Sallingberg

market community

Sallingberg

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Zwettl

License plate :

ZT

Surface:

51.61 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 28 ' N , 15 ° 14' E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '0 " N , 15 ° 13' 58" E

Height :

766 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,265 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

25 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

3524, 3525, 3631, 3913, 3914

Area code :

02877

Community code :

3 25 22

NUTS region

AT124

Address of the
municipal administration:

Sallingberg 31
3525 Sallingberg

Website:

www.sallingberg.at

politics

Mayor :

Leopold Bock ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

13

3

2

1

13 3 2 1

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 13
BGS : 3
FPÖ : 2
SPÖ : 1

Location of Sallingberg in the Zwettl district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

BW

Sallingberg is a market town with 1265 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Zwettl district in Lower Austria .

View of the village church

geography

Geographical location

Sallingberg is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 51.63 square kilometers. 55.62 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Arm blow (84)
Grainbrunn (154)
Grossnondorf (152)
Heubach (34)
Camles (31)
Kleinhaslau (57)
Lugendorf (102)
Moni wood (144)
Rabenhof (27)
Sallingberg (368)
Spielleithen (34)
Voitschlag (78)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Armschlag, Großnondorf, Heubach, Kamles, Kleinhaslau, Lugendorf, Moniholz, Rabenhof, Sallingberg, Spielleithen and Voitschlag.

Neighboring communities

Grafenschlag	Grossgöttfritz	Waldhausen
Bad Traunstein		Lichtenau in the Waldviertel
Ottenschlag	Kottes-Purk	Albrechtsberg on the Great Krems

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1208 as the Saligin Mountains , the name probably means "mountain of the saline people". The Middle High German "saelic" stands for "happy and freed from all earthly evils". Other forms of name are 1269 Sellingberg, 1272 Salingberg, 1284 Seligenberg, 1330 Seligenperge, 1374 Sälingberg, 1388 Seligenperg and 1464 Salingperg. In the first documentary mention of the place, a "Riwinus de Saliginberge" is mentioned, who attends a funeral as a witness. This was probably a servant or small nobleman who was in the service of Ulrich von Imbach .

View of the village square

In the course of the foundation of the Imbach monastery by Albero, Truchseß von Feldsberg, the local church is mentioned for the first time in 1269 . The parish was originally part of the Obermeisling parish. In the 14th century the parish was assigned to the dean's office in Krems-Stein, during the Reformation times and the Thirty Years War the place was affected, the church and the rectory were devastated and the bells and the chalice of the church were stolen.

In 1788 the first school building was built in the village, and in 1875 it was given an additional floor. It was replaced by a new building in 1963.

In 1893 there were extensive road modifications in the village, due to the steadily increasing movement of goods, a post office was installed in December 1900, and in 1946 a post office was finally opened at the instigation of the mayor at the time. In 1884 the fire brigade was founded in Sallingberg and the fire station was built right at the entrance to the village. It has since been torn down due to space problems and rebuilt in the Kremstal. In the same year the Raiffeisenkassa was founded in the village. In 1909 5 houses burned down in the village in a serious fire accident. Also worth mentioning is the house with sgraffito paintings, which was built in place of the former forester's house in 1850/51. In 1950, NEWAG finally connected the entire town to the power grid.

Arm blow

The place, which lies on the main road between Lugendorf and Ottenschlag, is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1341 as "Aerbenschlag", the name indicates a forest felling that goes back to an Aribo . The inhabitants were forest farmers who practiced meager agriculture. In the course of the centuries two mills and two board saws were built in the area of the Great Krems where the place is located. At the end of 1951, the place was connected to the public power grid, since the 1980s the "Mohndorf Armschlag" established itself as a tourist term, in the village, products made from poppy seeds and events on the subject are advertised.

Heubach

The village, located off the road between Sallingberg and Lugendorf, consists of the two hamlets Ober- and Unterheubach. In 1267 the place is mentioned for the first time in writing as Haipach, Unterheubach is the older part of the agricultural place. Since the end of 1946 the place has been connected to the NEWAG public power grid.

Camles

The village is located north of Voitschlag and east of Kaltenbrunn at around 700 meters above sea level above the Kleines Kamp valley . Kamles is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1252 as "Chambeleins", the name means something like place on the Kleiner Kamp. In 1880 the small chapel was built in the village, the schoolhouse was opened in 1895 instead of the Wagleithner farmhouse. In 1947 the place was finally connected to the public electricity network.

Kleinhaslau chapel

Kleinhaslau

The place between Voitschlag and Kamles at 720 meters used to be called "Zaglau"; it was first mentioned in writing in 1297 as "Zaglav". In 1720 the place was renamed Kleinhaslau at the request of the residents of Zagelau. The prayer chapel has existed in the village since 1851 and has been publicly electrified since 1947.

Lugendorf

The place on the main road between Grafenschlag and Armschlag is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1309, and in 1320 it appears as "Lvgendorf". In the course of the Thirty Years' War the place was heavily devastated, also during the Napoleonic Wars. On May 2, 1798, there was a devastating local fire in which 11 houses fell victim to the flames, on April 28, 1833 there was another fire in a total of 8 houses. The local chapel was built in 1829, followed by the establishment of a single-class elementary school in 1875/76, which was closed again in 1968/69. In October 1946 the place was finally electrified.

Rabenhof

The place located at 760 meters above sea level on the road between Sallingberg and Kottes is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1355. The chapel built in the village in the 19th century was renovated in 1936, and in 1950 the village was electrified.

Spielleithen

The settlement is located south-southeast of Sallingberg on a hill south of the Große Krems at around 750 meters above sea level. It is mentioned in writing for the first time in 1361 as "Spilleyten". 1950 the place is electrified.

Voitschlag

The place, north of Sallingberg at 750 meters above sea level, is mentioned for the first time in writing in 1267 as "villa Voitslage", the name goes back to the felling of the forest on behalf of a bailiff . Around 1300 the place was briefly deserted. In the summer of 1946 the place was finally electrified.

Chapel in Voitschlag

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1471 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 1601 inhabitants, in 1981 1548 and in 1971 1619 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

Grainbrunn parish church

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 64 non-agricultural workplaces, and there were 168 in agriculture and forestry according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in work at home was 608 according to the 2001 census. The 2001 employment rate was 42.42 percent.

politics

Municipal council

In the market, municipal there after the local elections of 26 January 2020 a total of 19 seats mandate following distribution: 13 OVP, Bürgerliste community Sallingberg (BGS) 3, FPO 2 and SPO. 1

mayor

Mayor of the market town is Leopold Bock, district manager Erwin Schnait.

Personalities

Benno Sulzberger (* 1947), member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 2008 to 2013
Leopold Eder (1823–1902), Austrian composer

literature

Festschrift commemorating the first documentary mention of the parish Sallingberg 700 years ago, published in 1969 by the Sallingberg community

Web links

Commons : Sallingberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

32522 - Sallingberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Parish Sallinberg ( places and local history )

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )