Mödling

This article deals with the city of Mödling. For the district of the same name see District Mödling .

Borough Mödling
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Mödling
License plate :	MD
Surface:	9.95 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 5 '  N , 16 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '8 "  N , 16 ° 16' 59"  E
Height :	246  m above sea level A.
Residents :	20,564 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	2067 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2340
Area code :	02236
Community code :	3 17 17
Address of the municipal administration:	Pfarrgasse 9, 2340 Mödling
Website:	www.moedling.at
politics
Mayor :	Hans Stefan Hintner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (41 members)	16 11 8th 3 2 1 16 11 8th 3 2 1  A total of 41 seats ÖVP : 16 GREEN : 11 SPÖ : 8 NEOS : 3 FPÖ : 2 We for Mödling: 1
Location of Mödling in the Mödling district
View from Johannes-Ruhe over Mödling in northeast direction
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mödling is a city in the industrial district in Lower Austria 16 km south of Vienna as part of its metropolitan area with 20,564 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

Mödling is the capital of the Mödling district of the same name . As the former seat of a Babenberger line , it is nicknamed Babenbergerstadt .

City center, pedestrian zone Mödling

designation

etymology

The place name changed over time from medilihha (903 AD) via Medelikch and Medling to Mödling . The roots of the name come from Slavic and thus at the latest from the Avar period in the second half of the first millennium AD; It denotes either a border stream or a slowly flowing body of water (literally: sluggish river), probably with reference to a corresponding settlement near today's Josef Hyrtl-Platz.

geography

Mödling belongs to Lower Austria and is part of its industrial quarter , as well as the southern metropolitan area of Vienna . Mödling is located relatively centrally in the west-east oriented Mödling district of which it is the administrative seat.

The municipality lies on the one hand with its hills in the eastern Vienna Woods and on the other hand, with its wine-growing region, belongs to the thermal region in the western slope area of ​​the Vienna basin .

The Mödlingbach , which rises in the Wienerwald municipality and flows into the Schwechat near Achau, flows through Mödling . Much of the municipality is forested. It belongs to the karst nature park Föhrenberge and is part of the Liechtenstein landscape park with buildings such as the hussar temple that can be seen from afar . On the slopes of the Vienna Woods there are numerous vineyards with the associated Heurigen in the city.

The settlement area is geographically distinguishable from west to east by the Vorderbrühl, the slopes in the direction of the Vienna Basin (town center with old town, Neusiedler area, Jakob Thoma quarter) and by the incipient flat land beyond the southern railway tracks (Neu-Mödling / Schöffelvorstadt). These settlement areas are connected by the Mödlingbach and a west-east traffic axis from Brühler-, Haupt- and Wiener- / Neudorfer-Straße and only interrupted by the historic old town with old town houses and pedestrian zone. With the old town as a common junction, along the hillside Enzersdorfer- and Neusiedler-Straße form a north-south axis.

Urban border areas and topography

In the north and east, Mödling has grown together with the communities of Maria Enzersdorf and Wiener Neudorf .

In the south Mödling borders on Guntramsdorf , whereby the border runs over the Eichkogel , which has a special fauna and flora . If you cross the Eichkogel from Mödling to the south you reach Gumpoldskirchen and only cross the uninhabited municipality of Guntramsdorf. The inhabited Guntramsdorf can be reached southeast, which is on the eastern flank of the Eichkogel.

In the west of the Wienerwald hills lies the community of Hinterbrühl , which borders on Vorderbrühl , which today belongs to Mödling . The Vorderbrühl lies in the Brühltal and is connected to the rest of Mödling by the Klausen. The Klausen is a narrow section of the valley and traffic corridor peppered with former mills, where the Mödling castle ruins stand on an arm of the Frauenstein at the transition with the Vorderbrühl on the southern side of the valley . The Frauenstein (Halder- to Maaberg) runs the entire southern side of the valley and is a popular destination for climbers with the ivy wheel. The northern side of the Klausen valley is lined by the calendar mountain , with the Jordan pulpit, on the back of which is Liechtenstein Castle . At its confluence with the Mödlinger Flachland, the Klausen is crossed by the First Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline , in the form of a brick aqueduct . The rare umbrella pines ( Pinus nigra var. Austriaca ), which are typical of Mödling, grow on the rugged cliffs of the Klausen and have contributed significantly to the valley's charm and popularity as a diverse local recreation area since the Biedermeier period .

In the southwest is the Mödlinger forest area ( Mödlinger , formerly Liechtensteiner Forst ) on the northern foothills of the Anninger. The forest borders the Brühl in the west, or through the Phönixberg of the Kleiner Anninger and Hussar Temple, initially to the Hinterbrühl, and then over the Matterhörndl Fels and Alexanderberg, encircling the Meiereiwiese and Vorderbrühl. The forest continues with the area around the former Breite Föhre, which stretches along the border with Gaaden , south of Frauenstein, Goldenen Stiege, Jennyberg , its quarry, Friedrichshöhe, to the Prießnitz valley and merges with the Eichkogel into vineyards.

	Maria Enzersdorf
Hinterbrühl		Wiener Neudorf
Gaaden		Guntramsdorf

water

Bodies of water can be found next to the Mödlingbach, which used to be used a lot by mills , on the edges of the Meiereiwiese (Salamander Leichtümpel and Pepi's Märchenteich), the wet biotope on the railway embankment opposite the "Figur" biotope complex, and a wet biotope with three ponds at the beginning of the Prießnitztal.

The Prießnitztal also contains the spring and the elevated reservoir of the Mödlinger waterworks, where a Roman well was found and later a cold water spa after Vinzenz Prießnitz , which gives the valley its current name, existed. The water supply of the community is also secured by drawing from Moosbrunn , as well as by a deep well in the area of ​​the Meiereiwiese.

In the past there were also various spring baths and ponds, so the city bath is close to past ponds and baths along Neusiedlerstrasse.

geology

As a karst , from striking limestone cliffs to dolomite walls and at the same time former surf terrace of the Paratethys Sea approx. 15 million years ago, in the time of the Badenian in the Miocene , Mödling is, like many places in the thermal region, not only valued by vintners and climbers, but also rich in fossils . So z. B. the various steep slopes at the Goldenen Stiege with the Rauhen Platte for climbers, or in the Rehgraben away from the Prießnitz valley.

Due to the lime deposits, gypsum and lime were burned in Mödling in the past , and cement was later produced in a factory at the beginning of the Fabriksgasse.

climate

In Mödling am Eichkogel the Pannonian and Atlantic climatic zones intersect .

Furthermore, the climate is shaped on the one hand by that of the Vienna Woods and on the other hand by that of the Vienna Basin . So z. For example, in autumn the often stubborn fog of the Vienna Basin clears quickly in the course of the Brühl.

In dry summers, there is a high fire risk in the forest area of ​​the city, which is characterized by conifers. In the past, large forest fires have repeatedly occurred due to negligence.

history

See also : History of Lower Austria  and History of the Vienna Woods

First settlement areas

One of the oldest rural settlement finds in Austria, Brunn-Wolfholz (approx. 5700-5000 BC) is located in nearby Brunn am Gebirge . The first finds in Mödling go back to later Neolithic (5000–2000 BC ) settlements. From these millennia are u. a. Finds of a double burial , a larger settlement at the foot of the Eichkogel and finds on the Jennyberg of Baden culture (3600–2800 BC) are recorded. At the Hirschkogel in Maria Enzersdorf those finds were made to which the name of the end-Neolithic Mödling-Zöbing / Jevišovice group refers.

