Laab in the forest
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Laab in the forest
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| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Lower Austria | |
| Political District : | Mödling | |
| License plate : | MD | |
| Surface: | 7.14 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 9 ' N , 16 ° 10' E | |
| Height : | 316 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 1,111 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 156 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 2381 | |
| Area code : | 02239 | |
| Community code : | 3 17 14 | |
| NUTS region | AT127 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Schulgasse 2 2381 Laab im Walde |
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| Mayor : | Peter Klar (MFL - Together for Laab) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members) |
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| Location of Laab im Walde in the Mödling district | ||
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 Laab in the forest from the south |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Laab im Walde is a municipality with 1111 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the far northwest of the Mödling district in the Austrian state of Lower Austria .
geography
Laab is located in a side valley of the Liesingbach valley , right on the border with the St. Pölten district . It is located on Laaber Straße B 13, which leads from Vienna - Kalksburg to Pressbaum am Wienerwaldsee . The Lower Austrian part of the Lainzer Tiergarten belongs to Laab and is accessible directly north of the village via the Laaber Tor .
The community qualified as a village is congruent with the cadastral community Laab im Walde, which has the village of Roppersberg as a locality in addition to the parent community .
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Vienna |
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history
The area of Laab was populated relatively early compared to the surrounding places. It was a preferred hunting area first for the Babenbergs , later for the Habsburgs due to its convenient proximity to Vienna. Due to the increasing demand for firewood, woodworkers and charcoal burners settled here , who lived in so-called duck houses , as you can also find them in the neighboring towns.
The name Laab comes from the Middle High German Loupe, which means deciduous forest. It was first mentioned in a document in 1200 in a certificate of ownership by Duke Leopold VI. for the Viennese Schottenstift , which the chapel in Laab received from the Babenbergers in the second half of the 12th century - possibly when it was founded in 1155 ( capellam beati Colomanni in Loupe ). The name changed in the course of time from Laeb (1352), Laab in silva (1429) or Lääb (1601) to today's Laab im Walde .
A hunting lodge built by Margrave Heinrich I of Austria († 1018) established the town's 900th anniversary in 1897. The hunting lodge burned down during the first Turkish siege and was not rebuilt. There are only drawings in an old parish book of Perchtoldsdorf . Around 1700 there was also a hermitage . The Laab estate came into the possession of the Teutonic Order in 1769 , which kept its patronage over the place until 1980.
The first municipal council elections took place on June 22, 1919. With Georg Högn from the “Christian Social Party”, a mayor was confirmed who was transferring his office from the old monarchy to the new republic. In September 1930, a typhus epidemic broke out in Laab . This meant great financial damage, as the milk could no longer be brought to Vienna.
The February revolt in 1934 had an impact in Laab insofar as the three social democratic councilors had to resign from the council. As Chancellor Dollfuss on l. When the new constitution was announced on May 25th of this year, it was heard in Laab through loudspeakers - according to the parish chronicle with "emotion and enthusiasm".
After the Dollfuss murder, a home guard group and a group of young boys, "Jungvaterland", were founded. The girls, the "sun children", were formed from the Catholic Congregation for Girls. A local group, the "Fatherland Front", was founded, the head of which was Pastor Wernhart at the time. It comprised over 200 members. As a result, the local council was arrested for a short time - Pastor Wernhart narrowly escaped arrest.
The convent of the Sisters of Charity was searched for weapons by the National Socialists . When the German military marched in, there were also billets in Laab. It is said that “60 meters of apple strudel” were baked for soldiers in Laab at that time. On November 15, 1938, Laab im Walde was attached to Vienna due to the Territorial Change Act. It was now part of the newly created 25th district of Vienna.
There had been no organized resistance in Laab. It is only known that the then Laaber Peter Linsenholz was in protective custody in 1938/39 because of his former “anti-nationalist activities as a functionary of a patriotic organization”.
During the Second World War it seemed unlikely to the population that exactly Laab should be bombed. However, on January 21, 1945, aircraft bombs struck. The Allies had tried to hit Vienna's second high spring water pipeline in order to cut off Vienna from the water supply. Although there are between fifty and sixty bomb craters along the water pipe to this day, the pipe itself was not hit.
