Gschwendt (municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria)

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Gschwendt ( village )
locality
cadastral community Gschwendt
administrative district
Gschwendt (municipality of Zwettl-Niederösterreich) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Zwettl  (ZT), Lower Austria
Judicial district Zwettl
Pole. local community Zwettl-Lower Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 34 '50 "  N , 15 ° 7' 58"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '50 "  N , 15 ° 7' 58"  E
height 603  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 154 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 60 (2001)
Area  d. KG 5.57 km²
Post Code 3910 Zwettl
prefix + 43/02822 (Zwettl)
Mayor Herbert Grassinger
(as of Sept. 15, 2019)
Statistical identification
Locality code 07038
Cadastral parish number 24321
Counting district / district Gschwendt (32530 003)
Population density 34.29 / km²
Source: STAT : Place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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Gschwendt is a village in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria and a locality and cadastral municipality of the municipality of Zwettl-Niederösterreich in the Zwettl district .

geography

Gschwendt is about four kilometers southwest of the city center of Zwettl on Böhmerwald Straße  (B 38). According to the 2001 census, the cadastral community had 191 inhabitants on an area of ​​5.57 km².

The place is connected to the Austrian intercity bus network by post buses . To the east of the village, the Hundertwasserweg (named after the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser ), a popular hiking trail, runs along the Kamp , past the Schwarzalm and Gschwendtmühle, to Zwettl.

The cadastral area also includes the Gschwendtmühle, Schwarzmühle and the Schwarzalm inn . It borders in the north-west on the cadastral community of Waldhams , north on Moidrams , in the north-east on Koppenzeil , east on Zwettl Stadt and Böhmhöf , in the south-east on Großweißbach (community Großgöttfritz) , south-west on Uttissenbach and in the west on Merzenstein .

history

  • Gschwendt was first mentioned in a document around 1197 as Swente . The name means something like " land cleared and made arable by Schwenden (burning) ".
  • When the feudal social system was abolished in the Austrian Empire after the revolution of 1848/49 , Gschwendt constituted itself together with Moidrams and Syrafeld to form an independent local community.
  • On January 1, 1970, the local community of Gschwendt joined the newly formed city of Zwettl-Lower Austria.
The electrical power and light center of the Zwettler Elektricitäts-Genossenschaft (ZEG) around 1900
Population
development
date Residents
1869 177
1951 139
1961 146
1971 214
1981 151
1991 176
2001 191
2011 177

The Zwettler E-Werk

Near the Gschwendtmühle in Kamp was on January 6, 1898 to a construction time of about ten months, the power company (electric power and light-Centrale) of Elektricitäts cooperative Zwettlerstrasse  (CPB) taken with an alternator in operation. Electric street lighting was installed in Zwettl that same year. In 1900, the ZEC supplied Zwettl with electricity to several surrounding villages from here using overland power lines. The small hydropower plant, newly built in 2010, has an installed capacity of 211 kW and is operated by evn naturkraft .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor - All. In: zwettl.gv.at. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Census of May 15, 2001: inhabitants by locality. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Statistics Austria. Federal Statistical Office Austria, p. 1 , accessed on August 10, 2009 .
  3. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): The cities of Lower Austria . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1982, ISBN 978-3-7001-0463-6 , p. 388 .
  4. ↑ Hundertwasserweg - Zwettl. In: tiscover.com. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  5. ^ Cadastral communities, initial mention and interpretation of names. City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on August 10, 2009 . Cf. Elisabeth Schuster: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names . Ed .: Association for regional studies of Lower Austria. Vienna (1989, 1990, 1994).
  6. ↑ 1850, congregations are formed. In: zwettl.gv.at. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Parish consolidation . City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on August 10, 2009 . see. Franz Bleidl: The Kuenringerstadt . Ed .: Hans Hakala, Walter Pongratz. Stadtgemeinde Zwettl, 1980, amalgamation of municipalities, p. 346-348 .
  8. ↑ Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 4: Waidhofen an der Thaya, Wiener Neustadt (Land), Vienna area, Zwettl. (PDF; 840 KB) In: oeaw.ac.at. ÖAW , August 31, 2016, p. 114 f. , accessed on May 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ New construction of the EVN small hydropower plant in Zwettl completed. 2010, accessed October 10, 2019 .