Griesbach (municipality of Groß Gerungs)

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Griesbach ( village )
locality
cadastral community Griesbach
Griesbach (municipality of Groß Gerungs) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Zwettl  (ZT), Lower Austria
Judicial district Zwettl
Pole. local community Great Gerungs
Coordinates 48 ° 31 '28 "  N , 14 ° 56' 51"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '28 "  N , 14 ° 56' 51"  Ef1
height 780  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 242 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 89 (2001)
Area  d. KG 7.69 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code 06793
Cadastral parish number 24121
Counting district / district Griesbach (32508 009)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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Parish Church of Griesbach

Griesbach is a cadastral municipality in the municipality of Groß Gerungs in Lower Austria in the Waldviertel .

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1287, when Leutold I von Kuenring (from the Dürnstein line of this house) gave the villages of (Groß-) Gundholz and Griezpach to the Zwettl monastery in the event of his childless death . The name means "sandy brook" on whose banks the village originated; in addition, the place was also on an old north-south road. In the later Middle Ages and early modern times, the Lords of Ottenschlag, the Starhemberg as Lords of Arbesbach and the Lords of Rappottenstein were landlords in Griesbach, as we know from the land register of the Rappottenstein rule of 1556 and the so-called preparation book of 1590/1591. At that time Griesbach belonged to the parish association of Kirchbach and at the end of the 16th century, like most of the region, had become Protestant. It was only after the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 that counter-Reformation efforts made the Waldviertel again a predominantly Catholic area, whereby the Griesbachers are said to have shown themselves to be particularly half-tempered towards these measures, according to a report . A land register of the Arbesbach rule from the period 1729/1745 gives us a list of 14 heads of Griesbach's households during this time; mentioned are Michael Höbarth, Joseph Vogl, Mathias Huber, Mathias Pachner, Michael Leeb, Johann Haslinger, Philipp Raffeltseder, Johann Lömauer, Martin Preiser, Leopold Haslinger, Philipp Träxler, Johannes Preiser, the widowed Magdalena Pichler and Mathias Haider. In 1775 the construction of a school house began, with the shoemaker Hirschl working as a schoolmaster. Griesbach was then raised to its own parish under Emperor Joseph II (1780–1790) in 1784 (with the villages of Griesbach, Wiesensfeld, Haselbach, Mühlbach, Schönbichel, Antenfeinhöfen and Raffetshöfe); Michael Wolf (1784–1792) was the first pastor. The parish church, originally built around 1300, is dedicated to St. Nicholas ; today the parish is also looked after by the priest of the neighboring parish in Arbesbach .

The village also has an inn, a department store and a polytechnic school . In winter, cross-country skiing trails are maintained together with the neighboring village of Klein Wetzles; otherwise the main occupation of the population is still agriculture.

literature

  • A. Eggendorfer, The quarter above the Manhartsberg as reflected in the preparation book of 1590/1591 . 2 volumes, dissertation, Univ. Vienna 1974.
  • J. Frast, Historical and topographical representation of Groß Gerungs and Zwettl Abbey and the surrounding area (Topography of the Archduchy of Austria, Volume 13). Vienna 1838 (reprinted Vienna 2003).
  • G. Kernecker, Griesbach , in: J. Prinz (Ed.), Stadtgemeinde Groß Gerungs. Culture and living space in the course of time . Groß Gerungs 1999, 785-800.
  • K. Lechner, Settlement and rule history of the Waldviertel with special consideration of the Middle Ages and the early modern times , in: E. Steppan (Ed.), Das Waldviertel , 7th volume: History. Vienna 1937, Book II, 3–299.
  • M. Mauritz, Arbesbach . Arbesbach 1983
  • J. Nix, The judicial districts of Grossgerungs and Zwettl at the time of the Counter Reformation . Dissertation, Univ. Vienna 1973.
  • A. Pressler, Contributions to the history of the Griesbach parish , in: Historical supplements to the Consistorial-Currenden of the Diocese of St. Pölten, Volume II. St. Pölten 1885, 549-562.