Hof am Leithaberge

Hof am Leithaberge (Croatian: Cimof ) is a market town with 1550 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Bruck an der Leitha district in Lower Austria .

geography

Hof am Leithaberge is located in the industrial district in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 22.07 km², 36.74% of the area is forested.

Community structure

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Hof am Leitha Mountains (21.99 km²)	Hof am Leitha mountains (M)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Place name

The name of both the market community and the place is .. am Leithaberge , while the cadastral community bears the former name of the community .. am Leithagebirge . This led to the curiosity that if you drove into “Hof am Leithaberge” when entering the town, but left “Hof am Leithagebirge” when exiting. Even today (2010) there is still no general name change to be seen, so the official documents of the own municipality mention “Hof am Leithaberge”, but various other authorities such as the district administration, state police , tax office and the post office call the municipality “Hof on the Leithagebirge “.

Neighboring communities

history

In ancient times the area was part of the province of Pannonia .

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1376 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 1,309 inhabitants, 1,172 in 1981 and 1,078 in 1971.

Culture and sights

Parish church Hof am Leithaberge

Spitzturmhof castle ruins
Catholic parish church Hof am Leithaberge hl. Michael
Plague column in the main square
Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Warte

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 46 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 50 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 665. The employment rate in 2001 was 48.98%; there was an annual average of unemployed in the area 2003 27.

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: 11 ÖVP and 8 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ and 1 MFH - together for yard.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ and 1 MFH - Together for Hof.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 3 BIHOF-Bürger Initiative Hof and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 4 HOF-Bürgerliste Hof and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 2 HOF-Bürgerliste Hof and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

until 2018 Hubert Germershausen (ÖVP)
since 2018 Felix Medwenitsch (ÖVP)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the market town

Philipp Weszdin (1748–1806), Discalced Carmelite (OCD), linguist, missionary in India
Franz Schmid (1877–1953), NSDAP politician and post office director
Anna Medwenitsch (1907–2018), supercentenarian and farmer

Historical maps

Hof and its surroundings around 1873 (record sheets of the state survey )
The center of Hof (bottom right) and the western surroundings, 1: 12.500
Northeast of Hof towards Kaisersteinbruch, 1: 12.500
South-east towards Donnerskirchen and Purbach, 1: 25,000 (Rayon of the Bruck camp only schematically, see the representation on a scale of 1: 12,500)