Windigsteig

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Windigsteig
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Windigsteig (Austria)
Windigsteig
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : Waidhofen an der Thaya
License plate : WT
Surface: 25.58 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 46 ′  N , 15 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 498  m above sea level A.
Residents : 921 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3841
Area code : 02849
Community code : 3 22 23
NUTS region AT124
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Marktplatz 4
3841 Windigsteig
Website: www.windigsteig.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Manfred Herynek ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)
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A total of 19 seats
Location of Windigsteig in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Windigsteig is a market town with 921 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district in Lower Austria .

geography

Windigsteig is located in the northern Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 25.49 square kilometers. 21.57 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Eden Goose (19)
  • Grunau (24)
  • Kleinreichenbach (77)
  • Kottschallings (72)
  • Lichtenberg (58)
  • Markl (90)
  • Matzle Beat (47)
  • Meires (56)
  • Rafings (68)
  • Rafingsberg (20)
  • Waldberg (51)
  • Willings (42)
  • Windigsteig (297)

Cadastral communities are Edengans, Grünau, Kleinreichenbach, Kottschallings, Lichtenberg, Markl, Matzlesschlag, Meires , Rafings, Waldberg, Willings and Windigsteig.

Neighboring communities

Waidhofen an der Thaya-Land Waidhofen an der Thaya
Vitis Neighboring communities Göpfritz an der Wild
Schwarzenau

history

Windigsteig was first mentioned in documents in 1281. The dates of the first documentary mention of selected cadastral communities of Windigsteig are: Matzlesschlag 1150, Meires 1232, Rafings 1292, Kottschallings 1311 and Markl 1395. The name Windigsteig as a market has been attested since 1377. From the 15th to the 18th century, the Rafingsberg district was a well-known Marian pilgrimage site. Countess Maria Leopoldina von Polheim founded a hospital with a chapel in the Markl district in 1736, which was later converted into a farm. Since the late 19th century there was an expansion of Windigsteig to the north. Between 1915 and 1918 the Markl internment camp existed in the municipality , in which mainly citizens from states at war with Austria-Hungary were interned.

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Population development

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1117 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 1168 inhabitants, in 1981 it had 1267 and in 1971 it had 1431 inhabitants. Population in 2008: 1043.

politics

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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: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 2 PUB and 1 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 3 PUB and 1 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 3 PUB.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 3 PUB.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 4 PUB.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 3 PUB – party independent citizens and 1 FPÖ.
mayor
  • until 2010 Alfred Bräuer (ÖVP)
  • since 2010 Manfred Herynek (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Grünau Castle
Meires Castle
Windigsteig parish church
Rafingsberg church ruins
Kellergasse Markl in Windigsteig
  • Grünau Castle
  • Meires Castle
  • Catholic parish church Windigsteig hl. Laurentius: The baroque church probably has a Gothic core. When the pilgrimage church in the Rafingsberg district was closed in the course of the Josephinist reforms, large parts of its baroque furnishings were transferred to the Windigsteiger parish church. Below is the miraculous image of Rafingsberg, which has been erected in Sankt Laurentius since 1784. The renovation of the west wing of the rectory is attributed to the baroque master builder Joseph Munggenast .
  • Church ruins Rafingsberg : A ruin of the Gothic pilgrimage church Maria Rafingsberg has been preserved.

economy

In 2001 there were 30 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 73 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 473. In 2001, the employment rate was 43.24 percent.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Windigsteig. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  3. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Windigsteig. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Windigsteig. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  5. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Windigsteig. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  6. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Windigsteig. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Windigsteig. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Entry about Grünau Castle in Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg