Irnfritz knives

market community Irnfritz knives
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	horn
License plate :	HO
Main town :	Irnfritz
Surface:	55.98 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 44 '  N , 15 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '23 "  N , 15 ° 33' 29"  E
Height :	561  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,441 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	3754 and 3761
Area code :	02986
Community code :	3 11 10
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 1 3754 Irnfritz
Website:	www.irnfritz.at
politics
Mayor :	Hermann Gruber ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	17th 2 17th 2  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 17 SPÖ : 2
Location of Irnfritz knives in the Horn district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Irnfritz-Messern is a market town with 1,441 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Horn district in Lower Austria ( Austria ).

geography

Irnfritz-Messern is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 55.92 square kilometers. 46.22 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

Wappoltenreith

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Dorna (35) including New Dorna
• Pit (29)
• Haselberg (59)
• Irnfritz (528) including Irnfritz train station
• Klein-Ulrichschlag (101)
• Knives (195) including Kaidling
• Nondorf an der Wild (62)
• Reichharts (88)
• Rothweinsdorf (87)
• Sitzendorf (41)
• Trabenreith (123)
• Wappoltenreith (93)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Dorna, Grub, Haselberg, Irnfritz, Kleinullrichschlag, Messern, Nondorf an der Wild, Reichharts, Rothweinsdorf, Sitzendorf, Trabenreith and Wappoltenreith. The market right was given to the place Irnfritz Bahnhof .

Dorna, Grub, Messern, Rothweinsdorf and Sitzendorf have the postcode 3761. All other places in the market town have the postcode 3754.

The market town of Irnfritz-Messern is a member of the Taffa-Thaya-Wild region .

Neighboring communities

	Japons	Geras
Ludweis-Aigen		Pernegg
	Brunn an der Wild	St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen

coat of arms

With the decision of the Lower Austrian provincial government of August 22, 1972, the municipality of Irnfritz-Messern was awarded a municipal coat of arms. His blazon : "A split shield, in the right field on a silver background a red bar, in the left field on a black background three golden sheaves of corn, two to one." The community colors are white and black.

Population development

Number of inhabitants
(source:)

year	1869	1923	1951	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Residents	1,793	1.925	1,820	1,680	1,547	1,439	1,412	1,440

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, 2 citizens' lists, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, 1 citizens' list, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

• since ? Hermann Gruber (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Grub Castle

Wildberg Castle

Parish knives

Gallows knives

Parish church Nonndorf an der Wild

Trabenreith parish church

Wappoltenreith branch church

See also:  List of listed objects in Irnfritz-Messern

• Grub Castle
• Wildberg Castle
• Catholic parish church knives hl. James the Elder
• Catholic parish church Nonndorf an der Wild, Mariä Birth
• Catholic parish church Trabenreith hl. Johannes Nepomuk
• Catholic branch church Wappoltenreith hl. Leopold
• Haselberg Castle Chapel
• Galerie Blaim in Messern: The gallery shows oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and graphics by the artist Adolf Blaim (1942–2004). Among other things, he illustrated books by the herb pastor Hermann-Josef Weidinger .
• Trabenreith brick museum

economy

In 2001 there were 45 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry businesses according to the 1999 survey 139. The number of people in work at home was 634 according to the 2001 census. The 2001 employment rate was 46.45 percent. With around 80 employees, the Waldviertel Recycling Park is one of the largest employers in the Irnfritz community. Companies based in the recycling park are a certified waste management company , Stark GmbH, an iron and steel retailer, the Pipibox franchise headquarters, the Smart Motel headquarters and the heat contracting company Energie Mobil.

traffic

• Rail: The ÖBB operate the Irnfritz station on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn . A new plant, the Waldviertel Recycling Park, was built directly on this in 1997.
• Bus: Several regional bus routes operated by Postbus stop at Irnfritz and other places in the community.
• Road: Irnfritz-Messern is on the L42, L50 and L52 state roads .

Personalities

• Adolf Blaim (1942–2004), Austrian painter, illustrator and gallery owner, lived and died in knives.
• Laurenz Genner (1894–1962), Austrian politician, was born in Irnfritz.
• Josef Stini (1880–1958), Austrian geologist, was born in Wappoltenreith.
• Christiane Weidinger (née Flieger) (* 1961), Austrian government councilor, was born in Irnfritz.

Web links

Commons : Irnfritz knives  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 31110 - Irnfritz knives. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Literature on Irnfritz knives in the Lower Austrian regional library
• Pictures of Irnfritz knives in the topographical collection of the Lower Austrian regional library
• Entry on Irnfritz in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state 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. ↑ Announcement of the Lower Austrian provincial government of December 22, 1972 ( Memento of January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Population development 1869–2011 from Statistics Austria (PDF file; 35 kB)
4. ↑ Historisches Ortlexikon Niederösterreich ( Memento from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.2 MB), Part 2, p. 45.
5. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Irnfritz-Messern. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Irnfritz-Messern. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Irnfritz-Messern. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Irnfritz-Messern. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Irnfritz-Messern. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Irnfritz-Messern. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .