Heldenberg

Heldenberg is located in the Schmida valley in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria . The area of the municipality covers 27.37 square kilometers. 26.89 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

Glaubendorf (513) including the Glaubendorf settlement
Grosswetzdorf (377)
Kleinwetzdorf (139)
Oberthern (190)
Unterthern (128)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Glaubendorf, Großwetzdorf, Kleinwetzdorf, Oberthern and Unterthern.

With the Lower Austria. Municipal structure improvement in 1967 from the municipalities of Oberthern and Unterthern the municipality of Thern. In 1971 the villages Glaubendorf, Kleinwetzdorf and Großwetzdorf were merged and the community of Heldenberg was formed. The new name of the community refers to the Heldenberg memorial . In 1972 the community of Thern joined the large community of Heldenberg.

Neighboring communities

history

Upper and Lower Thern

The place Ternie is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from Emperor Heinrich IV. From 1066 .

A distinction between Oberthern and Untererthern is first found in a land register of the Passau Monastery from 1320, where an Inferior Tern and a Superior Tern are mentioned.

The mediaeval ownership shows in 1590 possessions of the Göttweig Abbey , the Garsten Abbey and the Countess Hardegg . The church in Oberthern was probably built in 1401, and there is documentary evidence of a church bond from 1635. The church was expanded in 1961 with an extension.

Although there are reports of a teacher in Oberthern as early as the 17th century, it was not until the Theresian school reform of 1787 that Ober- and Unterthern had their own school. The elementary school in Oberthern was closed in 1966 and added to the Großweikersdorf school district.

Groß- and Kleinwetzdorf

The first unequivocal mention of the name Wetzdorf comes from the valid book (income register) of the Zwettl monastery from 1346.

The parish was founded in 1783 as part of the Josephine reforms .

In the middle of the 16th century, Wetzdorf Castle was built in Kleinwetzdorf , a two-storey complex consisting of three courtyards, which was expanded to include a castle chapel in 1726. Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder , a supplier to the Austro-Hungarian army, acquired the castle in 1832 and had the Heldenberg memorial (1846–1849) and the English garden with a cone-shaped mountain look out.

Glaubendorf

The name of the place is derived from the first name Chlubo , etymologically not from "believe", but from "(auf) klauben" (collect, pick up). The spelling Chlubendorf was used in old documents , the earliest written mention was around 1130 as Cloubendorf .

In Glaubendorf originated around 5000 BC. Two circular moats . The smaller Glaubendorf 1 complex consists of two concentric trenches. Glaubendorf 2 comprises three trenches of 71 m, 90 m and 109 m in diameter around an inner palisade circle with a diameter of 50 m (i.e. 158 m in length, 650 tree trunks). By geomagnetic prospecting were detected (probably originally six) Erdbrücken as additions to the interior and two goals in five palisades ring. The excavation volume is estimated at 6100 m³, the construction time at 3 to 5 years.

Reconstruction of a circular moat for the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2005

For the Lower Austria. State Exhibition 2005, a circular moat was reconstructed on Heldenberg in Kleinwetzdorf. It is now part of the regular exhibition on Heldenberg.

The original location of the Glaubendorf 2 facility can also be visited and walked through (around 500 m of dirt road signposted from the railway underpass on the Glaubendorf - Ruppersthal road). The dimensions of the complex have been made visible through planting.

The parish Glaubendorf was founded before 1256. The parish church was most likely founded by the Kuenringers and, like that of Kühnring, is consecrated to the apostles Philip and James. The current church building dates back in part to the 14th century.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census , there were 1,096 inhabitants. In 1991 the municipality had 1,061 inhabitants, in 1981 1,074 and in 1971 1,155 inhabitants.

politics

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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, 3 UBH-Independent Citizen List Heldenberg and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 4 UBH – Independent Citizen List Heldenberg, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 3 UBH - independent citizen list Heldenberg.
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 elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.

mayor

until 2009 Alfred Wunderer (ÖVP)
since 2009 Peter Steinbach (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

District moat in Glaubendorf

Heldenberg Memorial

Parish church Großwetzdorf

Filialkirche Glaubendorf

Kellergasse in Oberthern

District moat in Kleinwetzdorf
Wetzdorf Castle with the Heldenberg Memorial in Kleinwetzdorf
Summer stable and training center of the Spanish Riding School
Koller Oldtimer Museum in Kleinwetzdorf
Catholic parish church Großwetzdorf hl. Thomas
Catholic parish church Oberthern hl. Martin
Catholic branch church Glaubendorf hll. Philipp and Jacob
Bell tower Unterthern

economy

In 2001 there were 26 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 108 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 480. In 2001 the activity rate was 45.07 percent.

Web links

Commons : Heldenberg - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Homepage of the community of Heldenberg
Entry about Schloss Kleinwetzdorf on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg

31019 - Heldenberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Parish. Municipality of Heldenberg, accessed on May 30, 2015 .
^ Marianne host: Heimatbuch Wetzdorf . Grosswetzdorf 2000, DNB 972132198 .
^ Franz Neugebauer: Chronicle of Glaubendorf . Roman Catholic Parish office Glaubendorf, Vienna 1974, DNB 995678901 .
↑ Information board at the original location of the Glaubendorf plant 2
^ Friedrich Damköhler, Josef Stefan: The Schmida - a region introduces itself . 1st edition. Ziersdorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-200-02028-3 , pp. 156 .
^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2020 .
↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Parish. Municipality of Heldenberg, accessed on May 30, 2015 .

[3] Marianne host: Heimatbuch Wetzdorf . Grosswetzdorf 2000, DNB 972132198 .

[4] Franz Neugebauer: Chronicle of Glaubendorf . Roman Catholic Parish office Glaubendorf, Vienna 1974, DNB 995678901 .

[5] Information board at the original location of the Glaubendorf plant 2

[6] Friedrich Damköhler, Josef Stefan: The Schmida - a region introduces itself . 1st edition. Ziersdorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-200-02028-3 , pp. 156 .

[NÖGrw1995_31019-7] Result of the local council election 1995 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on March 26, 2020 .

[NÖGrw2000_31019-8] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on March 26, 2020 .

[NÖGrw2005_31019-9] Election result of the local council election 2005 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on March 26, 2020 .

[NÖGrw2010_31019-10] Election result of the local council election 2010 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on March 26, 2020 .

[NÖGrw2015_31019-11] Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2020 .

[NÖGrw2020_31019-12] Results of the local council election 2020 in Heldenberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 26, 2020 .