Germanns (municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria)

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Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′  N , 15 ° 12 ′  E

Basic data
State : Lower Austria
District : Zwettl
Cadastral parish of: Zwettl-Lower Austria
KG number: 24315
Residents : 104 (2001 census)
Area : 6.37 km²
Population density : 16.33 / km²
Postal code : A-3910
Area code : 02823
politics
Mayor : Ingrid Böhm
(as of September 15, 2019)

Germanns 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 104 inhabitants on an area of ​​6.37 km².

geography

Germanns is about eight kilometers as the crow flies north of the city center of Zwettl. A stop of the Schwarzenau – Zwettl – Martinsberg local railway , whose passenger traffic was discontinued in December 2010 and replaced by buses, is located in Hörmanns, about two kilometers to the north . The municipality borders in the north-west on the cadastral municipality of Kleinotten , in the north-east on Wildings , in the south-east on Kühbach , south on Gerotten , south-west on Großhaslau and in the west on Großglobnitz . The two cadastral communities of Wildings and Kühbach bordering to the east were forcibly evacuated after the connection for the construction of the Döllersheim military training area and are still a restricted military area today.

history

Population
development
date Residents
1869 126
1951 165
1961 139
1971 123
1981 118
1991 104
2001 104
2011 106
  • Germanns was first mentioned in a document around 1248 as Germunt . The name means something like: "Settlement of a man named Germund".
  • The local chapel from 1883 was renovated inside and out in 1994 by the Gerlas Beautification Association. The association is also involved in the maintenance of customs and organizes, among other things, the annual solstice bonfires.
  • At the 5th Waldviertel Village Games in 2003, Germanns was chosen from more than 15 participants as the most beautiful village.

Web links

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ 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. 114 , accessed May 5, 2019 .
  5. ^ 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 (1989, 1990, 1994).
  6. ↑ a b Important for Germanns. (PDF; 91 kB) City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on July 30, 2009 .