Kleinschönau (municipality of Vitis)

Kleinschönau ( village ) locality cadastral community Kleinschönau
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Waidhofen an der Thaya  (WT), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Waidhofen an der Thaya
Pole. local community	Vitis
Coordinates	48 ° 43 '52 "  N , 15 ° 9' 40"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '52 "  N , 15 ° 9' 40"  E
Residents of the village	40 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	27 (2001)
Area  d. KG	2.34 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	06517
Cadastral parish number	21207
Counting district / district	Kleinschönau (32219 006)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Kleinschönau is a cadastral community and a place in the market town of Vitis , Waidhofen an der Thaya district . The place is at an altitude of 537  m above sea level. A. and in 2001 had a population of 56 people.

location

The cadastral community of Kleinschönau is located in the south of the municipality of Vitis and borders in the south on the cadastral community Warnungs and in the north on the cadastral community Kleingloms . In the west, Kleinschönau has a border with the municipalities of Kirchberg am Walde (cadastral municipality of Hollenstein) and Hirschbach ; in the east, Kleinschönau borders the municipality of Echsenbach (cadastral municipalities of Kleinpoppen and Wolfenstein ).

The town of Kleinschönau is connected by a road that leads from Kleingloms to Warnungs. In addition, a road runs from Kleinschönau to Kleinpoppen. The Kirchenwald, an extensive forest area in the municipality of Kirchberg am Walde, extends to the east of the cadastral municipality, with its northeasternmost branch in the area of ​​Kleinschönau being called Otternbühel.

history

Population development

The place name Kleinschönau was first mentioned in documents in 1380, when Duke Albrecht III. the brothers "Hans vnd Ott, the Toppler" gave the "Vest ze Hirspach". In the document two parts of the Zehent "ze Hirspach, ze dem Stölzleins, ze Schonnaw ​​and ze Lobniz" were mentioned, which is the first time that Kleinschönau is known as "Schonnaw". The place name itself is a descriptive place name that means "near the beautiful Au".

Kleinschönau originally belonged to the Hirschbach lordship, which held the land, village and regional courts. However, in 1455 Hans Topler temporarily sold the village to Michael von Herwartenhouen. At the beginning of the 16th century, the place Schönau or parts of it should have been temporarily deserted, since in 1514 tens of seven desolate fiefdoms were notarized in the village due to legal disputes. After the death of Count Franz Sigmund von Herberstein, his wife sold the Hirschbach estate with Kleinschönau and Kleingloms in 1755 to the owner of Kirchberg am Walde, Count Julius Veterani von Mallenthein. Kleinschönau and Kleingloms remained part of the lordship of Kirchberg am Walde until the land authority was abolished.

Kleinschönau originally belonged to the Sallingstadt parish, but was parish off to Großglobnitz after the turmoil of the Reformation. In 1758 Kleinschönau finally came to the parish of Hirschbach. The chapel, built in 1835/1836, originally only served to pray the rosary and was not consecrated until 1862.

The size of the place remained almost unchanged for centuries, there were still 10 houses in 1590/91, the number of houses rose to 15 houses by 1796. After that, however, the size of the town hardly changed, in 2000 Kleinschönau consisted of 16 houses.

In the political field, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) dominates the election results, analogous to the municipal level. The ÖVP in the Kleinschönau electoral district achieved 80% (community result: 70%) and the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) 20% (community result: 30%) in the 2010 local council election . In 2005 the ÖVP had only achieved 67%.

Buildings

Kleinschönau was built as a longitudinal tangle village, with the unspoilt pasture having a cross street. The single-storey construction of the village consists predominantly of three and four-sided courtyards, house no. 5 (marked with the year 1882) was provided with a stucco medallion. The local chapel is a simple building with a semicircular apse, roof turrets with stucco decoration and an onion helmet. The interior is adorned with a late Baroque crucifix and figures of Saint Barbara and Saint Catherine, both from the first half of the 19th century. The chapel shrine at the southern exit of the village also dates from the first half of the 19th century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria (PDF; 8 kB) Census from May 15, 2001, inhabitants by locality
2. ↑ 850 years of Vitis. P. 153
3. ^ SPÖ Vitis (PDF; 15 kB) 2010 election results after polling

literature

• Federal Monuments Office : Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube , Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2
• Market town of Vitis (ed.): 850 years of Vitis. Market town of Vitis, Vitis 2000

Web links

• Kleinschönau on the website of the market town of Vitis