Flachau (municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria)

Flachau ( cadastral community )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Zwettl , Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Zwettl-Lower Austria
Administrative district	Zwettl city
Coordinates	48 ° 36 '31 "  N , 15 ° 17' 29"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '31 "  N , 15 ° 17' 29"  E
Area  d. KG	6.8681
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	24394
lost places, without settlement ( TÜPl Allentsteig / Stausee Ottenstein ) Source: STAT : place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Flachau is a former village in Lower Austria and a cadastral municipality of the municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria .

geography

The former local area is about eleven kilometers as the crow flies east of the city center of Zwettl. Today Flachau is uninhabited. The cadastral area still existing as such has an area of ​​6.86 km² and borders on the Allentsteig military training area in the north and the Ottenstein reservoir in the south .

history

Flachau was on the road from Döllersheim to Friedersbach , where the Bruggmühle was located at the crossing of the Kamp .

Flachau was first mentioned in a document in 1280 (according to other sources: 1177). The name form Flachaowe handed down from the year 1280 is of Slavic origin and means something like 'settlement of a man with the name Vlachov' (indirectly belongs to the Walch places). Between 1283 and 1294, Heiligenkreuz Abbey owned goods near Flachau.

Eustach Stodoligk, who lived at Waldreichs Castle, had the Flachau pond built in 1534.

The place was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and many farms were deserted. 17 years after the Peace of Westphalia , in 1665, 81 people lived in Flachau again. From 1652 the parish Döllersheim kept the church records for births and from 1654 also those for marriages and deaths for Flachau. When the Döllersheim parish was abolished , these were handed over to the Rastenfeld parish for safekeeping.

On May 26, 1933, a base of the NSDAP was established in Flachau .

Forced resettlement

Population development
date	Residents
1956	70
1961	25th
1970	1
1971 ff.	0

After the Anschluss in 1938 , the area of ​​the former community of Döllersheim, to which Flachau also belonged, was ordered to be expropriated in order to set up a military training area. Together with the surrounding hamlets and individual farmsteads Bruggmühle, Steinmühle, Kernhäuser and Reithof , the village consisted of 49 houses at that time. In contrast to most of the other localities in the area of ​​the military training area, Flachau was not yet completely evacuated during the Second World War . From 1940 on, Flachau was mainly inhabited by so-called second settlers, i.e. by forced resettlers who were unable to build a new existence with their transfer fee. After the end of the war, there were also Sudeten Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia . At the end of the 1950s, the Austrian federal government finally decided against repopulating the military training area and awarded the land of today's Flachau cadastral community to the Windhagschen Scholarship Foundation , which demolished all buildings with the exception of one house in order to enable forestry use. The last resident, Johanna Müller, left Flachau in 1970.

The only remaining building in the village, house number 19, was converted into a forester's house. Two former mills, the Bruggmühle and the Steinmühle , are now at the bottom of the Ottenstein reservoir .

The Flachau Madonna

The Flachau Madonna , the work of an unknown artist, was recovered from the local chapel during the Second World War and given to the Lower Austrian State Museum. During the restoration, a parchment certificate with Latin text came to light inside the 169 cm high sculpture, which shows that the statue was made in June 1500 on behalf of Wolfgang Örtl (1495 to 1508 abbot of the Cistercian monastery Zwettl ). The Madonna is now in the possession of the Lower Austrian State Museum St. Pölten .

literature

• Paul Buberl: The monuments of the political district Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey). Part 1: Allentsteig judicial district (= Austrian art topography . Vol. 8, 1). Commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
• Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland. 2nd Edition. Association Information Waldviertel, Allentsteig 1998, ISBN 3-9500294-0-0 .
• Franz Rauscher: Castle and Lordship of Ottenstein am Kamp. In: The Waldviertel. Journal for local history and home care. NF Vol. 4, September-October 1955, ISSN  0259-8957 , pp. 161-169.
• Margot Schindler : Having to go. The resettlement of the Döllersheim area (Lower Austria) 1938–1942. Folklore aspects (= publications of the Austrian Museum for Folklore 23). Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900359-38-5 .
• Ernst-Werner Techow: The old home. Description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim. Published by the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Berlin. Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH, Eger 1942.
• Waldviertel Information Association: The localities of Döllersheim: Flachau . Döllersheim, 2002 ( online. In: doellersheim.at. Accessed 29 July 2009 .  ).

Web links

• Literature overview: Bibliography for Flachau. In: cadastral communities - F. Stadtgemeinde Zwettl-NÖ 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Techow: The old home. S. oA
2. ↑ ^{a b} cadastral communities, initial mention and interpretation of names. City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on September 15, 2019 .  Cf. Elisabeth Schuster: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names . Ed .: Association for regional studies of Lower Austria. Vienna (1989, 1990, 1994).
3. ↑ ^{a b} The localities of Döllersheim. In: doellersheim.at. Archived from the original on March 9, 2009 ; accessed on June 3, 2018 . 
4. ^ Rauscher: Castle and Lordship of Ottenstein am Kamp. S. oA
5. ↑ Entry on Flachau Madonna (former chapel of Flachau near Döllersheim) in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )