Fischamend

Borough Fischamend
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Bruck an der Leitha
License plate :	BL (since 2017; old: WU)
Main town :	Fischamend Market
Surface:	25.03 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 7 '  N , 16 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '56 "  N , 16 ° 36' 46"  E
Height :	156  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,572 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	223 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2401
Area code :	02232
Community code :	3 07 30
Address of the municipal administration:	Gregerstrasse 1 2401 Fischamend
Website:	www.fischamend.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Thomas Ram (RAM)
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (25 members)	20th 3 2 20th 3 2  A total of 25 seats List RAM: 20 CP: 3 SPÖ : 2
Location of Fischamend in the Bruck an der Leitha district
Aerial view of Fischamend
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Fischamend is a municipality with 5572 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria .

geography

Geographical location

Fischamend around the year 1873 ( recording sheet of the state survey)

Fischamend is located in the industrial district in Lower Austria. The city is located at the confluence of the Fischa and Danube rivers , a few kilometers southeast of Vienna . The area of ​​the municipality covers 24.94 square kilometers. 20.34 percent of the area is forested. A small part of the municipality lies north of the Danube.

local community

The communities Fischamend-Markt and Fischamend-Dorf were merged in 1971. Since then, the municipality has only included one village.

The municipality consists of the cadastral communities Fischamend Dorf and Fischamend Markt.

history

In ancient times the area was part of the province of Pannonia . A Roman fort is suspected to be under the current town center, but this has not yet been proven archaeologically.

There were already two settlements on both sides of the Fischa in the Middle Ages . The market rights in 1673 received the place by Emperor Leopold I .

For centuries the mills operated on the Danube and the Fischa and the grain trade were the most important branches of the economy. In the 19th century there were 18 mills on the Danube and 7 on the Fischa. There was also a winter harbor on the Danube between 1868 and 1902, where numerous ships and their personnel could spend the winter.

When the mills were closed at the end of the 19th century, industrial companies began to establish themselves. In 1908 the kuk military aeronautical institute, including the airship hangar and airfield , was built on the elevated terrace south-east of the town . More airship hangars, accommodations and a hydrogen gas factory were built in the area of ​​today's city. The Fischamend flight arsenal was later built near the airfield, where aircraft engines and aircraft were manufactured under license from the Hansa-Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke AG . During the First World War , Fischamend was an important center of the air force alongside Wiener Neustadt . Most of the facilities had to be dismantled after the First World War, but were used again as Plant III of Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke in 1938 after Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany . In 1944, bombs almost completely destroyed the facility, and the plant was relocated to Tischnowitz . Today only a few structures such as the water tower, the officers' mess and the design office can be seen of the former area of ​​the airfield.

On the accident of June 20, 1914 with nine deaths, in which the military airship M.III (System Körting) and an airplane were involved, see aviation history in Austria .

From 1938 to 1954 the communities Fischamend-Dorf and Fischamend-Markt were part of the newly created 23rd Schwechat district in Greater Vienna . The municipalities became independent again in 1954 and became part of the Vienna area . In 1970 the two communities Fischamend-Markt and Fischamend-Dorf were voluntarily merged to form the community of Fischamend.

In 1987 the Lower Austrian state parliament decided to make Fischamend a town and Fischamend celebrated this in 1988 with a big ceremony.

At the end of 2016, as part of a district reform, the Vienna-Umgebung district was dissolved and Fischamend was added to the Bruck an der Leitha district.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Fischamend

Fischamend city tower

Fischamend parish church

Filial church of St. Quirinus

Fischamend Fire Brigade Museum

• Fischamend city tower : The city tower, also known as the market tower and fish tower, on the main square is the Fischamend landmark. The mighty, almost 31 m high tower dates from the Middle Ages and is crowned by a fish at the top. It has housed the town's local history museum since 1927. According to a legend, a man-sized fish was skewered at the top of the city tower when the flood of the century receded in the 13th century, hence the name of the city. The real reason for the naming is the confluence of the Fischa with the Danube in the local area: Viskahagemunde → Vischamundt → Vischamendt → Fischamend.
• Catholic parish church Fischamend hl. Michael
• Evangelical Petruskirche Fischamend : The church was built by a specially founded church association and consecrated on May 7, 1964. The church with its colorful glass windows has a pointed wooden ceiling.
• Fischamend Fire Brigade Museum
• Aviation exhibition of the local history museum

Hainburger Straße 6, head: Gottfried Ernstberger

• Museum of Photography

Donauarmstrasse 1, Head: Erwin Schwab

• Filial church of St. Quirinus

The church of the former municipality Fischamend-Dorf (west of the Fischa) is surrounded by a cemetery and wall. The gothic hall church with a retracted choir was built in the 14th century and from 1671 rebuilt and baroque.

• Town houses or farmhouses

Some, partly still well-preserved town houses or farmhouses are in the town center (e.g. Hainburger Str. 18)

• Old fire department depot

The old fire brigade depot on Getreideplatz was built in 1819 in the classical style and is a remarkably early example of this construction task. A new fire station was built on Klein-Neusiedler-Strasse in 1928. This fire station was for the municipality of Dorf-Fischamend. This, too, is architecturally significant due to its expressionist form. Today the First Responder Station is located in the old fire department depot.

