Dunkelsteinerwald (municipality)

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Dunkelsteinerwald
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Dunkelsteinerwald (municipality) (Austria)
Dunkelsteinerwald (municipality)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : Melk
License plate : ME
Main town : Gansbach
Surface: 54.28 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 18 '  N , 15 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '24 "  N , 15 ° 28' 20"  E
Height : 585  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,393 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3392
Area code : 02753
Community code : 3 15 07
Address of the
municipal administration:
3392 Gerolding
Website: www.dunkelsteinerwald.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Franz Penz ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(21 members)
13
4th
2
2
13 4th 
A total of 21 seats
Location of Dunkelsteinerwald in the Melk district
Bergland Artstetten-Pöbring Bischofstetten Blindenmarkt Dorfstetten Dunkelsteinerwald Emmersdorf an der Donau Erlauf Golling an der Erlauf Hofamt Priel Hürm Kilb Kirnberg an der Mank Klein-Pöchlarn Krummnußbaum Leiben Loosdorf Mank Marbach an der Donau Maria Taferl Melk Münichreith-Laimbach Neumarkt an der Ybbs Nöchling Persenbeug-Gottsdorf Petzenkirchen Pöchlarn Pöggstall Raxendorf Ruprechtshofen St. Leonhard am Forst St. Martin-Karlsbach St. Oswald Schollach (Niederösterreich) Schönbühel-Aggsbach Texingtal Weiten Ybbs an der Donau Yspertal Zelking-Matzleinsdorf NiederösterreichLocation of the community of Dunkelsteinerwald (community) in the Melk district (clickable map)
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Dunkelsteinerwald is a market town with 2393 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Melk district in Lower Austria .

geography

Dunkelsteinerwald is located in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 54.19 square kilometers. 46.73 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 33 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

The community consists of the cadastral communities Eckartsberg, Gansbach, Gerolding, Geroldinger Wald , Häusling, Heitzing, Hessendorf, Himberg, Hohenwarth, Kicking, Kochholz, Krapfenberg, Lanzing, Lerchfeld, Lottersberg, Mauer , Neuhofen , Nölling, Ohnreith, Pfaffing, Thal, Umbach and origin.

Neighboring communities

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

The community was created in 1970 through the merger of the communities of Gansbach, Gerolding, Kicking and Mauer.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census , there were 2289 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 2025 inhabitants, in 1981 1941 and in 1971 1911 inhabitants.

coat of arms

  • Description: In a shield base that points over a green, three- pointed shield , split from red to silver with a silver paw cross in front and a green conifer in the back.
  • Colors: red-white-green
  • Awarded: June 30, 1982.

politics

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The municipal council has 21 members.

  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, and 4 SPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 1 Greens.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 1 Greens.
  • With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 1 Greens.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, 2 SPÖ, 1 Greens, and 1 FRANZ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 2 List Sedlmayer (FRANZ) and 2 Greens.
mayor
  • since ? Franz Penz (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Roman bridge
Linden wood carved altar (around 1510) in the parish church of Mauer near Melk
Wolfstein hunting lodge in Kochholz

In June 2018, the Falco sculpture “Is the comet coming or is it too late” by Katrin Plavčak was unveiled in Gansbach . The starting point for the idea for the scene sculpture was a line of text from the song Nur mit dir from Falco's album Junge Roemer . The monument consists of a four-meter-high, black and silver-colored sculpture made of steel and a serpentinite from the Dunkelsteinerwald , which represents a comet . The memorial was erected on the new Falco-Platz by the municipality together with the state of Lower Austria and the Art in Public Space Initiative .

nature

The wild roses , which occur in numerous species here, are typical of the Dunkelsteinerwald . The flowers are used for the production of liqueur, caster sugar, syrup and wild rose ice cream. The rose hips are also processed into various products such as jam , liqueur or puree . In order to preserve these cultures and to be able to market them better, the municipality with eight producers was added to the ranks of Austria's culinary regions in 2013 as the Dunkelsteiner Rosehip region .

economy

In 2001 there were 62 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 167 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 1017. In 2001, the activity rate was 46.22 percent.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Dunkelsteinerwald. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Election result of municipal council election 2000 in Dunkelsteinerwald. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Dunkelsteinerwald. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  5. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Dunkelsteinerwald. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Dunkelsteinerwald. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  7. Results of the local council election 2020 in Dunkelsteinerwald. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  8. Exhibitions, museums, art in public space . Office of the Provincial Government of Lower Austria, May 30, 2018.
  9. NÖN: Dunkelsteinerwald: Gansbach: Memorial for Falco in Dunkelsteinerwald . Article dated May 3, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018.
  10. ^ Arge Dunkelsteinerwald , accessed on March 8, 2013.
  11. Dunkelsteiner rose hip . Entry in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism .
    Dunkelsteiner rosehip at the Genuss Region Österreich association .