Langau

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market community Langau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	horn
License plate :	HO
Surface:	22.2 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 49 '  N , 15 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '0 "  N , 15 ° 42' 0"  E
Height :	450  m above sea level A.
Residents :	676 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	2091
Area code :	02912
Community code :	3 11 13
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 103 2091 Langau
Website:	www.langau.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Linsbauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	13 1 1 13 1 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 13 UPW : 1 SPÖ : 1
Location of Langau in the Horn district
Center of Langau
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Langau is a market town with 676 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Horn district in Lower Austria .

geography

Langau is located in the north of the Waldviertel in Lower Austria on the border with the Czech Republic . The next larger towns are Drosendorf in the northwest and Geras in the southwest. The area of ​​the market town covers 22.2 square kilometers, around 14 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises two cadastral communities or towns with the same name (area 2016, population on January 1, 2020):

• Hessendorf (267.68 ha, 47 Ew.)
• Langau (1,953.84 ha, 629 Ew.) Including the Langau leisure center

The market town of Langau is a member of the Taffa-Thaya-Wild region .

Neighboring communities

Stálky ( Okres Znojmo , Czech Republic)		Šafov ( Okres Znojmo , Czech Republic)
Drosendorf-Zissersdorf		Hardegg ( Hollabrunn district )
	Geras	Weitersfeld

history

Around 1240, the monastery Klein-Mariazell received the village of Langenowe (i.e. Langau) on the other side of the Danube near Drosendorf with a parish, tithes, fields and a forest near Witersgelden (today Weitersfeld ) from Duke Friedrich II .

Langau was first mentioned in a document in 1245. At that time, the village already had 83 houses and was its own parish with Pernegg as the mother parish.

Langau was obviously very popular with pastors, because in 1398 the secular priest Michael von Grillenberg pushed himself into the parish against the will of the abbot of Kleinmariazell, but had to leave it again. But only a year later the secular priest Thomas Wagner appealed to a brief from Pope Boniface IX . But since this had been sneaked into, he had to leave Langau again and leave the invalid certificate behind.

On April 9, 1427, the Benedictine Petrus von Leesdorf near Baden near Vienna from the monastery Klein-Mariazell was burned at the stake by the Hussites .

Although Langau recovered after the Hussite Wars, it appeared in the feudal book of King Ladislaus Postumus with only 43 houses and 34 names. And there were even fewer, because from 1453 to 1600 raged again and again the plague .

Since the monastery Klein-Mariazell needed money to pay the Turkish tax, it was decided to sell Langau. On May 17, 1530, Johann Mrakesch von Noskau, Freiherr zu Litschau and landlord of Drosendorf, acquired the Langau parish. King Ferdinand I confirmed the sale on January 10, 1535.

Langau was devastated in the first years of the Thirty Years' War , the church and houses stood for a long time without roofs, and only the Drosendorf on the Thaya a few kilometers away offered protection .

The war was over, but the plague returned in 1640 and almost completely wiped out the local population.

In 1709 the church burned down and also affected the surrounding area. The church was rebuilt in the following years. In 1712 the first Kirtag of the newly built church was celebrated and Emperor Karl VI. came through the town on his coronation trip to Prague . The original of the inn bill has been preserved and is available in the Geras Abbey .

In 1868 the road from Langau to Oberhöflein and in 1905 the road to Riegersburg was laid. A memorial to the memory of the expulsion of the German population from Schaffa ( Šafov ) was erected on this road in 1987 near Langau - like so many others along the state border.

The first school building was built in 1878. It is still preserved and now serves as a municipal office.

The driving post from Frain an der Thaya via Schaffa ( Šafov ), Langau and Geras to Hötzelsdorf was opened in 1880, a year later Langau got its own post office at the community doctor.

In 1885 numerous barns burned down, on January 10, 1890 the volunteer fire brigade was founded.

In 1908, construction work began on the Retz –Langau – Drosendorf branch line , which was officially opened in August 1910. Scheduled passenger traffic was discontinued on June 10, 2001, there is only one “nostalgic train” during the warm season.

In 1910, lignite was discovered between Langau and Schaffa (Šafov) and the "Langauer Bergbaugesellschaft" was founded. The mining in the " Grube Austria " began only after the Second World War and was carried out in " opencast mining ", the coal was transported for rail loading by means of a cable car. After the mining operations were stopped, the pits filled with water. In addition, today's district of Freizeitzentrum-Langau was created with a shooting range, campsite and of course a swimming pool. The Lower Austrian water skiing championships and, more recently, triathlon events are held here again and again .

On July 29, 1914, the first three Langauers had to take up arms, and the church bells followed the following year. For this, the population received food stamps (20 dag bread / flour per day and person).

A major fire caused two deaths on April 4, 1921. In 1922 the customs house was built on the road to Schaffa (Šafov). A dairy was built near the train station on the road to Geras in 1942 and was in operation until 1971.

In 1948 bells were bought again for the church after the bells bought in 1922 had been withdrawn during the Second World War. The new schoolhouse was completed in 1952.

On May 9, 2006, a tourist border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists was opened between Langau and Šafov.

coat of arms

With the decision of the Lower Austrian provincial government of March 24, 1981, the municipality of Langau was awarded a municipal coat of arms. His blazon reads:

"In a shield divided from red to black by a silver wavy bar, at the top two silver halberds growing out of the shield section, turned towards each other, below mallets and irons in silver."

The community colors are red-white-black.

Population development

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 6 non-political electoral community, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 5 non-political electoral community, and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 3 non-political electoral community, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 4 non-political electoral community, and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 3 non-political electoral community, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 non-political electoral community, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 1 non-political electoral community and 1 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2008 Eduard Prand (ÖVP)
• since 2008 Franz Linsbauer (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Langau parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Langau

• Catholic parish church Langau Mariä Himmelfahrt: The church, which is surrounded by a cemetery with a mighty wall, has a nave with a medieval structure, which was rebuilt in 1628 and after a fire in 1709. The tower in the northern choir corner and the choir are late Gothic. A Gothic chapel, which has been converted to Baroque style , is built on the south side . The main portal dates from the second half of the 18th century.

economy

In 2001 there were 26 non-agricultural workplaces and 55 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 296. In 2001, the activity rate was 40 percent.

traffic

• Museum railway: The Lower Austrian Transport Organization operates the Langau and Hessendorf stations on the Retz – Drosendorf local railway . Since 2001, these stations have only been served by nostalgic trains called the phylloxera express in the summer months on weekends .
• Train: The closest ÖBB train station with regular passenger traffic is Hötzelsdorf - Geras on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn .
• Bus: The regional bus routes 875 ( Retz - Drosendorf ), 886 ( Horn - Drosendorf) and 887 (Geras - Hötzelsdorf) of the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region serve several stops in Langau.
• Road: Thayatal Straße B 30 leads north past Weitersfeld.
• Bike path: The Kamp-Thaya-March bike route leads through Langau.

Web links

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

• 31113 - Langau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Literature about Langau in the Lower Austrian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Langau leisure center at langau.at
4. ↑ Announcement of the Lower Austrian provincial government of April 23, 1981.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Sources: Population development 1869–2011 from Statistics Austria (PDF; 35 kB) and Historisches Ortlexikon Niederösterreich ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2010 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. (PDF; 1.2 MB), part 2, p. 56. 
6. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Langau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the local council election 2000 in Langau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
8. ^ Result of the local council election 2005 in Langau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Langau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
10. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Langau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Langau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Gold Medal for Bgm aD Edi Prand langau.at, November 12, 2019.