Weiten (Lower Austria)

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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Melk
License plate :	ME
Surface:	28.46 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 18 ′  N , 15 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 30 ″  N , 15 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	349  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,089 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3653
Area code :	02758
Community code :	3 15 46
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchenplatz 37 3653 Weiten
Website:	www.weit.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Höfinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (19 members)	16 3 16 3  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 16 SPÖ : 3
Location from wide in the Melk district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Weiten has been a market town with currently around 1089 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Melk district in Lower Austria since 1313 .

geography

Weiten is located in the southern Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 28.48 square kilometers. 55.83 percent of the area is forested. The place is located in the valley of the Weitenbach stream flowing to the Danube .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 14 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Eibetsberg (12)
• Eitental (81)
• Filsendorf (36)
• Jasenegg (48)
• Mollenburg (45) including Am Schuß
• Mollendorf (52)
• Moerenz (23)
• Nasting (5)
• Rafles (40)
• Seiterndorf (126)
• Armed Meadows (64)
• Tottendorf (47)
• Expanse (373)
• Weiterndorf (20)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Eibetsberg bei Weiten, Eitenthal, Filsendorf, Jasenegg, Mollendorf, Mörenz, Nasting, Rafles, Seiterndorf, Streitwiesen, Tottendorf, Weiten and Weiterndorf.

Neighboring communities

	Raxendorf
Pöggstall		Maria Laach ( Krems )
	Leiben , Artstetten-Pöbring	Emmersdorf on the Danube

history

AKON AK025 465 widths 1922

The community was created on January 1, 1969 from the merger of the communities of Weiten, Mollendorf, Seiterndorf and Filsendorf.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1153 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 1125 inhabitants, in 1981 1180 and in 1971 1185 inhabitants.

Community partnerships

In the 1990s, the Austrian side entered into an unofficial partnership with the Saarland village of Weiten , a district of the municipality of Mettlach an der Saar . This partnership was officially sealed in 2000.

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• 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 council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.

mayor

• 1995-2005 Johann Jindra (ÖVP)
• 2005–2015 Johann Habegger (ÖVP)
• since 2015 Franz Höfinger (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Weiten with precious stained glass

Millennium sundial

See also:  List of listed objects in wide

• Streitwiesen: youth castle Streitwiesen
• Mollenburg: Mollenburg castle ruins

• Geierhorst: Mollenburg'sche Schlosstaverne
• Catholic parish church Weiten hl. Stephen: Built in the 14th century, with stained glass from the 14th and 15th centuries
• Millennium sundial

economy

In 2001 there were 47 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 109 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 503. In 2001, the activity rate was 43.97 percent.

Personalities

• Friedrich Wallner (* 1945), philosopher and science theorist

Web links

Commons : Weiten, Lower Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.weit.at
• 31546 - Weiten (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 40 , accessed on February 7, 2019 . 
3. ↑ https://www.weit.gv.at/TOURISMUS_KULTUR/Chronik ; accessed on July 6, 2019.
4. ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/wenn-weitener-untersich-sindweitener-haben-freundschaft-in-europa-ernst_aid-553275 , accessed on July 6, 2019.
5. ^ Election result of municipal council elections 1995 in Weiten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on December 3, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Weiten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on December 3, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Weiten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on December 3, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Weiten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on December 3, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election results for the municipal council election 2015 in Weiten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on December 3, 2019 .