Bronze Age activity, from the end of the third millennium BC. , has been proven abundantly by finds, such as B. Settlement finds of the earliest Bronze Age Leitha group on Jennyberg.

Finds from the last millennium BC. were made on the Kalenderberg and the Jennyberg from the Celtic Hallstatt period (8th – 5th centuries BC). In the following Latène period , the Mödling area lay in the eastern border region of the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum , which extended to the Celtic oppidum of the Boier in Bratislava and then the advancing Germanic peoples, and at the turn of the millennium in the Roman province of the same name .

First millennium AD ( late antiquity to post- antiquity and pre-Romanesque early Middle Ages )

With the first millennium AD, after the uprising 6–9 AD in the Roman province of Dalmatia the Illyricum , the Celtic area east of the Alps to the Danube , which was already under Roman influence, came under the control of the Roman Empire as Part of the new province of Pannonia (later divided as Superior and Prima). In consequence of this has been in the region of the north-south over Carnuntum ( Petronell ) and Scarbantia ( Sopron ) extending eastern amber road , as well as the defense against the transdanubian Germans (z. B. Marcomannic Wars ) expanded. Vindobona (Vienna), which was founded in the course of this, was connected to the Bernsteinstraße and its destination the Adriatic port of Aquileia (approx. 50 km northwest of the later destination Trieste ) by means of the Triester Straße leading past Mödling to Scarbantia . This is how the most important traffic corridor of Vienna to the south and thus also to Mödling ran and continues to this day along the Triester Straße. The main street in Mödling can already be traced from the Roman period and finds of coins and graves near the train station and Josef Hyrtl-Platz have been made. Not far away, East Germanic graves were also found, which point to the inhabitants of the region from 433 AD, with the retreat of Rome in the fight against the Huns and thus to their various East Germanic refugees ( vandals ), followers and successors such as the Ostrogoths .

A Longobard burial ground in the south of Mödling testifies to the settlement by the Longobards , who settled here towards the end of the migration period in the 6th century, before the mass of this people moved to Pannonia and finally Italy and left the Carpathian Basin to the Avars . The urban area of ​​Mödling remained settled during this time. This was shown by the excavations of an Avar period burial ground with over 500 graves on the Golden Staircase. Grave goods and completely preserved skeletons are exhibited in the Museum of the City of Mödling.

After the conquest by Charlemagne and victory over the Avars in 803, the settlement continued from the Bavarian-Frankish region in the order former Avar and nunmalige Bavarian Marcha orientalis one. In the course of this, the St. Martin's Church was built at today's orphanage church as a base for the Christianization of the region , and represented the core of the settlement at that time, to the east away from the later town center. The oldest known Carolingian predecessor church of today's St. Othmarkirche .

Development of the market

Place with parish (late Middle Ages)

The first documentary mention dates from September 8, 903 in the course of an exchange between two bishops as MEDILIHHA ULTRA MONTEM COMMIGENUM . The final settlement by the Bavarians in the still Bavarian Marcha orientalis, now Ostarrichi (996), was only likely to have begun after the battle on the Lechfeld in 955 . As a result, the settlement area shifted from the destroyed settlement around St. Martin's Church to today's center, with an anger (Klostergasse / Hauptstrasse) between the old (Josef Deutsch-Platz) and the new Kornmarkt (Freiheitsplatz). Despite this relocation, the Martinskirche remained the parish church until 1475 and was only destroyed in 1683 and demolished in 1787. The attached old cemetery in Mödling was preserved until the opening of the current one on Eichkogel in 1876. The grounds of the cemetery and St. Martin's Church were finally built over in 1889 by the orphanage . The oldest mention of the Mödling parish comes from the year 1113.

Rulership with castle complexes ( Romanesque high Middle Ages )

Mödling ruins, seen from the Meiereiwiese (southwest)

From the 11th century until 1177, the seat of the rulership was a castle around today's Othmarkirche, whose lord was Hugo von Petronell (108? –1142) in 1140 and at that time had the nearby ancestral castle of the ruling house of Liechtenstein built for himself. The neighboring settlements of Neudorf and Enzersdorf can also be found for the first time from this time . In 1177, Heinrich the Elder (1158–1223), after the death of his father and from his brother, the now second Duke of Austria, received the rule, which included an area from Liesing to Piesting and Bruck . As a result, Heinrich moved into the new Mödling castle ruin , which was built in 1148 and originally planned for his Byzantine mother , can be reached from the village via the Goldene Stiege and used until 1556 . Thus, 1177–1236 Mödling became the seat of a branch of the Babenbergs . During this time under Heinrich, the castle with its very large defensive system was known for the society and art that it maintained there, so Walther von der Vogelweide is said to have been a guest here in 1219 . After the Mödling branch line of the Babenbergs went out in 1236 with the death of Heinrich's son, rule over Mödling became princely . At the end of the 12th century, in addition to a Romanesque predecessor church of today's St. Othmarkirche, Mödling's oldest building still standing, the Romanesque charnel house with Byzantine elements was built.

Romanesque vestibule (13th century) of the Karner, with a relief of a hunting scene above the entrance

Princely place with market rights ( Gothic late Middle Ages )

Under the Habsburg Duke of Austria Albrecht II , Medlich , as it was called at the time, was promoted to market in 1343 . The fencing of the market last extended as a palisade fence over the eastern St. Merten gate, later Ungartor (at Hauptstraße 31/35), the southwestern Neusiedler Tor (after Neusiedlerbrücke, at Neusiedler Straße 14/15), the southeastern Eisentor (after Eisentorbrücke, at Eisentorgasse 6) and the northern Enzersdorfer or Wiener Tor (at Enzersdorfer Strasse 2/3), these existed until they were dismantled in the 18th and 19th centuries. Century. At that time, a high Gothic column of the St. Stephan cathedral building hut was erected in front of the Ungartor , of which only a small part is exhibited in the museum park today after its demolition in 1876. In 1374 the Schranne (today the old town hall ) was built on the market square, today's Schrannenplatz. From the 14th century there was also evidence of a Jewish community that had a synagogue in Judengasse, today's Kaiserin Elisabeth-Straße 7. With the expulsion of the Jews in 1421 , however, the community was dissolved and only rebuilt in 1840.

By the 15th century, Mödling, along with Gumpoldskirchen , Perchtoldsdorf and Langenlois, had developed into one of the most important wine towns in Lower Austria, as well as a ban market . From 1426 Mödling was a sovereign mark in the curia of cities and markets in the Association of Estates of Austria under the Enns. In 1458 the market got its own coat of arms, whereby the use of the Styrian panther probably refers to the lender Kaiser Friedrich III. takes. Also in the 15th century, the hospital church and today's St. Othmarkirche were built in quick succession , the latter became the parish church in 1475.

