Eichgraben

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market community Eichgraben
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Sankt Pölten-Land
License plate :	PL
Surface:	8.88 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 10 ′  N , 15 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 22 ″  N , 15 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	286  m above sea level A.
Residents :	4,652 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	524 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3032
Area code :	0 27 73
Community code :	3 19 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 3032 Eichgraben
Website:	www.eichgraben.at
politics
Mayor :	Georg Ockermüller ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (25 members)	13 7th 2 2 1 13 7th 2 2 1  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 13 GREEN : 7 TOGETHER : 2 SPÖ : 2 GLU : 1
Location of Eichgraben in the Sankt Pölten-Land district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Eichgraben is a market town with 4652 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Lower Austrian district of St. Pölten-Land , a member of the Wienerwald Initiative Region and a certified climate alliance community .

geography

Main portal of the Roman Catholic Herz-Jesu-Friedenskirche "Wienerwalddom" with a crucifixion group made from St. Margarethen sand-lime stone by Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg .

View from the train station towards the town center. At the top right is the Art Nouveau ballroom, in the middle the Protestant Michaelskapelle, behind it the church tower of the Vienna Woods Cathedral.

Geographical location

The market town is located on the northern foothills of the Vienna Woods on the Westbahn (Alte Westbahn, route 1) 32.4 km west of the federal capital Vienna and 31.8 km east of the state capital St. Pölten (measured from the city center). The Steinhäusl motorway junction ( A1 - A21 ) is largely located in the municipality. The closest town is Neulengbach about 10 km west, where the responsible district court is located. Eichgraben borders on Altlengbach , Furth (municipality of Maria Anzbach ), Knagg (municipality of Maria Anzbach) and Rekawinkel (municipality of Pressbaum ).

Community structure

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

• Eichgraben (251)
• Hinterleiten (1324)
• Hutten (1443)
• Ottenheim (943)
• Stone (588)
• Winkl (103)

The community consists of the cadastral community Eichgraben.

Hydrology

Eichgraben lies west of the Rekawinkler Berg watershed and is drained by the Nagelbach and Anzbach, which flows into the Große Tulln . Smaller tributaries are Dreiwasserlbach, Hummelbach, Paukhofgraben, Schattaubach, Waldbadbach and Wintengraben. An overflow of the second Viennese spring water pipeline on the Weiserwiese is used by a homestead.

climate

In Eichgraben there is predominantly a moderate transitional climate, which is influenced by the Pannonian climate and, due to its location in the Vienna Woods, has above-average humidity. Due to the hilly topology of the region, there is usually a light to medium-strong west wind in Eichgraben.

history

antiquity

View from the Roman-era barrows to the south on the "Römerstern", a crossing point on the "Cultura Trail Römerweg". Finsterleitenstraße leads to Eichgraben on the right.

Border between the Roman provinces of Noricum and Pannonia

In ancient times the area of ​​today's Eichgraben belonged to the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum , after its incorporation into the Roman Empire to the province of Noricum . In the 1st or 2nd century, the deceased who had been cremated in seven barrows were buried in burial chambers on a Roman path on the outskirts above Finsterleitenstrasse (Stein district) 100 m north of the "Römerstern". The scanty grave goods were salvaged for the Lower Austria State Museum in 1896 and 1929 and indicate a poor Celto-Illyrian population. Two hills of this tumulus group are still recognizable on today's “Eichgrabner Höhenwanderweg”. The reconstruction of such a tumulus is in the Vienna Woods Museum Eichgraben . It is not clear whether the current municipal area was touched by other traffic routes during the Roman era. In any case, the border between the provinces of Noricum and Pannonia lay on the main ridge of the Vienna Woods (Cetius Mons). This border has been preserved to this day as the border between the Catholic dioceses of St. Pölten, to which Eichgraben belongs, and Vienna, to which Rekawinkel belongs.

