Drosendorf-Zissersdorf

Borough Drosendorf-Zissersdorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	horn
License plate :	HO
Main town :	Drosendorf town
Surface:	53.36 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 52 '  N , 15 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '5 "  N , 15 ° 37' 1"  E
Height :	423  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1.210 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2095
Area code :	02915
Community code :	3 11 04
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 1 2095 Drosendorf
Website:	www.drosendorf.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Spiegl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	14th 3 1 1 14th 3 1 1  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 14 FL : 3 SPÖ : 1 FPÖ : 1
Location of Drosendorf-Zissersdorf in the Horn district
The historic town hall in Drosendorf
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Drosendorf-Zissersdorf is a municipality with 1210 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Horn district in Lower Austria .

geography

Drosendorf town

Drosendorf-Zissersdorf is located on the Thaya in the northern Waldviertel in Lower Austria and thus on the border with the Czech Republic .

The Oberthürnau-Viegenin (Fratting) border crossing is 3 km north of the city. The area of ​​the municipality covers 53.45 square kilometers. 29.87 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Autendorf (39)
• Drosendorf Old Town (72)
• Drosendorf City (524)
• Elsern (63)
• Heinrichsreith (61)
• Oberthurnau (41)
• Pingendorf (25)
• Unterthurnau (12)
• Wolfsbach (83)
• Wollmersdorf (26)
• Zettlitz (36)
• Zissersdorf (228) including Hagen and Johannesthal

The community consists of the cadastral communities Autendorf, Drosendorf Altstadt, Drosendorf Stadt, Elsern, Heinrichsreith, Oberthürnau, Pingendorf, Unterthürnau, Wolfsbach, Wollmersdorf, Zettlitz and Zissersdorf.

The municipality of Drosendorf-Zissersdorf is a member of the Taffa-Thaya-Wild region .

Neighboring communities

	Vratěnín ( Fratting )	Stálky ( Stallek )
Raabs an der Thaya		Langau
Japons	Geras

history

Drosendorf around 1860

Drosendorf was first mentioned in a document in 1188 . In July 1278, the city resisted the siege by the Bohemian King Ottokar II for 16 days, who lost valuable time, while his opponent Rudolf I was able to prepare well for the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen . During the First World War was in the granary Drosendorf the internment Drosendorf .

Population development

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 3 citizens' lists.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 2 Fresh List, 1 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 fresh list, 1 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 fresh list, 1 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• until 2009 Franz Krestan (ÖVP)
• since 2009 Josef Spiegl (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Drosendorf Castle

Drosendorf bulk box

Parish church Drosendorf

City church Drosendorf

Parish church Drosendorf

Parish church Zissersdorf

See also:  List of listed objects in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf

Drosendorf old town

• Parish church Drosendorf : in the core 15th century, choir buttresses dating: 1492, probably destroyed in the Thirty Years War and rebuilt in the Baroque.

Drosendorf town

• Town hall Drosendorf-Zissersdorf
• City fortification Drosendorf : Drosendorf is one of the few Austrian cities that are still surrounded by a completely preserved city wall.
• City Church Drosendorf : The late Gothic St. Martin's Church, built around 1461/1463, keeps the relics of the catacomb saint Valentina.
• Franz-Kiessling-Museum: The museum in the former citizens' hospital contains the collections of the local researchers Franz Xaver Kiessling and Raimund Bauer . You can see prehistoric finds from the Paleolithic. Evidence of settlements from the Neolithic period ( linear ceramics , Lengyel culture , Mödling-Zöbing / Jevišovice type ) are mainly represented . There is little evidence of the Bronze Age , but the late Iron Age is documented by rich inventories. There are also early medieval (Slavic) finds. The finds all come from the vicinity of the city, including some from Drosendorf itself. The museum also has objects on the city's history and folklore inventories.
• Drosendorf Castle : Basically from around 1200, castle-like expansion from 1692, today owned by the Hoyos family, since 1987 training center of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agricultural Workers, currently houses a bed and breakfast.
• Drosendorfer Circusluft : In a holiday program, children are trained by professional artists and live in the middle of the circus world.
• Schüttkasten Drosendorf , the so-called Stockkastl, at its core the Martinskirche from around 1200, after being abandoned as a sacred building in the 1460s, it was converted into a pouring box, and converted into a prison in the 19th century, is a listed building.
• Drosendorf film club. After a cinema that opened in a pub hall in 1920 closed, the club started showing monthly analog films there and in the summer, sometimes in the garden, from June 1990 onwards. For cinema projection machines from 1937, arc coals were obtained from the eastern states and now from India.
• Roland or pillory column on the main square

Elsern

• Pilgrimage church Maria Schnee

Zissersdorf

• Catholic parish church Zissersdorf hll. Martyrs John and Paul; the hall church with a round choir was built in the Josephine style . The 37 m high onion dome is set between low extensions. From 1906 to 1908 the church was rebuilt and expanded. The church received a sacristy wing and a Marienkapelle, which were built on like a transept .

economy

In 1977 there were 77 non-agricultural workplaces and, according to the 1999 survey, 119 agricultural and forestry holdings. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 529. The employment rate in 2001 was 41.25 percent.

traffic

• Rail: From Retz one of the steepest standard gauge lines in Austria leads to Drosendorf-Zissersdorf (built in 1910, local railway Retz-Drosendorf ), on which passenger traffic was discontinued on June 9, 2001. The route is now operated by NÖVOG and during the summer months a very successful nostalgia train, the "Phylloxera Express", brings cyclists and hikers to Drosendorf at the weekends.
• Bus: Drosendorf can be reached with public bus lines from Horn and Retz.
• Road: From Retz the Thayatal-Bundesstraße leads to Drosendorf and on via Raabs to Schrems. Another federal road connects Drosendorf with the district capital Horn.

