Gerlas (municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria)

48.621619 15.07925Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ' N , 15 ° 5' E

Basic data
State :	Lower Austria
District :	Zwettl
Cadastral parish of:	Zwettl-Lower Austria
KG number:	24313
Residents :	32 (2001 census)
Area :	1.02 km²
Population density :	31.37 / km²
Postal code :	A-3931
Area code :	02822
politics
Mayor :	Andrea Weissensteiner (as of September 15, 2019)

Gerlas is a village in Lower Austria and a cadastral municipality of the municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria . According to the 2001 census, the place had 32 inhabitants on an area of 1.02 km².

geography

Gerlas is about 5.7 kilometers as the crow flies west of the city center of Zwettl and is connected to the Austrian intercity bus network by the post bus on the outskirts .

The municipality borders in the north on the cadastral community Rieggers , in the northeast on Oberstrahlbach , from southeast to southwest on Negers and northwest on Rosenau Dorf .

history

Gerlas was first mentioned in a document around 1300 as Gerloess . The name means something like: "Settlement of a man with the name Gerlo (h)". The place should have belonged to a noble family with the same name in the 13th century , because in documents from 1261 a certain Wulfing von Gerlas is mentioned several times.

Population development
date	Residents
1869	35
1951	48
1961	46
1971	35
1981	37
1991	38
2001	32
2011	32

Web links

Bibliography for Gerlas. In: Katastralgemeinden - G. Stadtgemeinde Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on July 15, 2009 .

Individual evidence

↑ Mayor - All. In: zwettl.gv.at. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
↑ Census of May 15, 2001: inhabitants by locality. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Statistics Austria. Federal Statistical Office Austria, p. 1 , accessed on August 5, 2009 .
^ Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): The cities of Lower Austria . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1982, ISBN 978-3-7001-0463-6 , p. 388 .
^ Cadastral communities, initial mention and interpretation of names. City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on July 15, 2009 . Cf. Elisabeth Schuster: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names . Ed .: Association for regional studies of Lower Austria. Vienna 1994 (1989, 1990, 1994).
^ Xavier Joseph Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens . Verlag JB Wallishausser, 1841, p. 179 ( online [accessed July 30, 2009]).
↑ Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 4: Waidhofen an der Thaya, Wiener Neustadt (Land), Vienna area, Zwettl. (PDF; 840 KB) In: oeaw.ac.at. ÖAW , August 31, 2016, p. 32 , accessed on May 5, 2019 .

[1] Mayor - All. In: zwettl.gv.at. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .

[2] Census of May 15, 2001: inhabitants by locality. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Statistics Austria. Federal Statistical Office Austria, p. 1 , accessed on August 5, 2009 .

[3] Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): The cities of Lower Austria . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1982, ISBN 978-3-7001-0463-6 , p. 388 .

[4] Cadastral communities, initial mention and interpretation of names. City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on July 15, 2009 . Cf. Elisabeth Schuster: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names . Ed .: Association for regional studies of Lower Austria. Vienna 1994 (1989, 1990, 1994).

[5] Xavier Joseph Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens . Verlag JB Wallishausser, 1841, p. 179 ( online [accessed July 30, 2009]).

[6] Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 4: Waidhofen an der Thaya, Wiener Neustadt (Land), Vienna area, Zwettl. (PDF; 840 KB) In: oeaw.ac.at. ÖAW , August 31, 2016, p. 32 , accessed on May 5, 2019 .