At the time of the Great Migration , the Vienna Woods and thus also the municipal area of ​​today's Eichgraben was first the border area of ​​the Huns and later the Avar Empire.

middle Ages

In the 11th century, the Eichgraben area was settled from Neulengbach and Anzbach. The earliest farms were on the heights of Knagg, Stein, Ottenheim and Gschaid. Small settlements emerged through the division of farms, about which the land registers of the Neulengbach and Wasen rule provide information.

On August 24, 1345 called "Aichgrawe" appear (one overgrown with Eichenwaldgraben - Eichgraben), "Utenhaim" (home of Otto - Ottensheim) and "Stelz Hof" in a deed of foundation on which Gotfried the Wirsching inches of Chirchsteten written and was sealed. This document from the St. Andrä an der Traisen Abbey can be viewed in the original in the archive of the Herzogenburg Abbey , as well as digitally in the Flash Viewer on the Certificate page : Documents St. Andrä an der Traisen (998-1776) 1345 VIII 24 in the Monasterium European document archive .net .

Around 1348 the plague first reached the Nöstach-Alland-Pressbaum-Greifenstein line and halved the resident population. A 10 to 20 km wide strip west of this line was still uninhabited until at least 1400 (see History of the Vienna Woods ). War and mercenary gangs raged in Lower Austria. Various diseases that can be traced back to poor hygienic conditions killed a considerable part of the population. The child mortality rate was particularly high as wars left hardly any food.

Early modern age

On "Erchtag" (dialect for Tuesday ), a weekly market was held below Neulengbach Castle and the surrounding villages were supplied with the products of the craftsmen of the market. A settlement of craftsmen in the villages was prevented as far as possible. A toll was charged for the delivery and removal of goods. On April 15, 1516, Emperor Maximilian I allowed the citizens of Neulengbach to hold two annual markets.

In the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529 there was arson. Among other things, the "Streitgerbauer" (today: Singerhof, on Hochstrass, south of the autobahn) burned down.

On Tuesday, September 15, 1590, around midnight, there was a millennium quake with the epicenter Neulengbach , which in Vienna, 40 km away, collapsed the towers of the Michaelerkirche and the Schottenkirche and killed people. The strongest earthquake that Vienna and Lower Austria have ever suffered, probably also brought horror and destruction to the thinly populated area of ​​today's Eichgraben, 10 km from the epicenter.

Until 1701, the Wienerwald was a manorial forest for about 500 years and was therefore not accessible to the public, which was not easily possible due to its primeval forest character. In 1572, Emperor Maximilian II ordered a documentary recording of the area in the form of a forest book for the first time; The “Kayserliche Waldambt” in Purkersdorf Castle was responsible . A number of wood-cutter settlements were built in the Vienna Woods. One of these hut settlements is the namesake for the district "Hutten". In the course of time, today's Eichgraben developed on parts of the “Anzbacher Amt” of the Vienna Woods, which encompass a total of 12 offices. Apart from the effects of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) and roaming Tatars and irregular soldiers, so-called Akindsi during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna (1683), the Vienna Woods experienced a calm development in the 17th century.

The plague raged in Eichgraben from 1712 to 1715, killing a third of the population. The dead were buried in plague pits. One pit was located in the area of ​​the former monastery in the district of Stein, another, not yet found pit, is said to be above an inn on the main road. After the high population losses caused by the plague and Turkish wars, settlers from all parts of the German-speaking area were brought to the Eichgraben area.

Modern history and contemporary history

Narrow-gauge tank locomotive Yv 598.01 as a monument below the railway viaduct

As a result of the revolution of 1848 , the rural population's dependence on the manor was lifted. The Eichgraben area became independent from the Imperial and Royal Forest Authority in Purkersdorf Castle and from the Neulengbach manor. From 1850 Eichgraben had a freely elected mayor, but still belonged to the municipality of Maria Anzbach .

The upswing of the place began in 1851 with the construction of the Empress Elisabeth Railway , which spans the "Graben" in an omega-shaped loop with the 26.4 m high Eichgrabner Railway Viaduct . After commissioning on December 15, 1858, the builders' huts were followed by the many preserved villas of summer visitors from Vienna from around 1880 . The station district with its excursion restaurants became the social center. In 1883 a return ticket Vienna - Eichgraben cost 180 kreuzers in 1st class , 140 kreuzers in 2nd class and 90 kreuzers in 3rd class (100 kreuzers = 1 gulden ≈ daily wage of a Viennese factory worker or craftsman) . According to the timetable, one of the daily 7 to 8 trains took between 57 and 68 minutes for the 30 km.

