Gaubitsch

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Mistelbach

License plate :

MI

Surface:

22.48 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 39 ' N , 16 ° 23' E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '0 " N , 16 ° 23' 0" E

Height :

229 m above sea level A.

Residents :

880 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

39 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

2154

Area code :

02522

Community code :

3 16 11

NUTS region

AT125

Address of the
municipal administration:

Gaubitsch 2
2154 Gaubitsch

Website:

www.gaubitsch.at

politics

Mayor :

Alois Mareiner ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(15 members)

14th

1

14th 1

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 14
SPÖ : 1

Location of Gaubitsch in the Mistelbach district

Church hill with staircase, parish church, rectory and on the far right the municipal office

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gaubitsch is a municipality with 880 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria .

geography

The municipality of Gaubitsch is located in the northern Weinviertel in Lower Austria, eight kilometers south of Laa an der Thaya on the edge of the hilly country that borders the Laa Plain in the south. The area of the municipality covers 22.47 square kilometers. 3.47 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

Altenmarkt (180)
Gaubitsch (383)
Kleinbaumgarten (317)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Altenmarkt , Gaubitsch and Kleinbaumgarten.

The community belongs to the small region of Land um Laa .

With the Lower Austria. Municipal structure improvement was merged on January 1st, 1972 Gaubitsch and Unterstinkenbrunn to the municipality of Gartenbrunn . The merger was reversed on January 1st, 1995.

Neighboring communities

history

The area has a Neolithic and Latène period settlement, the place Gaubitsch was first mentioned in 1055. The church, which is located on a hill in the middle of the village, is the oldest in the area. Its bell tower was destroyed several times during wartime. The age of the community of Gaubitsch goes back to the 11th century - in 1055 Emperor Heinrich III appeared in a deed of donation. the place as "villa Gevvatisprunnen" or "Gouuazesbrunnen", 1147 as "Gawats" after the Slavic personal name for "blacksmith".

In the last days of the Second World War , between April 18 and May 8, 1945, Gaubitsch was the scene of violent and varied battles between troops of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army , in which around 40% of the village was destroyed. Several civilians were killed. Infantry fights with grenade launchers took place in Kleinbaumgarten , killing five civilians.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census , there were 937 inhabitants. In 1991 the community had 884 inhabitants, in 1981 873 and in 1971 911 inhabitants.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.

mayor

1936–1938 Georg Seidl
until 2010 Hubert Krieger (ÖVP)
since 2010 Alois Mareiner (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Gaubitsch parish church

Kellergasse Bergzeile

Catholic parish church Gaubitsch hl. Stephanus: The parish church with a Romanesque (13th century) building with a Gothic (14th century) choir is an important mother parish in the region.
Four-headed pillar in the town center; the gothic tabernacle pillar made of Zogelsdorf sandstone was built in 1504 and donated by the village judge Wolfgang Trautmann. Four head pillars were mostly set up at crossroads and with the four heads were stalls farmers, citizens, king and priest represented symbolizes, the head of the clergy in the south, to Rome showed.
There are three remarkable late Gothic light columns from the second half of the 15th century in the community. One is at house no. 7 (marked 1487), the second on the southern entrance road (marked 1507) and the third on the road to Gnadendorf outside the village. Defense heads are attached to the capital of the former, which should presumably deter "evil forces".

theatre

Stage Active: There is a theater club in the village, Stage Active, which was founded in 1984 and received several awards in 2011.

economy

In 2001 there were 21 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 68 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 426. In 2001, the employment rate was 46.42 percent.

safety

fire Department

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Gaubitsch volunteer fire brigade

Personalities

Georg Seidl (1896–1968), politician, member of the National Council and Mayor of Gaubitsch
Augustinus Kurt Fenz (* 1935), monk and theologian

literature

Evelyn Benesch, Bernd Euler-Rolle , Claudia Haas, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Katharina Packpfeifer, Eva Maria Vancsa-Tironiek, Wolfgang Vogg: Lower Austria north of the Danube (= Dehio-Handbuch . Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna et al. 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 246-247 .