Early modern developments ( Renaissance , Baroque to Classicist Biedermeier )

A large part of the city was destroyed during the first Ottoman siege in 1529. From the following period, the 16th (but also partly the 15th) century, the Renaissance part, the oldest formative part, after the medieval churches, the present-day historical house and facade ensemble of the place, such as the numerous representative houses of the emerging bourgeoisie or the extension of today's Old Town Hall with a tower (1548). In 1580 the Mödling population was 90% Protestant , a little more than in all of Lower Austria. From the beginning of the 16th century Mödling had de facto, from 1607 de iure, its own regional court (high court). From 1631 until 1785 there was a Capuchin monastery on the site of today's district museum in front of the old grain market, today's Josef Deutsch-Platz.

Engraving from Topographia Provinciarum Austriacarum (1649)

During the plague in Vienna in 1679, many residents also died in Mödling. During the second Ottoman siege in 1683, a large number of the residents were killed. However, it was revived by new settlers from Styria . Since only 22 residents died in the second plague epidemic in 1713 , the baroque Trinity Column or Plague Column , as it is called today, was built on the new Kornmarkt, today's Freiheitsplatz, as a thank you .

Mödling and the surrounding area around 1755

In 1805 and 1809 Mödling was occupied by the French. At that time, around two thousand people lived here. As part of the Liechtenstein Landscape Park in today's Föhrenberge Nature Park , the then bare hills were reforested with Austrian black pines from 1807 and in 1810 the neo-romantic Black Tower on the foundation of an old watchtower from 1596, and in 1813 the hussar temple with graves of soldiers from the battle of Aspern ( 1809) erected. The Mödlingbachtal, the so-called Brühl, embedded through these changes, became in the Biedermeier period , at the latest through Ludwig van Beethoven's work in Mödling from 1818, a valued destination of composers of the Viennese Classic , Romantic and also the modern Viennese School around Arnold Schönberg . These two composers who were not born in Mödling are even now dedicated to local museums . The core of this music-and-dance scene in Mödling was the acclaimed Beethoven restaurant "The two ravens" at the Meiereiwiese, opposite the king mill (one of the oldest on Mödlingbach, since the 15th century., Also legendary Skull mill ), in the Vorderbrühl, which was not yet incorporated at the time, whose later building still exists today.

Mödling and the surrounding area around 1837

Development of the modern city

Industrialization (early founding period )

In 1841 the Mödling station, the southern line that had been under construction since 1839 , was opened for traffic to Wiener Neustadt and Vienna, and in 1845 it became the starting point for the Laxenburger Bahn, which existed until the Second World War .

During the revolution of 1848/1849 against the Metternich system , operational disruptions took place among the workers , but without the willingness of the bourgeois revolution to cooperate . In 1850 a simple Prießnitztal sanatorium was established , named after the cold water cure used by Vinzenz Prießnitz . The institution was expanded into a sanatorium in 1880 and existed until the Second World War, in 1968 a housing estate was built in its place. From 1864 the wooden water supply from the Middle Ages was replaced and slowly expanded. From 1866 Mödling recorded cholera again, after the first outbreak in 1831/1832, in the course of the cholera pandemics .

The freedom of expression guaranteed by the constitution of 1867 resulted in new interest groups in Mödling, including workers. In 1869 the then two-year secondary school Francisco Josephinum , including the first brewery school in Austria outside the settlement area, was built opposite the brewery and did not move from Mödling until 1934; today, the Neusiedlerviertel is located in its place. The Mödling aqueduct was built in 1872 for the first Viennese spring water pipeline . With the first major industrialization of the place, the construction of the Mödlinger Lokomotivfabrik in 1872 and its workers colony, which still exists today, despite its closure in 1874 and the global economic crisis of 1873-1896 , a large-scale expansion of the historical local area began for the first time, which subsequently grew into Schöffelvorstadt . A little later, the settlement also began to expand south around Neusiedlerstrasse, because population growth increased dramatically at this time, until it flattened with the First World War.

Mödling and the surrounding area around 1872

Place with city law (late founding period)

In 1875, under the mayor and savior of the Vienna Woods, Josef Schöffel , the Mödling market was elevated to the rank of town , gas lighting was introduced, the Kurpark with the Kursalon, a summer theater and the entrances to the Frauenstein opened at the Bürgerspitalmühle, because Mödling had become a health resort with various Spa houses developed. The following year the Klausen and Vorderbrühl were incorporated. This was followed by the establishment of the hospital (1882), the first regular electric train in Austria and at the same time the world's first electric tram in continuous operation Mödling – Hinterbrühl (1883-1932) with the starting point of the now also underpassed Mödling train station, the terminus of the 360 steam tramway to Vienna (1886 –1967), fire brigade and rescue (1887), the orphanage (1889), the Mödling district (1896), opening of the Franz-Keim-Gasse grammar school (1897) and today's HTL Mödling as a technical military academy (1904) next to the Francisco Josephinum . In 1904, under Mayor Jakob Thoma , according to plans by Charles Lomax , in the municipal area of ​​Wr. Neudorf built the first biological sewage treatment plant in Central Europe in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Mödling (top center left) around 1900

Ultra-modern in Mödling

In 1910, the " kk Tierimpfstoffgewinnungsanstalt", today's lead institute of the AGES Animal Health division, moved to Mödling. In 1912, the Mödling Stage, now run as the Mödling City Theater , the oldest preserved stage and former cinema in Mödling, was built. In 1914 the Art Nouveau building of the Jakob Thoma School opened. The growing Neu-Mödling increasingly formed a focal point for the workers of the entire district, so after the founding of the social democratic party of Mödling and the workers 'consumer association in the district in 1892, their administrative center in the workers' home (Neudorferstrasse 8) and the later Art Nouveau extension were found Hubert Gessner , the last existing former Konsum clubhouse (1913). In addition, the “Fünfhaus” settlement (1914) of the Mödling building cooperative (1912, chaired by Ferdinand Buchberger) was built in Neu-Mödling next to the current hospital, as well as the nearby children's home, which Leopold Müller moved into in 1918 (today Josef Schöffel-Haus).

On June 22, 1919, the first general municipal council election was held and Ferdinand Buchberger was elected as the first socialist mayor. In 1927, the municipal waterworks improved the existing water supply. After the closure of the existing baths and spas, the Stadtbad was built in 1928 not far from the Mödlinger pond that existed in the 17th century.

Leopold Müller's grave in Simmering

Mödlinger SDAP chairman and councilor Leopold Müller was an early victim of fascist violence by Mödling frontline fighters in 1925 in front of today's Schöffel house, which he founded. This was followed by a warning from u. a. Renner and Seitz accompanied high-ranking funeral procession from Mödling to Vienna.

In the course of the Austrian civil war , between 35 and 200 supporters of the socialist republicans entrenched themselves against the executive and home guard at today's hospital in the Fünfhaus settlement, as well as against the armed forces , which took up a position in nearby St. Gabriel , two socialists and one bystander were shot .

