Hirschbach (Lower Austria)

market community Hirschbach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Gmuend
License plate :	GD
Surface:	7.89 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 45 '  N , 15 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '38 "  N , 15 ° 7' 31"  E
Height :	541  m above sea level A.
Residents :	576 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3942
Area code :	02854
Community code :	3 09 17
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnstrasse 48 3942 Hirschbach
Website:	www.hirschbach.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Rainald Schäfer ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	6th 5 4th 6th 5 4th  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 6 List Hirschbach : 5 ÖVP : 4
Location of Hirschbach in the Gmünd district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hirschbach is a market town with 576 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria .

geography

Hirschbach is located on the Moosbach in the upper Waldviertel , around 15 kilometers east of the district capital Gmünd . The area of ​​the market town covers 7.89 square kilometers. 55.66 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

• Hirschbach (512) including Rottenbach
• Stolzles (64)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hirschbach and Stölzles.

Hirschbach is a member municipality of the Waldviertler StadtLand region .

Neighboring communities

	Schrems
		Vitis
	Kirchberg am Walde

history

Hirschbach was first mentioned in documents in 1280, the district of Stölzles for the first time in 1413. The market survey of Hirschbach took place in 1666. There were fires in the village in 1619 and 1868.

With the Lower Austria. Municipal structural improvement was forced to January 1, 1972 Hirschbach with the market town of Kirchberg am Walde merged. Against this, a citizens' initiative fought back and on January 1, 1985 Hirschbach became an independent municipality again.

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Population development

After a sharp decline in population from 1910 to 1981, the community has been growing since then. This is due to a positive balance of migration , the birth balance has been close to zero in the last few decades.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 Hirschbach lists, 5 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 list Hirschbach, 4 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 Hirschbach lists, 4 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP and 4 List Hirschbach.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 SPÖ, 5 list Hirschbach and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 SPÖ, 5 List Hirschbach and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 6 SPÖ, 5 List Hirschbach and 4 ÖVP.

mayor

• until 2005 Josef Müller (SPÖ)
• 2005–2012 Willibald Müller (SPÖ)
• since 2012 Rainald Schäfer (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Hirschbach parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Hirschbach (Lower Austria)

• Former Hirschbach Castle
• Catholic parish church Hirschbach to Exaltation: The first documented in 1332 mentioned castle chapel was a Protestant Renaissance - hall church . It was expanded in the 16th century as a Protestant castle church of the former Hirschbach Castle from 1470 to 1612 in the possession of Count Strein . In the first quarter of the 18th century, it was redesigned in the Baroque style and expanded to the east in 1836 with a nave yoke and a tower.
• Stölzles 'local chapel: The neo-Gothic Stölzles' local chapel, consecrated to the Holy Family , was built in 1892/1893.

economy

There are 23 agricultural and forestry businesses in Hirschbach, eight of which are full-time businesses (as of 2010). In the manufacturing sector, six factories employ 21 people, mainly in the manufacture of goods. The service sector gives 31 people work, mainly in the area of ​​social and public services (as of 2011).

traffic

• Train: The Hirschbach b station is located in Hirschbach, next to the Franz-Josefs-Bahn . Gmuend .

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in the Hirschbach community.

Web links

Commons : Hirschbach (Niederösterreich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the market town

• 30917 - Hirschbach (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Hirschbach cultural workshop
• Entry about Hirschbach Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ DEHIO Lower Austria north of the Danube . Schroll, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , pp. 423 and 1143.
3. ↑ History of the market town Hirschbach hirschbach.gv.at, accessed on April 27, 2019
4. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hirschbach, population development. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Hirschbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Hirschbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
7. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Hirschbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Hirschbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
9. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Hirschbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 28, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Hirschbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
11. ^ Rainald Schäfer is the new mayor of Hirschbach, Gmünd district, SPÖ Association of Local Representatives of Lower Austria, March 22, 2012
12. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hirschbach, agricultural and forestry operations. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
13. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hirschbach, workplaces. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
14. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hirschbach, employees. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
15. ↑ OEBB, station information Hirschbach. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Hirschbach community, community. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .