Kierling

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Kierling ( district )
locality
cadastral community Kierling
Kierling (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Tulln  (TU), Lower Austria
Judicial district Klosterneuburg
Pole. local community Klosterneuburg
Coordinates 48 ° 18 '30 "  N , 16 ° 16' 27"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '30 "  N , 16 ° 16' 27"  Ef1
height 217  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 3199 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG 11.48 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code 06705
Cadastral parish number 1703
Counting district / district Kierling-Ost / Kierling-West (32144 038/033)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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Parish church Kierling: Art Nouveau altar
Memorial stone Franz Kafka, who died in Kierling

Kierling is a cadastral community that has been part of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria ( Tulln district ) since 1954 . The place has 3199 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Kierling is located at an altitude of 213 m (in the center) and 445 m (on the Hohenauer Wiese). The community has a total area of ​​11.5 square kilometers.

Kierling is located 4 km to the west of Klosterneuburg and approx. 12 km from Vienna .

history

First early Stone Age finds show that Kierling was settled from around 3000 BC. Kierling was first mentioned in a document as early as 1072, but at that time under the name "Chirchlingen" . In 1683 the Ottomans plundered Kierling in the course of the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna . In 1901 the city was connected to the public electricity network.

On October 15, 1938, Klosterneuburg and also Kierling were attached to Vienna and Greater Vienna as the 26th district of Vienna . During the Second World War , a flak position was set up at the Haschhof in Kierling. On April 6, 1945, Kierling was liberated by the Red Army . In 1903 an electric tram was planned to connect Kierling to the Klosterneuburg station near Vienna .

freetime and sports

  • Hiking trails and bike paths: Many hiking and cycling trails run through Kierling
  • Heurige : numerous Heurige shape the cityscape.
  • Geocaching in town and in the surrounding forests

Attractions

  • Museum Kierling: houses the Franz-Kafka Memorial Museum, the world's largest collection of paper cuttings by Hans and Josefine Allmayer, as well as many Chinese paper cuttings, a unique gastronomy collection, a local history, commercial and agricultural collection, the only mobile field oven from the monarchy preserved in Austria.
  • Parish Church Kierling : The parish church Kierling is one of two churches in Lower Austria with Art Nouveau furnishings.
  • Purgathofer observatory : built from 1982 to 1989, the second largest private observatory in Europe

See also the list of listed objects in Klosterneuburg , section Kierling cadastral community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

Persons related to Kierling:

literature

  • Kierling . In: Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens . Volume 2, district under the Vienna Woods. Third completely unchanged edition. Mechitaristen, Vienna 1834, p. 333 ff. - Text online .
  • Josef Schmutzer : Kierling's local history . Amandus, Vienna 1961, OBV .
  • Friedrich Chlebecek, Barbara Eckstein: 1945–1955. "Points of view and highlights from a decade". (Exhibition) 2005 . Self-published by the KBV working group “Kierlinger Heimatmuseum”, Kierling 2005, OBV .
  • Friedrich Chlebecek: Museum Kierling 1987–2007. 20 years in the service of culture . KBV working group "Museum Kierling", Kierling 2007, OBV .
  • Friedrich Chlebecek: Kierlinger story (s). 1108-2008 . Association Museum Kierling, Kierling 2008, OBV .
  • Friedrich Chlebecek: Kierlinger story (s). Part 2, until 2012 . Association Museum Kierling, Kierling 2012, OBV .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ Miscellaneous. (...) New tracks. From the station (...). In:  Der Naturfreund , year 1906, No. 2, February 15, 1906 (Xth year), p. 24, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dna.
  3. ^ Museum Kierling. Event world . In: museumkierling.com , June 29, 2013, accessed on September 2, 2013.