On correspondence cards from around 1910, “Eichgraben an der Westbahn” is often shown as a summer break . Eichgraben has been an independent municipality since 1923.

The November pogroms of 1938 are recorded in the chronicle of the Gendarmeriepostenkommando Eichgraben as follows: "On behalf of the St. Pölten District Commission, 28 Jews were arrested on November 10, 1938 by Rev. Insp. Josef Waiz and transferred to the district court in Neulengbach." three Russian soldiers were murdered in Eichgraben and their bodies buried in the forest above today's elevated tank. No remains have been found so far. According to reports from contemporary witnesses, parish provisional chaplain Josef Seiwald is said to have hidden two members of the White Rose resistance group in the Schattau district between 1943 and 1944.

From the middle of the 20th century, more and more second homes moved from Vienna. Due to the rapidly increasing population, Eichgraben was made a market in 1973. Today Eichgraben is part of the suburb of the metropolitan region of Vienna . In order to maintain the villa structure and to prevent the uncontrolled construction of large-volume buildings with a large number of apartments in a building (at least more than three apartments), a limited building ban was first issued and the spatial planning was subsequently changed. One consequence of the population growth is increased traffic. In order to encourage commuters to switch to public transport, the former Gasthof Son near the train station was demolished and a two-story park-and-ride facility with 236 parking spaces for cars and around 20 two-wheeled vehicles was built together with ÖBB and the state of Lower Austria. Around 900 passengers daily use the train to get to work.

Religions

The majority of the population is Roman Catholic . Services are regularly held in the two Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. (May) devotions and field masses are occasionally celebrated at the forest chapel in Ottenheim. There is also an Islamic community that officially set up a prayer room in a single-family house in the Hutten district in spring 2007. Jehovah's Witnesses meet in the Kingdom Hall, which is located in Rekawinkel 150 m from the Eichgraben parish boundary.

Population development

Districts - buildings and population - comparison 2001 to 1830

Baden and Neulengbach 1876 Francisco-Josephinian Landesaufnahme special map 1: 75.000

Around 1830 the village of Eichgraben was subordinate to the Imperial Forest Office in Purkersdorf Castle, all other current districts were under the rule of Neulengbach - whereby "subjects" were also owned by other rulers (see manorial rule in table). For Eichgraben, the kk forest authority was Purkersdorf , for all other districts the authority of Neulengbach was district court, conscription and local authority. The next post station was Sieghartskirchen, several hours' walk away . All districts with parish and school belonged to Anzbach . In the case of personal taxes (body taxes), children (mostly under 12 years of age) were generally excluded, so the school-age children were not included in the number of residents and B. not even collected in the village of Eichgraben. There was a grinding mill in Eichgraben (today Hauptstrasse 93 opposite the confluence with Wallnerstrasse). In Hutten there were the Liamühle (today at Wienerstr. 83), the Sturmmühle (today Wiener Straße 17), 2 taverns and where the streets of Alt- and Neulengbach merged at the “Wirthshaus Rußhof” (today the roundabout), two “Mauthen”.

District	Building 2001	Houses 1830	2001 residents	Inhabitants 1830	male 1830	female 1830	Children 1830	Families 1830	Manorial rule	Residents were
Eichgraben (then a village)	128	15th	187	93	51	42	0	22nd	kk Waldamts- domination Purkersdorf	Farmers, cottagers and woodcutters
Hinterleithen (then Rotte )	608	12	970	55	27	28	7th	12	Neulengbach, Melk, St.Andrä	Forest farmers
Hutten (then a village)	622	20th	1,268	126	60	66	20th	28	Neulengbach, Murstetten	Whole farmers and cottagers
Ottenheim (then Rotte)	406	6th	746	30th	14th	16	12	8th	Neulengbach
Stein (then Rotte)	319	5	464	34	15th	19th	8th	6th	Neulengbach
Winkel (only 3 houses)	51	3	113	16	9	7th	3	3	Neulengbach, Murstetten
total	2.134	61	3,748	354	176	178	50	79

Annotation:

1. ↑ Children were not surveyed in the village of Eichgraben at that time.

