleinitz district on a 1,800 m² site. This enabled production from Vitis to be moved closer to Vienna, the bakery's main sales market. The company produces half a million pieces of bread and rolls by hand every year with 39 employees.

traffic

Bus: The regular bus company PostBus runs to stops on lines 1302 ( Horn - Eggenburg ) and 1253 ( Horn - Retz ) in several places in the municipality.
Train: The nearest ÖBB train stations are Limberg - Maissau , Straning and Eggenburg on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn .
Street: The Horner Straße (B4) leads through the towns of Amelsdorf and Harmannsdorf. The Retzer Straße (B 35) leads through Burgschleinitz and Zogelsdorf.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Ludwig Deusch (1925–2008), Lower Austrian politician and member of the state parliament, was born in Burgschleinitz.
Adam Haresleben (1627–1683), Austrian master stonemason and master builder at St. Stephan in Vienna, was born in Kühnring.
Johann Georg Haresleben (1671–1716), Austrian master stonemason, was born in Kühnring.
Thomas Haresleben (1673–1733), Austrian master stonemason and master builder at St. Stephan in Vienna, was born in Kühnring.
Josef Haslinger (1889–1974), Lower Austrian politician and member of the state parliament, was born in Reinprechtspölla.
Josef Höbarth (1891–1952), Lower Austrian local history researcher and museum founder, was born in Reinprechtspölla.
Matthias Knox (1645–1688), Austrian master stonemason and master builder for St. Stephan in Vienna, was born in Kühnring.
Joseph Winkler (1665–1748), Austrian master stonemason and judge in Kaisersteinbruch , was born in Burgschleinitz.
Matthias Winkler (around 1682–1753), Austrian master stonemason and master builder at St. Stephan in Vienna, was born in Kühnring.
Johann Zach (1892–1978), Lower Austrian politician, member of the state parliament and national councilor, was born in Kühnring.

People related to the community

Andrea Eckert (* 1958) actress, singer and documentary filmmaker
Azzo von Gobatsburg († around 1100), ancestor of the Kuenringer , built a chapel in Kühnring.
Joseph Anton Gall (1748–1807), Catholic clergyman and bishop of Linz, was pastor in Burgschleinitz from 1779–1787.
Karl Korab (* 1937), visual artist
Hadmar I. von Kuenring († 1138), ministerial nobleman, built Kühnring Castle in Kühnring.
Rudolf Macho (1885–1948), Lower Austrian politician and member of the state parliament, 1945–1948 mayor of Kühnring, died in Kühnring.
Anna von Sazenhofen (1874–1948), writer
Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner (1850–1902), Austrian nobleman and writer, husband of Bertha von Suttner, lived and died at Harmannsdorf Castle.
Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Austrian writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate , lived at Harmannsdorf Castle.
Marie von Suttner (1873–1948), Austrian writer and novelist, lived at Harmannsdorf Castle.
Otto M. Zykan (1935–2006), Austrian composer, lived and died in Sachsendorf.
Sebastian Kurz (* 1986), Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, honorary citizen of the municipality of Zogelsdorf since 2017