Former synagogue Mödling

During the November pogroms in 1938 , the Jewish residents of Mödling were persecuted by anti-Semitic citizens and their synagogue was destroyed. Since 2003, a memorial has been in its place at Enzersdorferstrasse 6.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the place was incorporated into the city of Vienna as the 24th district . It was not until 1954 that the place became independent again and fell back to Lower Austria. Due to the air raids on Vienna , in addition to the former Seegrotte gypsum mine in Hinterbrühl , bunkers were also built in Mödling in the hills with various civilian entrances, which today are only partially accessible and are used and made accessible through an entrance in the Klausen from the theater in the bunker . At the same time, a flak position was set up on the Eichkogel and was finally filled with minors through the “ Volkssturm ” recruitment. Before the liberation of Vienna by the 3rd Ukrainian Front of the Red Army , the Mödlinger NSDAP set fire to their party houses in Pfarrgasse and Goethegasse. Then on April 5th, 1945 to April 6th, the red 100th Guards Rifle Division of the 39th Guards Rifle Corps of the 9th Guards Army liberated Mödling, driving the notorious 2nd SS Panzer Division from the south, and began with it the first fighting in Vienna.

The Nazi opponent Sel, who worked in the Mödling hospital. Sr. M. Restituta Kafka

During the Nazi regime, many Mödlingers were expelled, deported and murdered, including around 300 Jewish. In memory of the murdered Mödlinger victims of the Nazi regime, among them the regime opponent working at the hospital Mödlinger Maria Restituta , 2006, from August 14 pitfalls of Gunter Demnig laid.

Development of the late modern city

Mödling remained part of Greater Vienna until 1954, along with all the other municipalities integrated in Vienna in 1938, at the request of the Allied Commission , although the National Council had already passed the Territorial Change Act in 1946 to largely defer it. This legal situation from 1946–1954 made it impossible in all parts of Greater Vienna to hold district council elections or any local elections. From 1946, and until 1955 again municipal council elections were held in Mödling, a provisional municipal committee and later a municipal council, at the same time as a district representative until 1954 , with voting ratios based on local state parliament election results, elected a mayor-designate, who was appointed mayor by the Viennese mayor from 1946 to 1954 and was also a municipal mayor Entrusted to the role of district head .

Aerial photo 1957

In the post-war period, more areas were freed up for cars and roads (e.g. widening for buses). B. the Brunner Brauhof at the train station (1959), the Josef Deutsch-Platz, the Freiheitsplatz, the first section of the Badstrasse, in addition, all local railway lines were no longer financed in favor of bus routes. This development was countered by the use of the 360 ​​tram route as a promenade in 1978 and the establishment of the pedestrian zone in 1976 , whereby a federal road leading through the city was declared a pedestrian zone for the first time . As a result, the Freiheitsplatz and Josef Deutsch-Platz were partially restored by decelerating the Klostergasse and especially its entrances through indirect accesses and making them pedestrian-friendly . Today's fountains at Schrannenplatz and in the Bahnhofspark both have their origins at Schrannenplatz, whereas today's European fountain at Schrannenplatz is a successor to the original one, which was to be found elsewhere for a long time from 1959 onwards as the European fountain at Josef Deutsch-Platz. Mödling, or the local area away from the hills, finally became a continuously built-up area at this time and, from the 1970s, experienced an increase in population and densification, even on slopes.

Towards the end of the century, the court, the district administration, the fire brigade and the tax office moved from the old town to modern buildings in Schöffelstadt, or to Neu Mödling on the other side of the railway. This development was met in 1983 by closing the gap along the Mödlingbach through the Pepi-Wagner passage under the station tracks and enabled a natural walking and cycling axis from Wr. Neudorf to Hinterbrühl.

In 1999 the Bauhaus- style section of the Franz-Keim-Gasse grammar school became the House of Youth and the Redbox event hall. From 2000 the Mödlingbach was renatured , u. a. to increase the effectiveness against flooding. Originally lined with mills and their tributaries, the stream was regulated in 1904, with which floods were shifted from the city to the plains. In 2004 the railway bridge was widened and equipped with rail access, partly due to the further increase in car traffic in Mödling.

Contemporary developments

After the Gendarmerie Central School, which has been located on the site of the former Francisco Josephinum since 1979, moved out, the Neusiedler Viertel was built in 2016. The increased use of old buildings and operating areas, as previously for the BH on the old Mödlinger Lokomotivfabrik site, has increased again in recent years. B. currently a publicly targeted development of the former Red Cross disaster control camp in parts of the orphanage area or plans for the Leiner grounds.

population

Population development

After the population increased ninefold in the 19th century by 1910 from around 2,000 to 18,000, with a rapid increase from 1880, the number of residents fell to 17,000 by 1961 and slowly rose again to today's just over 20,000 inhabitants, with more than half today's residential buildings date from after 1961, particularly until 1980. At the latest with the construction of the adjoining Südstadt (1961–1975) in Maria Enzersdorf, the settlement area on the northern and eastern city limits became more and more continuous with the neighboring communities, and in the course of this also became part of the growing and merging urban areas Core zone of the Vienna metropolitan area .

religion

According to data from the 2001 census , 59.4% of the population are Roman Catholic and 8.4% Protestant . 3.1% are Muslims , 4.1% belong to Orthodox churches and 0.1% are Israelite . 19.0% of the population have no religious denomination.

politics

The mayor of Mödling has been provided by the ÖVP since 1985. From 1985–2003 Harald Lowatschek was mayor, who from 1975 already held the office of second vice mayor in opposition. Hans Stefan Hintner has been mayor since 2003 .

Since 1975 there has not been an absolute majority in the Mödling municipal council. Therefore, from 1985 the ÖVP formed a coalition with one of the other lists.

The first local election after World War II took place in 1955. Since then, the council has been elected every five years.

Coalitions formed in the municipal council

• 1946: SPÖ & ÖVP & KPÖ (in the provisional community committee)
• 1955–1960: SPÖ (1955 first municipal council election after World War II)
• 1960–1965: SPÖ
• 1965–1970: ÖVP
• 1970–1975: ÖVP
• 1975–1980: SPÖ & FPÖ
• 1980–1985: SPÖ
• 1985–1990: ÖVP & List Wagner ( Pepi Wagner )
• 1990–1995: ÖVP & SPÖ
• 1995–2000: ÖVP & We for Mödling (Pepi Wagner)
• 2000–2005: ÖVP & SPÖ
• 2005–2010: ÖVP & SPÖ
• 2010–2015: ÖVP & Greens
• 2015–2020: ÖVP & Greens
• since 2020: ÖVP & SPÖ

Distribution of mandates in the municipality and city council

Distribution of mandates in the municipal council ⁶

choice	ÖVP	Green	SPÖ	NEOS 1	FPÖ	WE 2	Others
1990	17th	1	11		2	10
1995	16	2	8th	4th	4th	7th
2000	15th	5	10	1	4th	5	1 3
2005	18th	7th	12		2	2
2010	19th	8th	9		3	1	1 4
2015	18th	10	8th		4th	1
2020	16	11	8th	3	2	1

Distribution of mandates in the city ​​council ⁷

choice	ÖVP	Green	SPÖ	NEOS 1	FPÖ	WE 2	Others
2015	6th	3	2		1
2020	6th	4th	3	1

¹Before 2015 as a Liberal Forum

²We for Mödling, from 2010 with the addition Eva Maier, previously list Pepi Wagner

³ Mödling 2000

^4th Citizen List Michael Kanyka

⁵ The number of councilors is 41.