Population development in the market town of Eichgraben

Population and building development
year	Residents	building
1590	?	21st
1751	?	43
1794	346	58
1830	354	61
1869	578	73
1880	583	89
1890	636	97
1900	874	150
1910	1,303	250
1923	1,380	306
1934	1,737	519
1939	1,822	?
1951	2.118	763
1961	2,050	882
1971	2,321	1,278
1981	2,642	1,797
1991	3,344	2,009
2001	3,748	2.134
2011	4,309	2,245

politics

Mayor and City Council

Future distribution of mandates in the Eichgraben municipal council

      

A total of 25 seats

• Eichgraben People's Party ( ÖVP ): 11
• SPÖ : 3
• Shaping Eichgraben's future together (GEMSAM) : 4
• Greenland star list environmental protection (GLU) : 2
• The Grünen Eichgraben ( GREEN ): 4
• FPÖ : 1

Until September 2019, the mayor of the market town was Martin Michalitsch , lawyer and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament .

With a total of 25 seats in the municipal council, after the municipal council election on January 25, 2015, the following distribution of mandates was made :

Eichgraben People's Party (ÖVP) 11, Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) 3, Shaping Eichgraben's future together (GEMSAM) 4, Grassland Stars List Environmental Protection (GLU) 2, The Greens Eichgraben (Greens) 4, Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) 1.

In July 2019, Mayor Martin Michalitsch announced that he would no longer run for the next election. The Eichgraben People's Party nominated Georg Ockermüller as his successor, the election in the local council took place on September 4, 2019.

Local council election

Municipal council election 2015 : 4,887 eligible voters, voter turnout 56.13%. Invalid votes 28th Eichgraben People's Party (= ÖVP list) 38.08% (1,034 votes), GEMSAM (Shaping the future of Eichgraben together) 15.25% (414 votes), GRÜNE (Die Grünen Eichgraben) 14.18% (385 votes) ), SPÖ 12.56% (341 votes), GLU (Grassland Stars List Environmental Protection) 10.20% (277 votes), FPÖ 6.85% (186 votes), NEOS 2.87% (78 votes).

Municipal council election 2010: 4,796 eligible voters, voter turnout 56.80%. Invalid votes 42nd People's Party Eichgraben (= ÖVP list) 53.24% (1,428 votes), SPÖ 18.38% (493 votes), GEMSAM (= joint list) 11% (295 votes), GLU (= grassland stars list environmental protection ) 9.21% (247 votes), Grünen Eichgraben (= Green List) 8.17% (219 votes).

Partner communities

• Eichgraben , part of the district town Zittau near the border triangle Germany - Poland - Czech Republic in the German state Saxony . A delegation from the German partner community is always present at local events.
• Alma Vii , a small community in Transylvania , Romania . The partnership was primarily about small economic aid after the opening of the East, although the initiative originally came from the Roman Catholic Church Eichgraben.

Eichgraben is also a member of the Vienna Woods Initiative Region .

Culture and sights

Small church, old Roman Catholic. church

Church tower of the Roman Catholic. Parish church with the symbols of the four evangelists. These heads - a person in the east symbolizes Matthew, a lion in the south Markus, a bull in the north Lukas and the eagle in the west Johannes - are made of St. Margarethen sand-lime brick and come from the sculptor Adolf Treberer-Treberspurg .

From Eichgraben the cloister avenue leads to the church of the Annunziatakloster "Am Stein" in Maria-Anzbach.

Wienerwaldmuseum Eichgraben , it was created in 1999 from the buildings of the Auhof, which dates back to the 15th century.

