Gars am Kamp

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Gars am Kamp
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Gars am Kamp (Austria)
Gars am Kamp
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : horn
License plate : HO
Surface: 50.42 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 36 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '57 "  N , 15 ° 39' 48"  E
Height : 256  m above sea level A.
Residents : 3,476 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 69 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3571
Area code : 02985
Community code : 3 11 06
NUTS region AT124
UN / LOCODE AT GAK
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptplatz 82
3571 Gars am Kamp
Website: www.gars.at
politics
Mayor : Martin Falk ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(23 members)
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A total of 23 seats
Location of Gars am Kamp in the Horn district
Altenburg Brunn an der Wild Burgschleinitz-Kühnring Drosendorf-Zissersdorf Eggenburg Gars am Kamp Geras Horn Irnfritz-Messern Japons Langau Meiseldorf Pernegg Röhrenbach Röschitz Rosenburg-Mold Sigmundsherberg St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen Straning-Grafenberg Weitersfeld NiederösterreichLocation of the municipality of Gars am Kamp in the Horn district (clickable map)
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View from the Gars swimming pool to the Gars castle ruins and the St. Gertrud church
View from the Gars swimming pool to the Gars castle ruins and the St. Gertrud church
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gars am Kamp (mostly just referred to as Gars , pronounced Bavarian-Austrian Goasch ) is a Lower Austrian market town with 3476 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Waldviertel , located in the Kamptal . In the Middle Ages, Gars was the seat of government of Austria under the Babenbergers and functioned as a traditional summer resort in the 19th and 20th centuries . At the end of the 20th century experienced health resort Gars by the health tourism of Willi Dungl again an upswing.

geography

With its 14 cadastral communities (see below), the place covers an area of ​​50.47 km² . In the center of the village, 256 meters above sea level are reached above the Adriatic Sea .

In the northern part of Gars am Kamp is the district Manigfall, incorporated in 1928, on the western side of the Kamp Thunau am Kamp , the former village of Gars or Neu Gars.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

The community consists of the 14 cadastral communities Buchberg , Burgholz , Etzmannsdorf am Kamp , Gars am Kamp, Kamegg , Kotzendorf , Loibersdorf , Maiersch , Nondorf bei Gars , Tautendorf bei Gars , Thunau am Kamp , Wanzenau , Wolfshof and Zitternberg .

The market town of Gars is a member of the Kamp-Taffatal region .

Two postcodes are used in the market town of Gars am Kamp. The cadastral communities Etzmannsdorf am Kamp and Wanzenau have the postcode 3573. Gars am Kamp and all other places in the market town have the postcode 3571.

Neighboring communities

Altenburg Rosenburg mold
St. Leonhard am Hornerwald Neighboring communities Burgschleinitz-Kühnring
Schönberg am Kamp

history

Logo from Gars am Kamp

Prehistory and early history

The area around Gars am Kamp with its strategically favorable location on the north-south connection through the Kamptal has a settlement tradition that goes back to the Paleolithic ( finds from Kamegg and from Stranitzberg). Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements existed on the slopes of the Teichwiesenbach.

In the more recent and late Urnfield Period (around 1050–800 BC) there was a large village complex on the ridge above Thunau (on the “wood meadow”); the wall of this settlement is still partially preserved. Evidence of settlement of the Hallstatt culture as well as Latène- era and Marcomannic settlement and grave finds have also been secured in the municipality .

Around 800 AD, the Slavs built a town-like settlement on the "wooden meadow" and the adjacent "Schanze", which was surrounded by a castle wall. Excavations also brought to light the remains of a church and royal graves from that time. For a long time it was thought that this Slavic city was destroyed by the Babenbergs in 1041, but it is more likely that it fell victim to a Hungarian invasion in the 10th century .

Babenberger residence

Aerial view of Gars am Kamp looking north

In the 11th century, the Babenbergs - advancing northwards from the Danube region - took possession of the region around Gars am Kamp. On the "Tabor" they built the Garser castle , and the Babenberg margrave Leopold II. "The beautiful" (1075-1095) moved his residence from Melk to Gars am Kamp, after the defeat in the battle of Mailberg (May 12th 1082) to better protect the mark against the threat from Bohemia. As a place of residence, Gars am Kamp served the Babenbergers from 1075 to the beginning of the 12th century as the center of the conquest north of the Danube, which is why Gars can boast of being something like the “capital” of Austria at that time. Contrary to popular belief, Leopold II was not buried here. His son Leopold III. “The saint” (1095–1136; patron saint of Vienna and Lower Austria) was possibly born in Gars, but moved his margrave seat around 1110 to the Danube in Klosterneuburg .

Gars am Kamp was first mentioned as a market in 1279 , and in 1403 the market rights were confirmed. The Garser castle was expanded by the Kuenringers , later lords of the castle were among others the Maissauer and the imperial counts of Lamberg . The large Renaissance castle built in the 16th century fell into ruin due to the roof tax burden in the 19th century.

Leading Kamptal summer resort

“Chinese Center” becomes a rehabilitation clinic

Gars has presented itself for decades as the “most important summer resort in Lower Austria” after Baden near Vienna . In fact, Gars, whose time as a summer resort began between 1850 and 1860, was the leading summer resort in the Kamptal, but remained in his year record number of overnight stays (1912) with 1,705 foreigners (and 77,200 overnight stays), which is still valid today, is far behind the leading Lower Austrian tourist communities Baden bei Wien (1912: 31,567 foreigners), Semmering (1912: 19,856 foreigners) and Reichenau an der Rax (1912: 19,413 foreigners) who had around ten or twenty times as many strangers and accordingly around ten or twenty times as many overnight stays. In 2014, Gars was not among the twenty top travel destinations in Lower Austria with 58,500 overnight stays.

Well-known Garser artist guests from the pre-Dungl era

Franz von Suppès Garser place of residence and work (1879–1895)

The well-known Garser artist guests from the pre-Dungl era include the visual artists Eduard Ameseder , Anton Brioschi , Karl Elleder , Robert Fuchs , Hans Götzinger , Rudolf Hausleithner , Hermann Heindl, Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Isa (bella) Jechl, Adolf Kaufmann , Eduard Kasparides , Ferdinand Kitt , Hermann Clemens Kosel , Arthur Kurtz , Dagobert Peche , Emil Ranzenhofer, Heinrich Hans Schlimarski , Susi Weigel and Olga Wisinger-Florian , the writers Eva Bakos , Heimito von Doderer , Trude Marzik , Walter von Molo , Anton August Naaf , Andreas Okopenko , Paula Preradović , Robert Scheu, Theodor von Sosnosky , Karl Hans Strobl , Josef Weinheber and Friderike Zweig , the musicians Anton Arnold , Georg Danzer , Charlotte Eisler , Hanns Eisler , André Heller , Leopoldine Kutzel , Georg Maikl , Richard Maux, Karl Mayerhofer , Marianne Mendt , Karl Umlauf and Adolf Wallnöfer as well as directors, actors and dancers such as Johanna Borak, Max Brod , Karlheinz Hac kl , Fritz Lang , Johanna Ledl, Marianne Wulf , Steffy Stahl and the traveling theater - Ensemble Löwinger, which (as the more serious ancestor of the later popular " Löwinger stage ") in the years 1897, 1908 and 1909 as well as 1911, 1912 and 1913 as summer -Theater was engaged before the theater principal Paul Löwinger (1844–1913) died in Gars, where he is also buried.

From the 19th century to the Second World War

Falcos Garser Villa, Horner Straße 214, right next to Villa Lang

One of the most famous regular summer guests in Gars was the composer Franz von Suppè , who spent a lot of time in Gars from 1876 until his death, where he had his own summer villa (Kremser Straße 40-41) and a spacious, landscaped garden park since 1879. Thanks to Suppè, who, contrary to popular rumors from Gars, did not compose his operetta “Boccaccio” in Gars, and the Kamptalbahn , which opened in 1889 , Gars became popular with the Viennese population as a destination and summer retreat. Austria's first tennis court was built in 1895. After the turn of the century, many Viennese built their summer homes in Gars. Even Fritz Lang's parents died in Gars and buried, inhabited years a country house in Manigfall (no. 25, today Hornerstraße 225, next to the Falco -Villa). Fritz Lang also lived there in August 1914, as evidenced by a detailed letter in which he describes in detail his last days in Paris and the turbulent return to Austria.

In 1912 the writer Friderike Winternitz spent four months with her two daughters in the Listmühle, which she called Manigfallmühle, from where she corresponded so successfully with Stefan Zweig that she became his lover a few months later and his first between 1920 and the end of 1938 Became a wife. The later famous composer Hanns Eisler was also a child with his father Rudolf Eisler and his siblings ( Ruth Fischer and Gerhart Eisler ) on summer vacation in Gars in 1907 and 1908 , where he returned in 1925 with his wife Charlotte and in 1957 with his future wife Stephanie As a letter and a dozen photos testify, which Eisler in 1925 in bathing suit in front of the Gars bath house and in 1957 on the Gars main square and in front of the "Hotel Kamptalhof".

Aryan summer freshness . Advertisement by the municipality of Gars from June 19, 1938.

