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Großpoppen (available) ( single settlement ) cadastral community Großpoppen
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Zwettl  (ZT), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Zwettl
Pole. local community	Allentsteig
Locality	Allentsteig
Coordinates	48 ° 40 ′ 1 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 1 ″  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  E
Area  d. KG	5.25 km²
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	24023
Counting district / district	Kaufholz (32501 003)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Großpoppen or Groß-Poppen was a rural village with a castle and church and has been an uninhabited cadastral municipality of the municipality of Allentsteig in Lower Austria with an area of ​​524.95 hectares since January 1st, 1964 . In order to be able to create the Allentsteig military training area , the residents of the village were evacuated from 1938 onwards .

history

Emergence

The place Groß-Poppen with the castle and the parish church was located southeast of Allentsteig. The war memorial and, since 1754, a statue of John Nepomuk were located near the bridge over the Thauabach or the small Thaya, which flowed through the Anger and flowed into the Poppener Teich .

Großpoppen was first mentioned in 1150 in an exchange document between Bishop Konrad von Passau and Heinrich von Kameck and was the seat of a knight family of the same name in the 12th century. As a result of the looting and destruction of the place in 1619 , 28 of 40 houses were still uninhabited in 1655.

Parish Church Großpoppen (before 1911)

The time of the construction of the later parish church of St. John the Baptist and the founding of the parish of Großpoppen are not known. As an independent parish , it is listed in the list of benefices of the Diocese of Passau as early as 1332 .

Between around 1565 and 1650 the parish of Groß-Poppen was Protestant .

After numerous changes of ownership, Joachim Freiherr von Windhag acquired the rule and the castle in Großpoppen in 1656 . He had this renovated and increased. In 1675 he converted his possessions into the Windhag'sche Scholarship Foundation, which still exists today and is administered by the Province of Lower Austria .

The place was abandoned in the 20th century

In August 1932, Adolf Hitler was granted honorary citizenship by the Großpoppen municipal council . A short time later, however, some town council members stated that they had only been forced to agree to this decision. According to a decision by the Lower Austrian provincial government of October 14, 1932, this appointment was prohibited because Adolf Hitler had not been an Austrian citizen since 1925.

In order to be able to set up the Allentsteig military training area, the population had to leave Großpoppen, which consists of 57 houses, by August 5, 1938.

The management of the parish registers of Großpoppen from 1624 was taken over by the parish Großpoppen in 1661. With the abolition of the Großpoppen parish, these were taken over for safekeeping by the Allentsteig parish.

On the private initiative of a woman who was born in Großpoppen and resettled there, a small memorial for resettlement was created in a former cellar. Although Großpoppen is in the restricted military area , visits organized by the woman and the parish of Allentsteig are tolerated.

Local history researcher Alois Plesser worked as a priest in Großpoppen between 1894 and 1906.

Sankt-Gregorius-Kirche in Thurnholze

The Sankt-Gregorius-Kirche was a small pilgrimage church south of Großpoppen. The church was first mentioned under the then name "Sand Grain" in 1495 on the occasion of a foundation. After acquiring Gut Rausmanns in 1659, Joachim Freiherr von Windhag had a new chapel consecrated to St. Gregory built as a replacement for the already dilapidated church, including a sacristan's house, and a chapel dedicated to St. Jodok above the neighboring Bründl.

A Gothic statue of St. Ulrich from the old St. Gran Chapel was brought to the Großpoppen rectory.

In 1786 the chapel had to be closed and demolished. The sacristan's house existed until 1830.

literature

• Paul Buberl: The monuments of the political district Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey). Part 1: Allentsteig judicial district (= Austrian art topography . Vol. 8, 1). Commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1911.
• Wolfgang Etschmann, Hubert Speckner (Ed.): For the protection of the Republic of Austria ... (= writings on the history of the Austrian Armed Forces. Special vol.). Gra & Wis, Vienna, 2005, ISBN 3-902455-03-9 .
• Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland. 2nd Edition. Association Information Waldviertel, Allentsteig 1998, ISBN 3-9500294-0-0 .
• Margot Schindler : Having to go. The resettlement of the Döllersheim area (Lower Austria) 1938–1942. Folklore aspects (= publications of the Austrian Museum for Folklore 23). Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900359-38-5 .
• Ernst-Werner Techow: The old home. Description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim. Published by the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Berlin. Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH, Eger 1942.

Web links

• Groß-Poppen (in the book: The desecrated homeland)

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Müllner: The desecrated home.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Directory of Lower Austria 2001.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Techow: The old home.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Buberl: Austrian Art Topography.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Schindler: having to go.