Mahrersdorf (municipality of Altenburg)

Mahrersdorf (village) village Mahrersdorf cadastral Mahrersdorf
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Horn  (HO), Lower Austria
Judicial district	horn
Pole. local community	Altenburg
Coordinates	48 ° 39 '38 "  N , 15 ° 33' 47"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '38 "  N , 15 ° 33' 47"  E
height	421  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	72 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	2.91 km²
Post Code	3591
prefix	+ 43/02989
Statistical identification
Locality code	03900
Cadastral parish number	10034
Counting district / district	Mahrersdorf (31101 001)
Center of Mahrersdorf.
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Mahrersdorf is a place on the territory of the cadastral municipality of the same name in the municipality of Altenburg (Lower Austria) in the Horn district in Lower Austria .

geography

The place is on the southern edge of the Horner Basin above the valley of the Kleine Taffa . The altitude in the town center is 421 meters. The area of ​​the cadastral community covers 2.91 km². The population is 72 (as of January 1, 2020).

Post Code

Mahrersdorf has the postcode number 3591.

Population development

Number of inhabitants
(source: Ortlexikon Niederösterreich)

year	1830	1890	1923	1951	1961	1971	1991	2001
Residents	133	125	98	77	71	61	59	53

history

First documented mention (1169) in the founding book of Zwettl Monastery ("[…] sicut quidam ad modum nobiles de Sitzendorf iuxta Egenburch, quidam de Marcharstorf iuxta Altenburch […], qui secundum generaciones suas diversa nomina sorciuntur"). Mahrersdorf is mentioned for the first time in 1255 in a Latin document from the Altenburg monastery , in which there is a dispute between the Altenburg monastery and a Reinhold de Marchartzdorf . In 1496 a Wolfgang Dachsner sold the Mahrersdorf fortress, which had already fallen into ruin, and the town to Altenburg Abbey.
In the second half of the 16th century the village was largely deserted ("ödes dorff Marckerstorff", various references from Seebauer 2002, p. 27f.). In the years 1576–1579 - during the Reformation - the preacher Jacob Feuchtinger, an apostate monk from Carniola, settled here. Reingrabner also shows Mahrersdorf to be a Protestant community for 1580. The Counter Reformation took place under the leadership of Joachim Baron Windhaag and Abbot Bernhard Leiß von Altenburg.

In modern times, the Altenburg Abbey held local authority. On the basis of the provisional Reichsgemeindegesetz dated March 17, 1849, the cadastral community created in the Franziszeischen tax cadastre was recognized as the lowest administrative unit (with its own mayor). In 1938 Mahrersdorf was incorporated into Altenburg .

From 1945 the place was again an independent municipality. Under Franz Kühhaß, the post-war mayor and the only mayor of the Second Republic, the village was supplied with electrical energy in 1946; the establishment of a public telephone in the community was decided at the meeting on January 15, 1961. In the same year, the removal of dust from state road 8021 between Altenburg and Mahrersdorf was on the agenda (see Seebauer 2002, pp. 134ff.). In the course of the amalgamation of the municipalities, Mahrersdorf became part of the newly formed large municipality Altenburg on January 1, 1968.

Generations of Mahrersdorf women and men attended the trivial school (later: elementary school) in Fuglau. At the beginning of the school year 1966/67 this one-class elementary school was closed (last teacher: Wilhelm Naber). The Mahrersdorf children now attend the elementary school in Altenburg; Hauptschule and AHS as well as vocational schools are located in Horn.

Culture and sights

See also : List of listed objects in Altenburg (Lower Austria)

The roof and facade of the Mahrersdorf local chapel were renovated in summer 2012. The renovation of the Floriani statue (donated by Franz and Barbara Riel in 1856) took place in spring 2013.