At that time, a court martial was housed in the elementary school (today's municipal office). In April 1945 a deserter was sentenced to death by this court and shot outside the village. His body was on the side of the road for two days. A plaque was put up above the dead man and it read: "Shot out of cowardice for desertion!" The Laab community buried him in the local cemetery on April 4th.
On April 7th, the Russians reached Laab, nested in the rectory, took food as they saw fit and raped women and girls. The situation in Laab was still very tense throughout April. Two members of the community had taken over the local leadership; Karl Madl as provisional mayor and Lambert Krammer Junior as police chief.
On September 1, 1954, 80 of the 97 peripheral communities that had been annexed to Greater Vienna in 1938 were released into independence again. Since then, Laab has been an independent municipality in the Mödling district . On the same day, the eleven-member local council met and elected Josef Weissenberger ÖVP as the new mayor. At the meeting on September 16, 1954, the SPÖ parliamentary group applied for the “reorganization of the community of Laab im Walde zu Vienna”. The motion was approved with 6: 5 votes, the final decision from then on lay with the state government. However, the latter refused in order to preserve the independence that had just been regained.
In 1957 Anton Stagl (ÖVP) took over the office of mayor. Between 1990 and 2015 Peter Wimmer (ÖVP) was Mayor of Laab im Walde. In Laab im Walde there are two local groups of the state parties: the ÖVP and the SPÖ . The Greens were represented in the municipal council between 2010 and 2015 and formed a local group, while the SPÖ was not allowed to vote due to a formal error in the 2010 municipal council election. In 2020 the SPÖ did not run for election either.
In the municipal council elections in 2015, the list “Together for Laab” (MfL) appeared for the first time as an electoral alliance of supporters of the ÖVP, the SPÖ and the Greens and achieved an absolute majority. Mayor was Peter Klar (MfL). In 2020 the list "Together for Laab" again achieved an absolute majority with 73.47% of the votes.
Population development
economy
According to the results of the sample census in 2006, 92 companies were located in Laab im Walde, 33 of which are assigned to agriculture and forestry. The place is known to Viennese mainly because of the rehabilitation center of the social insurance with a capacity of 135 beds. There are two restaurants in Laab: the “Laaberhof” (a restaurant with overnight accommodation) and “Our local supplier” - a grocer with an attached coffee house. Bundesstraße 13 ( Laaber Straße ), an important connecting route between the West Autobahn and Vienna, runs directly through Laab - especially Liesing with its extensive industrial area. Of the 515 people in employment, 400 were out-commuters in 2001, mainly to nearby Vienna . In contrast, there were 178 in-commuters.
traffic
The place can be reached by public transport with bus route 253 from Liesing and Pressbaum .
Regarding the development of Laab by rail, in 1897 the Leo Arnoldi company planned a meter-gauge electric small train from Liesing to Breitenfurt with a branch to Laab im Walde. The official route revision was scheduled for September 24, 1897.
In the spring of 1899, the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry granted the Viennese contractor L (eopld) Jarath technical preparatory work for a line from Liesing via Kalksburg and Laab to Tullnerbach-Pressbaum with a branch from Rothenstadl to Breitenfurth . - Such a ( standard-gauge ) connection between the southern and western lines would have meant sensitive competition for the connecting line built in 1860 . The project was not implemented.
Culture and sights
- Parish church hl. Koloman with rectory, former Wintersbach Castle
- Convent of the Sister of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul
Catholic Church
In 2001, 71.5% of the population was Roman Catholic .
There is a monastery of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul . They have been running this monastery since 1879 when a former cold water spa was bought. Today an organic farm, the Annahof , is operated, which also serves to supply the hospital of the Sisters of Mercy in Vienna- Gumpendorf . For sisters of the order the monastery is also a retirement home or retreat house . In the late summer of 1896, Eduard Angerer (1816–1898), titular archbishop of Selymbria , stayed at the monastery for a fortnight.
