Kirchstetten (Lower Austria)

Kirchstetten is located in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 17.76 square kilometers, 22.28 percent of the area is forested. Kirchstetten lies at an altitude of 270 to 444 m above sea level. A. Several mountain ranges rise in the community, such as the Aschberg, the Hausberg, the Haspelwald, the Eichberg or the Gugl. Several small streams flow through the municipality. The two strongest, the Wolfbach and the Sichelbach, unite in Sichelbach and the Sichelbach flows into the Michelbach in Böheimkirchen. Especially the Sichelbach, with its tributaries from Aschberg, Waasen and Kreppenbach, repeatedly causes flooding in Kirchstetten and Sichelbach. The A1 Westautobahn leads directly through Kirchstetten and the (old) Westbahn of the ÖBB meanders between Totzenbach and Kirchstetten. There are also many hiking and cycling trails that are also integrated into cross-district paths.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Aschberg (40) and Im Hag
Double (87) including Kronhof
Fuchsberg (42)
Gstockert (33) with Kreith
Backwood (118)
Kirchstetten (806) including Neukirchstetten and Sommerhof
Ober-Wolfsbach (98) including Gaisfeld
Paltram (208)
Pettenau (421)
Senning (12)
Sichelbach (136)
Totzenbach (482) including the Kleiner Bruckhof and Reithof
Waasen (123)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Doppel, Kirchstetten, Oberwolfsbach, Paltram, Senning, Sichelbach, Totzenbach and Waasen.

Kirchstetten is a member of the Wienerwald Initiative Region and the Leader Region Elsbeere Wienerwald.

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province . Around 450 the Hunnenhügel was built, an earth wall on which there was probably a fortification. More recent finds show settlement and trade in the Celtic and Roman times. In 1130, “Chirichstetten” was first mentioned in a document as an independent parish. In 1374 the parish of Totzenbach split off from Kirchstetten. In 1512 the Protestant "Priestly Society of All Saints above the Vienna Woods" was founded in Totzenbach. In 1529 Kirchstetten Castle was destroyed by the Turks. In 1622 Kirchstetten came to the parish of Ollersbach. In 1634 Totzenbach became Catholic again and the parish was rebuilt by Emperor Joseph II. In 1848 the landlord was abolished and the farmers became landowners.

The train station was built in 1857 and the post office was set up in 1862. In 1876, a school building was built in Kirchstetten on the former Schloßberg, which later became the Joseph Weinheber elementary school. In 1898 a school building was built in Totzenbach, the Kaiser Franz Joseph Jubilee Elementary School. In 1939 the construction of the western motorway began.

At the end of World War II, Kirchstetten was a frontline area for some time, where Wehrmacht soldiers fought against Soviet troops. Especially in Aschberg, in the Kirchenwald, in Hinterholz near the Warthof zur Wolfsähn, the fighting was heavy and with great sacrifices. Traces of it can still be found today. The Westbahn was also bombed again and again, especially during the bombing of St. Pölten, bombs fell on Kirchstetten. The church also took a hit, but the bomb did not explode.

In 1988 Johann Kastenberger, alias Pumpgun Ronnie, attacked what was then the Volksbank branch. In the same year, after his spectacular escape, he hid in Kirchstetten and stole the car of the then vice-mayor in Waasen. He was shot in this car after breaking a roadblock on the A1, and he judged himself accordingly, also in the car. At that time Kirchstetten was occupied by special units of the gendarmerie and police and there was great uncertainty among the population.

Around 1850 the communities of Kirchstetten and Totzenbach came into being, which were combined to form the Kirchstetten community in 1971. In 1999 Kirchstetten was given back the market rights that it had had from the 14th century until the first Turkish war.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1814 inhabitants. In 1991 the municipality had 1617 inhabitants, in 1981 1451 and in 1971 1358 inhabitants.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 21 seats.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution with 19 seats: 13 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005, the municipal council had the following distribution with 19 seats: 13 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.

With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution with 19 seats: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.

With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution with 21 seats: 12 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 2 GRÜNE.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council with 21 seats has the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 2 Greens and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

1995–2010 Johann Dill († 2020, ÖVP)
until 2020 Paul Horsak (ÖVP)
since 2020 Josef Friedl (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Totzenbach Castle

Parish Church of Totzenbach

Totzenbach Castle
Catholic parish church Totzenbach Allerheiligen
Catholic branch church Kirchstetten hl. Vitus
Nursing home Clementinum Kirchstetten , the chapel is a listed building
Audenhaus: The Audenhaus on Hinterholz 6 has a documentation room and shows the original study of the American poet of British origin WH Auden.
Wine lifter museum in Josef-Weinheber-Strasse with grave site
The old village smithy in Totzenbach
The Rosalienquelle (with the legend of the stone bread)
The village square in Kirchstetten (with the Rosalienquellen fountain)

Kirchstetten in film and television

The organ builder of St. Marien with Paul Hörbiger and Sieghardt Rupp , was filmed in Kirchstetten, among other places, with a large participation of the local population.
One episode of the Tatort (TV series) took place in Kirchstetten and in Totzenbach Castle.
A documentary about Hans Peter Heinzl showed his life in Kirchstetten.
Hermann Maier shot commercials for his main sponsor, together with the fire brigade, traditional costume music and the local population, in which he lifted several thousand balloons towards the sky.
A second advertisement for the largest domestic bank was shot in Kirchstetten.
Hinterholz 8 from the pen of Roland Düringer : Characters, plot as well as people and names are very closely connected to Kirchstetten, but it was not shot in Kirchstetten.
The raid (2000) shows Kirchstetten in some scenes.

Celebrations and events

KulturKreisKirchstetten
Kulturherbst Kirchstetten
Summer festival
Culture table
Literature seminar
Theatrical games
Raising the maypole in Kirchstetten
Blacksmithing festival in Totzenbach
Solstice fire in Kirchstetten
Solstice fire in double
Fire brigade festival in Kirchstetten
Fire brigade festival in Totzenbach
Music festival of traditional costume music
Thanksgiving festival of the farmers' union
Carnival parade
Children's friends games festival
Village festival of the farmers' union
Mostkirtag
Hiking day on the national holiday
New year hiking day
Various small events of the clubs and fire brigades.

Clubs and organizations

FF Kirchstetten, founded in 1879, 87 members, area of operation: community area, ÖBB Westbahn, A1 Westautobahn on a route from Altlengbach to Böheimkirchen and, if necessary, help for the neighboring military.
FF Totzenbach
Village renewal in Kirchstetten
Culture and Sports Association Kirchstetten
Child friends Kirchstetten
kkk KulturKreisKirchstetten
Association of Friends of Totzenbach
Tennis club
Time bank 55+
Local beautification of Kirchstetten
Sichelbach village community
Trachtenmusikkapelle Kirchstetten
Kirchstetten farmers' union
HC Totzenbach
Kirchstetten pensioners
Farmers' Association Totzenbach
church choir
Male choir
Model club Böheimkirchen-Kirchstetten
Culture table
Move2Music
Austrian Working Dog Sports Association
Seniors' Association
Sense friends
Savings association
Wine lifter company
Catholic educational institute Kirchstetten

economy

In 2001 there were 62 non-agricultural workplaces, as well as 52 agricultural and forestry businesses according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in employment at the place of residence was 827 according to the 2001 census. The 2001 employment rate was 46.96 percent.

Personalities

People related to the community

Josef Weinträger (1892–1945), Austrian poet and lyric poet, bought a house in Kirchstetten in 1936, which is now the Wine Cellar Museum. His grave is in the garden of the house.
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 in York (GB) - 1973 in Vienna), English, American writer and poet since 1946, from 1957 until his death Auden spent the summer in Kirchstetten, where he is also buried.
Roland Düringer (* 1963), Austrian cabaret artist and actor, lived in Kirchstetten (in Hinterholz). He called his first solo cabaret program Hinterholzacht, 20 years of accounting . The theatrical version Hinterholz 8 was the most popular Austrian film in 1998.
Bertha Ehnn , opera singer, had a property in Aschberg, where she died on March 2, 1932.
Heidemaria Onodi (* 1957 in doubles), Deputy Governor of Lower Austria from 2001 to 2008
Lothar Bürger (1866–1943), painter who lived and worked here. A street in the village is named after him.
Hans Peter Heinzl (1942–1996), actor and cabaret artist, who spent many summers on an estate in Aschberg. A film about Heinzl was shot in various locations in Kirchstetten.
In 1988 Johann Kastenberger alias "Pumpgun Ronnie" attacked a bank branch in Kirchstetten. In the same year he hid in Kirchstetten on his escape, stole the deputy mayor's car, in which he was shot and then committed suicide.

literature

Andreas Brunner : Auden: "Here silence becomes things" . The British poet WH Auden and his house in Kirchstetten. In: Wiener Zeitung extra - Lexicon . ( Online version [accessed on July 4, 2010] Audens and his house in Hinterholz, with a dangling to Düringer).
Stella Mussulin: Auden in Kirchstetten , in: Katherine Bucknell, Nicholas Jenkins (ed.): WH Auden. "In Solitude, For Company": WH Auden after 1940: unpublished prose and recent criticism . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-818294-5 , pp. 207-233.

Web links

Commons : Kirchstetten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage of the market town of Kirchstetten
31919 - Kirchstetten (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 55, 171 , accessed on February 12, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020 .

↑ Accessed to the community website on the Audenhaus , September 6, 2016

↑ Lothar Bürger-Steig in 3062 Kirchstetten In: or.at , accessed on February 14, 2018.

https://www.kirchstetten.at/Unser_Kirchstetten/Vereine

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 55, 171 , accessed on February 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_31919-3] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_31919-4] Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_31919-5] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_31919-6] Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_31919-7] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Kirchstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020 .