Mahrersdorf ruins

The ruins of the Mahrersdorf fortress are located on a hill north of the village on the right bank of the Kleine Taffa. The Mahrersdorfer Burg was occupied by the Austrians in 1474; the troops withdrew, however, after a sum of money had been paid. Matthias Corvinus of Hungary occupied some Austrian castles in 1480 and paid homage to Eggenburg. The gentlemen of some of the camp castles and the “Dachsner von Mahrersdorf” did not show up there. For this reason, Zeleny, the captain of Matthias Corvinus - from Eggenburg - made several advances with 100 riders as far as the vicinity of Mahrersdorf and on November 11, 1480 occupied Mahrersdorf, which tried to defend itself with 60 foot soldiers with carts and eight riders . But Mahrersdorf was razed to the ground: “[…] circa illa obsidionem habuimus populum nostrum ad sexaginta pedestres cum curribus et equestres octo. Item Saxendorf obsederunt et destruxerunt similimodo Marckastorf ad terram prostraverunt. “The remains of the wall of the destroyed castle were only integrated into newly built houses 350 years later - in the course of social changes in the village - and repopulated.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Two municipal roads lead from Altenburg and Fuglau to Mahrersdorf. The place is not connected to public transport . The closest ÖBB train stations are Horn NÖ and Rosenburg an der Kamptalbahn .

literature

• Schweikhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns. Volume 1: Ober-Manhartsberg quarter, Wallishausser, Vienna 1839. pp. 44–46.
• Renate Seebauer: Local history of Mahrersdorf (= series of publications of the Waldviertler Heimatbundes 27 ). Krems 1986. ISBN 3-900708-01-0
• Renate Seebauer: About the "Zoacha-Läuten" and "Ausläuten". A contribution to the local history of Mahrersdorf. In: The Waldviertel / Ed .: Waldviertler Heimatbund. - Horn, 1990. - 39.1990 pp. 343-346.
• Renate Seebauer: Continuity in Change. Contributions to the social history of Mahrersdorf. Gösing / Wagram 2002. ISBN 3-901616-52-7
• Renate Seebauer: Historical journey through seven centuries. Altenburg - Burgerwiesen - Fuglau - Mahrersdorf - Steinegg. LIT, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-643-50722-8
• Renate Seebauer: 850 years of Mahrersdorf (1169–2019). In: The Waldviertel / Ed .: Waldviertler Heimatbund. - Horn, 2019. - 68.2019 pp. 73–81.

Web links

• Website of the Altenburg community
• Literature on Mahrersdorf in the Lower Austrian State Library
• Pictures of Mahrersdorf in the topographical collection of the Lower Austrian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Historisches Ortlexikon Niederösterreich ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.2 MB), part 2, p. 34. 
3. ↑ Johann von Frast (ed.): The "foundation book" of the Cistercian monastery Zwetl. In: Fontes rerum Austriacarum - Austrian historical sources. Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Second division. Diplomata et acta. III. Volume, Vienna 1851. pp. 437f. ( PDF )
4. ^ Fontes Rerum Austriacarum. Sources on Austrian history, ed. from the historical commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 2nd section, 21st vol., Vienna 1865, pp. 11-12. ( Online version )
5. ↑ Entry about the Mahrersdorf castle ruins on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
6. ^ Fontes Rerum Austriacarum. Sources on Austrian history, ed. from the historical commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 2nd section, 21st vol., Vienna 1865, pp. 360–361. ( Online version )
7. ^ Theodor Wiedemann : Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the land under the Enns. 2nd volume. Prague 1880, p. 548.
8. ↑ Gustav Reingrabner: When there was a quarrel about religion. Berger, Horn 2000, p. 33.
9. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Horn district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ Thomas Hofmann, Erich Rabl, Wolfgang Stangl: Horner Mosaike - Another home book. Texts and pictures from the Horn district . Weitra 2005, pp. 199-200. ISBN 3-85252-683-3
11. ↑ Photographs of the ruin at www.ruine.at
12. ↑ Bernhard link Annales Austrio Clara Vallenses, seu fundationis monasterii clarae-Vallis AUSTRIAE, Vulgo Zwetl, Ordinis Cisterciensis. Initium et Progressus. … Schwendimann, Viennae, Vol. 2 (1400–1645), 1725, pp. 259f.