See also:  List of listed objects in Eichgraben

• Small church: In 1891 the groundbreaking for the Herz-Jesu-Kirche at Kirchenstrasse 2 took place, the inauguration took place in 1896. The small church became the parish church of the parish branch , which was separated from Maria Anzbach on March 1, 1939, under parish vicar Father Karl Schwaigart SJ .
• Catholic parish church Eichgraben : The construction of the Heart of Jesus Peace Church at Kirchenstrasse 1 began under Pastor Josef Seiwald. Bishop Memelauer consecrated it on October 21, 1951 in the presence of Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl. The huge hall construction planned by the architect Josef Friedl in 1948 is often called the Vienna Woods Cathedral because of its size and beauty.
• Evangelical Chapel: In Advent 1967, the Evangelical Michaelskapelle at Kirchenstrasse 13 was inaugurated by Superintendent Georg Traar , and a year later Bishop Oskar Sakrausky visited it. Pastor at that time was Walter Stökl (1897–1976), who, together with the Ecumenical Sister Community, made the Michaelskapelle known far beyond the borders of Eichgraben.
• Buildings with Art Nouveau elements: The former “Ruzicka” excursion inn at the train station - today the seat of the Association for Art and Culture - has elements of Art Nouveau just like the former “Schöndorfer” hairdresser's house below the park-and-ride facility .
• Eichgraben library: books and other media are available in the library. Readings take place regularly.
• Kurdish Library Casme Calil: Since May 2008 there has been a collection of Kurdish literature and folk culture by Middle East expert Birgit Cerha at Berggasse 42.
• Vienna Woods Museum Eichgraben : Located in the Fuhrwerkerhaus in Hauptstrasse. 17 the museum has been operated by the Eichgraben Tourist and Beautification Association since 1999. In addition to a folklore collection and exhibits from the fields of geology, prehistory and early history, Roman times and the Middle Ages, themed events are regularly held in the Fuhrwerkerhaus.
• Private reptile zoo: A private zoo with rare exotic frogs, snakes and turtles was operated in Cyclamen Street from 1976 to 1984.

music

• In the Lower Austrian Regional Music School of the Maria Anzbach - Eichgraben Music School Association founded on November 16, 1992, 23 teachers teach 24 different instruments as well as dance and singing. Numerous ensembles that have emerged from this, such as the jazz group "long her", appear.
• The music association Eichgraben - Maria Anzbach, founded in March 2008, was the second best music band in the Sankt Pölten-Land district in the 2011 concert ranking in Rabenstein with 91.83 out of 100 possible points. The repertoire under Kapellmeister Mihály Bojti includes traditional brass music as well as modern pieces.
• The members of the Eichgraben Vokal Choir, founded in 2000, meet every Tuesday in the community center to rehearse for events under the direction of the choir director Katja Scheibenpflug. The repertoire includes secular and spiritual pieces across all centuries and nations.
• Since September 2010 the youth choir pro.vocant (choir director Karin Rankl) has met once a week in the Fuhrwerkerhaus Eichgraben.
• There is also the Eichgrabner Children's Choir under the direction of Tina Hofer-Leeb.

Regular events

• Monthly market (every 1st Saturday of the month)
• 1. May celebration with maypole climbing
• Wine tasting from the Eichgraben volunteer fire brigade (depending on the season)
• Giant flea market of the tourism and beautification association (beginning of September)
• Advent market (usually at the end of November)

societies

• Eichgraben Tourist and Beautification Association
• Association for Art and Culture Eichgraben
• Lions Vienna Woods West
• Sports club Eichgraben - with the sections football and tennis

There are numerous other clubs and associations. A complete list can be found in the register of associations on the website of the market town of Eichgraben.

Infrastructure and economy

education

• Eichgraben primary school
• Lower Austrian Middle School Eichgraben (model test since the school year 2009/2010)
• "The New School" ( Montessori Private School)
• Two kindergartens in the Province of Lower Austria
• Small children are looked after in the “Zwergenland” facility, which opened on January 17, 2011.

Gastronomy and accommodation

The number of catering establishments has decreased in the last few decades. There is currently a coffee house, a pastry shop, three inns, two canteens, a pub and a hotel.

