Münichreith (Münichreith-Laimbach municipality)

Münichreith ( village ) locality cadastral community Münichreith
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Melk  (ME), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Melk
Pole. local community	Münichreith-Laimbach
Coordinates	48 ° 16 '1 "  N , 15 ° 7' 54"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '1 "  N , 15 ° 7' 54"  E
height	675  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	358 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	122 (2001)
Area  d. KG	13.92 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	04752
Cadastral parish number	14380
Counting district / district	Münichreith (31525 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Münichreith (sometimes also Münichreith am Ostrong ) is a municipality capital of the double municipality Münichreith-Laimbach .

geography

Münichreith lies at the foot of the 1,061 m high Großer Peilstein , the highest point of the Ostrong in the southern Waldviertel in Austria . The area of ​​the municipality covers 38.82 square kilometers.

history

The history of Münichreith goes back at least to the year 1144. The name Münichreith refers to the clearing area ( Reute ) of a monastery. The settlement gained a certain importance, since logging took place on the Ostrong and the tree trunks had to be transported to the Danube to be shipped there. The Knights of Weissenberg, who had their ancestral seat in what is now Edelsreith, were a family of knights who were notorious in the area as robber barons. During the Peasant Wars , the area around Münichreith was one of the centers of the uprisings in Lower Austria. In today's Bischofsstein, the Archbishop of Vienna is said to have spoken to the rebels to persuade them to give in. The Habsburgs later acquired the area around the Ostrong and Emperor Franz Joseph I in particular was often hunting in this area. The Kaiserstein, one of the elevations in the Ostrong region, got its name from Emperor Franz I, who liked to climb the peaks around Münichreith from his summer residence in Luberegg.

In November 1934 Leopold Moser fell victim to a robbery in Mayerhof near Purgstall on the Erlauf . The perpetrator from Münichreith was sentenced to death for this as well as for the attempted murder of his wife Katharina Pritz and was executed on March 12, 1937 in the Krems district court.

The parish church of Münichreith is consecrated to Saint Nicholas of Myra .

Web links

• http://www.muenichreith.at/
• 31525 - Münichreith (Münichreith-Laimbach municipality). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on the Weißenberg castle ruins at Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg