Hoheneich

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Hoheneich
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Hoheneich (Austria)
Hoheneich
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : Gmuend
License plate : GD
Surface: 15.57 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 46 '  N , 15 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '0 "  N , 15 ° 1' 0"  E
Height : 521  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,395 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 90 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3945
Area code : 02852
Community code : 3 09 20
NUTS region AT124
UN / LOCODE AT HIH
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Marktplatz 91
3945 Hoheneich
Website: www.hoheneich.at
politics
Mayor : Christian Grumeyer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)
13
5
1
13 5 1 
A total of 19 seats
Location of Hoheneich in the Gmünd district
Amaliendorf-Aalfang Bad Großpertholz Brand-Nagelberg Eggern Eisgarn Gmünd Großdietmanns Großschönau Haugschlag Heidenreichstein Hirschbach Hoheneich Kirchberg am Walde Litschau Moorbad Harbach Reingers Schrems St. Martin Unserfrau-Altweitra Waldenstein Weitra NiederösterreichLocation of the municipality of Hoheneich in the Gmünd district (clickable map)
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Municipal office in Hoheneich
Municipal office in Hoheneich
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hoheneich is a market town with 1,395 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria .

geography

Hoheneich is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria between Gmünd and Schrems am Braunaubach . The area of ​​the market town covers 15.57 km². 57.19 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

  • Hoheneich (1031) including the Backhausen colony
  • Nondorf (364)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hoheneich and Nondorf.

Hoheneich is a member municipality of the Waldviertler StadtLand region .

Neighboring communities

Gmuend Neighboring communities Schrems
Waldenstein Kirchberg am Walde

history

The name Hoheneich indicates either a "high oak" or a high oak stand. The name of the small valley "Eichelgraben" proves that there were once numerous oaks here, and that around 1659 the Kirchenwald was a beautiful oak forest. As recently as 1807, mighty, centuries-old oaks stood there. Hoheneich has always been part of the Kirchberg am Walde dominion, which already existed in the 12th century and was a fiefdom of the Lords of Kuenring. On January 28, 1345, a Niklas v. Called Hoheneich, who owned a court in Kirchberg with Albert v. Kirchberg had changed (Hippolytus 1858, p. 84). Niklas belonged to the family of the Lords of Kirchberg and called himself Hoheneich after his possessions. His castle was on the Braunau, where the Maierhof and the court mill of the Kirchberg lordship were later.

After the Hoheneich family died out, ownership passed to the barons of Kirchberg, which existed until after 1483. This year Otto von Kirchberg appears. In 1476 the parish Hoheneich belonged to the Deanery Zwettl. When the troops of the Hungarian king Mathias Corvinus settled in 1483 and stayed after the settlement of 1491, Hoheneich was probably also affected.

In 1595, the land register Gmünd mentions that the rulers there had the right to fish on the Elechsniz Pächel ( Elexenbach ) from the stone bridge at the stone mill (Backhausen) to and from the stone bridge at Nandorff (Nondorf) Beet Gestetten (Patznik, Gesch. v. Gmünd p. 44). According to the land registry of the Schrems rulership, the borders of this rulership ran towards Hoheneich from the Pürbachgraben into the Schwarzau, the same to the Stainwasser (Braunau) and from there to the bridge on the Grünstein (Grillenstein). In 1619 the area was badly hit by enemies. The Hungarians and Poles who were in the service of the Emperor gave Mr. Kollonitsch the market Kirchberg, the village Ullrich (Ullrichs), Vierbach (Pürbach), Nandorff (Nondorf) and certainly also Hoheneich plundered and burned down. Later the castle was sacked by the Bohemians and set on fire.

Then Hoheneich was besieged and suppressed by the Hessians in 1795 and by the Prussians in 1866.

In 1869 Hoheneich got its own post office and in 1903 a new school. The two wars also claimed many victims here. And then the streets and houses began to be restored and extensive sewers were built.

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Population development

The community of Hoheneich has a different population development from the other communities in the district: After a sharp decrease in the population at the beginning of the 20th century, the number increased sharply from 1951 to 1981.