• Water tower

Built in 1916; the water tower , visible from afar, is the second landmark of Fischamends.

• Former officers' mess

today a home-style inn and club of the local SPÖ party. The barracks of the Imperial and Royal Military Aeronautical Institute have been preserved and have been converted into apartments.

theatre

The amateur theater association Fischamender Spielleut has been based in Fischamend since 2005 and until then was active in the neighboring town of Enzersdorf an der Fischa . On April 4, 2014 was Spielleut to the premiere of The Talisman of Award for outstanding cultural achievements of Mayor Thomas Ram , Vice Mayor Gerald Baumgartlinger and City Councilor Franz Bayer awarded.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 167 non-agricultural workplaces, and agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 22. The number of people in work at home was 2073 according to the 2001 census. In 2001, the activity rate was 47.74 percent.

politics

mayor

Mayor of the municipality is Thomas Ram , Deputy Mayor is Josef Jäger, Gerald Baumgartlinger (both RAM list) is appointed as deputy mayor. Office manager is Otto Eggendorfer.

The Fischamender City Council is composed of the following members or committee chairmen:

• City Councilor and Deputy Mayor Josef Jäger, StR f. Services and infrastructure (RAM list)
• City Councilor and Deputy Mayor Gerald Baumgartlinger, StR f. Economy (List RAM)
• City Councilor Astrid Taschner, StR f. Culture u. Education (List RAM)
• City Councilor Thomas Bäuml, StR f. Education, sport and youth (RAM list)
• City Councilor Jürgen Punz, StR f. Construction (list RAM)
• City Councilor Michael Burger, StR f. Social, health and senior citizens (RAM list)

In addition, the following municipal councils have special functions:

• Environmental Councilor Oliver Hausner (RAM list)
• Family councilor Mag. Julia Mikulecky (RAM list)
• Youth Council Jakob Kallinger (RAM list)

Municipal council

In the municipal council there is the following distribution of mandates with a total of 25 seats after the municipal council election on January 26, 2020 :

• Together for Fischamend (RAM) 20
• List Schuh - Communists and Non-Party 3
• SPÖ 2

Town twinning

•  Püspökladány (Hungary)

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leopold Ruckteschl (1882–1957), politician
• Karl Andritz (1914–1993), football player
• Josef Bertalan (* 1934), football player
• Adalbert Melichar (* 1942), author and former director of cultural affairs

Lived and worked in the place

• Ferdinand Cavallar von Grabensprung (1886–1952), Austro-Hungarian officer and aviation pioneer

literature

• Wilhelm Tomaschek : Aequinoctium 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 598.
• Adalbert Melichar (* 1942), author and former director of cultural affairs

Bombs, Polenta & Better Times , 1989, Volume 1, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

Commuters, Barabers and the Businesspeople , 1990, Volume 2, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

Cinema dreams, boogie dreams, leisure dreams, 1991, Volume 3, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

Town hall, school house, rectory and the party houses , 1993, Volume 4, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

Postmen, police officers, fire brigade and luck in misfortune , 1994, Volume 5, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

Fischamend (Vischagemunde) as it used to be , 1997

Bründllacke, Rosenhügel & die brisk Fischamender Leut , 1999, Volume 6, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

Aviation under the double-headed eagle - balloonists, aeronauts and aviators, the k. and k. Fischamend Military-Aeronautical Central Agency and its eventful history from 1909 , 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01407-7

Popular instruction, popular seduction, popular education. Books & Libraries - a reflection of their time , in the chronicle section of Fischamender's cultural history from 1893–1936 , 2010, ISBN 978-3-85252-869-4

Dörfler, Marktler, Städter "Fischamend" , 2012, Volume 7, Verlag Stadtgemeinde Fischamend

From the diary of a small town. 1990–2010: Fischamender Photo History (s).

• Rudolf Ster (1955) author and aviation historian

Fischamend - The Great Age of the Austro-Hungarian Airships 1908 to 1914 , Volume 1, 2017, first part of a trilogy (with Reinhard Ringl)

• Herbert Kugler (together with Adalbert Melichar)

Fischamend between the times, a detailed review of Fischamend history from the High Middle Ages to the modern age , 2011

• Renato Schirer

When the sun was hiding: Fischamend in the air war 1944–1945 , 2014, a documentary about the painful day of Fischamend with numerous photos.

• Eberhard Molfenter

Fischamend , 1964, Heimatbuch

Web links

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

• Website of the city of Fischamend
• 30730 - Fischamend. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
2. ↑ The place Fischamend and the aeronautical facilities in the exhibition directory 2011 Der aviatische Salon ISBN 978-3-200-02309-3
3. ↑ Serious balloon accident in Fischamend at diepresse.com; Contemporary history
4. ↑ ^{a b} Stadtgemeinde Fischamend: Chronicle ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on March 9, 2018 
5. ↑ Fischamend Aviation Museum
6. ^ Museum of Photography
7. ↑ https://www.fischamenderspielleut.com/award-der-stadt-fischamend.htm
8. ↑ Stadtgemeinde Fischamend: Josef Jäger, Vice Mayor (accessed June 29, 2020)
9. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Fischamend. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on June 29, 2020 . 
10. ^ List shoe: KPÖ, list shoe
11. ↑ rapidarchiv.at