Markt (community of Schwarzau)

Market ( capital of a market town ) village Schwarzau in the mountains district
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Neunkirchen  (NK), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Neunkirchen
Pole. local community	Schwarzau in the mountains
Coordinates	47 ° 48 '42 "  N , 15 ° 42' 18"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '42 "  N , 15 ° 42' 18"  E
height	617  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	160 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	83 (2001)
Post Code	2662 Schwarzau in the mountains
prefix	+ 43/02667
Statistical identification
Locality code	05302
Counting district / district	Schwarzau in the mountains (31 836 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Schwarzau im Gebirge , locally simply Markt , is a place in the Semmering – Rax region in Lower Austria as well as the capital and locality of the municipality of Schwarzau im Gebirge in the Neunkirchen district .

geography

The place is located 30 kilometers west of Neunkirchen , a little north of the Rax massif . It is located in the middle of the municipality on the upper Schwarza at around 615  m above sea level. A. Height. The Obersberg rises to the west  ( 1,467  m above sea level ), to the east the Handlesberg  ( 1,317  m above sea level ), and south of the Fegenberg (Großer  1,186  m above sea level ), some mountains of the Mürzsteg Alps and the Gutenstein Alps to the west respectively east of the Schwarza.

The village of Schwarzau in the mountains comprises around 85 buildings with around 200 residents. The local designation of the location as a district of the municipality and the addresses are market . It is a street village along the Höllental Straße  (B27).

The Schwarzatal (the market town not visible) from the Kuhschneeberg : The Obersberg , behind the Ötscher

Neighboring towns and cities:

	Area  (O) Bichl
		Quarry  (O) Vois  (O)
Hirschbach Preintal  (O)	Ditch  (O)

History, infrastructure and sights

Catholic parish church and Kaiser Franz Joseph chapel

The area was settled under the Lords of Traisen around the middle of the 11th century. Around 1220 it belonged to the sovereign rule , then Gutenstein Regional Court . From 1595 the noble family of Hoyos held the patronage of the Gutenstein rule.

The place is originally a church hamlet: today's Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas dates from the second quarter of the 13th century and was first mentioned around 1250/60. The place name (' Au an der Schwarza') is documented only between 1632 and 1658, so the place itself was probably only grown relatively late. Around 1840 the actual Kirchweiler only comprised 7 houses near the church and was at that time "the smallest market town in the country".

At the time of the Turkish siege in 1529 , the hamlet and church were sacked by militants, but the residents had fled to the surrounding forests. Traces of this have been found in the Herrengrotto in the Klafterwand above the village.

In 1569 the parish rights were confirmed and in the later 16th century the church was decorated with wall paintings. Around 1715/17 it was completely renovated and redesigned in baroque style .

Today's B27  Höllental Straße ( Rohr  - Gloggnitz ) is an old connecting route from the Mostviertel via the Kalte Kuchl to the southern industrial district . But at the end of the 18th century it was only a footpath through the Höllental , not even passable on horseback. It was not until the timber entrepreneur Georg Hubmer , the "Rax-King", that the path turned into a cart path. The road was only laid out in 1832.

1908 was the occasion of his 60th birthday Emperor Franz Joseph's Chapel in honor of Franz Joseph I built.

Schwarzauer bathing pond at the nature park with Falkenstein ( 1013  m )

Today the place is known as a destination for hikers. The Obersberg is a beautiful panoramic mountain. The Falkenstein nature park and nature reserve is located directly above the village . It offers “the Rax – Schneeberg area in miniature”, and guided tours are also offered. The Schwarzatal around the market still belongs to the European Protected Area Northeastern Randalpen: Hohe Wand – Schneeberg – Rax , a fauna-flora-habitat- area with an ecological focus, and to the comprehensive landscape protection area Rax – Schneeberg . A natural monument beech tree stands south-east on the slope at Hotterhüttel .

proof

• 31836 - Schwarzau in the mountains. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ^ Geography , Schwarzauimgebirge.at
2. ↑ See file: HandlesbergvonSüdwesten.jpg , view in the opposite direction.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Historical outline , schwarzauimgebirge.at
4. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio -Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube. Part 2, Berger Verlag, Horn / Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , p. 2156 ff.
5. ^ Adolf Schmidl: Vienna's surroundings for twenty hours in a circle. Volume 3, Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1839, From the Höllenthal to Lilienfeld , p. 624 ( Google eBook, complete view ).
6. ↑ The Schwarzau / Geb nature park , schwarzauimgebirge.at