Rotten

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Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '  N , 15 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Austria
District : Zwettl
Cadastral parish of: Zwettl-Lower Austria
KG number: 24315
Residents : 191 (2001 census)
Area : 5.62 km²
Population density : 33.99 / km²
Postal code : A-3910
Area code : 02822
politics
Mayor : Hermann Steininger
(as of September 15, 2019)

Gerotten 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 191 inhabitants on an area of ​​5.62 km².

geography

Gerotten is about four kilometers as the crow flies north of the city center of Zwettl on Zwettler Straße (B 36). The place is connected to the Austrian intercity bus network by post buses ; There is also a stop for the Schwarzenau – Zwettl – Martinsberg local railway , whose passenger service was discontinued in December 2010.

The municipality borders on the cadastral community Großhaslau in the northwest , Germanns in the northeast, Pötzles in the east , Zwettl Stift from south to southwest and Gradnitz in the west . The cadastral community of Pötzles to the east was forcibly evacuated after the connection for the construction of the Döllersheim military training area and is still a restricted military area today.

history

  • Gerotten was first mentioned in a document around 1139 with the name Lerates . The name means something like: "Settlement of a man with the (Slavic) name Jarota or Jerota".
Population
development
date Residents
1869 200
1951 186
1961 184
1971 187
1981 179
1991 187
2001 191
2011 193
  • On January 1, 1968, the communities of Gerotten, Stift Zwettl and Rudmanns merged to form the new community of Stift Zwettl, which in 1970 voluntarily joined the town of Zwettl.

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. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ^ Parish consolidation . City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on July 15, 2009 .