Franzen (municipality of Pölla)

Franzen ( village ) locality cadastral community Franzen
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Zwettl  (ZT), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Zwettl
Pole. local community	Pölla
Coordinates	48 ° 37 '8 "  N , 15 ° 23' 43"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '8 "  N , 15 ° 23' 43"  E
height	535  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	109 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	85 (2001)
Area  d. KG	2.6 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	06931
Cadastral parish number	24016
Counting district / district	Franzen (32520 004)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Franzen church and rectory

Franzen Volunteer Fire Brigade

Franzen has been a cadastral municipality of Pölla in Lower Austria since January 1st, 1964 with around 130 inhabitants and an area of ​​260.24 hectares. In order to be able to create the Döllersheim military training area , the residents were to be evacuated from 1938 onwards .

history

Franzen is a street village with a school at the foot of a wave-like ridge running in the direction of Döllersheim .

Franzen left the mother parish Altpölla around 1200 and was raised to its own parish in the middle of the 14th century .

In 1620 Franzen was robbed and burned down. The loot also included the church bell and the iron of the tower clock. It has not been confirmed whether Franzen was also set on fire by the Swedes in 1645 .

The barons of Ehrmanns had a statue of Johannes Nepomuk erected by the church in 1731. In addition to the year 1731, the base was also provided with the Ehrmann's coat of arms.

In November 1932 it was set up in Franzen SA .

From 1652 were church records of births and from 1654 also led those for marriages and deaths of the parish Döllersheim. From 1713 this task was taken over by the parish of Franzen. Individual entries relating to Franzen can also be found in the Döllersheim registers after this change. The parish registers of the Franzen parish were handed over to the Neu-Pölla parish for safekeeping in the course of the relocation.

It was planned that the residents of Franzen should be resettled by April 1, 1940, but this period was extended twice to October 31, 1941. Since it was hardly possible at that time to purchase a corresponding replacement yard for the transfer fee, the residents of allegedly seven out of 50 houses opposed the relocation.

The Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft , entrusted with handling the resettlement, deposited the estimated value of the properties to be redeemed in blocked accounts at Sparkasse Allentsteig until the change of ownership was entered in the land register . At the same time, residents were required to pay interest for living in their own homes.

In 1941 the electricity supply was dismantled and even the military training operations did not take civilians into consideration. The number of residents of Franzen increased towards the end of the war due to the influx of refugees and resettled South Tyroleans, and after the end of the war some of the long-established residents also returned to their ancestral home. After the military training area was confiscated by the Soviet Union, they had to pay USIA interest.

Without there being a legal basis for this, the mayor of Allentsteig also took over the administration of Franzen, which no longer existed legally. After the establishment of a post office in 1953, the place was again connected to the public electricity network.

Franzen was re-established by a Lower Austrian provincial law passed on December 23, 1954 and valid from March 24, 1955. On January 12, 1955, the director of the Franzen elementary school was appointed government commissioner . The first free elections after the re-establishment of Franzen took place on April 24, 1955.

One of the sights of Franzen is the fire station with the hose tower designed as a fire fighter and the fire helmet-like roof. This already existed before the Second World War.

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 .
• 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.

Web links

Commons : Franzen (municipality of Pölla)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The old home

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Müllner: The desecrated home.
2. ↑ Local directory of Lower Austria 2001 (PDF; 10 MB) Statistics Austria, accessed on February 5, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Techow: The old Heima.t
4. ^ Evelyn Benesch: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch. Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Topographisches Denkmälerinventar. ). 2nd, unchanged edition. Berger, Horn et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3 , pp. 220f.
5. ^ Buberl: Austrian art topography.
6. ↑ Techow: The old home.
7. ↑ Schindler: You have to go.