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Erdpreß is a village with about 200 inhabitants in Lower Austria and belongs to the political market town of Sulz in the Weinviertel . The village is the only settlement in the cadastral community of the same name , which is written as Erdpress .

geography

The multi-line village is located about 40 kilometers northeast of Vienna between the towns of Niedersulz and Spannberg at an altitude of 177  m above sea level. A. The place extends along the state road L17 or the Sulzbach, which flows from west to east .

For cadastral Erdpress with an area of 485.23 hectares and approximately 110 buildings including the village, the hall Überfeld in the north and other corridors in the south. Neighboring towns and cadastral communities are (clockwise from the north): Obersulz , Loidesthal , Spannberg , Hohenruppersdorf and Niedersulz .

history

In the 12th century the Babenbergs appear as owners. In the course of an exchange transaction, they gave this area to the Diocese of Passau , which in turn went to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey .

Erdpreß belonged to the government of Niedersulz and the Heiligenkreuz monastery held the land, local and conscription authorities. In 1208 Erdpreß is mentioned in a document and has always been a parish of Niedersulz. In turn, Niedersulz was a parish before 1200 and incorporated into Heiligenkreuz Abbey until 1957 .

Franz Xaver Schweickhardt describes the 72-house village in 1833 as follows:

“The number of residents is 77 families, 154 men and 184 women. The livestock is 16 horses, 64 cows, 126 sheep and 82 pigs. The inhabitants do arable and viticulture and consist of farmers and carpenters, who are well endowed and then appear as full, half, and quarter workers. Apart from the indispensable artisans, they have no one else under them and they do a good deal of cattle breeding with stable feeding. They cultivate their land of mediocre quality with wheat, rocks, barley and oats, and they also have some fruit. "

Local chapel

St. Vitus local chapel

The slightly elevated chapel in the middle of Erdpreß is a historicizing building that was built according to plans by the architect Karl Weinbrenner and is dedicated to St. Vitus . The foundation stone was laid on June 5, 1905, and the building was completed by September 1906. The furnishing work dragged on for years, so that the solemn consecration by Abbot Gregor Böck from Heiligenkreuz did not take place until November 19, 1917 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dehio-Handbuch : Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Niederösterreich - north of the Danube: Erdpress ; Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2
  2. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying (BEV): AustriaMap: Erdpreß
  3. ↑ a b Statistics Austria : Directory 2001: Lower Austria ( online )
  4. ^ Marianne Messerer: The lower classes of the rural population with examples from the Weinviertel museum village of Niedersulz ; Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2008
  5. ↑ Malachias Koll: The Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria ; Vienna 1834
  6. ^ Elisabeth Kindl: The parish of Niedersulz in the Weinviertel (1780–1880) , diploma thesis p. 43, University of Vienna, 2013
  7. ^ Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : The representation of the Erzerzogthums Austria under the Ens, quarter under the Manhartsberg , 1st volume, p. 275f; Vienna 1833 ( online )
  8. ^ Johann Öttl, Friedrich Wendy, Dieter Friedl: One Hundred Years Church Erdpreß ; accessed on March 1, 2018

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 38 "  N , 16 ° 42 ′ 46"  E