Fahrafeld (municipality of Kasten)

Fahrafeld ( village ) locality cadastral municipality Fahrafeld
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Sankt Pölten-Land  (PL), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Neulengbach
Pole. local community	Box near Böheimkirchen
Coordinates	48 ° 8 ′ 45 "  N , 15 ° 44 ′ 54"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 45 "  N , 15 ° 44 ′ 54"  E
height	285  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	222 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	2.78 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	05566
Cadastral parish number	19441
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Fahrafeld is a locality and cadastral municipality in the municipality of Kasten near Böheimkirchen in Lower Austria .

The place Fahrafeld first appeared in documents in 1180, when a Rudbertus de Vorchinvelde donated two vineyards near Zell to the Göttweig monastery. In 1248 the place can be found in the Lower Austrian document book in the spelling Vorichenveld and later it was called Fohrafeld . The current spelling did not establish itself until the 19th century.

Personalities

• Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf (1871–1964), landscape painter and illustrator, lived in Fahrafeld
• Anton Hans Karlinsky (1872–1945), landscape and portrait painter , lived temporarily in an artists' colony near Fahrafeld

Web links

Commons : Fahrafeld (Gemeinde Kasten)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fahrafeld in the Chronicle of Kasten bei Böheimkirchen, gde-kasten.at