Kautzen

Kautzen is located in the northern Waldviertel in Lower Austria, the area of the market town covers 35.41 square kilometers. 35.37 percent of the area is forested.

A road leads from small taxis to the desert of Košťálkov into Staré Město pod Landštejnem in the Czech Republic .

Community structure

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

Engelbrechts (94)
Big Taxes (82)
Kautzen (597)
Kleingerharts (27)
Small taxes (59)
Plessberg (124)
Reinberg-Dobersberg (32)
Tiefenbach (54)
Triglass (43)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Engelbrechts, Großtaxen, Illmau, Kautzen, Kleingerharts, Kleintaxen, Plessberg, Reinberg-Dobersberg, Tiefenbach and Triglas.

Neighboring communities

	Staré Město pod Landštejnem (CZ)
Eggern		Dobersberg
	Gastern

history

Kautzen was first mentioned in a document in 1212 (document in the Michaelbeuern monastery archive).

Kautzen served the Illmau rule (first mentioned in 1337) as the main town. A market was mentioned in 1520 and 1675. At the end of the 17th century, glass and paper manufacturers settled here. An old paper mill from this period has survived. Textile production became important in the second half of the 18th century. The Illmau internment camp existed in Illmau Castle between 1914 and 1917 , primarily for citizens of states at war with Austria-Hungary .

coat of arms

Population development

The population of Kautzen has been decreasing continuously since 1951. The population decline has slowed in the last few decades, but the birth balance and migration balance are still negative.

politics

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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, 3 SPÖ and 2 others.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 1 citizens' list and 1 F-UPW.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 2 UFW.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 3 UFW.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

1990–2010 Erwin Hornek (ÖVP)
since 2010 Manfred Wühl (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Illmau Castle

Parish church Kautzen

Natural monument WT-041: Summer linden tree near Kautzen

Groß-Taxen Castle: The high-altitude castle was first mentioned in 1347. After a fire in 1621 it was structurally renewed and rebuilt again in the first third of the 18th century. The northern and western tracts were expanded further in the 19th century.

Illmau Castle : The castle, first mentioned in 1337, originally served as a border fortress. The current Renaissance building dates from the 16th century.

Catholic parish church Kautzen hl. James the Elder: The church is a baroque building with a Gothic core, which was greatly enlarged from 1868 to 1870.

Local history museum Kautzen: The museum focuses on handicrafts and agriculture.

In Groß-Taxen there are the natural monuments "5 oaks", "Lindenalle Groß-Taxen" and several "Sommerlinden",

In the Illmauer Wald there is a small granite pyramid that was erected in 1825 in honor of the family of General Philipp Ferdinand von Grünne .

In a forest near Engelbrechts there is a formation of granite stones ( ) called the scorpion stone , which is now an internationally known place of pilgrimage for esotericists .48.92242 15.20075

Right next to it is a UFO landing site.

economy

There are 78 agricultural and forestry businesses in Kautzen. Of these, 28 are full-time farms that farm more than half of the agricultural area (as of 2010). The manufacturing sector employs 123 workers in 17 factories, mainly in the manufacture of goods and construction. In the service sector 106 people work in 48 companies, almost half in social and public services (as of 2011).

traffic

Road: Kautzen is on Thayatal Straße (B 30), which leads from Guntersdorf via Retz to Drosendorf .

health

A general practitioner ordains in the ward.

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Kautzen.

Local history museum Kautzen, shoemaker's workshop

Sports

The USV / UTV Kautzen maintains the soccer, tennis, cheerleading, cycling, table tennis and gymnastics sections.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Heinrich Rauscher (1891–1960), educator, school director and local researcher
Othmar Rauscher (1919–1995), Cistercian and abbot of Schlierbach Abbey
Erwin Hornek (* 1959), Austrian politician
Hans Moravec (* 1948), Austrian-Canadian robot pioneer
Alois Stöger (1904–1999), Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of St. Pölten 1967–1986

literature

Franz Fraissl: The development of the Kautzen community 1938–1988. 1988.

Web links

Commons : Kautzen - collection of images, videos and audio files

32210 - Kautzen. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ The year 1112, which is often quoted, is based on the assumption that the list of tithes, which was written at the end of the 13th century, already had the same content when the St. Georgia Monastery was founded in 1112. But that was certainly not the case, as it contains place names that did not even exist at that time (e.g. Wüstung Hard near Thaya). In addition, an undated document cannot be used as the "first documentary" mention.
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Kautzen, population development. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Kautzen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Kautzen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Kautzen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Kautzen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Kautzen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Kautzen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
↑ Entry on Schloss Taxen on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
^ Municipality of Kautzen, Tourism, Living Museum. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ State of Lower Austria, nature conservation, natural monuments, Waidhofen / Thaya, Kautzen. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ Scorpio stone in SOL NET
↑ News from Kautzen, the small village in the Waldviertel with a UFO landing area on Ufo.at
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Kautzen, agricultural and forestry companies. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Kautzen, workplaces. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Kautzen, employees. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
↑ OpenStreetMap, Kautzen. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ Municipality of Kautzen, Service, Health. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
↑ Kautzen community, community. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .