ASTEG small region

The ASTEG small region is the voluntary cooperation of four municipalities and the Allentsteig military training area in the Zwettl district in Lower Austria in the areas of services of general interest, citizen service and spatial development. The name of the small region is composed of the first letters of the names of its members. Small regions in Lower Austria are funded by the Lower Austrian provincial government as an instrument of rural development and spatial planning.

Members

The ASTEG micro-region consists of the following members:

Allentsteig municipality

Market town of Echsenbach

Market town of Göpfritz an der Wild

Market town of Schwarzenau

Allentsteig military training area

The small region ASTEG, founded in 2006, is supported by the small region Asteg association , whose board is made up of the mayors and local councils from the member communities. A special feature of the ASTEG small region is the involvement of the Austrian Armed Forces , which owns and uses almost half of the Allentsteig military training area. The small region operates a project office in Schwarzenau .

Projects

The main tasks of the small region are the expansion and marketing of the recreational area with a health competence center and the neuro-rehabilitation center in Allentsteig, the expansion of a cycle path network, the strengthening of regional identity through measures such as the establishment of a website for the small region and - in cooperation with the small region Kampseen - the Establishment of a disaster control center. Another central aspect is the cooperation with the Austrian Armed Forces, which operates one of the larger military training areas in Europe in the small region, which is on the one hand the largest employer in the small region, but at the same time represents a burden on its economic development.