In the interwar period, Gars became a holiday destination for some Viennese social democrats thanks to the Waldpension run by Gisela and Isidor Wozniczak . After the market town of Gars officially declared Jews to be undesirable on June 1, 1938, the Wozniczaks were repeatedly requested by the town council to implement the prescribed anti-Semitic measures. Since the couple ignored these demands, the lease of the camp bath was withdrawn from them. Isidor Wozniczak was arrested on April 24, 1945, imprisoned in Horn until May 2, 1945 , shot from behind by Volkssturm people and buried in the Mödring forest , which is why his body was not found until August 1946.

From the 1950s to the turn of the millennium

After the Second World War, Gars was economically strengthened by supra-regional companies such as Julius Kiennast , Häusermann, "Spiegel Lachmair" and Johann Buhl. In May 1954, the Garser Strandbad entered into a cooperation with the Upper Austrian spa town of Bad Neydharting in order to establish itself as a spa and “Lower Austrian Neydharting” through the authorized Neydhartinger moor treatments. As a summer resort, however, Gars lost its importance, among other things because the chain of Kamptal power plants, completed in 1957, soon became noticeable through several adverse tourist effects that permanently impaired bathing pleasure: During the bathing season, of all places, the lower reaches of the Kamp had reduced water levels and noticeably lower water temperatures.

Town hall of Gars am Kamp

The intention expressed at the end of the 1950s to expand the chain of Kamptal power plants with storage reservoirs, which should be filled with Danube water by means of pump power plants, failed because of the Kamptal mayors, whose tourism and bathing officials feared that this would abandon the Kamp river baths to complete ruin. Apart from that, the various efforts to increase tourism were slowed down precisely by the fate of Gars' leading tourism company , "Hotel Kamptalhof". In the 1960s and 1970s, the owners of the hotel and event location that were so important to Gars kept changing, which often led to years of closure. In 1961 the "Kamptalhof" was foreclosed and a renovation followed, which was financed with funds from the "Support facility for workers and employees of NEWAG ". A report from the Court of Auditors from 1966 questioned the use of the funds as not being intended, which ultimately led to the arrest and subsequent conviction of the then General Director of NEWAG, Viktor Müllner . After a two-year ban, the "Kamptalhof" was bought by the municipality of Gars. By 1973 there was again a clear upward trend in tourism in the municipality. The hotel changed hands several times in the 1970s and was foreclosed again in the early 1980s.

"Hotel-Pension Blauensteiner" from Doderer's friend and favorite host Franz Blauensteiner, where Doderer lived and worked for a week in 1956.

Of the three larger hotel guesthouses (Blauensteiner, Schuster, Waldpension), the "Hotel-Pension Schuster" on the Schlossberg, where the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser grew up after the war, closed forever in the late 1970s . This coffee and grill restaurant had offered the guests a well-attended view of Gars and the surrounding area. The slump in tourism in the mid-1970s was followed again by the intention to use the middle Kamp more for electricity generation. A citizens' initiative was formed around 1980 against the planned construction of further Kamp power plants in the Rosenburg area, which wanted to preserve the remaining Kamp river landscape for people, animals and tourism. These interests coincided with the ideas of the politically, medially and economically influential “health pope” Willi Dungl, who made his investments to revive tourism in Gars dependent on an intact, natural environment. Finally, the citizens' initiative and Willi Dungl prevailed against the plans to expand the Kampkraftwerke with his concept of gentle tourism .

In the 1980s, Gars was sidelined for tourism. It was not until June 1986 that Willi Dungl's "Bio Trainingshotel" opened (an expansion and renovation of the former "Hotel Kamptalhof", which was funded several times with tax money (municipality, state, federal government, EU)), the "Opera Air" performances on the castle ruins (since 1990) and the establishment of the Kamptal cultural park (1992–1996), Gars has regained supraregional importance as a spa, tourist and summer resort. Since then, stars such as Falco , Karlheinz Hackl , Marianne Mendt and Ruth Beckermann have been spending the summer months in their Gars villas.

Despite the tourist boom, the traditional "Hotel und Terrassen-Cafe Blauensteiner", where the novelist Heimito von Doderer and his second wife had been on vacation for a week in August 1956 , ceased in 1992, which is why this building, which is not listed , was used for the In the 1970s, the graphic artist and children's book illustrator Susi Weigel designed a letterhead "that shows the Hotel Blauensteiner under the striking 'Garser Skyline '", which has since fallen into disrepair.

Developments in the 21st Century

Willi Dungl monument in the spa gardens of Gars / Kamp

With Willi Dungl's death in 2002, the Garser health operations named after him, which were initially run by his family alone and from 2005 together with VAMED , lost their unique selling point , which is why they were sold to the "Land Niederösterreich" and VAMED in 2010 which the former "Hotel Kamptalhof" again rebuilt and in 2011 under the name "La pura" as Wellness - Resort opened, which is open to women only.

Many cultural historians and conservationists regret that for the construction of Dungl's short-lived "Chinese Center", which has been closed for years (despite the renovation that was carried out with high public funding, flood- related ), the monument protection of the "Old Bath House" was lifted and this against the Will of regional and local citizens' groups was torn down.

In 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015, Gars became known throughout Austria for its extreme record temperature readings. On 27 January 2010, it was with - 27.6 ° C Austrian cold pole and 13 February 2012 it was with - 24.6 ° C again nationwide cold pole . On April 26, 2013, the highest April temperature in Austria was measured at 29.6 ° C in summer in Gars. On July 22, 2015, Gars was the Austrian heat pole with 38.6 ° C , but this record value was revoked by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics , "because structural measures in the immediate vicinity of the Gars weather station meant that no representative temperature values ​​could be measured for the area ". For this reason, a new ORF weather station was opened in early July 2016 at a more suitable location in Gars.

After Dungl's death, the competition between tourism and electricity generation from hydropower came to a head again. The approximately one hundred year old power station building in Rosenburg is to be demolished and replaced by a new building. A new dam is to tower over the old one by more than two meters and enlarge the reservoir to a length of 1 km. In addition, the underwater is to be dredged to a length of 1 km in order to gain additional usable head. Against this planned destruction of the intact river and floodplain habitat of the middle Kamp, which was named a "river sanctuary" by the WWF and the responsible federal ministry in 1998 because of its biodiversity and scenic beauty , resistance has been organized by the Lower Austrian Nature Conservation Association , WWF and regional citizens' initiatives since 2014 . There is fear of irreversible damage to the entire river landscape. The overflow in the upper water and the deepening in the underwater as well as the construction of access roads to the power plant construction sites would mean a significant impairment for the ecology, beauty and recreational value of the central Kamptal and thus the summer resort of Gars, which was named a climatic health resort in 2003 .

On May 27, 2017, a music festival for electronic music (drum and bass) took place on the ruins of Gars Castle . It was organized by the non-profit association BASSMENT, which was founded to establish unconventional, mainly electronic music in the Waldviertel. The festival, which was attended by international guests such as the British DJ Simula, drew attention to Gars as a venue for cultural events.

Community partnerships

In 2013, on the occasion of the Garser Kirtag, the partnership with the Bavarian community of Gars am Inn, which had lasted over 50 years, was officially sealed with a town twinning , whereby Gars am Inn was officially presented with the “partnership painting” by the artist Matthias Laurenz Graff.

coat of arms

Coat of arms Gars am Kamp.jpg

Blazon:

In front of a coniferous forest, heraldically on the left a man with a spear and a dog pulling a tight leash.

Population development

After emigration in the second half of the 20th century, the population stabilized at 3,500 despite the negative birth balance , as the community has a positive migration balance .


politics

Local council election
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22.35%
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5.67%
(-3.96  % p )
BLG
2015

2020


The municipal council has 23 members.

  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ and BGG-Bürgerliste Großgemeinde Gars.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, 1 LUB list of dissatisfied citizens and 1 LIF.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 3 Pro Gars list Reisinger and 2 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 4 BLG-Bürgerliste Gars.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 3 BLG-Bürgerliste Gars and 2 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ and 2 BLG-Bürgerliste Gars.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ and 1 BLG-Bürgerliste Gars.
mayor
  • since 1999 Martin Falk (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Gars am Kamp
Parish church Tautendorf
Former parish church Thunau am Kamp
Gars am Kamp
  • Listed town center around the main square and Dreifaltigkeitsplatz with a small pedestrian zone
  • Catholic parish church Gars am Kamp Hll. Simon and Thaddäus: First documented mention in 1282. After the fire in 1724, a simple baroque new building was erected by 1727 using older parts and the choir (from 1593 and 1623).
  • Catholic rectory; a hook-shaped, two-story building with a round corner bay built in 1595
  • town hall
  • Former Redemptorist Convent
  • Turn of the century villas
  • Kurpark, laid out in 1908 in the historical style of a city park; includes the historical music pavilion, a panda enclosure, the China Vital Center, a Willi Dungl bust and a Falco monument
  • The " Zeitbrücke Museum " is one of the ten oldest municipal museums in Lower Austria due to its founding around 1900. In 1979 the museum moved to its current location, where since 2002 it has combined the following collections on three floors in the corner building (Kollergasse 155) built by master mason Leopold Wieser in 1883 as a school: "Archeology in the Gars area", "Babenberg and castle area", local history with Guilds and handicrafts, trade museum “Handel im Wandel”, “Franz von Suppè Memorial Site” and “Sommerfrische Gars” and contemporary history . In addition to these permanent exhibition modules, several special exhibitions can be seen in a specially designated exhibition room during the year.
  • Fire Brigade Museum
  • Hamerlingwarte
Maiersch
  • Catholic branch church Hll. Philipp and Jacob
Tautendorf near Gars
Thunau am Kamp
Events
  • March / April: Garser wine
  • April – December: Viktualienmarkt on the main square (Saturday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
  • June: Gars Park Festival
  • June – August: Gars summer dance
  • July: Garser Kirtag
  • July-August: Opera Burg Gars (opera festival on the castle ruins of Gars-Thunau)
  • July – September: Gars Summer Academy
  • December: Gars Christmas market

