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Grafensulz ( village ) locality cadastral municipality Grafensulz
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Mistelbach  (MI), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Shop village
Coordinates	48 ° 33 '7 "  N , 16 ° 26' 37"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '7 "  N , 16 ° 26' 37"  E
height	236  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	148 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	6.12 km²
Post Code	2126
Statistical identification
Locality code	05073
Cadastral parish number	15015
Counting district / district	' Grafensulz' (31630 006)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Grafensulz is a small village in the northern Weinviertel in Lower Austria and a locality and cadastral municipality of the municipality of Ladendorf .

General

Grafensulz is located in the Leiser Berge area , where the Taschelbach rises. This forms the southern local border. The cadastral area, which covers 6.12 km², has a northern, slightly hilly part.

In the middle of the 20th century Grafensulz still had over 200 residents with a total of 76 houses and 60 businesses. Today Grafensulz still has 70 houses, often older or already uninhabited, 78 residents and only 2 businesses. Thanks to new settlers, Grafensulz has seen new growth again in recent years. The place now has almost 20 children.

In addition to 444 hectares of grain, tubers and root crops fields, medium-quality wine is also produced on an area of ​​11 hectares.

history

The place Grafensulz, which belongs to the market town of Ladendorf , extends over ancient settlement soil. The oldest evidence of humans (bone finds) comes from the Ice Age and therefore belongs to the Paleolithic . The Younger Stone Age is represented by large settlements of linear ceramics (older, middle and late phase). In addition to the usual peasant settlement inventories, such as pottery and stone artefacts, an artistically designed face applique is particularly noteworthy, which documents the image of man around seven thousand years ago. This is followed by settlements of the tapestry ceramic and painted ceramic culture. End-Neolithic evidence is also available.

The Bronze Age is represented by settlement materials from the early phase ( Aunjetitz culture ), but there are also finds from the middle and late stages. After the urn field culture , the late Iron Age ( Latène Age ) is only documented by materials here. After the turn of the ages, Germanic tribes settled here , who also had a representative building ("princely seat"), as finds from Roman bricks indicate. In the early Middle Ages have Slavs settled here, like a grave Fund and small traces of settlement have. The preceding presentation is based on the research results of Hermann Maurer, which are recorded in the articles listed below, but also in numerous reports to the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna, published in the journal Fund reports from Austria .

Grafensulz is first mentioned in 1308, when Hademar von Asparn donated goods to the Altenburg monastery in this village. One interpretation of the name could be “the swamp of the countesses”. When Reinprecht II von Walsee came into the possession of Asparn as a pledge , a dispute arose over the property, but in 1413 it was decided in favor of the monastery. In the 15th century, a Herting family owned the court in Grafensulz, which was lent by the sovereign.

Parish church hl. Aegyd with cemetery

There was probably a church. Components of the St. Ägidius Church, which is situated far outside the town on a hill that has been prepared like a Hausberg, show Romanesque shapes that were probably built around 1200. The Aegidius Church, which also has the second oldest baptismal font in Austria, was, like the rectory of Mistelbach , an asylum site, which meant that the gate had to be open day and night so that the priests could offer asylum to those seeking protection. The parish only became independent in 1560. The Trinity column (representation of the Sonntagberg mercy seat) in front of the rectory was only transferred from the cemetery here in 1900.

The primary school, which was closed in 1962 due to the raising of the educational standard, was built in 1889, but one existed earlier. The Grafensulz volunteer fire brigade has existed here since 1898 .

All that is known of recent historical events is that the Prussians were quartered in large numbers in Grafensulz in 1866 and that 40 people died of the cholera they brought in. The two world wars also claimed their victims - the first five and the second 21 dead or missing. The invasion of the Russian troops took place on April 20, 1945 without a fight, so that the place suffered looting, but no other damage.

Infrastructure

The public transport situation in Grafensulz is poor, the Postbus only runs three times a day.

There is no shop, the last grocer closed his shop in 1990. As a substitute, a baker drives to Grafensulz three times a week and supplies the residents with food.

Grafensulz was connected to the sewer system in summer 2005 and the road surface was renewed in 2007.

On Tourist project a Draisinenbahn from Ernstbrunn to Asparn be Grafensulz has been involved with a Laabstation (inn).

literature

• Hermann Maurer : On the prehistory and early history of Grafensulz. In: Mannus Library 28, 1987, p. 982 ff.
• Hermann Maurer: Neolithic from northern Lower Austria. In: Mannus 54, 1988, p. 251 ff.
• Hermann Maurer: Introduction to the prehistory and early history of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel. In: From the prehistory of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel , Mannus Library NF Volume 32, 1989. P. 26 ff.
• Hermann Maurer: Further finds from Grafensulz, pBMistelbach. In: Unser Heimat 62, 1991, pp. 356 ff.
• Hermann Maurer: A Neolithic settlement near Grafensulz. In: Archäologie Österreichs 3/1, 1992, p. 32 ff.
• Hermann Maurer: A linear ceramic face applique from Grafensulz, Lower Austria. In: Archeology Austria 10/1, 1999, p. 22.

Web links

• Online presence of the municipality of Ladendorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weinvierteldraisine.AT online presence Weinvierteldraisine tourism offer