Grünbach am Schneeberg

market community Grünbach am Schneeberg
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Neunkirchen
License plate :	NK
Surface:	7.34 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 48 '  N , 15 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '53 "  N , 15 ° 59' 13"  E
Height :	557  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,579 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	215 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2733
Area code :	02637
Community code :	3 18 13
Address of the municipal administration:	Wr. Neustädter Strasse 1 2733 Grünbach am Schneeberg
Website:	www.gruenbach-schneeberg.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Peter Steinwender ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2020) (19 members)	10 9 10 9  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 10 ÖVP : 9
Location of Grünbach am Schneeberg in the Neunkirchen district
Northwest view of Grünbach am Schneeberg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Grünbach am Schneeberg is a market town with 1579 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria .

geography

Grünbach am Schneeberg is located in the southern industrial district in Lower Austria, around 8 km east of Puchberg am Schneeberg . The community lies at the foot of the southern end of the Hohe Wand ; the area belongs to the Northern Limestone Alps .

The area of ​​the market town covers 7.36 square kilometers. 53.55 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

• Grünbach am Schneeberg (1405)
• Neusiedl am Walde (174)

The cadastral communities are Grünbach am Schneeberg and Neusiedl am Walde.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Schrattenbach , Würflach , Willendorf , Höflein an der Hohen Wand and Puchberg am Schneeberg .

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

The name Grünbach has two parallel language developments, on the one hand from the name Grunebach in 1140, on the other hand from Gumplaha , which developed into Gruenbach in the Josephine version and Gienplach in the Theresian version by 1787 .

The until then remote and poor rural community experienced a significant upswing through the discovery of hard coal in 1823 and the subsequent mining in the Grünbach coal district . The coal layers lie in rocks of the Gosau group , which were deposited here in the Campanian period about 84 to 70 million years ago.

The opening of the Schneebergbahn from Wiener Neustadt to Puchberg am Schneeberg in 1897, which also served to transport coal, and the associated cogwheel train to the Schneeberg also brought further tourism . Numerous shelters and pensions were built for this purpose.

In 1927 there was a report on the project of a cable car to the Hohe Wand (mountain station: Große Kanzel or Eicherthütte ), an alternative to the technically and financially more expensive variant Willendorf - Hubertushaus . In this way, a double chairlift was actually the first to be built in Lower Austria in 1965, which was in operation until 1994.

The Grünbach coal mining had to be closed in 1965 for economic reasons. On the Neuschacht site , the German Karl Weiss GmbH established an industrial company for the manufacture of refrigeration machines and air conditioning centers. In the 1970s, the Grünbach plant was taken over by Österreichische Klima-Technik GmbH (ÖKG), which became the most important local employer thanks to successful business with Eastern Europe. In 1981 the ÖKG went into bankruptcy, which was highly regarded and also put the Länderbank under great pressure, and the plant again became a subsidiary of the German Weiss Klimatechnik GmbH (WKT). After the political change in the east , the Grünbach plant ran into difficulties and was severely dismantled in 1993 despite financial aid from the state of Lower Austria. Renamed in 1996 to Climatech GmbH, then in 1999 to Clima Tech Airconditioners GmbH, the company moved to Ternitz in 1999 and the old industrial buildings were abandoned. The Lebensbogen association has been based in the old factory hall since 2018 .

Population development

religion

According to the 2001 census , 72.6% of the population are Roman Catholic and 2.5% Protestant . 5.3% are Muslims , 0.6% belong to Orthodox churches and 0.1% are Israelite . 18.5% of the population have no religious denomination.

Church and Parish

The patronage of St. Michael the Archangel suggests a Carolingian origin in an area scattered by Franconian and Bavarian populations as early as the year 900. In the course of the great 2nd Bavarian conquest, a typical church village was founded soon after 1100. As usual, the well-fortified church was given a raised space above the planned street village and is still surrounded by the cemetery today.

The first “people priest” named Martinus can be traced back to 1347. The church was probably already at that time as a fief in the no longer existing church of St. Ulrich in front of the walls of Wiener Neustadt. Like some neighboring churches (e.g. St. Egyden) it is said to have been in constant possession of the Crusader Order of the Knights Templar, which was dissolved in 1308.

From the beginning, the church was under the control of the diocese of Salzburg, whose “Neustädter District” in south-eastern Lower Austria was organized and administered by the parish from Styria. The parish has always included the present-day communities Grünbach am Schneeberg and Schrattenbach, and until 1783 also the present-day parish Maria Kirchbüchl - Rotengrub.

In 1445 the church with St. Ulrich came to the monastery of the secular canons, which was built there and in 1459 came into the possession of the regulated (Augustinian) canons. Around this time, the nave and the late Gothic chancel were enlarged.

During all the Turkish storms (1529, 1532, 1683) the church and the rectory were badly damaged. After 1529 St. Ulrich ceased to exist and the church and its property came to the bishop of Wiener Neustadt, although it was still under canonical law of Salzburg.

In 1683, many of the parishioners who fled to the church were killed, the pastor Matthias Fabritius was abducted to Petronell and killed there. Because of the constant poverty of the parish, the reconstruction was slow and limited. The original cross ribs of the vaults and the stone tracery of the windows are still missing today. The pastoral care of a pastor, who had to live in the dilapidated rectory for decades, was only interrupted for a short time, but the oldest surviving registers only begin in 1726.

Only through the efforts of the hermit Anton Krenn, who lived in a hermitage near Grünbach from 1747 to 1791, could a modest improvement in the interior of the church be achieved. The oldest of the three bells in the church is also the only one from this period. It bears the inscription "Mich goss Christoph Packendorff Anno 1757" and survived all the forced metal deliveries of the later wars.