Sports

societies
  • Kayak Club Gars
  • SC Union Gars am Kamp (soccer)
  • Garser Tennis Club (Austria's first tennis court was built in 1895)
  • Union Judoclub VHS Horn-Gars

economy

In 2010 there were 119 agricultural and forestry holdings, 51 of which were full-time farms. In the manufacturing sector, 46 companies employed 519 people, mainly in the manufacture of goods. The service sector provided work for 822 people in 214 companies (as of 2011).

In 2001 there were 160 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry businesses according to the 1999 survey 144. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in work at the place of residence was 1469. In 2001 the activity rate was 43.09 percent.

Companies

health

  • Nursing home
  • "La pura women's health resort kamptal"
  • Rehabilitation Clinic Gars am Kamp (Psychosomatic Center Waldviertel)
  • Caritas Gars am Kamp

education

  • Zauner-Dungl Health Academy
  • Education and Heimatwerk Niederösterreich - Regionales Bildungswerk Gars am Kamp
  • New middle school in Gars am Kamp
  • Primary school Gars am Kamp
  • Music school Gars am Kamp

Dialogue in the Kamptal

This non-partisan platform was founded in 2019 by Georgia Kazantzidu and Matthias Laurenz Gräff as a private initiative for political communication and participation in the Atelier Gräff in the Zitternberg district and is in the tradition of a literary salon . The current events serve to provide information, exchange and dialogue on relevant political and social issues. Participants were people such as politician Hannes Swoboda , Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch and physicist Werner Gruber .

Public facilities

The responsible police inspection and the local Red Cross office are located in the main town of Gars . Eleven volunteer fire brigades are responsible for fire protection in the following locations:

  • Buchberg
  • Etzmannsdorf
  • Gars am Kamp
  • Kamegg
  • Maiersch
  • Nonndorf
  • Tautendorf
  • Thunau am Kamp
  • Wanzenau
  • Wolfshof
  • Trembling mountain

traffic

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church
People related to the community
Statue of Falco in the spa gardens of Gars am Kamp
  • Anne Bennent (* 1963), Swiss actress, chanson singer and reciter, lives in Gars am Kamp.
  • Ernst David (* 1932), the poet and writer grew up in Gars am Kamp.
  • Friedrich Dragon (* 1929), journalist, editor-in-chief of the Kronen Zeitung (1959–2001), Krone individual authorized signatory of the WAZ media group (2001–2007), has lived in Gars for decades.
  • Willi Dungl (1937–2002), health expert and founder of the bio training center in Gars am Kamp.
  • Richard Edlinger (1958–2005), a Bregenz- born conductor and composer from Gars, founded the "Kamptal Festival" with Heinz Holecek
  • Karl Elleder (1860–1941) painter and illustrator who worked and was buried in Gars am Kamp.
  • Falco (actually: Johann "Hans" Hölzel) (1957–1998), Austrian musician, owned a summer villa in Gars am Kamp.
  • Johann Fasching (1847–1888), Austrian theologian and writer, worked as a cooperator in Gars am Kamp from 1871–1876.
  • Richard Gach (1930–1991), Austrian architect, draftsman and watercolorist, lived in Gars am Kamp.
  • Rudolf Hausleithner (1840–1918), Austrian painter, spent several summers in Gars am Kamp.
  • Friedrich Hess (1883–1945), local researcher, worked in Gars am Kamp.
  • Leopold Höchtl (1870–1947), Austrian politician (CSP) and business owner, lived in Gars am Kamp.
  • Eva-Maria Höhle (* 1948), Austrian art historian, lives in Gars am Kamp.
  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), Austrian artist
  • Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915–2000), Austrian diplomat, politician and Federal President, lived from 1945 to 1947 in the Kamegg district.
  • Gisela Laferl, married Wozniczak (1884–1968), politician, hotel specialist.
  • Anton Lang (1860–1940), Austrian architect and father of Fritz Lang
  • Otto Lechner (* 1964), Austrian accordion player and composer, lives in Gars am Kamp.
  • Trude Marzik (1923–2016), Austrian storyteller and poet, summer guest in the Kamegg district, to whom she set a literary monument with her autobiographical work Geliebte Sommerfrische .
  • Richard Maux , (1893–1971), Austrian composer and secondary school teacher, composed many things in Gars am Kamp.
  • Marianne Mendt (* 1945), Austrian singer and actress, owns a summer house in Gars am Kamp.
  • Vinzenz Muschinger (16th century - 1628), owner of the castle and estate of Gars.
  • Andrea Scherney (* 1966), former Austrian athlete and three-time gold medalist at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, lives in Gars am Kamp.
  • Franz von Suppè (1819–1895), composer, owned a summer villa in Gars am Kamp.
  • Sofie von Suppè (1841–1926), wife of Franz von Suppè and, as his estate administrator, museum founder and patroness.
  • Andreas Weigel (* 1961), Austrian private scholar , lived in Gars in the 1970s, from 2015 researched the Gars tourism history and in 2019 wrote a monograph on the Garser by choice Franz von Suppè.
  • Lois Weinberger (1947–2020), artist, university professor
  • Johannes Wildner (* 1956), conductor, has been director of the OPER BURG GARS opera festival since 2013
  • Isidor Wozniczak (1892–1945), hotelier who was murdered by the National Socialists.

