Maria-Lanzendorf

Maria-Lanzendorf (with a hyphen according to the provincial law ) is a municipality with 2179 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria . The place is a Marian pilgrimage site .

geography

Maria Lanzendorf, (Mitter) Ober Lanzendorf and Unter Lanzendorf around the year 1873, the old municipal boundaries are still recorded ( recording sheet of the state survey)

Maria-Lanzendorf is located south of Vienna in the industrial district on the Schwechat . The place borders directly on the community of Lanzendorf . There are no other cadastral communities apart from Maria-Lanzendorf . Neighboring communities are Lanzendorf , Himberg , Achau and Leopoldsdorf .

The area of the municipality covers only 1.69 square kilometers. 0.69 percent of the area is forested. The Wiener Neustädter Canal runs through the municipality . The Petersbach flows into the Schwechat in Maria-Lanzendorf .

history

In ancient times the area was part of the province of Pannonia .

In 1871 Maria-Lanzendorf split off from Oberlanzendorf and formed a new community with part of Leopoldsdorf.

After Austria was annexed to the Third Reich in 1938, the place was incorporated into Greater Vienna as part of the newly created 23rd district of Schwechat . The municipality became independent again in 1954 when it was separated from Greater Vienna.

The reunification with the sister community of Lanzendorf , which a large part of the population was striving for, especially for economic reasons, failed due to resistance from one of the three parties represented in the provisional community council.

Maria-Lanzendorf was originally intended to become part of the Mödling district from January 1, 2017 after the Vienna-Umgebung district was dissolved . After objections from citizens, Maria-Lanzendorf was assigned to the Bruck an der Leitha district , to which it has belonged since January 1, 2017.

Population development

Currently (as of November 30, 2015) the municipality has only 2,104 residents and 428 secondary residences. According to the results of the 2001 census , there were 1,894 inhabitants. In 1991 the municipality had 1,487 inhabitants, in 1981 1,107 and in 1971 1,147 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

Kalvarienberg (built around 1700)

Parish and pilgrimage church : The parish and pilgrimage church of Maria-Lanzendorf is extraordinarily rich in art treasures, including a. there are pictures by the baroque painter Johann Michael Rottmayr .
Calvary : The Calvary of Maria-Lanzendorf is a unique document of baroque piety - an artificially created hill, in whose niches and grottoes the Passion, the death on the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ are depicted figuratively and figuratively.

Sports

Sports club Maria-Lanzendorf

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 86 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 4. The number of people in work at the place of residence was 967 according to the 2001 census. The 2001 participation rate was 52 percent.

In addition, the Maria Lanzendorfer train station is served Monday to Friday by the Inner Aspangbahn between Wiener Neustadt and Vienna.

politics

Mayor of the community is lawyer Mag. Peter M. Wolf, head of department Thomas Pokernus. Deputy Mayors are Dagmar Madl (ÖVP) and Michael Lippl (SPÖ).

In the council there after the local elections of 26 January 2020 on a total of 21 seats following distribution of seats: SPÖ 9, ÖVP 6, Green 4, FPÖ two other parties have no seats.

coat of arms

The pilgrimage church of Maria-Lanzendorf is depicted on the municipality's coat of arms.

Personalities

Franz Hasenöhrl (1885–1970), composer (pseudonym Franz Höhrl )
Gerhard Melzer , principal school director and honored local researcher, editor of the picture chronicle "Das alten Maria-Lanzendorf" (2005)
Julius Nell (1855-1917), architect
Sissy Roth-Halvax (1946–2009), Mayor from 2000 to 2009, President of the Federal Council from January 1, 2006 to June 30, 2006
Josef Schmid (1816–1892), owner of the Kanzelmühle

Web links

Commons : Maria-Lanzendorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

30736 - Maria-Lanzendorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ State of Lower Austria: Overview of the municipalities ( memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Julia Tanzer: Historical morphological changes in the southern Vienna Danube feeder 1755-2010 . Master thesis. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2016, p. 94 ( boku.ac.at [PDF; accessed on January 3, 2020]).
^ NÖN: District Vienna-Umgebung is dissolved . Article dated September 10, 2015, accessed September 10, 2015.
↑ WU municipalities will be reorganized Article from September 24, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2015.
^ Diepresse.com: Lower Austria: new municipalities assigned . Article dated September 24, 2015, accessed September 27, 2015.

[1] State of Lower Austria: Overview of the municipalities ( memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Julia Tanzer: Historical morphological changes in the southern Vienna Danube feeder 1755-2010 . Master thesis. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2016, p. 94 ( boku.ac.at [PDF; accessed on January 3, 2020]).

[3] NÖN: District Vienna-Umgebung is dissolved . Article dated September 10, 2015, accessed September 10, 2015.

[4] WU municipalities will be reorganized Article from September 24, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2015.

[5] Diepresse.com: Lower Austria: new municipalities assigned . Article dated September 24, 2015, accessed September 27, 2015.