If Eichgraben was a popular summer resort for the Viennese 120 years ago, today hotels and guesthouses rely on bus and individual tourism. Visitors to Vienna from the Netherlands and the new German federal states, for whom accommodation in Vienna is too expensive and too loud, particularly appreciate the proximity to the city.

Community center from the west, with the towers of the two Roman Catholic churches in the background. On the ground floor, the coffee shop on the left, the library on the right.

Community center from the northeast. In the foreground the bronze tree of life by architect Walter Son.

health

In Eichgraben there are six general practitioners, a specialist in internal medicine, a pediatrician, a pulmonologist, a trauma surgeon, two dentists and two veterinarians. The nearest hospitals are in St. Pölten , Tulln and Vienna .

There is an office of the Samaritan Association in the village . The nearest emergency medical vehicle bases are in Purkersdorf and St. Pölten , and an emergency medical vehicle is stationed in Neulengbach and Altlengbach (alternating weekly) . There are also two practices for physiotherapy and one for psychotherapy . There are various companies that deal with health-related topics such as color therapy , kinesiology or Shiatsu . Two medically certified foot care companies are also worth mentioning.

Local supply

In the 1980s, Eichgraben still had four supermarkets, two bakeries, three butchers, a fruit and vegetable shop, two small general stores and two drug stores, but the number of local suppliers has since decreased significantly. Today (as of March 2013) there is a post office, a tobacco shop, two bank branches, a supermarket, a pharmacy, a bakery, an organic farm shop and a gas station in Eichgraben. A monthly market takes place on the station forecourt on the 1st Saturday of each month from April to December. In addition, the community is supplied with various delivery services for baked goods, frozen food, organic vegetables and drinks. The kiosk in the train station, which reopened in October 2010, was closed again after a short time.

In October 2009, the construction of a new community center in a central location began, which was opened in 2011. This building houses the municipal office, a citizen service, the parent advisory service, a club room, the municipality archive, the municipality library and a café-pastry shop.

Wired networks

The electricity and gas network is operated by the network operator EVN Netz GmbH in the regulated area. When the gas lines were laid, fiber optic cables were pulled along by a subsidiary of EVN AG , which means that in addition to the ADSL fixed network of A1 (Telekom Austria Group), fiber optic connections for HD TV , Internet and telephony from EVN subsidiary kabelplus GmbH are largely possible.

The municipal water network draws the water from EVN Wasser Gesellschaft mbH from a well field in the Böheimkirchen region , which supplies very hard water through the flysch zone that predominates there . Waste water is discharged separately from precipitation water (rain) into the local sewer system, mechanically and biologically cleaned by the sewage treatment plant of the Anzbach-Laabental waste water association in Markersdorf and discharged into the Große Tulln .

safety

• Eichgraben Volunteer Fire Brigade
• Samaritan Association Eichgraben

traffic

Steinhäusl motorway junction . Eichgraben is on the left in the picture (in the north).

The community is connected to the ÖBB rail network through the Eichgraben-Altlengbach station, where S50 S-Bahn trains stop every hour and REX trains in the direction of Wien Westbahnhof or St. Pölten Hauptbahnhof Alte Westbahn (route 1) stop every hour . Due to the immediate proximity of the Westautobahn (Exit 23, Exit Pressbaum or Exit 35, Exit Altlengbach) and the Vienna Outer Ring Autobahn (Exit 3, Exit Hochstraß ), the community is also easily accessible for car traffic and is also served by several regular buses. With the commissioning of the Neue Westbahn (route 30) , the high-performance railway line across the Tullnerfeld , on December 9, 2012, long-distance traffic was reduced on the Alte Westbahn (route 1) and the regional traffic range expanded. The railway stop is called Eichgraben-Altlengbach and has a large Park & ​​Ride facility. Several taxi companies bring passengers to remote parts of the city around the clock. The collective call taxi has been replaced by a voucher system in which recipients of heating cost allowances or the needs-based minimum income per trip with taxi pleyer are subsidized by the municipality with EUR 2.50.

