Loibes

Loibes ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral municipality Loibes
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Waidhofen an der Thaya (WT), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Great Siegharts
Coordinates	48 ° 50 '1 " N , 15 ° 23' 18" E Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '1 " N , 15 ° 23' 18" E
height	528 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	53 (January 1, 2020)
Area d. KG	7.44 km²
Post Code	3812
prefix	+ 43/02847
	Statistical identification
Locality code	06443
Cadastral parish number	21022
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

BW

Loibes is a cadastral community of 7.44 km² in the Waldviertel , which belongs to the Lower Austrian town of Groß-Siegharts .

Place name

There are different opinions about the etymology of the place name. Among other things, it is derived from the Slavic Libuš . Another derivation is assumed from L'ubuša , which would have developed into today's place name from the 13th to the early 15th century via Lewbusch and Levbes .

geography

The place is embedded in wooded hills, in the west the Losberg (651 m), in the southwest the Pyhringer Höhe (683 m), in the west the Hohe Stein (658 m) and in the northwest the Jungfrauenberg (612 m). The highest elevation in the area is the Predigtstuhl (718 m) in the south. The Loibesbach, which today runs underground in the local area, flows through the village. The Amerexelbach flows outside the village and feeds an artificial pond, the Amerexel pond, 1.5 km south of the village. Folded granulites are a geological feature of Loibes . The immediate vicinity of Loibes was known for the occurrence of Linaria arvensis .

history

Chapel in the center of Loibes

Saint Florian in the wayside chapel

The school and parish affiliation is traditionally the village of Puch, which today belongs to the political municipality Waidhofen an der Thaya . It was subordinate to the local authority of the Karlstein rule.

In 1840 the village consisted of 33 houses in which 49 families lived, including 77 men, 99 women and 44 school children. "6 horses, 64 oxen, 36 cows, 82 sheep, 11 goats and 33 pigs" were given as livestock. The people worked as farmers or in the local watch industry.

In the area of today's Loibes was the submerged village of Sitmars, mentioned in a document in 1230, which is still reminiscent of the name of the Sittmannshof dairy.

Attractions

In the center of the village opposite the chapel and morgue is a listed baroque path chapel from the early 18th century. In its segmented arch niche there are stuccoed and colored relief depictions of the mercy seat , Florian von Lorch and Johannes Nepomuk .

Internment camp

Johannes Nepomuk in the wayside chapel

During the First World War, one of the internment camps for citizens from states at war with Austria-Hungary was located in the municipality of Loibes. It was set up between 1915 and 1916 in the Sittmannshof dairy, which belonged to the van der Straten-Ponthoz family.

Alexander Ritter Bosizio von Thurnberg und Jungsegg, the district captain of Waidhofen an der Thaya, quartered around 100 people here who worked in agriculture on the Meierhof and the surrounding fields. The administrator of the camp and the internees' funds was Anton Schild, the mayor of the then independent municipality of Loibes. In November 1915, the number of internees rose to more than 4,000, which caused supply problems.

Demographics

Population development in Loibes
year	Number of houses	population	year	Number of houses	population
1590	20th		1910		172
1732	19th		1923		206
1751	20th		1934		192
1794	28	151	1939		186
1822	30th		1951	31	153
1830	33	176	1961	31	144
1846		209	1971	32	114
1869	34	197	1981	34	84
1880/90		187	1991	33	60
1900		171	2001	32	59

Personalities

Johannes Seld de Leubs ("from Loibes"), Rector of the University of Vienna from 1422 to 1428
Anton Schild, Mayor of Loibes during the First World War
Birgit Zotz (* 1979), ethnologist and author, grew up in Loibes

Trivia

The headquarters of the Austrian Religious Society of Rastafari is located in Loibes, House 6, and is headed by Wilhelm Friesenbiller and Andrea Unzeit.
To the north of Loibes there is a motocross track of 1,560 meters in length on 6 hectares , on which competitions for the Austrian state championships are held again and again.

literature

Robert Kurij: History of Loibes and Weinern: dates, photos, connections. Groß-Siegharts 1999.
Reinhard Mundschütz: Internment in the Waldviertel. The internment camps and stations of the BH Waidhofen an der Thaya 1914–1918. Vienna 2002 (Vienna, university, dissertation, 2002)
Franz Xaver Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens. Volume V: Ober-Manhardsberg district. Vienna 1840.

Web links

Entry on Loibes in the lexicon of the Waldviertel

Individual evidence

^ SM Newerkla: Slavic and Slavic toponyms in Austria on the Manhart and under the Enns. In: Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 52.2007
↑ Angela Bergermayer: Glossary of the Etyma of Germanized names of Slavic origin in Lower Austria. Vienna 2005, ISBN 9783700133308 , p. 148.
↑ Communications from the Geological Society in Vienna , Volume 20, 1929, pp. 50 and 68.
^ Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna , Volume 59, 1909, p. 66.
^ Franz Xaver Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens . Volume V: Ober-Manhardsberg district. Vienna 1840, pp. 110–111.
↑ Gundhild Winkler: Genetic place names in East Central Germany and in adjacent areas. Berlin 2007 ( ISBN 9783050042503 ), p. 25, note 65
↑ Leaves of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Volume 17, 1883, p. 166. 174 and 202
↑ Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 4: Waidhofen an der Thaya, Wiener Neustadt (Land), Vienna area, Zwettl. (PDF; 840 KB) In: oeaw.ac.at. ÖAW , August 31, 2016, p. 117 , accessed May 5, 2019 .
^ Alfred Hölder (ed.): Journal for the German-Austrian high schools , Volume 38 (1887), p. 7.
↑ Information from the Central Register of Associations under ZVR number 843173799 (Austrian Religious Society of Rastafari).

[1] SM Newerkla: Slavic and Slavic toponyms in Austria on the Manhart and under the Enns. In: Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 52.2007

[2] Angela Bergermayer: Glossary of the Etyma of Germanized names of Slavic origin in Lower Austria. Vienna 2005, ISBN 9783700133308 , p. 148.

[3] Communications from the Geological Society in Vienna , Volume 20, 1929, pp. 50 and 68.

[4] Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna , Volume 59, 1909, p. 66.

[5] Franz Xaver Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens . Volume V: Ober-Manhardsberg district. Vienna 1840, pp. 110–111.

[6] Gundhild Winkler: Genetic place names in East Central Germany and in adjacent areas. Berlin 2007 ( ISBN 9783050042503 ), p. 25, note 65

[7] Leaves of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Volume 17, 1883, p. 166. 174 and 202

[8] Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 4: Waidhofen an der Thaya, Wiener Neustadt (Land), Vienna area, Zwettl. (PDF; 840 KB) In: oeaw.ac.at. ÖAW , August 31, 2016, p. 117 , accessed May 5, 2019 .

[9] Alfred Hölder (ed.): Journal for the German-Austrian high schools , Volume 38 (1887), p. 7.

[10] Information from the Central Register of Associations under ZVR number 843173799 (Austrian Religious Society of Rastafari).