Small regions in Lower Austria

Small regions are voluntary cooperations between municipalities in the federal state of Lower Austria in the areas of services of general interest , citizen service and municipal and regional spatial development .

Tasks and goals of the small regions

Since the late 1980s, the formation of small regions - in addition to the five main regions and the neighborhoods - as cooperation between political communities on a voluntary basis has been encouraged and promoted in the Austrian state of Lower Austria . The central fields of activity of a small region are services of general interest , administration and spatial development. Its aim is to improve the citizen service through cooperation in sovereign and private-sector tasks of the municipalities (e.g. garbage disposal, leisure and local recreation), to implement regional projects across municipalities and to coordinate spatial planning projects.

Small regions are "voluntary amalgamations of six or more spatially adjoining municipalities with a minimum population of 8,000 inhabitants or at least three municipalities with 12,000 inhabitants." They should "be coherent in terms of area and have no white spots ."

The Regional Planning and Regional Policy department of the Lower Austrian provincial government promotes the small regions. Since 2015, the small regions have been looked after by the Lower Austria Regional GmbH , which reports to the State Council for Economy, Tourism and Sport (2015: Petra Bohuslav).

List of the small regions in Lower Austria

There are a total of 61 small regions (as of 09/2016). 486 municipalities cooperate in small regions (14 of them in two, and 2 associated members), that is 85% of all Lower Austrian municipalities  (573).

Main region of spatial planning, ie the "five quarters" of Lower Austria

Quarter , traditional

Gem. … Number of municipalities

*… Number of municipalities in two small regions; (in brackets)… associated members

E / R / S… development concept / framework concept / other

No.	region	Main region	quarter	According to	*	E / R / S
06th	Kampseen	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	06th		E.
15th	Thayaland experience	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	∗		E.
26th	ASTEG	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	04th		E.
30th	Waldviertel heartland	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	13		E.
31	TTW Thaya-Taffa-Wild	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	09		E.
34	Waldviertel highlands	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	05		E.
36	Future space PWGD	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	∗		E.
37	Waldviertel Nord small region	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	06th		E.
38	Waldviertel city country	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	09		E.
39	Lainsitztal	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	06th		E.
60	Future area Thayaland ∗	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	16		R.
01	Kamptal SOUTH	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	06th	3	S.
58	Manhartsberg	Waldviertel, Weinviertel	Waldviertel, Weinviertel	08th		S.
57	Kamp-Taffatal	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	05		S.
65	Future region Waldviertel Mitte	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	02		S.
66	Kremstal	Waldviertel	Waldviertel	07th	4th	S.
02	Pulkautal initiative	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	06th		E.
14th	Retz country	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	07th		E.
16	Weinviertel tri-border region	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	11	2	E.
17th	Schmidatal landscape park	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	04th		E.
20th	Land around Hollabrunn ***	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	06th		E.
33	Small region of Leiser Berge	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	06th		E.
35	Southern Weinviertel	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	13		E.
46	Land around Laa	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	11	1	E.
48	Region around Wolkersdorf	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	06th		E.
56	Marchfeld region	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	23		E.
44	10 before Vienna	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	10		R.
47	RV March-Thaya-Auen	Weinviertel	Weinviertel	06th	1	R.
28	Roman land Carnuntum	Industrial district	Industrial district	27		E.
29	Mödling	Industrial district	Industrial district	12		E.
32	Triestingtal	Industrial district, Lower Lower Austria center	Industrial district, Mostviertel	12		E.
61	Common region of Bucklige Welt	Industrial district	Industrial district	23		R.
63	Steinfeld	Industrial district	Industrial district	04th		R.
71	Ebreichsdorf	Industrial district	Industrial district	05		R.
59	Change country	Industrial district	Industrial district	09		S.
62	Schwarzatal	Industrial district	Industrial district	08th		S.
67	Common region of Schneebergland	Industrial district	Industrial district	18th		S.
69	World Heritage Region Semmering-Rax	Industrial district	Industrial district	08th		S.
04th	Lower Traisental	Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	05	1	E.
11	Horse country pre-Alps	Mostviertel, Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	07th	6th	E.
12	Pielachtal	Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	08th	2	HE
18th	ARGE Dunkelsteinerwald	Mostviertel, Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	07th		E.
24	Wagram region	Lower Austria center, Weinviertel	Weinviertel	09	1	E.
41	Traisen-Gölsental	Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	10	(2)	E.
40	Tullnerfeld West	Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	11 ∗∗	2	R.
55	ARGE Krems area	Lower Austria-Mitte, Waldviertel	Waldviertel	11	7th	R.
72	Fragnerland ∗∗	Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	04th		S.
45	WIR - Wienerwald Initiative Region	Lower Austria center	Mostviertel	08th		S.
68	Troppberg	Lower Austria center	Industrial district	04th		S.
13	Southern Waldviertel ecoregion	Mostviertel	Waldviertel	12		E.
19th	Heart of the Mostviertel	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	07th		E.
21st	In-region	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	06th		E.
22nd	Pöchlarn-Nibelungengau	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	04th		E.
23	Melktal	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	04th		E.
27	High 6	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	06th		E.
51	Small Erlauftal	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	07th		R.
05	Ybbstal-Eisenstrasse	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	05		S.
10	Ostarrichi Mostland	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	07th		S.
49	Alpine	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	06th		S.
50	Schallaburg	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	02		S.
52	Danube-Ybbsfeld	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	07th		S.
53	Mostviertel origin	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	08th		S.
70	Great Erlauftal	Mostviertel	Mostviertel	02		S.

all information as of 4/2012

^∗ Regions 15 and 36 have a common master plan and are managed as Region 60

^∗∗ The municipalities of Region 72 are still listed at 40 in 2016

^*** Disbanded in 2016

Web links

• Small- regional cooperation , noe.gv.at: Land & Future, spatial planning, small regions
• Small regions: General information , spatial planning and regional policy, raumordnung-noe.at (with links to pdfs with maps by district)

Quarter:

• Website on the small regions in the industrial district
• Website about the small regions in the Mostviertel
• Website about the small regions in Lower Austria-Mitte
• Website on the small regions in the Waldviertel
• Website about the small regions in the Weinviertel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Small Regions: Small Regions & their Activities. noeregional.at (accessed January 17, 2016; quotes literally except for gendering).
2. ^ LR Petra Bohuslav. noe.gv.at: Politics & Administration / State Government , accessed January 16, 2016.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Map of the small regions in Lower Austria ( memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 794 kB)