Grub (Wienerwald community)
Grub ( village ) locality cadastral community Grub |
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Basic data | ||
Pole. District , state | Mödling (MD), Lower Austria | |
Pole. local community | Vienna Woods | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 16 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Residents of the village | 605 (January 1, 2020) | |
Area d. KG | 1.50 km² | |
Postcodes | 2392 Grub | |
prefix | + 43/02258 | |
Statistical identification | ||
Locality code | 05147 | |
Cadastral parish number | 16109 | |
Grub |
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Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS |
Grub is a village in the cadastral municipality of the same name in the Wienerwald municipality .
location
Grub is located in the northern part of the foothills of the Alps (Wienerwald) in the Mödling district , after which the community in which Grub is named. Since there are numerous localities with the same name, the name Grub in the Vienna Woods is often used to distinguish it , but this is neither official for the cadastral community nor for the locality.
Cadastral division
In the cadastral community area of Grub, in addition to the town of Grub, there is the Rotte Ameisbühel, which has grown together with Grub today, the Rotte Gföhler and part of Buchelbach.
Neighboring places
Hochstraß | Gruberau | Sulz in the Vienna Woods |
Klausen-Leopoldsdorf | Dornbach | |
Alland , Mayerling | Heiligenkreuz | Sittendorf near Vienna, Gaaden |
history
The place was first mentioned in 1254 in a document from the Heiligenkreuz Abbey. From 1849 to 1938 and again from 1954 Grub was an independent municipality. In 1972, as part of the community reform, Grub was merged with the villages of Dornbach, Sittendorf near Vienna and Sulz in the Vienna Woods to form the Wienerwald community.
On August 6, 1981, a jet aircraft of the Armed Forces of the type Saab 105 OE (Lfz GI-19 S.Nr.:105419) crashed in Grub (district Ameisbühel). The jet crashed into the home of Karl Musil , solo dancer at the Vienna State Opera . The artist, his wife and two children were badly burned. The two pilots Major Alois Strahner and Lieutenant Gerhard Wiesinger were killed.
economy
Tourism has arisen through horse breeding and keeping. Many second home owners from Vienna have also settled here.
traffic
In terms of traffic, Grub can only be reached by road with the public bus from Mödling , although there are only limited connections from the early evening. The bus network belongs to the Verkehrsverbund Ostregion. The Vienna outer ring motorway A 21 is also very close to Grub and shares a driveway with Heiligenkreuz .
tourism
The small town offers a variety of trails for hiking and horse riding. In the Vienna Woods there are only two mountains with a summit cross and a summit book, one of which is in Grub. This mountain is called Rossgipfel and it is 633 m above sea level. A. high. It is located in the north-west of the village and can only be reached via unmarked paths. However, there is no view from the Ross summit as it is forested.
building
In the valley floor in the Bachgasse is the listed , profaned Leonardi Chapel , built in 1895 in neo-Renaissance style on the site of a previous building from the 18th century , which is available for small exhibitions and vernissages .
In Grub there is a branch church, the construction of which was commissioned by the Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1968 and is dedicated to Saint Joseph. Together with the building of the Grub Volunteer Fire Brigade, in which the event center is also located, it forms a modern town center, which also includes the kindergarten for the entire Wienerwald community, located not far from Grub.
Web links
- 31726 - Vienna Woods. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ History Grubs wienerwald.org. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
Remarks
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↑ The name Grub in the Vienna Woods is used to make the place easier to find in maps and histories. The independent community, which has existed (again) since September 1, 1954, has always carried the name Grub . - See: Wilhelm Rausch (Hrsg.), Hermann Rafetseder (edit.): Area and name changes of the municipalities of Austria since the middle of the 19th century . Research on the history of cities and markets in Austria, Volume 2. Landesverlag, Linz (an der Donau) 1989, ISBN 3-900387-22-2 , pp. 333, 336, 342 f. and
part 4: Municipalities - Lower Austria - 538th Vienna Woods . In: Austrian official calendar online . Jusline Österreich GmbH (Verlag Österreich), Vienna 2002–, ZDB -ID 2126440-5 , accessed on January 11, 2015.