Kottaun

Kottaun ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral community Kottaun
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Horn (HO), Lower Austria
Judicial district	horn
Pole. local community	Geras
Coordinates	48 ° 49 '24 " N , 15 ° 40' 28" E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '24 " N , 15 ° 40' 28" E
height	466 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	80 (January 1, 2020)
Area d. KG	5.59 km²
	Statistical identification
Locality code	03956
Cadastral parish number	10219
Counting district / district	Kottaun (31107 001)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

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Kottaun is a village and a cadastral municipality in the municipality of Geras in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel.

location

The anger village of Kottaun is two kilometers north of Geras.

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1240 in Friedrich II's umbrella letter , which refers to the foundation of the Geras Monastery and the Pernegg Monastery . Half of the village of Kottaun was bequeathed to the Geras monastery. Kottaun was also the seat of a noble family whose castle, according to legend, stood on the site of today's parish hall (No. 6), where you can still see the remains of a ruined wall and a piece of a moat.

traffic

Rail: The Geras-Kottaun station of the Retz – Drosendorf local railway is entirely in the Geras cadastral community.

Individual evidence

↑ Kottaun on geras.at

[1] Kottaun on geras.at