Edelbach (Allentsteig municipality)

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Edelbach (author.) ( Single settlement )
cadastral community Edelbach
Edelbach (Allentsteig municipality) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Zwettl  (ZT), Lower Austria
Judicial district Zwettl
Pole. local community Allentsteig
Locality Allentsteig
Coordinates 48 ° 41 ′ 1 "  N , 15 ° 24 ′ 28"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 1 "  N , 15 ° 24 ′ 28"  Ef1
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Area  d. KG 7.42 km²
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number 24012
Counting district / district Kaufholz (32501 003)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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Parish church of Edelbach (before 1911)

Edelbach has been a cadastral community of Allentsteig in Lower Austria since January 1st, 1964, with an area of ​​742.06 hectares. In order to be able to create the Döllersheim military training area , the residents were evacuated from 1938 onwards .

Description and history

The street village Edelbach was at the intersection of the streets Allentsteig- Äpfelgschwendt and Merkenbrechts- Felsenberg between the valleys of the Taffa and the Thaya . In the east-west direction, the municipality extended with a base area of ​​around 18.2 square kilometers for around 6.63 kilometers and in the north-south direction for around 4.89 kilometers.

Edelbach was first mentioned in a document in 1210, when Otto von Truchsen gave the Zwettl monastery properties near Edelbach as gifts. In 1256 the monastery of Marquard von Streitwiesen acquired four mansions in Edelbach. Ortlieb and Ulrich von Winkel gave the monastery in 1258 possessions in Edelbach and the patronage of the parish church.

Edelbach was burned down in 1480 and 1645.

In 1532 the Zwettl Abbey sold the place to the owner of Neunzen, Sigmund Leysser. With the later acquisition of Neunzen, the ownership of Edelbach also passed to Joachim Freiherr von Windhag .

Between 1624 and 1676 which were church records for Edelbach of the parish of Great Haselbach and from 1676 led by the parish Edelbach. With the abolition of the Edelbach parish, the registers of the Zwettl Abbey parish were handed over for safekeeping.

In the course of the reforms after the revolution of 1848/1849 , the manor was dissolved and Edelbach constituted itself as the municipality of the Allentsteig district .

Emperor Franz Joseph I , Kaiser Wilhelm II and the King of Saxony took part in the maneuvers that took place between August 2 and 8, 1891 as guests.

In 1926, Äpfelgschwendt was separated from Edelbach and became an independent municipality. The school-age children continued to attend school in Edelbach, just like those from Riegers.

In order to be able to set up the Döllersheim military training area, the population of Edelbach was given until August 5, 1938, to leave the 60-house village. Most of the so-called second settlers, however, continued to live in more than 20 houses that were only cleared by the Soviet troops around 1952.

Edelbach prisoner of war camp

In September 1939 a prisoner of war camp was set up on the outskirts of Edelbach, which functioned as a transit camp until October 1939 and then as Stalag XVII C until June 1940. From June 1940 until the end of World War II, it was run as Oflag XVII A. With an occupancy of around 5600 French officers and orderlies, it was one of the largest officer camps in the German Reich.

After Germany's surrender (May 8, 1945), the successors of the French officers were German soldiers from the LKS7 (Luftkriegsschule 7 in Tulln near Vienna) and other Wehrmacht units who had voluntarily been taken prisoner by the Americans the day before. During the last weeks of the war they were used as ground troops against the Soviet troops advancing from Czechoslovakia and the Balkans. They didn't want to go into Soviet captivity. However, the LKS members were handed over to the Red Army. The Edelbach camp served as a Soviet transit camp for German prisoners of war until around the end of July 1945. At the site of the former camp, only a sign in the landscape reminds us today.

literature

  • Paul Buberl: The monuments of the political district Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey). Part 1: Allentsteig judicial district (= Austrian art topography . Vol. 8, 1). Commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
  • Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland. 2nd Edition. Association Information Waldviertel, Allentsteig 1998, ISBN 3-9500294-0-0 .
  • Leopold Sainitzer: local knowledge of the school community Edelbach. Self-published by the author, Waidhofen ad Thaya 1932.
  • Margot Schindler : Having to go. The resettlement of the Döllersheim area (Lower Austria) 1938–1942. Folklore aspects (= publications of the Austrian Museum for Folklore 23). Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900359-38-5 .
  • Ernst-Werner Techow: The old home. Description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim. Published by the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Berlin. Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH, Eger 1942.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Müllner: The desecrated home.
  2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Directory of Lower Austria 2001.
  3. ↑ Techow: The old home.
  4. ↑ Sainitzer: local knowledge of the school community Edelbach.
  5. ^ Buberl: Austrian art topography.
  6. ↑ Techow: The old home.
  7. ↑ Sainitzer: local knowledge of the school community Edelbach.
  8. ↑ Sainitzer: local knowledge of the school community Edelbach.
  9. ↑ Müllner: The desecrated home.