literature

  • Julius Kiennast: Chronicle of the market Gars in Lower Austria. Written and dedicated to the community by Julius Kiennast. Former Mayor of Gars. Gars: Verlag der Marktgemeinde Gars 1920.
  • Walter Minarz : Gars am Kamp. Topography and culture. The Most Beautiful Excursions (1949).
  • Hans Heppenheimer u. a. (Ed.): Festschrift 700 years Markt Gars am Kamp - 1279–1979. Gars am Kamp 1979.
  • Susanne Hawlik: Summer freshness in the Kamptal. The magic of a river landscape. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1995. ISBN 978-3-205-98315-6 .
  • Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (eds.): Garser stories. Gars am Kamp. Thousands of years of cultural landscape. 2014. ISBN 978-3-9503541-3-3 .
  • Anton Ehrenberger, Oliver Fries and Ronald Kurt Salzer (eds.): Garser Burgen. Rulers from the early Middle Ages to modern times. 2015. ISBN 978-3-85028-731-9 .
  • Herbert Zimmerl and Raimund Kiennast: “Trade & Industry in Gars. For over 100 years. A journey back in time through the streets of Gars am Kamp and the diversity of Gars' commercial and industrial enterprises ”. 2015. ISBN 978-3-85028-744-9 .
  • Andreas Weigel: Gars apart from soup and falco. What world-famous film directors, composers, writers and visual artists have in common with the Kamptal summer resort. In: praesent . The Austrian Literature Yearbook 2016. Vienna: praesens 2016. pp. 44–64. ISBN 978-3-7069-2016-2 . More detailed version: The summer resort Gars-Thunau through the ages. In: Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (eds.): Garser Geschichte (n) . Gars am Kamp 2014, pp. 521-588, ISBN 978-3-9503541-3-3 .
  • Andreas Weigel: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Richly illustrated history of the summer resort Gars-Thunau from its beginnings to the present. In: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Artists in the summer. Published by the Gars Museum Association, Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars (Gars 2017) pp. 9–174. ISBN 978-3-9504427-0-0 .
  • Christine Steininger and Bernhard Grünsteidl: “Zitternberg. Searching for traces in the Kamptal ”(Beautification Association Zitternberg 2017). ISBN 978-3-85028-801-9 .