^6th The number of city councils in Mödling can vary between 9 and 14.

mayor

• 1593 to 1611: Georg Wiesing (as imperial administrator)
• 1680s: Ignaz Viechtl (as market judge, by profession Müller)
• 1822 to 1848: Anton Bayer (long serving)
• 1848 to 1861: Josef Scheffer
• 1861 to 1864: Johann Aichinger
• 1864 to 1868: Johann Nowotny-Mannagetta
• 1870 to 1873: Johann Aichinger
• 1873 to 1882: Josef Schöffel
• 1882 to 1885: Johann Nehammer
• 1885 to 1888: Alois Specht
• 1888 to 1890: Gustav Adolph
• 1890 to 1910: Jakob Thoma ( CSP )
• 1910: Josef Sarauer (Executive Vice Mayor)
• 1910 to 1911: Jakob Schafhauser
• 1911 to 1918: Thomas Thamussino
• 1918: Hugo Ritter von Grimm (court commissioner)
• 1918 to 1919: People's Council with the chairmen Ferdinand Buchberger, Adolf Rziha and August Segur-Cabanac (replaced on March 31, 1919 by Robert Mutschlechner)
• 1919 to 1922: Ferdinand Buchberger ( SDAP ), first socialist after first general municipal council election
• 1922 to 1925: Josef Lowatschek (CSP), appointed from 1924 by the state of Lower Austria, since after the SDAP the CSP council members also resigned from their mandate
• 1925 to 1929: Ferdinand Buchberger (SDAP)
• 1929 to 1934: Hans Schürff ( GDVP )
• 1934 to 1938: Josef Lowatschek (CSP)
• 1938: Gustav Hartmann (designated mayor)
• From 1938 to 1954 Mödling was incorporated into Vienna, from 1946 Ferdinand Buchberger and from 1951 Josef Deutsch as mayor-designate by the provisional community committee and later the community council and entrusted with the functions of district mayor
• 1954 to 1955: Carl Zwilling (ÖVP), provisional until the first municipal council election in 1955
• 1955 to 1965: Josef Deutsch (SPÖ)
• 1965 to 1972: Karl Stingl (ÖVP)
• 1972 to 1975: Rudolf Schwarzrock (ÖVP)
• 1975 to 1980: Heinz Horny (SPÖ), with a six-month break in 1979, when all ÖVP municipal councils resigned, a government commissioner (Walter Gamauf) was appointed
• 1980 to 1982: Friedrich Lehr (SPÖ)
• 1982 to 1985: Werner Burg (SPÖ)
• 1985 to 2003: Harald Lowatschek (ÖVP)
• since 2003: Hans Stefan Hintner (ÖVP)

(1.) Vice Mayor

• 1946: Carl Zwilling (ÖVP) and Josef Dworschak (KPÖ), designated as incorporated in Vienna
• 1954 to 1955: Josef Deutsch (SPÖ)
• 1970: Friedrich Lehr (SPÖ), in opposition
• 1975 to 1985: 1st Harald Ofner (FPÖ), 2nd Harald Lowatschek (ÖVP), 3rd Friedrich Lehr (SPÖ)
• 1985 to 1990: Pepi Wagner (List Wagner)
• 1990 to 1995: Robert Karpfen (SPÖ)
• 1995 to 2000: Pepi Wagner (WfM)
• 2000 to 2010: Andreas Holzmann (SPÖ), until 2015 Vice Mayor in opposition
• 2010 to 2020: Gerhard Wannenmacher (Greens), from 2015: 2nd Ferdinand Rubel (ÖVP)
• since 2020: 1st Silvia Drechsler (SPÖ), 2nd Rainer Praschak (Greens), 3rd Ferdinand Rubel (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Town houses in the Rathausgasse

The well-preserved and renovated old town is under the protection of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and, with the pedestrian zone established in 1976 in Kaiserin Elisabethstrasse and Schrannenplatz, is invitingly designed, used and varied.

Due to its ambience, Mödling has also earned a reputation as a wedding town. The registry office is centrally located in the old town center, in the old town hall on Schrannenplatz.

Embedded in a picturesque landscape and its design as a landscape park , with numerous romantic ruins, Mödling was a popular excursion destination from the Biedermeier period .

Central here is the Klausen, which is connected to the old town, with the Mödling castle ruins , which stand on the remains of the former ducal castle Mödling. The latter is one of the three places that Walther von der Vogelweide sang about and where he was particularly encouraged. Rare plants grow in the Klausen cliffs, which are valued by climbers, such as the Mödling spring carnation ( Dianthus plumarius subsp. Neilreichii ), which was only discovered by the botanist August Neilreich in the mid-19th century , or the German elephant ( Inula germanica ). Large populations of the rare black pine ( Pinus nigra subsp. Nigra ) also adorn the picturesque valley along the Mödlingbach.

In addition to the protected old town and the Klausen, there is also the nature reserve on the Eichkogel , which houses rare plants on its semi -arid lawn , such as the endangered burnt herb ( Phlomis tuberosa ) and others, as well as a free and wide view of the Vienna basin .

Attractions

See also:  List of listed objects in Mödling

Old town hall on Schrannenplatz

Parish Church of St. Othmar (15th century)

• St. Othmarkirche , built in the 15th century, Gothic , with a charnel house
• Parish church Mödling-Herz Jesu
• Mödling Hospital Church
• Evangelical parish church Mödling
• Mödling Castle
• Temple of the hussars on the little Anninger
• Black tower
• Mödling aqueduct
• Hyrtl's orphanage
• Old Town Hall

Museums

• Museum Mödling in the Thonetschlössl
• Folklore Museum
• City Transport Museum (Tram Museum)
• Essinger House
• Beethoven memorial in the Hafnerhaus
• Home of the composer Arnold Schönberg between 1918 and 1925
• Gallery in the town hall

Stages

• Mödling City Theater
• Stage Mayer (in the Mautwirtshaus)
• Mödlinger doll box
• Theater in the bunker , is located in a former air raid shelter in the Vorderbrühl
• Comedy plays, summer theater in the city theater
• Shakespeare, summer theater in the concert courtyard of the municipality of Mödling
• Stadtgalerie Mödling event center
• Raiffeisen Forum Mödling
• Redbox (House of Youth)

Festivals

Start of the largest carnival parade in Lower Austria at the orphanage church, for the 50th time on Mardi Gras Sunday 2019

• Mödling Carnival (including moving since 1969)
• Mödling wine festival
• Pleasure mile
• Green traveling cinema and park festival

• Podium Festival (chamber music)
• Sturm und Klang Festival (alternative music)

• New Year's Eve at Schrannenplatz
• Various May 1st festivals (among others, initially from the late 19th century as socialist family festivals in the Prießnitztal)
• Mödling Crime & Literature Night
• Mödlinger LITEROTIK night
• Car-free day - street event & OpenDOOR
• Long night of shopping
• Street food City-Mödling
• Street spectacle around the Schöffel house
• Regional and precious market
• Handicraft market Mödling
• Medieval festival in Mödling

Mödling Advent

• Advent market in the old town
• Eva's Advent market on Hyrtl-Platz
• Mödling Medieval Advent

Weekly markets

• Farmers market in the old town
• Farmer's market in Schöffelstadt
• Farmer's market in the colony
• Farmers market in front of the museum