Absolute population development:
Population development relative index 1869 = 100:

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

mayor

  • until 2005 Friedrich Ledermüller (ÖVP)
  • 2005–2016 Roland Wallner (ÖVP)
  • since 2016 Christian Grümyer (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Marterl at the club hall, which depicts the conversion of Kollonitsch in 1621

The miracle is literally described as follows:

“The church with the wooden statue of the crowned Mother of God with the child on her left arm soon enjoyed not only the filial devotion of its own parishioners, but also the numerous visits from neighboring believers. Often very striking and wonderful hearings occurred. The reputation of it spread very quickly and so it came about that visitors came from everywhere, including from neighboring Bohemia. The greater the trust, the more numerous were the miracles and the answers. A particularly large number of pilgrims came to the church's patron feast: Birth of Mary (September 8th) However, Protestantism also intervened in Hoheneich, and so the pilgrims became fewer and fewer. What displeased God.

God gave clear evidence of this in said church 37 years ago, that is in 1621 on the feast of the birth of Mary. Because on the said day people from Bohemia (probably from Naglitz, Weissenbach and the surrounding area) came in great numbers on a pilgrimage and there the preacher (prot. Pastor), whose name was Timotheus Weber (Textor), and his servants were supposed to open and close the church door With great annoyance, they asked the illustrious gentleman, Ernst von Kollonitsch, patron of the place, that he should free them from this nuisance and give them the peace and quiet they wanted. The above mentioned gentleman deigned to accept their request and inquired of them about the method of implementation. The predicant replied: Let the people lock, lock and wall up the inside of the church gate and then get out through a window using ladders. So it will happen that if they (pilgrims) are prevented from entering in such a way - and we want to lurk behind the sprinkling and observe - use violence against the gate, they will be punished by the gracious Lord or at least, if they see themselves locked out, in theirs Withdraw hope deceived. When we leave we want to ridicule and wipe them out so that they do not come back and do not bother us any more.

After this had been done, they retired behind the bushes next to the St. Anne's Chapel near the church, carefully watching and curiously awaiting the outcome. When they had been in hiding for a while, behold, the parishioners from Naglitz, a village in Bohemia, appeared in procession singing pious songs and, as was customary, going to church. When they came to the locked church door, they entered through the open door without any resistance, unaware of the whole process. Delay and obstacle while the Laurers watched them from their hiding places. Startled by this sight and amazed by the novelty of the miracle, the gracious governor soon mounted the horse and said to the pleaders: 'That is a miracle, Mr Timothy!' He replied: 'Your grace should not be frightened by this miracle; even the devil can work miracles. ' But the latter (Kollonitsch) noticed, as it were by a lightning bolt from heaven like Saul, from this event that he was blind and had been so far and soon afterwards went to the city of Vienna to look for his Annanias. There he tried hard to find out from the learned men with whom he got in touch what he was to do next. After about 14 days he returned to Kirchberg and after a stay of a few days he started to travel again - apparently to return to Vienna -
but in fact he moved to the Zwettl monastery to the most revered abbot (at that time Seifried), to be exactly and completely under his leadership in the cath. To have religion instructed. After spending three weeks on this matter, after having made sacramental confession and strengthened by St. Last Supper returned home to his subjects and publicly revoked. He confessed his error to all.
This story makes believable, so it goes on, the often mentioned gracious governor, at that time still Baron von Kollonitsch, who told it to almost every confidante and stated it as the cause of his conversion. Furthermore, Christoph Nöltl, at that time administrator of this rule and Johann Kleibeisen, the hunter at the time, who were present at this event and several others who have already died (Zwettler Annalen).
After his conversion, v. Kollonitsch resigned the predicant in 1623. He himself gave a speech to his subjects in Kirchberg, who were so moving that most of them were converted. "

- Parish chronicle from 1658 (printed in the local history of Hoheneich by Karl Vogl)

economy

In 2001 there were 58 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 36 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 694. In 2001, the activity rate was 46.06 percent.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Hoheneich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ history of Hoheneich Vogl Charles (1953); E. Berger, Gmuend
  3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hoheneich, population development. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
  4. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Hoheneich. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  5. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Hoheneich. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Hoheneich. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  7. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Hoheneich. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  8. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Hoheneich. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Hoheneich. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ http://www.hoheneich.at/page.asp/-/Bürgermeister (accessed on April 10, 2016)