Personalities

Memorial plaque for Florian Deller

Memorial plaque for Otto Köhler

Sons and daughters of the church

• Raimund Bauer (1913–2000), local history researcher
• Karl Bitter (September 20, 1870 - April 7, 1954), butcher, concrete contractor, mayor, member of the N.Ö. Landesgewerberate, chairman of the district road committee, major sponsor of the Maria Schnee pilgrimage church
• Florian Johann Deller (1729–1773), a well-known composer of the Baroque era at home and abroad. Recently his pieces of music have been rediscovered and performed more and more frequently.
• Otto Köhler (June 3, 1904 - September 1, 1981), academic painter, professor at the Piarist High School in Krems, popular fresco painter, creator of numerous fresco paintings in churches and on houses (e.g. Drosendorf secondary school) in the Waldviertel and in the Wachau
• Franz Georg Krausl (December 9, 1936 - September 27, 2006), city chronicler, school councilor and holder of the Drosendorf ring of honor
• Hermann Walenta (1923–2018), acad. Sculptor and painter
• Franz Krestan, (born August 9, 1946) Mayor 1988–2009

People related to the community

• Richard Bletschacher (* 1936), German dramaturge and author, lives in Drosendorf and Vienna
• Johann Georg Grasel (1790–1818), robber, was imprisoned here
• Ernst Karl Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1830–1903), owner of Drosendorf Castle
• Ernst Karl Heinrich Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1856–1940), owner of Drosendorf Castle
• Hans Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1923–2010), owner of Drosendorf Castle
• Markus Hoyos (* 1960), owner of Drosendorf Castle
• Rudolf Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1884–1972), owner of Drosendorf Castle
• Franz Xaver Kießling (1859–1940), local researcher, ethno-German national writer and functionary of the gymnastics movement
• Wolfgang Müller-Funk (* 1952), literary and cultural scientist
• Wilhelm Ranetzky (1916–2008), high school supervisor, principal school director, playwright, author of several plays, winner for drama at the Austrian State Prize in 1955, founding member of the Working Group on Literature of the Lower Austrian Education and Homeland Works, holder of the Golden Medal of Honor for Merit of the Province of Lower Austria and the plaque of honor City of Horn
• Mella Waldstein (* 1964 in Paris), journalist and publicist

literature

• Friedrich Berg , Hermann Maurer : The Bauer Collection. Archaeological finds from the area around Drosendorf. In: The Waldviertel. 53, 2004, pp. 229-254.
• Ulfhild Krausl, Raimund Bauer: Drosendorf city guide. Edited by the municipality of Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. 1983.
• Alexander Weiger: Old Town Church of St. Peter and Paul, Market Church of St. Martin in Drosendorf an der Thaya. Christian art centers in Austria, No. 307. St. Peter, Salzburg 1997.
• Castles, pens and palaces. Regions Waldviertel, Danube Basin, South Bohemia, Vysočina, South Moravia. ISBN 978-3-9502262-2-5 , p. 128 f.
• Jiří Kacetl, Petr Lazárek, David Molík: Hrady a zámky moravsko-rakouského Podyjí slovem / Castles of the Austro-Moravian Thaya Valley in words. South Moravian Museum in Znojmo in cooperation with the Retz City Museum, Znojmo 2013, ISBN 978-80-86974-12-5 , pp. 26–30 ( PDF on znojmuz.cz; German and Czech).

Web links

Commons : Drosendorf-Zissersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Drosendorff in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Wikisource: Drosndorff in the appendix of the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 31104 - Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Municipality of Drosendorf
• Entry for Drosendorf-Zissersdorf in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Entry on Drosendorf in the Austria Forum  (in the Heimatlexikon)
• ARGE Economy Drosendorf-Zissersdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
3. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
4. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
5. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Drosendorf-Zissersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ A circus in the Waldviertel makes a holiday an experience! Retrieved March 28, 2012
9. ^ Filmclub Drosendorf website of the association, accessed June 7, 2017.
10. ↑ Wenzel Müller: Moment - Life Today: Eating, Drinking, Talking. And a movie. Ö1 radio broadcast, June 7, 2017, 3:30 pm, ORF.at - (25 min) Via the Drosendorf film club, audible for 7 days.
11. ^ City of Drosendorf-Zissersdorf: Our villages: Zissersdorf ; Retrieved Oct. 22, 2017
12. ↑ http://www.reblaus-express.at/
13. ^ Wenzel Müller: Das Wirtshaus-Kino augustin.or.at, April 10, 2017.