Flea markets

• Red Cross flea market
• Flea market in the old town
• Flea market Gymnasium Bachgasse
• Flea market Lowatschekgasse 17
• Flea market in the Neusiedlerviertel
• Flea market in Schöffelpark

• Large children's things flea market in Schwarzrockpark
• Children's goods flea market in the museum park

Sports facilities

• Stadtbad Mödling (including artificial ice rink & indoor pool)
• Sports center Mödling
• Mödling Stadium
• ASV Hinterbrühl - Mödling
• ÖTB TV Mödling's gymnasium
• "Alle Nine" (bowling alley)
• Union Mödling tennis club
• Brühl Mödlinger Tennis Club
• rocktopia - the climbing hall
• Robert Karpfen via ferrata

dance

• DrumArt - drum & dance - cultural space
• Ballet School Schwamberger

societies

Sports

• AFC Rangers (American Football)
• FC Admira Wacker Mödling (soccer)
• UEC Mödling (ice hockey)
• ÖTB TV Mödling
• Sportunion Mödling
• Austrian Alpine Club Mödling

Others

• Association of Friends of Nature in Mödling (founded in 1877)
• Mödlinger Künstlerbund
• Mödlinger Förderungsverein ( Carnival Association )
• Scouts Mödling
• ARBÖ Mödling (founded 1930)

Education, health, administration and social affairs

As the district capital, Mödling is the seat of a number of important administrative offices. In Mödling is:

• the district authority of the district of the same name
• a tax office
• the district court Mödling
• the Austrian Health Insurance Fund - Mödling customer service

The municipality of Mödling sees itself as a school town with its many schools and is an important regional health center , especially with its state clinic Thermenregion Mödling .

education

The HTL Mödling has approximately 3,500 students, the largest school in Austria and one of the largest training institutes in Europe in the technical area

• A total of 17 kindergartens, including forest , Montessori , Waldorf and eight state kindergartens .
• Four elementary and two new middle schools
• Polytechnic school
• Higher technical federal teaching and research institute
• Vienna Business School Mödling , commercial academy of the Viennese business community
• Higher education institute for fashion & clothing technology or product management & presentation
• Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Franz-Keim-Gasse
• Federal grammar school and federal grammar school for economics at Untere Bachgasse
• Beethoven music school
• Josef Schöffel School
• Community College
• WIFI (branch)
• BPI Mödling of ÖJAB - Dr. Bruno Buchwieser-Gasse

Libraries

• Library of the Evangelical Free Church Community in Mödling
• Library of the Mödling Chamber of Labor

health

• Regional Hospital Mödling
• Austrian Red Cross district office Mödling (including ballroom)

• Diagnostic center Mödling
• Institute for Diagnostic Imaging
• Villa Medica

• Institute for Veterinary Examinations Mödling, lead institute for the Animal Health division of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES)

Social

• Psychosocial health center
• Living groups Mödling ( Caritas Austria )
• Social station Mödling, care at home (Caritas Austria)
• State nursing home Mödling
• KOBV the Association for the Disabled in Mödling and the surrounding area
• Aid organization Mödling
• die möwe - child protection center

• Social market so good

Youth facilities

• House of Youth (including Redbox)
• Waggon youth advice center

asylum

• ÖJAB House Mödling
• Tralalobe House Mödling
• BACH Education Center ( Diakonie Austria )
• Connect Mödling
• Special care center Lower Austria (formerly Liese Prokop -Integrationswohnhaus ), of the Federal Ministry of the Interior

Social housing

• Municipal housing for the municipality of Mödling
• Building cooperative Mödling
• WET non-profit housing company

Miscellaneous

• Public Employment Service (AMS) Mödling
• Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Lower Austria (AK) Mödling district office (including public library)
• Chamber of Commerce Austria (WKO) Lower Austria district office Mödling
• State Criminal Police Office of Lower Austria - Mödling branch

• Volksheim Josef Schöffel-Haus (former children's home (1918), before that Gasthaus Hollecek)
• Parish hall of the Evangelical Parish of Mödling (former public kindergarten and work school of the Evangelical Women's Association in Mödling from 1877)
• Hand.Werk.Stadt - Hall 6 - Makerspace
• Book & Cook

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Originally a valued wine grower, market, place with a high density of mills and later a health resort, Mödling was ultimately shaped by large companies. Many of the large companies have moved to Wiener Neudorf to the industrial center of Lower Austria South , although there are still a few companies such as Knorr-Bremse or the EVN district heating power plant .

Today, the small business dominates, which can, however, in some cases demonstrate centuries of operational history, e.g. B. the central Krawany or the Lebzelterei Rachenzentner.

The service sector is pronounced and diversified, also in TV or increasingly in the start-up area.

Energy industry

In the densely built-up area, Mödling is almost completely open to biogenic district heating, which is generated in the Mödling biomass cogeneration plant. The public buildings, such as schools, offices and hospitals and nursing homes, as well as large-volume residential buildings, are supplied with this district heating.

Occasionally, the community tries to use solar energy on the roofs of community buildings and to take urban climate measures.

traffic

Local public transport

The Mödling train station seen from the crossing bridge

Mödling and especially the train station is an important traffic junction for public transport in the district, by rail on the north-south axis and by bus and private transport on the west-east axis, in the wings of the district and their complementary transport infrastructure. The latter west-east axis has been a long-term challenge due to the high level of traffic that has to be delivered to the vehicle and the limited availability and load capacity of streets.

The city is crossed by the Südbahn , which enables rapid connections to Vienna, Baden and Wiener Neustadt with rapid transit and regional trains. Since the timetable change in December 2019, Mödling has been connected around the clock to Vienna every half hour and to Wiener Neustadt every hour on the nights before public holidays and weekends. The station is also equipped with a spacious Park & ​​Ride facility for the numerous commuters .

In the city center there is a city bus with four lines (1, 2a, 2b, 3) which is operated by the ÖBB-Postbus . There are also bus routes from the two bus stations (Bahnhof and Badstraße) to the entire district and to Siebenhirten and Liesing (Vienna 23rd). The Shopping City Süd is also served by the 207 bus.

The public transport offer is complemented by other offers in the district: Examples include the Badnerbahn , which is also connected to the city bus network, as well as the Innere Aspangbahn and the Pottendorfer line .

There have been efforts for years to renovate the station forecourt and to modernize the bus station; the city of Mödling has already presented a design study, but no specific date is known yet. In 2014, the Badstrasse bus station , which is particularly important for school traffic to the HTL Mödling, was rebuilt.

Further transport offers

There has been publicly funded e- car sharing since the 2010s , several locations have been offered successfully since 2018 and others are planned under the cross-community model sharetoo .

Mödling has a short-term parking system that is a member of m-parking .

The city has a particularly large network of cycle paths, which has been massively expanded in recent years with the participation of the Greens. The Lower Austrian public Nextbike Bikesharing network of locations offers several locations in the city.

The Mödling motorway junction to the A2 southern motorway is also the junction for the Shopping City Süd outside the city.

Other high-ranking roads in the greater Mödling area include the outer ring of the A21 motorway , the outer ring of expressway S1 and Triesterstraße parallel to the former Wiener Neustädter Canal .