Movies

Web links

Commons : Gars am Kamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Gars in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ China center in Gars becomes a rehabilitation clinic. noe.orf.at, August 12, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Community of Gars: Historical facts about summer resort : "Gars was, along with Baden near Vienna, the most important summer resort in Lower Austria".
  4. ↑ Web blog Stars in Gars : Launched Legends Education. : 1.) Gars would have been the "leading summer resort in Lower Austria" after Baden ...
  5. ↑ According to the official statistics, a stranger was recorded as "whoever stayed overnight in a place outside of the location, including passers-by and tourists, excluding job seekers and peddlers .")
  6. ↑ The stranger places with more than 10,000 residents (1910 to 1912). (Ordered according to the number of foreigners in 1912.) Austrian statistical handbook for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichrathe. Published by the KK Central Statistical Commission.
  7. ↑ More popular vacation spots in 2014 included: Baden near Vienna (379,500 nights), Bad Schönau (247,500 nights), Moorbad Harbach (245,700 nights), Vösendorf (238,700 nights), Bad Vöslau (135,500 nights), Reichenau an der Rax (124,900 Overnight stays), Klosterneuburg (124,600 overnight stays), Bad Pirawarth (107,400 overnight stays), Perchtoldsdorf (100,000 overnight stays), Groß Gerungs (95,000 overnight stays), Göstling an der Ybbs (90,300 overnight stays), Grimmenstein (89,300 overnight stays), Puchberg am Schneeberg (75,100 overnight stays ), Waidhofen an der Ybbs (75,100 overnight stays), Spitz an der Donau (74,500 overnight stays), Laa an der Thaya (71,500 overnight stays), Gaming (71,200 overnight stays), Ottenschlag (68,200 overnight stays), Gmünd (67,200 overnight stays), Bad Traunstein ( 66,600 overnight stays) and the municipality of Semmering (62,200 overnight stays). Source: The 2014 tourism balance of the Lower Austrian cities and municipalities.
  8. ↑ Andreas Weigel: Blog about the neglected history of tourism and selected artist guests of the Kamptal-Sommerfrische Gars-Thunau. Garser guests.
  9. ^ "About the Garser" Boccaccio "composition. Has Suppè demonstrably composed his operetta “Boccaccio” in Gars? ”In: Andreas Weigel: Franz von Suppè (1819–1895). Human. Myth. Musician. Honorary citizen of Gars. Accompanying publication to the anniversary exhibition of the Zeitbrücke Museum Gars. With contributions by Andreas Weigel, Anton Ehrenberger, Ingrid Scherney and Christine Steininger. (Gars am Kamp) 2019. pp. 164–195.
  10. ↑ The year of construction 1895 is already mentioned in 1910 in the "Garser Saison-Blatt", which is why the year 1900 mentioned in Julius Kiennast's "Chronik des Marktes Gars" on page 131 is incorrect.
  11. ↑ Fritz Lang. Letter of August 29, 1914 from Gars am Kamp to Julius Singer. Facsimile In: Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Cornelius Schnauber: Fritz Lang. Life and work. Pictures and documents. 1890-1976. Pp. 17-19.
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g Andreas Weigel: The summer vacation in the course of the times . In: Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (eds.): Garser stories. Gars am Kamp. Thousands of years of cultural landscape (2014). Pp. 521-588.
  13. ↑ Friedrich Polleroß : The memory hurts too. Jewish life and anti-Semitism in the Waldviertel , Horn 1996, pp. 7–58, here p. 22
  14. ^ Andreas Weigel: Heimito von Doderer's Gars week. Printed (with the first publication of a photograph showing Doderer and the Blauensteiner couple in their “Zur Stadt Paris” inn) in: Andreas Weigel: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Richly illustrated history of the summer resort Gars-Thunau from its beginnings to the present. In: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Artists in the summer. Published by the Museumsverein Gars, Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars (Gars 2017) pp. 9–174, here pp. 133–136. ISBN 978-3-9504427-0-0 .
  15. ↑ a b The Hundertwasser Years in Gars and Horn ( Memento of the original dated August 19, 2016 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; 3.8 MB). When Friedensreich was still Friedrich. In: Garser community news. September 2011. p. 10. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gars.at
  16. ↑ Maria Enigl: A village is getting pregnant. Willi Dungl is building his “World Bio Center” in Gars am Kamp. In: profile . No. 19 May 7, 1984.
  17. ^ Lower Austrian provincial government: Dungl fitness empire in Gars has been expanded
  18. ↑ European Union: Austria Center for Health and Wellness Tourism in Gars am Kamp (Lower Austria) ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  19. ↑ Irene Hanappi: Lavender and Roses.
  20. ↑ Susi Weigel: Letterhead for the hotel and terrace café Blauensteiner. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ^ Andreas Weigel: Gars apart from Suppè and Falco. Literary search for traces in Gars-Thunau. Retrieved May 13, 2014 .
  22. ↑ Kid Möchel: Vamed entry at Dungl is fixed. ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Wirtschaftsblatt from January 28, 2005.
  23. ^ Gars parish: Dungl centers: New owner and new plans.
  24. ^ Austrian Society for the Preservation of Monuments and Sites : The Badhaus in Gars am Kamp. Editorial (p. 2.) and Mario Schwarz : The Badhaus in Gars am Kamp (threatened with demolition). Pp. 4-7. In: Stones Speak. Journal of the Austrian Society for the Preservation of Monuments and Sites. No. 117 (vol. XXXIX, April 1, 2000.
