Gutenstein (Lower Austria)

market community Gutenstein
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Wiener Neustadt-Land
License plate :	WB
Surface:	104.03 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 53 '  N , 15 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '33 "  N , 15 ° 53' 21"  E
Height :	481  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,275 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	2770
Area code :	02634
Community code :	3 23 08
Address of the municipal administration:	Market 100 2770 Gutenstein
Website:	www.gutenstein.at
politics
Mayor :	Michael Kreuzer (GFG)
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	12 5 2 12 5 2  A total of 19 seats GFG : 12 ÖVP : 5 SPÖ : 2
Location of Gutenstein in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district
The hamlet and pilgrimage site of Mariahilfberg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gutenstein is an Austrian market town in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district in Lower Austria with 1275 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

Gutenstein is an important Catholic place of pilgrimage and, due to its climatic location, also a climatic health resort .

geography

Gutenstein is located in the industrial district in the Piesting valley in Lower Austria.

The area belongs to the Northern Limestone Alps , to the group of Gutenstein Alps named after the place , whose core zone is the Piestingtal. The area of ​​the market municipality covers 104.03 km², about 91% of the area is forested, which means that Gutenstein has the second highest proportion of forest of all municipalities in Austria (as of August 2017).

Community structure

The municipality includes a single cadastral municipality of the same name or eight localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Gutenstein (343)
• Hintergschaid (6)
• Klostertal (148) with the hamlets of Aichlmühl, Putzenhof and Wegscheid
• Längapiesting (117) with Mariahilfberg and Öhlersimmerl
• Steinapiesting (61)
• Urgersbach (1)
• Vorderbruck (589) with Blättertal, Edeltal and Eichberggraben
• Zellbach (10)

Neighboring communities

Gutenstein's neighboring communities are Miesenbach , Muggendorf , Pernitz , Waidmannsfeld , Rohr im Gebirge , which also belong to the Wiener Neustadt-Land district , and in the Neunkirchen district the communities Puchberg am Schneeberg and Schwarzau im Gebirge .

history

Until 15 BC The area was part of the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the surroundings of the Celtic hill settlement Burg on the Schwarzenbacher Burgberg , which was the main town for the entire north-east Noricum . With the incorporation of Noricum into the Imperium Romanum under Emperor Augustus , the area around today's Gutenstein also fell under the rule of the Romans and was initially in the province of Noricum, after changing the borders from 8 AD in the province of Pannonia .

The place at the foot of Gutenstein Castle, built towards the end of the 12th century (first documented mention in 1220) initially remained meaningless. In 1321 Frederick the Fair , who chose the castle as his favorite place to stay, elevated Gutenstein to the market.

In 1487 Gutenstein came under the rule of Matthias Corvinus , and in 1490 again under the Habsburgs. Gutenstein survived the Turkish invasions in 1529 and 1532 comparatively unmolested. In 1576 the Habsburgs sold the castle and the Gutenstein estate to the Hoyos family . Emperor Ferdinand II elevates the property to a county in 1628. In 1661 the market judge Sebastian Schlager brought a miraculous picture of the Virgin Mary to the Mariahilfberg, on which a monastery was built from 1679 to 1685, and a pilgrimage church in 1688, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1727.

In 1671 the Hoyos family began building their castle in the valley. The poet Ferdinand Raimund came regularly to Gutenstein from 1825, where he was buried in 1836. After the administrative reform of 1848, the community of Gutenstein took over the administration from the Counts of Hoyos. In 1877 the Gutenstein Railway was opened, which was used for the 19th century. established industrial plants (iron processing, sawmills and coal piles) was important. In 1912 the Gutenstein water pipeline was built; Gutenstein then developed into a tourist destination.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Gutenstein was briefly a frontline area and after the end of the war it belonged to the Soviet occupation zone until 1955.

The Gutenstein Raimundspiele in Bleichgarten was founded in 1993 and resumed in 2000. Summer musical courses have been held since 1995, first under the name "Cartusiana", then as Gutenstein's master classes .

In October 2018, a group of young people with Theresa Steininger and her company "wohnwagon "settled in the former inn Gutensteinerhof. Money was raised to renovate the house. The construction of caravans and houses is planned, as well as the renovation of surrounding houses in order to offer self-sufficient living for rent in terms of electricity, water and heat.

Population development

Gutenstein castle ruins

Gutenstein Castle

religion

According to the data of the 2001 census , 80.6% of the population were Roman Catholic , 3.7% Protestant , 3.8% Muslim , 2.2% belonged to Orthodox churches , and 7.9% of the population had no religious denomination.

Community partnerships

• Gutenstein in the Upper Danube Valley in Baden-Württemberg

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, and 8 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 7 Citizens' Forum Gut für Gutenstein (GFG), and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 mayors Michel Kreuzer list GFG, 5 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 1945 Ferdinand Panzenböck
• 1945–1946 Franz Gruber
• 1946–1947 Geza Bleyer-Panzenböck
• 1947–1949 Franz Gruber
• 1949–1955 Johann Rotheneder
• 1955–1975 Karl Seiser
• 1975–1990 Ernst Hohenbichler
• 1990–2005 Adolf Reuscher
• 2005–2006 Dietrich Bauer
• 2006–2015 Johannes Seper (ÖVP)
• since 2015 Michael Kreuzer (GFG)