media

• "Der Eichgrabner", periodical of the tourism and embellishment association.
• Neulengbacher NÖN , regional newspaper that reports on events in and around Eichgraben.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Mayor a. D. Kurt Müller († 2018)

Honorary ring bearer

• Lothar Bruckmeier, for his long-term commitment to Eichgraben culture.
• Vice Mayor ret. D. Werner Füzer, long-time ASBÖ chairman and civil protection officer
• Mayor a. D. Wilhelm Groiss
• Fire chief Gerhard Hajek, long-time commanding officer of the Eichgraben FF and of the Neulengbach fire department
• Adolf Plank , for his many years of commitment as chairman of the tourism and beautification association

Artist

• Lothar Bruckmeier (* 1927 in Munich) lived in Eichgraben from 1961 until his death in 2017. The artist worked with watercolors on primed paper, with acrylic and oil paints, with sand, glue and dispersion. In the eighties he attracted attention with oversized watercolors. His last cycle of small-format mixed media is called “Parallel to Nature”. Together with his wife, the writer Elfriede Bruckmeier (* 1940 in Vienna), he ran the “Galerie am Bahnhof” and, since 1974, the “Eichgraben Association for Art and Culture”.
• The director, actor and author Stephan Bruckmeier (* 1962), son of Elfriede and Lothar Bruckmeier, was born in Eichgrabner.
• The sculptor Franz Anton Coufal (* 1927; † 1999) was born in the Winkl district. 1963 Promotion Prize of the Province of Lower Austria. Works: imaginary figure (~ 1964), Lower Austria State Museum in Sankt Pölten; Pieta (1964), Schöngrabern , Lower Austria.
• The graphic artist, writer and publisher Erich Fitzbauer (* 1927) has lived and worked in Roseggerstrasse since 1991.
• The poet Wystan Hugh Auden (* 1907, † 1973), who lived in Kirchstetten , mentioned Eichgraben - referring to the high quality of life in this community - in several of his essays.
• Heimito von Doderer (* 1896; † 1966) was friends with a widow here. His friends wondered who he was more fond of, the widow or the fact that she owned a house right on the Westbahn with a view of the passing trains. The Heimito-von-Doderer-Park west of the train station is also dedicated to him.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Cavallar von Grabensprung (1904–1989). This old Austrian engineer, inventor, officer and motor vehicle expert lived in the community for years and wrote numerous motor vehicle books here.
• Ernst Jandl (* 1925; † 2000) used "Eichgraben" a few times in his Gstanzln .

athlete

• The athlete Karl Kotratschek (* 1914; ⚔ 1941), who died in Africa at the age of only 26, had built an uphill cinder track for training on the property in Nagelbergstrasse. He took part in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, came third at the 1938 European Championships in Paris and was multiple Austrian champion, and after joining the German champion. His Austrian triple jump record of 15.28 m, set on July 19, 1938 in Berlin, lasted until 1974.
• The WKF - Kickboxer Florian Bartl (* 1999) was established in November 2018 Buenos Aires , Argentina again amateur world champion for the first time world amateur champion kg in class full contact K1 to 81 kg body weight and in class Semikontakt to 81st
• The sport climber Georg Parma (born April 15, 1997) was European Youth Champion in the lead discipline in Edinburgh , Scotland .

scientist

• Eichgraben is the birthplace of the physicist and pathologist Fritz Köberle (* 1910, † 1983 in Brazil).

Politician

• Elisabeth Götze (* 1966), Vice Mayor and member of the National Council

TV movie

• The ORF television film “The Black Lion” (director: Wolfgang Murnberger ) is based on a true story from Eichgraben: It deals with the fate of Emmanuel Antiga from Nigeria, who played as a successful libero in SV Eichgraben and is known as the “Tiger von Eichgraben” has been. Despite major protests from numerous community citizens, he was deported in 2006.

literature

• Tourism and beautification association Eichgraben (Hrsg.): Eichgraben in old views . Self-published, Eichgraben 2009 (126 pages).