The Catholic Church of Laab (today on Laaber Hauptplatz) is documented as the chapel of St. Koloman ( capellam beati Colomanni in Loupe ) for the first time in 1200 in a certificate of ownership by Duke Leopold VI. mentioned for the Wiener Schottenstift . The chapel received this monastery from the Babenbergers in the second half of the 12th century - possibly when it was founded in 1155 . In 1265 Laab was raised to an independent parish. In the course of the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1529, Laab was badly affected, and the church and rectory burned down. The Schottenstift did not restore the church, for financial reasons the parish was not reoccupied, but the pastor of Perchtoldsdorf was entrusted with the pastoral care. The Schottenstift handed over the parish grounds and the patronage in 1678 to Christoph Ritter von Abele, who undertook to pay for the maintenance of the church.
During the second Turkish siege in 1683, the chapel was burned down again. After Count Christoph's death, his wife Maria Klara took care of the rebuilding of the parish. She sold the rule of Laab to Seifried Christoph Graf von Breüner, whose heirs she sold to Josef Kropf. Finally, in 1711, Albert Anton von Schmerling, who belonged to a German knightly order, acquired it, and this German order became the patron of the church. The building itself was about a quarter of an hour outside the village on the so-called "Kirchberg". In order to shorten the way to the church service, the castle chapel and some of the adjoining rooms were converted into a parish church. The parish church has been in its current location since 1789, while the old church was ritually desecrated and sold to private individuals.
On July 21, 1865, a fire again caused severe damage to the parish church and the residential building, but both were restored to their current form by the church patron, with the exception of the tower.
On June 10, 1895 visitierte Archduke Eugen (1863-1954), since 1894 (the last secular) Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, the Order rule Laab im Walde.
In 1930 the church tower was raised and received an onion roof in baroque form.
On July 1, 1980, the Teutonic Order donated the property to the parish church of St. Koloman, which ended the patronage. In the course of the general renovation of the rectory and church in 2000, the so-called "Kolomanisaal" was built. It has developed into an event location and communication center for the entire village.
literature
- Katharina Hanak-Hammerl: Laab in the forest. Chronicle of the home of a Wienerwald community . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2001, OBV .
Web links
- 31714 - Laab in the forest. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- www.laab-heimatmuseum.at Franz Pyringer's virtual museum of local history
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipality of Laab im Walde: Mayor (accessed on November 1, 2019)
- ↑ 4th part: Municipalities of Lower Austria - 260. Laab im Walde . In: Austrian official calendar online . Jusline (Verlag Österreich), Vienna 2002–, ZDB -ID 2126440-5 .
- ↑ Daily report. (...) The 900th anniversary (...). In: Reichspost , No. 59/1897 (Volume IV), March 13, 1897, p. 4, top center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b https://laab.gv.at/leben/geschichte
- ↑ a b c d https://laab.gv.at/leben/geschichte
- ↑ https://laab.gv.at/leben/geschichte
- ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Laab im Walde. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on February 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Laab im Walde. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 27, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.diepresse.com/4647890/laab-im-walde-aus-dem-stand-zur-absoluten
- ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Laab im Walde. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c http://www.statistik.at/blickgem/pz8/g31714.pdf
- ↑ https://laab.gv.at/leben/geschichte
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Electric train Liesing – Breitenfurt. In: Wiener Abendpost. Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , No. 200/1897, September 1, 1897, p. 2, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Correspondences. Mödling. (...) Railway pre-concession. In: Badener Zeitung , No. 27/1899 (XIXth year), April 5, 1899, p. 3, top right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ The Annahof in Laab in the forest. Agriculture in the cycle of life. Sisters of mercy of Saint Vincent de Paul . Audio / video carrier (1 video cassette, VHS, approx. 16 minutes). Central IT Service - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2000, OBV .
- ↑ Vienna daily news. In: Abend-Presse , No. 263/1896 (XLIX. Volume), September 24, 1896, p. 2, column 2, below. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ https://laab.gv.at/leben/geschichte
- ^ Vienna, June 14th. (...) The journey of the high and German masters. In: Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , (Morgenblatt), No. 162/1895 (XLVIII. Year), June 15, 1895, p. 13 (unpaginated), center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
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