Culture and sights

Gutenstein parish church

Gutenstein Forestry Museum

Gutenstein swimming pool

See also:  List of listed objects in Gutenstein

• Gutenstein Castle Ruins : Castle ruins with valuable late Romanesque buildings, largely renovated in the 16th and 17th centuries
• Mariahilfberg pilgrimage site with pilgrimage church: built in baroque style from 1668 to 1688. Consecrated as a church to the “Helping Virgin Mary”, destroyed by fire in the 18th century, rebuilt somewhat expanded.
• Parish church Gutenstein : (Parish church St. John the Baptist), originally Romanesque church, rebuilt and expanded several times; The Gothic choir was added in 1487 and the nave was rebuilt from 1675 to 1680. In 1857 the tower was raised, the oratory was added to the north and the burial chapel was built. The Gothic sacristy formerly added to the south was demolished in 1907 and replaced by a new one.
• Gutenstein Forestry Museum: The museum was opened in a disused old farm mill in 1965 and presents the rural cultural assets of the upper Piestingtal.
• Hoyos Castle with Castle Park (private property, not open to the public)
• Fire Brigade Museum: Opened in 1999, the oldest exhibit is a pump from 1791
• Raimund memorial: memorial of the playwright Ferdinand Raimund
• Hubert Aratym Foundation: Presentation of the works of the painter Hubert Aratym
• Gutenstein swimming pool, founded by Peter Kempny

Regular events

• Gutenstein cultural summer organizes:
  • Gutenstein Festival (actually: Raimundspiele ): Founded in 1993 by Peter Janisch . In the years 2000–2007, all eight plays written by Ferdinand Raimund were performed in a series by almost the same ensemble under the direction of Ernst Wolfram Marboe . The recording of the pieces by the ORF regional studio in Lower Austria resulted for the first time in a complete collection of Raimund's works, which was already shown on ORF and 3sat . From 2008 works by other authors such as Tutankhamun - The Musical were also played. The Raimundspiele changed their name to Gutenstein Festival . In 2013 Isabella Gregor took over the management of the festival. She again performed plays by Ferdinand Raimund. The contract with Gregor expired in mid-2015, her successor is chamber actress Andrea Eckert , who in 2016 performed the play “The Diamond of the Ghost King”. In summer 2017, “The Alpine King and the Misanthrope” is on the program. The festival is now called the Raimundspiele again .
  • Concerts of the Gutenstein master classes
  • Readings on Mariahilfberg, cabarets and other things

economy

In 2001 there were 85 non-agricultural workplaces, and there were 69 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in employment in the place of residence was 547 according to the 2001 census. In 2001 the activity rate was 40.29%.

traffic

• Street: Gutensteiner Strasse B 21.
• Train: The Gutensteinerbahn, which ends in Gutenstein, forms a direct connection to the capital of the industrial district Wiener Neustadt .

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• Hiltraud Ast (1923–2020), folklorist and local history researcher
• Ernst Wolfram Marboe (1938–2012), directed the Gutenstein Festival for several years (2000–2007)
• Adolf Reuscher, former mayor

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hubert Aratym (1926–2000), Austrian painter, sculptor and set designer
• Rudolf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1884–1972), Austrian nobleman
• Hedy Kempny (1895–1986), Austrian journalist
• Sepp Tiefenbacher (1925–2009), local poet

People related to the community

• Friedrich der Schöne (1289-1330), Duke of Austria and Styria, 1314-1330 (as Friedrich III.) Anti-King of the Holy Roman Empire, died at Gutenstein Castle, where he also spent the last years of his life
• Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), Austrian playwright; Gutenstein is inextricably linked with Ferdinand Raimund. The poet and actor of the Biedermeier was born, settled in 1834 in Gutenstein down after he had already spent in previous years a lot of time here, he is also buried here
• Rudolf Tyrolt (1848–1929), Austrian actor and writer, died and buried in Gutenstein
• Peter Kempny (1862–1906), Austrian entomologist, Gutenstein's first community doctor, composer
• Hans Kaltneker (1895–1919), Austrian storyteller, poet and playwright, one of the main exponents of Austrian Expressionism , was buried in Gutenstein

literature

• The Mariahilfberg near Gutenstein (Lower Austria). A complete pilgrimage booklet for pilgrims to this place of grace. Gutenstein 1903.
• Hildtraud Ast, Three Hundred Years of Sanctuary in Mariahilfberg , Gutenstein 1968.
• Hermann Maurer , drawing stone and wonder tree. Austria's churches and monasteries in their original legends . Klosterneuburg Abbey Museum 2000, cat.no.50 and 51a (page 114f.)

Web links

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

• 32308 - Gutenstein. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.gutenstein.at , community of Gutenstein
• www.festspielegutenstein.at , Gutenstein Festival
• Archive recordings from and about Gutenstein in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (folklore films, radio reports, interviews)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The most densely wooded communities in Austria. Federal Forest Research Center, August 21, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Raimundspiele Gutenstein
4. ↑ Concerts of the master classes
5. ↑ Gutenstein gets a village in orf.at, January 8, 2019, accessed January 8, 2019.
6. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Gutenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Gutenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Gutenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Gutenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
10. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Gutenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Gutenstein. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
12. ^ Friedrich Pfenning: Gutenstein . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . 2nd Edition. Lower Austria. Verlag GesmbH, Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 53 .
13. ↑ Honorary citizenship for former Mayor Adi Reuscher ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gutenstein.at, July 23, 2011