• Diocese of St. Pölten, parish and branch churches south of the Danube . In: Wilhelm Zotti (Ed.): Church art in Lower Austria . 1st edition. tape 1 . Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85326-651-7 (416 pages).

Web links

Commons : Eichgraben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marktgemeinde Eichgraben Homepage of the municipality

• 31905 - Eichgraben. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the Vienna Woods Museum Eichgraben
3. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Marktgemeinde Eichgraben (ed.): Community information, new citizens' reception January 2010.
4. ^ Daniel Schmatz: The history of the municipality Neulengbach.
5. ^ Tassilo Kuhn: History. In: hochstrass.at. Archived from the original on August 11, 2004 ; accessed on October 26, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Local timetable for the Kaiserin Elisabethbahn is valid from June 1, 1883. In: Internationale Reise-Zeitung. No. 7 of August 1, 1883, p. 5.
7. ^ Resistance and persecution in Lower Austria 1934–1945. A documentation published by the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance, Vienna 1987, Volume 3, pp. 370–375 ( doew.at ).
8. ↑ Point 2 of the municipal council meeting of September 7, 2011 eichgraben.at (PDF).
9. ↑ 20 more covered bicycle parking spaces on the platform in the direction of Vienna.
10. ↑ Friedrich Schweickhardt Ritter von Sickingen: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens, quarter under the Vienna Woods, 1st volume, part 2 . Printed by the PP. Mechitaristen, 1832 ( description of the village Eichgraben 1830 in the Google book search).
11. ^ Friedrich Schweickhardt Ritter von Sickingen: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens, Upper Vienna Woods District, 1st volume, 1st issue . Printed by the PP. Mechitaristen, 1835 ( Hinterleithen, Hutten, Ottenheim, Stein and Winkel 1830 in the Google book search).
12. ↑ Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 3. (PDF; 1 MB) In: oeaw.ac.at. August 31, 2016, p. 79 , accessed May 4, 2018 . 
13. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Eichgraben. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Eichgraben: Unexpected! Mayor Michalitsch resigns from office. July 8, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 . 
15. ^ Georg Ockermüller new mayor of Eichgraben. In: eichgraben.at. September 5, 2019, accessed September 5, 2019 . 
16. ^ Change of mayor: Eichgraben: Broad approval for Ockermüller. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . September 5, 2019, accessed September 7, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Establishment of a parish branch in Eichgraben St. Pöltner Diözesanblatt III of March 21, 1938, page 29, point 34.
18. ↑ 70 years of Eichgraben parish (PDF).
19. ^ Churches in Eichgraben.
20. ^ Website of the Eichgraben library. Retrieved September 24, 2019 . 
21. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: IFAMO - Information.Forschung.Analyse.Mittlerer Osten. )
22. ↑ Register of associations. In: eichgraben.at. Accessed March 31, 2018 . 
23. ↑ Organic farm shop of the Lingler family Website of the organic farm shop on Burweg. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
24. ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony for our parish hall. In: Eichgraben Konkret (SPÖ-Eichgraben information sheet), winter 2009
25. ↑ Markersdorf wastewater treatment plant. AWV Anzbach-Laabental, accessed on May 11, 2013 . 
26. ↑ Point 5 of the municipal council meeting of September 7, 2011 eichgraben.at (PDF).
27. ^ Mourning for the former local boss Kurt Müller . NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
28. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Lothar Bruckmeier Website of the Eichgraben Association for Art and Culture. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
29. ↑ Point 2 of the municipal council meeting of October 19, 2011 eichgraben.at (PDF).
30. ↑ Entry on Franz Anton Coufal in the database Gedächtnis des Landes for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
31. ↑ Short biography Erich Fitzbauer alias Hieronymus Zyx . Retrieved March 2, 2013.
32. ↑ Kickboxing, two World Championship belts for Bartl NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
33. ↑ Florian BARTL, WKF 4 x European and 8 x world champions up to 81 kg octagon per gym. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
34. ↑ Parma gets Gold NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
35. ↑ The black lion. In: tv.orf.at. Retrieved June 1, 2018 .