  25. ↑ Written request from MPs Dieter Brosz, colleagues to the Federal Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs regarding the lifting of the monument protection of the "Old Bath House" in Gars am Kamp (244 / J) .
  26. ↑ Gerald Stefan: The flood hit the magnificent Dungl building in the exclusion zone. ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Willi Dungl built his China Center in Gars, which was flooded this year, in the middle of the flood protection area. The zoning plan and monument protection had to give way. Wirtschaftsblatt . September 10, 2002. A20.
  27. ↑ Die Presse : Minus 27.6 degrees: Freezing cold in Eastern Austria. January 27, 2010.
  28. ^ ORF : The Waldviertel was the cold pole. February 14, 2012.
  29. ↑ Weather review for April 2013.
  30. ↑ Niederösterreichische Nachrichten of July 29, 2015: Gars was hot spot! Or not?
  31. ^ ORF , Ö3 : New Ö3 weather station is in Gars am Kamp. Austria's eleventh Ö3 weather station will open on July 7th in the Waldviertel. Air temperature, wind strength, sunshine duration, amount of precipitation and much more are measured here
  32. ^ Community of Gars : Where the weather frogs look - new Ö3 weather station in Kotzendorf.
  33. ↑ Werner Gamerith : The middle Kamptal The Waldviertel river jewel is threatened by a power plant again. ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  34. ↑ WWF : Kamp: The Lower Austrian river sanctuary is in danger. There is a risk of massive destruction from the expansion of a power plant.
  35. ↑ Niederösterreichischer Naturschutzbund : No new construction of the power station near Rosenburg am Kamp. ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  36. ↑ NÖN: Kraftwerk: EVN wants to inform.
  37. ↑ Lost in Bass , Burgruine Gars, on May 27, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2018.
  38. ↑ OVB 0nline> Rosenheim> Wasserburg am Inn> "Wild marriage" legalized after 50 years (Bavaria, Germany)
  39. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Gars am Kamp, population development. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  40. ^ Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Gars am Kamp. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on April 7, 2020 .
  41. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Gars am Kamp. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  42. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Gars am Kamp. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  43. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Gars am Kamp. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  44. ↑ Election result of the municipal council election 2015 in Gars am Kamp. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2020 .
  45. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Gars am Kamp. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on April 7, 2020 .
  46. ↑ Mayor Martin Falk: “There is still a lot to do!” In: noen.at. October 16, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  47. ↑ Falco monument unveiled
  48. ^ Museum Management Lower Austria: Project "MuseumsMenschen" of the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at Danube University Krems .
  49. ^ Website of the fire brigade museum
  50. ^ Website of the Summer Academy
  51. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Gars am Kamp, agricultural and forestry operations. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  52. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Gars am Kamp, workplaces. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  53. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Gars am Kamp, employees. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  54. ^ Website of the la pura women's health resort. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .
  55. ^ Website of the rehabilitation clinic in Gars am Kamp. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .
  56. ^ Caritas workshop in Gars am Kamp
  57. ^ Zauner-Dungl Health Academy.
  58. ^ Website of the regional educational institute
  59. ^ Website of the new middle school in Gars am Kamp
  60. ↑ http://www.ktv-gars.at/vs-gars/ (link not available)
  61. ↑ Dialogue in the Kamptal
  62. ↑ Article on the Garser bus in the magazine "Raum undordnung" of the Lower Austrian state government (PDF; 14 kB)
  63. ^ Marco Schenz: Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger. Graz / Vienna 1984, p. 41, ISBN 3-205-07249-9 .
  64. ^ Architectural dictionary : Anton Lang.
  65. ^ Trude Marzik: Beloved summer freshness. Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00583-3 .
  66. ↑ Andreas Weigel: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Richly illustrated history of the summer resort Gars-Thunau from its beginnings to the present. In: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Artists in the summer. Published by the Gars Museum Association, Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars (Gars 2017) pp. 9–174. ISBN 978-3-9504427-0-0 .
  67. ↑ Andreas Weigel: Outline of a fundamentally corrected life story. In: Andreas Weigel: Franz von Suppè (1819–1895). Human. Myth. Musician. Honorary citizen of Gars. Accompanying publication to the anniversary exhibition of the Zeitbrücke Museum Gars. With contributions by Andreas Weigel, Anton Ehrenberger, Ingrid Scherney and Christine Steininger. (Gars am Kamp) 2019 pp. 14–281. ISBN 978-3-9504427-4-8 .
  68. ↑ Walter Minarz's authorship of this book is mentioned in his testimonial from the community of Gars from May 21, 1951, which is in Minarz's estate.