Gaaden

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Mödling

License plate :

MD

Surface:

24.89 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 3 ' N , 16 ° 12' E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '0 " N , 16 ° 12' 0" E

Height :

323 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,648 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

2531

Area code :

02237

Community code :

3 17 06

NUTS region

AT127

UN / LOCODE

AT GAA

Address of the
municipal administration:

Hauptstrasse 29
2531 Gaaden

Website:

www.gaaden.at

politics

Mayor :

Rainer Schramm (WE - We Gaadner)

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

12

5

2

12 5 2

A total of 19 seats

WE : 12
ÖVP : 5
SPÖ : 2

Location of Gaaden in the Mödling district

Church of Gaaden

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gaaden with its three districts around 1872 (top right, recording sheet of the state survey)

Gaaden is a municipality in the Mödling district in Lower Austria with 1648 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Gaaden is located in the northern Vienna Woods at the foot of the Anninger in a wide valley basin that is drained by the Mödlingbach . The place is on Mödlinger Straße B 11.

By belonging to the district, daily life is oriented towards Mödling, although Baden is roughly the same distance away.

Community structure

The cadastral community of Anningerforst also belongs to the municipality , but it is not a separate place and mostly consists of forest area and the dolomite quarry . The Dreidärrischenhöhle is also located in this forest area.

Adjacent communities

Vienna Woods	Hinterbrühl	Mödling
Heiligenkreuz		Guntramsdorf
Heiligenkreuz	Pfaffstätten	Gumpoldskirchen

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1130 and was initially a daughter parish of Alland. In 1334 the place was raised to a parish, shortly afterwards (1376) the monastery Heiligenkreuz had the basic authority. Devastation followed by Hungarians in 1477 and by Turks in 1529/1683. The monastery had since lost ownership but acquired the village again in 1579 (the church had burned down in 1576). In 1735/40 extensive renovation and expansion of the parish buildings (including the rectory) took place under Abbot Robert Leeb with numerous works by Giovanni Giuliani . After the Josephine parish elevation, the rectory was reduced by one floor. The Mariazeller Madonna in the church reminds of the importance of the parish church as a station along the Via Sacra to the famous pilgrimage site.

In the 19th century, the place was popular during the "summer vacation". Many well-known artists spent the summer there, such as the poet Ferdinand Raimund , who wrote the spendthrift in Gaaden in 1833 . The “Kraxenweiberl” in the spendthrift is a symbol for a Gaaden type of person who has lived laboriously on lime and wood for centuries. Other artists, including painters (such as Ferdinand Waldmüller ) and musicians, found inspiration for their works in the holiday resort.

Around the middle of the 19th century, a profound change in social conditions began. With the construction of the Vienna Ringstrasse, lime and wood became sought-after materials and the place experienced an economic and social boom.

Around 1911 Karl Freiherr von Skoda built the Gaaden Hunting Lodge (also called Skoda Castle) in the municipality of Gaaden according to plans by the architect Emanuel von Seidl , today Siegenfelder Str. 13. After the expropriation by the Soviet troops in 1945, the Hunting lodge Gaaden converted into a holiday home. More than 1000 children spent their summer holidays there by 1955. Today the Gaaden hunting lodge is privately owned.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the place was incorporated into the city of Vienna as the 24th district. It was not until 1954 that the place became independent again and fell back to Lower Austria.

On July 26, 1944, two American Boeing B-17s collided after an attack by German fighters in the airspace over Gaaden . Only three out of twenty crew members were able to save themselves by parachute.

A natural cave, which was only accessible by mining in a dolomite quarry, served the two companies Hofherr-Schrantz and Uher from Vienna as a production site on an area of around 5000 m² under the code name Dazit .

Population development

census	Residents
2011	1613
2001	1435
1991	1211
1981	1000
1971	783

Source: population development of Gaaden. (PDF) Statistics Austria

Attractions

Culture

Gaadner Blasmusik: Gaadner Blasmusik was founded in 1986 and has 33 active members in 2009. There is also a youth band.
Performances by the theater group: A special highlight in the Gaaden calendar of events are always the performances by the theater group, which was originally formed from members of the Gaaden singers' association.

politics

Mayor of the community is Rainer Schramm, List WIR (Wir Gaadner). The head of office is Martina Chromy.

In the municipal council , after the municipal council election on March 6, 2005, there was the following mandate distribution: WIR (list “Wir Gaadner”) 11, list ÖVP 7, SPÖ 1. On December 4, 2007 the seven ÖVP councilors resigned and since the other candidates also submitted a waiver, the municipal council was dissolved due to the lack of a quorum, so that in 2008 there was a new election. The 2020 municipal council election resulted in the following distribution (the change compared to 2015 in brackets): WIR (list “Wir Gaadner”) 12 (± 0), list ÖVP 5 (+1), SPÖ 2 (-1).

economy

At first, Gaaden was a purely agricultural and forestry place. Limestone quarries and lime kilns have also been operated for decades . A large dolomite quarry is located in the local area. There used to be a sawmill that used the water power of the Mödlingbach.

Today Gaaden is mainly a residential community with a few second home owners from Vienna . The only larger operation is the mineral dolomite quarry. Nevertheless, there are traces of craftsmanship, such as a locksmith's shop and a wood processing company.

traffic

Gaaden is located at Mödlinger Straße B 11. The community is easily accessible via the Vienna outer ring motorway A 21, which have a driveway in Sparbach and in Heiligenkreuz. The bus connection to Mödling is mainly used as public transport .

Personalities

Sons and daughters

P. Melchior Hütter (1740–1785), father and professor at Heiligenkreuz Abbey
P. Nivard Schlögl (1864–1939), father and biblical scholar at Heiligenkreuz Abbey
Heinrich Foullon de Noorbeck (1850–1896), geologist and mineralogist
Karl Franz Rankl (1898–1968), composer
Leopold Grill (1903–1987), Cistercian, religious historian
Franz Gaumannmüller (1914–1990), abbot of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey

People related to the place

Alois Wiesinger (1885–1955), who later became the abbot of Schlierbach Abbey, was pastor of Gaaden in his early years 1916/1917.
Karl von Škoda (1878–1929), General Director of the Škoda Works, lived in Gaaden for a long time and is buried in Gaaden.

Regular events

The main social events in Gaaden that take place annually are:

the village festival
raising the maypole
the fire brigade heuriger
the fire brigade ball
Gaadner Advent Mile: every year at Christmas time there is an Advent market called the 'Gaadner Advent Mile' (actual length is less than 100 meters). Not only political groups present themselves there, but above all associations and some private individuals operate a stand there.
Museum café in the Gaadner Heimatmuseum: every first Sunday of the month there is the popular museum café in the Gaadner Heimatmuseum

Individual evidence

↑ Hermann Watzl , The Urbar of the Waldmark of the Cisterze Heiligenkreuz .

^ Dehio, Lower Austria south of the Danube , (Horn 2003), pp. 470–473.

↑ Crash of two B-17s in the Alland area on July 26, 1944 website regiowiki.at, accessed on December 16, 2014

↑ Dazit ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2014 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. on Geheimprojekte.at accessed on July 2, 2014 @1@ 2

↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Gaaden. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 .