Traffic history

Is of historical interest in terms of traffic

• the first electric tram in Austria, as well as the world's first electric tram in the strict sense of the word, which maintained continuous operation, the former electric tram or local tram Mödling – Hinterbrühl to Hinterbrühl
• the former Laxenburger Bahn (or "Kaiserbahn") to Laxenburg as well
• the tram line 360 ​​of Wiener Linien , which, until it was closed in 1967, ran via Maria Enzersdorf (am Gebirge), Brunn am Gebirge and Perchtoldsdorf to Rodaun .

Town twinning

Mödling maintains city partnerships and twinning with

• Esch an der Alzette , Luxembourg since 1956
• Offenbach am Main , Germany since 1956
• Puteaux , France since 1956
• Zemun , Serbia since 1956
• Velletri , Italy since 1957
• Kőszeg , Hungary since 1989
• Vsetín , Czech Republic since 2004
• Obzor , Bulgaria since 2011
• Zottegem , Belgium since 2007
• Dirmstein , Germany since 1971 (city friendship)

Personalities

Schöffeldenkmal on Schrannenplatz, opposite the town hall

Memorial plaque for Jakob Thoma at the old town hall

sons and daughters of the town

To 1900

• Jakob Thoma (1848–1910), Member of the State Parliament ( CS ) and Mayor of Mödling (1890–1910)
• Carl Freiherr von Merode (1853–1909), landscape painter
• Maria Janitschek (1859–1927), writer
• Carl Prohaska (1869–1927), composer, music teacher and conductor
• Adolf Rziha (1875–1962), luge rider and local politician
• Hans Schürff (1875–1939), politician
• Robert Müller (1877–1942), film manager, distributor and producer
• Walther Schmied-Kowarzik (1885–1958), philosopher
• Hermann Josef Ullrich (1888–1982), composer and music writer
• Hermann Buchinger (1890–1958), politician ( SPÖ )
• Josef Deutsch (1890–1970), politician (SPÖ), mayor and member of parliament
• Heinrich Demelius (1893–1987), legal historian
• Emmy Haesele (1894–1987), graphic artist and painter
• Adalbert Duschk (1895–1957), mathematician
• Otto Brunner (1898–1982), historian

1901 to 1950

• Heinrich Kunnert (1904–1979) librarian and archivist
• Alfred Maleta (1906–1990), politician, President of the National Council
• Josef Rohata (1909–1989), politician (SPÖ) and printer
• Arthur Mussil (1911–1999), politician (ÖVP)
• Gustav A. Wetter (1911–1991), Jesuit
• Joseph Abileah (originally Wilhelm Niswiszki) (1915–1994), Israeli violinist and peace activist, in 1948 the first convicted Israeli conscientious objector
• Lisl Engels (1916–2006), painter
• Maria von Schmedes (1917–2003), singer and actress
• August Ségur-Cabanac (1922–2011), General
• Franz Fakler (1923-2001), wine maker
• Peter Weiser (1926–2012), journalist and general secretary of the Wiener Konzerthaus
• Roland Moebius (1929–2020), architect
• Leo Tichat (1930–2012), artist
• Christine Haager (1938–2018), politician (SPÖ)
• Herwig Stiegler (* 1938), legal historian
• Werner Gamerith (* 1939), environmental activist, author and photographer
• Harald Lowatschek (* 1939), school director, politician (ÖVP) and mayor
• Dany Sigel (* 1939), actress and musical artist
• Martin Seger (* 1940), university professor of geography
• Werner Stanzl (* 1941), journalist and documentary filmmaker
• Wilhelm Brauneder (* 1943), lawyer
• Franz Koglmann (* 1947), jazz musician
• Elisabeth Bleyleben-Koren (* 1948), bank manager
• Erhard Stackl (* 1948), journalist and author
• Erich Tromayer (* 1948), goldsmith, art dealer and expert
• Herbert Kaufmann (* 1949), politician (SPÖ) and board member of Flughafen Wien AG
• Wolfgang Kos (* 1949), journalist and historian
• Wolfgang Katzer (* 1950), comedian
• Ferdinand Opll (* 1950), historian and archivist

From 1951

• Bruno Liberda (* 1953), composer
• I Stangl (* 1954), cabaret artist
• Dieter Chmelar (* 1957), journalist, presenter and cabaret artist
• Fritz Drazan (1957–2019), football player and coach
• Ilse Hans (* 1957), politician (FPÖ)
• Leo Bei (* 1958), musician
• Kurt Pongratz (* 1958), television director
• Ronnie Leitgeb (* 1959), tennis coach
• Michael Spindelegger (* 1959), politician (ÖVP)
• Wolfgang Hesoun (* 1960), Manager and General Director of Siemens AG, Austria
• Diego Donnhofer (* 1961), screenwriter, director and producer
• Raimund Bahr (* 1962), historian and publicist
• Gery Keszler (* 1963), founder and organizer of the Life Ball
• Karin Schäfer (* 1963), stage artist
• Bernhard Vock (* 1963), Member of the National Council (FPÖ)
• Hans Stefan Hintner (* 1964), journalist and politician ( ÖVP )
• Martin Krammer (* 1964), designer, sculptor and teacher
• Manfred Zsak (* 1964), national soccer player
• Paul Harather (* 1965), film director, producer and screenwriter
• Ernst Aigner (* 1966), soccer player
• Mario Gonzi (* 1966), jazz musician
• Michael Jursa (* 1966), ancient orientalist
• Rupert Huber (* 1967), composer and pianist
• Christoph Kainz (* 1967), politician (ÖVP)
• Leonhard Paul (* 1967), musician
• Michael Buchleitner (* 1969), obstacle and long-distance runner
• Karin Gayer (* 1969), writer
• Elisabeth Kaufmann-Bruckberger (* 1970), member of the National Council ( FRANK , BZÖ , FPÖ)
• Stephan Marasek (* 1970), national soccer player
• Elie Rosen (* 1971), lawyer and representative of Austrian Jewry
• Vivian Bartsch (* 1972), theater and film actress
• Alex Kristan (* 1972), voice imitator and cabaret artist
• Marion Maruska (* 1972), tennis player
• Skero (* 1972), hip hop musician and street artist
• Thomas Aigner (* 1973), historian
• Bernhard Fink (* 1973), human biologist
• Nina Maron (* 1973), artist
• Thomas Rösner (* 1973), conductor
• Markus Scharrer (* 1974), soccer player
• Nino Tomaschek (* 1976), scientific theorist and manager
• Christian Hafenecker (* 1980), politician (FPÖ)
• Christian Stephan (* 1980), television presenter
• Julia Hanzl (* 1982), ceramist and sculptor
• Christine Reiler (* 1982), Miss Austria 2007
• Katharina Kucharowits (* 1983), politician (SPÖ)
• Gerhild Steinbuch (* 1983), writer
• Michael Strasser (* 1983), extreme athlete
• Georg Lauscha (* 1987), racing cyclist
• Patrick Konrad (* 1991), racing cyclist
• Lisa Makas (* 1992), soccer player
• Martin Kraus (* 1993), soccer player
• Johannes Nussbaum (* 1995), actor
• Katarina Pandza (* 2002), handball player

Other personalities

• Heinrich the Elder (1158–1223), Mödling Castle was built under his rule
• Conrad III. von Mödling († 1283) was an Augustinian canon and as Conrad III. from 1257 to 1283 provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery
• Přemysl III. von Troppau (* around 1450 ; † February 17, 1493 ) was Duke of Troppau and Canon of Breslau , Olomouc and Vienna as well as provost of the parish of St. Othmar in Mödling. He was pastor at the time of the construction of the Othmarkirche , on the north wall of which there is still his gravestone.
• Joseph von Semlin (Ali Mirza Khan) (around 1730–1824), Austrian officer, Persian Hereditary Prince (presumptive emperor) of India; owned a property in Mödling, where he was also buried at his request.
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer. He lived in Mödling during the summer months of 1818, 1819 ("Hafnerhaus") and 1820 ("Christhof")
• Gustav Adolf von Greisinger (1793–1868), Imperial Austrian Major General, Professor and Mathematician, died in Mödling
• Friedrich Julius Schüler (1832–1894), General Director of the kk priv. Südbahn
• Josef Schöffel (1832–1910), Mayor of Mödling (1873–1882), "Savior of the Vienna Woods"
• Philippine von Edelsberg (1838–1917), opera singer
• Robert Eder (1848–1918), local history researcher, ornithologist and folklorist
• Anton Paul Heilmann (1850–1912), painter and illustrator, spent the last years of his life in Mödling
• Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951), composer ( twelve-tone music ), lived in Mödling from 1918 to 1925. The former home at Bernhardgasse 6 is now a museum, the Schönberg-Haus Mödling.
• Anton Wildgans (1881–1932), writer
• Franz Theodor Csokor (1885–1969), writer and playwright
• Leopold Petznek , Social Democrat and husband of the "red Archduchess"
• Karl Lehrmann (1887–1957), architect
• Armand Weiser (1887–1933), architect and specialist writer
• Norbert Sprongl (1892–1983), twelve-tone composer
• Maria Restituta (1894–1943), religious and nurse at the Mödling Hospital
• Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi , lived in her later life, until her death in what is now the city museum. Today, a Japanese garden has been set up in the adjacent park in her memory .
• Albert Drach (1902–1995), writer and lawyer
• Peter Lorre (1904–1964), actor, lived in Mödling from 1915 to 1917 and went to school here at the Lower Austrian State High School (now BG & BRG Franz-Keim-Gasse )
• Johannes Mario Simmel (1924–2009), writer, spent part of his childhood in Mödling
• Silvia Jelincic (* 1978), journalist and writer
• Franz Viehböck (* 1960), first Austrian spaceman
• Mizzi Kaspar long-time lover of Crown Prince Rudolf with whom she allegedly frequented Heuriger at Friedrich-Schillerstraße 6, lived at times across the street in Mödling and was buried here.
• Kurt Seipel , student of the HTL Mödling and author who has been imprisoned for many years under false accusations by the Soviet occupying forces .

See also

• Mödlinger Hut

literature

• Christian Fastl: Mödling. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• Ilse and Georg Waldner, Heide Kucera: 1100 Years of Mödling - The History of a City , Mödling 2003, ISBN 3-00-011896-9

Web links

Commons : Mödling  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Medling in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Wiktionary: Mödling  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• History of Mödling
• 31717 - Mödling. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Mödling and the surrounding area on old postcards
• Mödling on RegioWiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 1100 years of Mödling . In: DAVID . No. 62 , September 2004 ( juden.at [accessed on March 10, 2020]).
2. ↑ Middle Ages. In: Mödlinger Museum Online. Mödlinger Museum, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Stadtgemeinde Mödling (ed.): Experience culture in Mödling - "Houses, history, people" . 2010 ( moedling.at [PDF; accessed on August 27, 2020]).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Preparation of the unification of Mödling, Klausen and Vorderbrühl. - (Mödling-Klausen-Vorderbrühl.). In:  Die Presse , Local-Anzeiger, September 28, 1876, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Mödling - growth phase map with legend. In: Austrian City Atlas. Vienna City and State Archives, 1982, accessed on January 29, 2020 . 
6. ↑ water. In: Stadt Mödling Online. City of Mödling, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} story. In: Wasserwerk. Austrian Association for the Gas and Water Sector, accessed on January 28, 2020 . 
8. ↑ The first guests were fish. In: “Ausg'steckt.” Perchtoldsdorfs Guest Magazine No. 52, Volume 14 No. 2/2012, pp. 1 and 10–12.
9. ↑ Neolithic. In: Stadtgemeinde Mödling Online. Retrieved August 27, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} early history. In: Mödlinger Museum Online. Mödlinger Museum, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mödling in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
12. ^ The builder of the castle - Hugo von Liechtenstein (108? - † around 1142). Liechtenstein Castle, accessed on March 5, 2020 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrike Nemling: In the Vorderbrühl (Lower Austria), the Babenbergs built what was supposedly the largest castle of the Babenbergs at that time on the occasion of the wedding of a Babenberger (?) With a princess from Byzantium. In: Schallerburg. Retrieved March 5, 2020 . 
14. ^ Karlheinz Pilcz, after Robert Eder: The golden stairs in Mödling. Retrieved February 23, 2020 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Location: Mödling - Mödling community - local history. In: Memory of the Country. Lower Austrian Museum, accessed March 5, 2020 . 
16. ↑ The Karner. Parish St. Othmar - Mödling, accessed on June 1, 2020 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b c} Former synagogue. In: Tours through Mödling. Municipality of Mödling, accessed on January 27, 2020 . 
18. ↑ 550 years of the Mödlinger coat of arms. Parish St. Othmar - Mödling, accessed on February 23, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Evangelical Church. In: Tours through Mödling. Municipality of Mödling, accessed on January 27, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Mödling waterworks. Retrieved February 23, 2020 . 
21. ↑ The inn "To the 2 ravens". In: Composers in Mödling. Retrieved February 12, 2020 . 
22. ^ Südbahn in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
23. ^ SPÖ district organization Mödling (ed.): The history of the workers' movement in the Mödling area - From the beginnings to the Second Republic. 2010, p. 18 ( moedling-tour.at [PDF; accessed on February 12, 2020]).
24. ^ SPÖ district organization Mödling (ed.): The history of the workers' movement in the Mödling area - From the beginnings to the Second Republic. 2010, p. 8th ff . ( moedling-tour.at [PDF; accessed on February 12, 2020]).
25. ^ Gohren, Karl Theodor from on DNB accessed on March 11, 2015
26. ↑ ^{a b c} Brief general historical outline. In: Mödlinger Stadtverkehrmuseum. Peter Standenat, accessed on February 27, 2020 . 
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Remarks

1. ↑ The original Mödling Summer Theater , which was made of wood and was fully roofed from 1877, was located in the Kurpark ( ) from 1875 until the end of the 1913 season , a property that was acquired by the municipality on the initiative of Mayor Josef Schöffel in connection with the completion of the First Vienna Spring Water Pipeline Vienna was left to the Mödling commune. - See: Karl von Oelberg:  The history of the Mödling city theater. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 72/1913 (XXXIV. Volume), September 6, 1913, p. 4 f. (Online at ANNO ). .