Hollenstein (Kirchberg municipality)

Hollenstein is a place and a cadastral municipality in the market town of Kirchberg am Walde in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria .

history

In 1312 the place was mentioned in a document. A triangular tanger village with garden fields developed into a double row village.

The former municipality was merged with Kirchberg am Walde on January 1, 1967.

Culture and sights

Hollenstein local chapel

• Hollenstein local chapel
• Wayside cross from 1900 at the western exit of town.

Personalities

• Johann Weissenböck (1929–1980), farmer and politician (ÖVP) and from 1965 to 1966 mayor of Hollenstein

literature

• The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Hollenstein, p. 446.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945 . Accessed May 1, 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 58.2 "  N , 15 ° 6 ′ 25.8"  E