Gaming

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gaming (disambiguation) .

market community Gaming
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Scheibbs
License plate :	SB
Surface:	243.87 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 56 '  N , 15 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '44 "  N , 15 ° 5' 22"  E
Height :	431  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,021 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3292
Area code :	07485
Community code :	3 20 01
Address of the municipal administration:	In Markt 1–3 3292 Gaming
Website:	www.gaming.gv.at
politics
Mayoress :	Renate Gruber ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (23 members)	12 10 1 12 10 1  A total of 23 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 10 FPÖ : 1
Location of Gaming in the Scheibbs district
City Hall Gaming
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gaming is a market town with 3021 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Scheibbs district in Lower Austria . The community is best known for the former Marienthron Charterhouse located here .

geography

Gaming is located in the Mostviertel at the western foot of the Ötscher in the Lower Austrian part of the Eisenwurzen . The area of ​​the market town covers 244.07 square kilometers. 85.87 percent of the area is forested.

Gaming was the largest municipality in Lower Austria in terms of area for a very long time , until a few years ago the municipality of Zwettl was allowed to add the Allentsteig military training area to its area. Since then, Gaming has been the second largest municipality in Lower Austria with an area of ​​244 km².

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Board Gaming (114)
• Gaming (2036)
• Kienberg (441)
• Lackenhof (254)
• Langau (133)
• Nestelberg-Lackenhof (16)
• Neuhaus-Langau (5)
• Rothwald-Langau (0)
• Taschelbach-Langau (12)
• Truebach Gaming (10)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Altenreith, Brettl, Gaming, Kienberg, Lackenhof , Mitterau, Nestelberg, Neuhaus and Polzberg.

Neighboring communities

Gresten-Land Gresten	Reinsberg Scheibbs	St. Anton an der Jeßnitz
Lunz am See		Puchenstuben
Göstling on the Ybbs	Mariazell ( district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag , Styria ) Wildalpen ( district Liezen , Styria )	Mitterbach am Erlaufsee ( district Lilienfeld )

history

Charterhouse Gaming

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

In a major gaming was from 1330 to 1782 Carthusian - monastery , the Certosa gaming . The mystic and theologian Nikolaus Kempf also worked here . The International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family was housed in the Charterhouse until the summer of 2009 , which then moved to Trumau south of Vienna .

At least ten members of the IKG Ybbs / Amstetten from Gaming fell victim to the Shoah .

Community partnerships

• Bad Sassendorf , North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
• Groß-Siegharts , Lower Austria

Population development

Results of the census since 1951:

2014: 3,186 inhabitants
2001: 3,840 inhabitants
1991: 3,793 inhabitants
1981: 4,089 inhabitants
1971: 4,181 inhabitants
1961: 4,218 inhabitants
1951: 4,353 inhabitants

politics

The municipal council has 23 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, and 1 Greens.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 1 Greens, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 9 ÖVP, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 10 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• 1960–1994 Hermann Lechner (SPÖ)
• until 2008 Kurt Pöchhacker (SPÖ)
• since 2009 Renate Gruber (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Parish Church Gaming

Lackenhof parish church

Gaming water pipeline power plant

See also:  List of listed objects in Gaming

• Charterhouse Gaming
• Catholic parish church Gaming Hll. Philip and James, branch church Kienberg
• Catholic parish church Lackenhof hl. Leonhard, branch church Neuhaus am Zellerrain
• City Hall Gaming
• Gaming water pipeline power plant
• Ötscher-Tormäuer Nature Park
• Ötscher stalactite cave
• Ybbsthalbahn mountain route

economy

In 2001 there were 171 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations according to the 1999 survey 153. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in work at the place of residence was 1530. The 2001 participation rate was 41.48 percent.

Companies

A major company with more than 360 employees is the pressure vessel manufacturer Worthington Cylinders , which has existed in Kienberg since 1817 and has been American-owned since 1998 .

traffic

• Train: Kienberg is the end point of the Erlauftalbahn with the Kienberg-Gaming station and at the same time the starting point of the Ybbsthalbahn mountain route , a narrow-gauge museum railway . The Austrian Federal Railways discontinued public passenger transport on the Erlauftalbahn between Scheibbs and Kienberg with the timetable change in December 2010; the infrastructure that was initially used for freight transport has also not been used since January 2011. In 2015, the removal of the tracks between Scheibbs and Kienberg began.

Personalities

• Hermann Lechner (1924–2012), Mayor and Member of Parliament in Lower Austria
• Renate Gruber (* 1967), mayor and member of the National Council

Web links

Commons : Gaming  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 32001 - gaming. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Johannes Kammerstätter: Portable Fatherland . Wieselburg 2012.
3. ↑ statistik.at  ( 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.  
4. ^ Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Gaming. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed October 10, 2019 . 
5. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Gaming. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed October 10, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Gaming. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed October 10, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Gaming. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed October 10, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2015 in Gaming. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 10, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Gaming. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 . 
10. ^ Worthington Cylinders Austria , accessed October 11, 2010.
11. ↑ Paid by rail station . ( noen.at [accessed on November 28, 2016]).