Grafenschlag (municipality of Vitis)

Grafenschlag ( village ) locality cadastral community Grafenschlag
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Waidhofen an der Thaya  (WT), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Waidhofen an der Thaya
Pole. local community	Vitis
Coordinates	48 ° 46 '17 "  N , 15 ° 12' 40"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '17 "  N , 15 ° 12' 40"  E
Residents of the village	94 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	45 (2001)
Area  d. KG	2.93 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	06510
Cadastral parish number	21124
Counting district / district	Grafenschlag (32219 004)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Grafenschlag is a cadastral community and a place in the market town of Vitis , Waidhofen an der Thaya district . In 2001 the place had a population of 95 people.

location

The cadastral municipality of Grafenschlag is located in the east of the municipality of Vitis and borders in the east on the municipality of Windigsteig (cadastral municipality of Kleinreichenbach ). Grafenschlag shares the remaining borders with the Vitiser cadastral communities. In the northeast of Grafenschlag Eschenau , in the north Jetzleser Wald and Stoies , in the west Jetzles and in the south the cadastral community Vitis with the Kart Vitis and the village Schacherdorf .

The cadastral community of Grafenschlag borders the Schacherwald in the east and includes the formerly stately Schacherteich in the south. The village of Grafenschlag itself is an anger village located in a depression and comprises around 30 houses. The place is accessed by a road that leads from the Vitis market to Eschenau.

history

Population development

The place name Grafenschlag is first documented in a document from 1436, with which Passau Bishop Leonhard von Laiming issued a fiefdom for tithe in Graffenschlag . The name Grafenschlag is derived from the clearing by a count ( von Hardegg ).

Grafenschlag comprised 18 houses in the years 1590/91, in 1633 two farms, ten fiefs, one half-farm and five farms belonged to Grafenschlag, with three houses being recorded as deserted in 1633. The land, local and regional authority was in the hands of the Schwarzenau rulership. The growth of the village remained low for centuries. In 1796 there were 19 houses in Grafenschlag, in 1848 there were 23. By 1951 the place grew to 26 houses, in 2000 there were 32. At the same time, the population fell significantly in the second half of the 20th century.

In the political field, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) dominates the election results, analogous to the municipal level. The ÖVP in the Grafenschlag district electoral district achieved 80% (municipality result: 70%) and the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) 20.0% (municipality result: 30%) in the 2010 municipal council elections , whereby the ÖVP made significant gains compared to the 2005 municipal council elections at the expense of SPÖ could book.

Buildings

The village of Grafenschlag is a double-row village that has been widened like a meadow with garden fields. The three and four-sided courtyards are partly decorated with simple plaster facade structures from the 19th century and partly have historicist elements. The local chapel was built between 1790 and 1827 and rebuilt in 1901. It is consecrated to "Queen Maria" and has a semicircular apse and gable facade. The niche figure under the ridge turret with a pointed gable helmet represents St. Florian. Inside, the chapel is dominated by a rococo altar with winding columns, with the Byzantine miraculous image showing St. Mary with child.

Next to the local chapel there are several small monuments in Grafenschlag. The statue of St. Felix von Cantalice in the village of Grafenschlag dates from 1739 and has a coat of arms of the Polheims. In the south of the village there is an eight-sided granite tabernacle, which was built in the 16th or 17th century. There is also a high stone cross from 1862 north of the village.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria (PDF file; 8 kB) Census from May 15, 2001, inhabitants by location
2. ↑ 850 years of Vitis. P. 142
3. ^ SPÖ Vitis (PDF; 15 kB) 2010 election results after polling

literature

• Federal Monuments Office : Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube , Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2
• Market town of Vitis (ed.): 850 years of Vitis. Market town of Vitis, Vitis 2000

Web links

• Grafenbach on the website of the market town of Vitis