Kühbach (municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria)

Ruins of the St. Thomas Church in Kühbach (before 1911)

Kühbach has been a cadastral municipality of Zwettl-Niederösterreich in Lower Austria since January 1st, 1964 with an area of ​​922.54 hectares. In order to be able to create the Döllersheim military training area , the residents were evacuated from 1938 onwards .

Description and history

Kühbach was a Breitangerdorf that stretched in the flat valley of the stream of the same name. A road led to Allentsteig .

In 1204 and 1212 the brothers Gerhard and Heinrich von Kühbach appear again and again in documents. On the occasion of the sale of three fiefs and a farmstead by Gundakar von Starhemberg to Abbot Konrad from Zwettl Abbey , Kühbach was first mentioned in a document in 1263. Another documentary mention was made in 1280, when the Lilienfeld Abbey also sold to the Zwettl Abbey. Subsequently, the monastery bought more and more in Kühbach.

In 1650 the municipality of Kühbach bought a bell for the bell tower in order to use it to ring the weather . A chapel was added to the tower in 1682. In 1710, the Kühbach community asked the consistory in Passau to issue a measurement license for the chapel, which was also granted in 1711. On October 28, 1783, Emperor Joseph II elevated the chapel to a parish church. He also assigned Söllitz and Niederplöttbach to the new parish. Since these two villages wanted to remain with the parish church of Döllersheim , the parish elevation of Kühbach was reversed and Kühbach was assigned to the parish of Oberndorf. In 1891 the chapel was expanded.

The parish Döllersheim led from 1652, church records for births and from 1654 also those for marriages and deaths for Kühbach. From 1785 the parish of Oberndorf took over the management of the registers . With the abolition of the Döllersheim parish, the parish registers were handed over to the Rastenfeld parish for safekeeping, those of the Oberndorf parish to the Großglobnitz parish .

In order to be able to set up the Döllersheim military training area, the population of Kühbach was originally given until October 1, 1939, to leave the area consisting of 76 houses. However, this date was extended twice to December 31, 1939.

Opposite the Hörmanns local chapel, the Oberndorf war memorial has stood since 1940, on which the fallen soldiers of the First World War from Kühbach are listed. The names of the Hörmanns who fell in World War II are given on another stone tablet .

The Gföhlersmühle, the Riemerhof and the Thomashäusel settlement also belonged to Kühbach.

Gföhlersmühle

The Gföhlersmühle was on the left bank of the Kamp south of Kühbach. The farm and the associated fields were located in a widening of the Kamptal.

The Gföhlersmühle, first mentioned in 1655, was acquired by the Zwettl Monastery in 1711, sold in 1716, taken back in 1725 and sold again in 1759. From 1652 the parish Döllersheim kept the church records for births and from 1654 also those for marriages and deaths for Flachau . With the abolition of the Döllersheim parish, these were handed over to the Rastenfeld parish for safekeeping.

Riemerhof

The Riemerhof was a single-layer farm located on the large Kamp, which from 1665 was first named as Schoberhof and later as Riemerhof in the documents. The farm and the associated fields were located in a widening of the Kamptal.

Downstream was the Maderhof, upstream in the direction of Zwettl was the Gföhlersmühle as the closest neighbor.

Thomashäusel

Thomashäusel was a small, unspecified settlement in the Dachsgraben near the ruins of the Thomaskirche , a former pilgrimage church.

literature

• Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland , 2nd edition, Association Information Waldviertel, Allentsteig, 1998
• Margot Schindler : Wegmüssen - The desettlement of the Döllersheim area (Lower Austria) 1938–1942 - Folklore aspects , Austrian Museum for Folklore, Vienna, 1988, ISBN 3-900359-38-5 .
• Austrian art topography, published by the Imperial and Royal Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume VIII, The Monuments of the Political District of Zwettl in Lower Austria (without Zwettl Abbey) , Part 2: The judicial districts of Groß-Gerungs and Zwettl, commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1911
• Ernst-Werner Techow: The old home. Description of the Waldviertel around Döllersheim. Published by the Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft Berlin. Sudetendeutsche Verlags- und Druckerei-GmbH, Eger 1942.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Müllner: The desecrated home
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Niederösterreich 2001  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Page 396, Retrieved February 19, 2015.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} German settlement company: The old home
4. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian art topography
5. ↑ Hörmann's war memorial. Retrieved January 24, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 28.8 "  N , 15 ° 14 ′ 28.5"  E