After a brief interlude under the diocese of Wiener Neustadt and St. Pölten, the parish was finally assigned to the diocese of Vienna in 1785 under Joseph II.

Due to the coal mining from 1825 to 1965, the originally purely rural parish mutated into an industrial parish. In 1865 the organ that still exists today and in 1889 a neo-Gothic wooden high altar was built

Under Dechant Heigel (1936–1973) the church received a new altar made of white marble, the present-day St. Mary's altar, the glass mosaic windows and the numerous wall mosaics. When Grünbach lay in the front line for 22 days in 1945, the church was less, but the rectory was so badly damaged that it had to be demolished.

Today, after the mine was closed in 1965, the parish is a residential parish with many commuters and pensioners. The church is open all the time during the day.

Community partnerships

• Emmerting in Bavaria

politics

Municipal office (2017) at Wiener Neustädter Strasse 1

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 SPÖ and 8 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 SPÖ and 9 ÖVP.

mayor

• 1850: Mathias Imnitzer, farmer, magistrate
• 1865–1870: Josef Wagner, farmer
• 1871–1876: Johann Gerhartl, farmer
• 1877–1879: Alois Bauer, businessman
• 1880–1888: Johann Gerhartl, farmer
• 1889–1907: Josef Kutterer, shoemaker, farmer
• 1908–1919: Josef Schmoll, farmer
• 1920–1934: Eduard Lintner, senior teacher
• 1935–1938: Anton Pfarrer, farmer
• 1938–1942: Rudolf Höllriegl, businessman
• 1942–1945: Johann Dietl, employee
• 1945: Raimund Matulka, miner
• 1945–1946: Johann Krumböck, miner
• 1946–1955: Johann Wagner, miner
• 1955–1967: Johann Gschweidl, miner
• 1968–1991: Rudolf Hasun, ÖBB official
• 1991–2016: Franz Holzgethan (SPÖ)
• since 2016 Peter Steinwender (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Parish church Grünbach am Schneeberg

See also:  List of listed objects in Grünbach am Schneeberg

• Catholic parish church Grünbach am Schneeberg hl. Michael
• Mining museum
• Musikverein Bergknappenkapelle Grünbach

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  Schneeberg Railway Station

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  In the blessing of God pit coal was once promoted

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  A cart reminds of the once prosperous coal mining industry

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  graveyard

economy

Grünbach and its coal mines (center right), around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey )

There were 64 non-agricultural workplaces in 2001, agricultural and forestry operations according to the 1999 survey 20. The number of people in work at the place of residence was 701 according to the 2001 census. In 2001, the activity rate was 40.37 percent.

traffic

• Street: Grünbach is located on Puchberger Straße B 26, via which Puchberg am Schneeberg to the west and the district capital Neunkirchen (via a junction) and the capital of the industrial distributor Wiener Neustadt can be reached in an easterly direction .
• Rail: Grünbach is also well connected to Wiener Neustadt via the Wiener Neustadt-Puchberg am Schneeberg railway ( Schneebergbahn ).

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• Franz Holzgethan, Mayor of Grünbach am Schneeberg 1991–2016

Sons and daughters of the church

• Rudolf Gschweidl (1905–1975), politician
• Hans Kaiser (* 1926), politician

Web links

Commons : Grünbach am Schneeberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Grünbach am Schneeberg website
• Site of the Schneeberg parishes
• Mining Museum Grünbach
• 31813 - Grünbach am Schneeberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ R. Oberhauser, FK Bauer: The geological structure of Austria. Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-211-81556-2 , p. 549. PDF file ; accessed on January 2, 2010.
3. ↑ All sorts of things. Austria. A cable car to the Hohe Wand and the Schneeberg . In: Baden newspaper. April 2, 1927, p. 5 (online)
4. ↑ Sunday: Lift to Hohe Wand . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 10, 1965, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ HISTORIC DOUBLE CHAIR LIFT HOHE WAND in the Web Museum accessed on April 14, 2015
6. ↑ Air conditioning technology under palm trees. In: Der Standard , August 25, 2013, accessed on August 13, 2019.
7. ↑ Matusch Plonner: White technique: a new concept to save company . In: Neue NÖN . 1993., No. 48., November 1993, p. 19.
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2013 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. 
9. ^ Grünbach am Schneeberg: New facility on track. In: NÖN , January 16, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019
10. ^ Website of the Verein Lebensbogen , accessed on August 13, 2019.
11. ↑ Schneeberg parishes - Grünbach. Retrieved June 15, 2018 . 
12. ^ Result of the local council election in 1995 in Grünbach am Schneeberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on September 27, 2019 . 
13. ^ Result of the municipal council election 2000 in Grünbach am Schneeberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on September 27, 2019 . 
14. ^ Result of the 2005 municipal council election in Grünbach am Schneeberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on September 27, 2019 . 
15. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Grünbach am Schneeberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on September 27, 2019 . 
16. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Grünbach am Schneeberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Grünbach am Schneeberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Mayor. (No longer available online.) In: www.gruenbach.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2009 ; accessed on October 17, 2016 . 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.  
19. ↑ Mag. Peter Steinwender is the new mayor of Grünbach am Schneeberg SPÖ Grünbach, September 27, 2016
20. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/neunkirchen/politik/altbuergermeister-ist-jetzt-gruenbacher-ehrenbuerger-d2276666.html (accessed on February 11, 2018)