Lunz am See

market community Lunz am See
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Scheibbs
License plate :	SB
Surface:	101.66 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 52 '  N , 15 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '38 "  N , 15 ° 1' 37"  E
Height :	601  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,780 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3293
Area code :	07486
Community code :	3 20 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Amonstrasse 16 3293 Lunz am See
Website:	www.lunz.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Schachner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	11 7th 1 11 7th 1  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 7 FPÖ : 1
Location of Lunz am See in the Scheibbs district
View in southwest direction with the center of Lunz am See
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Lunz am See is a market town with 1780 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Scheibbs district in Lower Austria .

geography

Lunz am See is located in the Mostviertel in the Ybbstal in Eisenwurzen in Lower Austria . The area of ​​the market town covers 101.41 square kilometers. 82.44 percent of the area is forested. The Lunzer See is located in the municipality . Lunz lies on the Ybbs , which is called before Lunz Ois .

Community structure

Cadastral communities are Ahorn, Bodingbach, Hohenberg, Lunzamt, Lunzdorf, Seekopf and Weißenbach.

Neighboring communities

Ybbsitz ( Amstetten district )	Gresten Land
St. Georgen am Reith ( Amstetten district )		Gaming
Göstling on the Ybbs

history

Finds from the Younger Stone Age , such as a serpentine stone ax about 4000 years old , prove an early settlement. Later the Illyrians , then the Celts, moved to the upper Ybbstal, followed by the Romans. The area of ​​Lunz am See was part of the province of Noricum . The Celts and later the Romans dismantled the " Noric iron " on the Styrian Erzberg and transported it over the Mendling Pass to Lunz and on over the Bodingsattel to the blacksmiths of Cetium ( St. Pölten ) and Arelape ( Pöchlarn ).

During the migration of the peoples , the population settled with a few Avars and increasingly with Slavs . During this time, many people fled from the Danube valley, which is criss-crossed by warlike tribes, into the mountains, sometimes into the numerous caves of the northern pre-Alps.

The sparsely populated country was repopulated from the west, especially by the Bavarians, during the Carolingian East Markets. The place was first mentioned in 1203 as "Liunze in Montanis" - clearing in the mountains. 1340 acquired Duke Albrecht XI. the area around Lunz and donated it to the Gaming monastery .

In 1392 the "Frauenkirche ze Lunz" was first mentioned, in which "Maria in the golden armchair" is venerated. The construction of this church was made possible by the increasing economic strength; the first hammer mills were built during this time, as the simple blacksmiths could not meet the increasing demand for economic goods. Lunz am See achieved local economic importance along with the entire Eisenstrasse, a first boom overall. The Amonhaus, which Master Ofner had built in Renaissance style in 1551, still bears witness to the prosperity on Eisenstrasse .

Turkish invasions , the plague as well as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation , the wars against the French and Churbai people and the Napoleonic invasions repeatedly shook the community. Both dialect and place names (Franzosenreith) are influenced by it to this day.

In the 19th century an upswing was possible again, the second bloom. The Scheibbs entrepreneur Andreas Töpper worked intensively on the marketing of metal products. An iron rolling mill was built in 1832, and the energy requirements were almost entirely covered by the Ybbs' hydropower. A stone bridge, the Töpperbrücke, which was adorned with figures of saints cast in Gußwerk near Mariazell , testifies to the wealth of the time of the second bloom.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a standard gauge railway was to be built into the Ennstal as an extension of the Erlauftalbahn . A narrow-gauge railway was built , the Ybbstalbahn , which connects to the standard-gauge Erlauftalbahn with a considerable gradient between Gaming and Lunz, and the connection to the Ennstal is via Waidhofen an der Ybbs .

In 1932, the lowest temperature in Central Europe was measured here in the Grünloch sinkhole at −52.6 ° C. Lunz am See is known today as one of Austria's cold spots .

A HJ military training camp was located on the site of the current water cluster during the National Socialist era .

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 2,045 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 2,154 inhabitants, in 1981 2,218 and in 1971 2,301 inhabitants.

politics

The Amonhaus houses the municipal office, a hammer gentleman's museum and a handicraft museum

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 SPÖ and 10 ÖVP. (21 members)
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP and 3 citizens' lists from Lunz.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 9 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 10 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ. (21 members)
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 9 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• 2000–2019 Martin Ploderer (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Josef Schachner (ÖVP)

economy

In 2001 there were 105 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 117. The number of people in work at home was 881 according to the 2001 census. In 2001, the activity rate was 43.86 percent.

• The Biological Station Lunz was founded in 1905 by Karl Kupelwieser and is considered the cradle of limnology , extensive studies have been carried out since then. These are currently supported by Wasserkluster Lunz - Biologische Station GmbH , a cooperation between the University of Vienna , the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, and the Danube University Krems .

• In 1948, the Institute for Apiculture, initially rented in the premises of the Biological Station, was founded. Housed in its own building from 1970, it is now part of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES).

Culture and sights

The Parish Church of the Three Kings

See also:  List of listed objects in Lunz am See

• Since 2008, Lunz am See has been one of two mountaineering villages in Lower Austria.
• The parish church of St. Three Kings is a late Gothic, two-aisled hall church with a continuous double choir as well as a western tower and a sacristy extension in the south.
• The Ludwigfall is a waterfall above the community and connects the Obersee with the Mittersee.

Personalities

• Karl Kupelwieser (1841–1925), founder of the Lunz Biological Station
• Friedrich Helmel (1911–1993), Bishop of Guarapuava
• Hans Kupelwieser (* 1948), visual artist

literature

• Regina Stampfl / Roland Kals / Birgit Hager: Lunz am See - Where the Ois mutates into Ybbs , Austrian Alpine Association, Innsbruck 2013, ( online )

Web links

Commons : Lunz am See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Lunz
• Mountaineering village Lunz am See
• 32005 - Lunz am See. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roland Dreger: Meteorologists on the trail of the green hole phenomenon. In: dieuniversitaet-online. University of Vienna , February 3, 2005, accessed on December 6, 2010 . 
2. ↑ A memorial on the Lunzer See. In: mein district.at (homepage of the district papers edition of the district of Scheibbs). Retrieved December 19, 2016.
3. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Lunz am See. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
4. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Lunz am See. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
5. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Lunz am See. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Lunz am See. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Lunz am See. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Lunz am See. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Resignation In Lunz: Martin Ploderer resigns from office. June 18, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Ploderer: "I enjoyed doing it right up to the end". July 4, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Mayoral election: Our mayor. For Lunz am See. July 6, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 . 
12. ↑ WasserCluster Lunz opened , WasserCluster Lunz research center
13. ↑ Ideas - Deeds - Facts, No. 1: Start conference mountaineering villages in the mountaineering village of Ginzling, from 10-11. July 2008 , Austrian Alpine Association as part of the project “Specific Alpine Convention: Via Alpina and Mountaineering Villages”, Spatial Planning-Nature Conservation Department, Innsbruck 2008, p. 4. PDF download ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 7, 2018.