Brand-Nagelberg

market community Brand-Nagelberg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Gmuend
License plate :	GD
Main town :	Alt-Nagelberg
Surface:	36.7 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 50 ′  N , 14 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	508  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,512 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3871
Area code :	02859
Community code :	3 09 03
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 117 3871 Alt-Nagelberg
Website:	www.brand-nagelberg.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Freisehner ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	12 6th 1 12 6th 1  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 6 FPÖ : 1
Location of Brand-Nagelberg in the Gmünd district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Brand-Nagelberg is a market town with 1512 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria .

geography

Brand-Nagelberg is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 36.63 km² . 68.22 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

• Alt-Nagelberg (580) including felling
• Brand (443) including Brandteichhäuser and Lunkowitzhäuser
• Finsternau (160) including the six house
• New Nagelberg (102)
• Steinbach (227) including Forsthartl and Waldhäuseln

The community consists of the cadastral communities Brand, Finsternau, Nagelberg and Steinbach.

Brand-Nagelberg is a member municipality of the Waldviertler StadtLand region .

Neighboring communities

	Litschau
Rapšach ( CZ )		Heidenreichstein
	Gmuend	Schrems

history

Finds from the Neolithic Age were made at the Kaiblloch and Kaiblstein .

The village of Brand came into being after a forest fire in 1666 and was first mentioned in 1686. The village of Steinbach was mentioned for the first time in 1369.

Nagelberg is a traditional place for glass production. A glassworks is documented for the year 1635 . From 1725 the existence of the Kallmünzerschen Glashütte in Alt-Nagelberg, the "Althütte", is considered to have been secured. The “Neuhütte” in Neu-Nagelberg existed from 1811 to 1931. Both production sites came into the possession of Carl Stölzle, the founder of Stölzle-Oberglas , in 1858 .

Brand was raised to a market town in 1927. After the Second World War , numerous new one- and two-family houses and community buildings were built .

coat of arms

In the golden field above a mountain, the coat of arms shows a forest from which tongues of red fire emerge.

Partner communities

• since 1974 Brunn am Gebirge . Both communities were traditional glass production sites.

Population development

After a peak at the beginning of the 20th century, the population decreased almost constantly. In the last few decades, both the birth balance and the migration balance have been negative.

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ. (21 members)
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• since 2002 Franz Freisehner (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Brand parish church near Gmünd

See also:  List of listed objects in Brand-Nagelberg

• Catholic parish church in Brand near Gmünd hl. Andreas
• Catholic parish church Nagelberg hl. Joseph the Worker: The church was built from 1959 to 1960.
• The local chapel of the Crucified Savior in Steinbach dates from 1786.

economy

There are 40 agricultural and forestry businesses in the municipality, 12 of which are full-time businesses (as of 2010). In the manufacturing sector there are 21 companies, twelve are engaged in the manufacture of goods, nine are active in construction. A total of 68 people are employed here. The service sector employs 153 people in 64 companies, mainly in social and public services and in trade (as of 2011).

traffic

Neu-Nagelberg station

• Train: In Brand-Nagelberg there are several stations of the Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways .
• Street: In Neu-Nagelberg there is a border crossing on European route 49 into Halámky in the Czech Republic .
• Hiking trail: In addition, the hiking border crossing Rapšach-Spáleniště / Brand leads from Finsternau through the woods to Malý Londýn in the Czech Republic .

education

• Kindergarten: There are two kindergartens in the community, one in Alt-Nagelberg and one in Brand.
• Elementary school: There is an elementary school in Alt-Nagelberg.

Personalities

• Adolf Sabelko (1890–1973), Roman Catholic clergyman and CSP politician

Web links

Commons : Brand-Nagelberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 30903 - Brand-Nagelberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry on fire in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube . Scholl, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 1118.
3. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube . Scholl, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 767.
4. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Brand-Nagelberg, population development. Retrieved August 17, 2019 . 
5. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Brand-Nagelberg. 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 Brand-Nagelberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
7. ^ Result of the 2005 municipal council election in Brand-Nagelberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on May 29, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Brand-Nagelberg. 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 Brand-Nagelberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Brand-Nagelberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
11. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Brand-Nagelberg, agriculture and forestry operations. Retrieved August 17, 2019 . 
12. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Brand-Nagelberg, workplaces. Retrieved August 17, 2019 . 
13. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Brand-Nagelberg, employees. Retrieved August 17, 2019 . 
14. ^ Community of Brand-Nagelberg, community. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .