Engelhartstetten

market community

Engelhartstetten

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Gänserndorf

License plate :

GF

Surface:

65.63 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 11 ' N , 16 ° 53' E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '0 " N , 16 ° 53' 0" E

Height :

143 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,085 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

32 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

2292

Area code :

02214

Community code :

3 08 14

NUTS region

AT126

Address of the
municipal administration:

Obere Hauptstrasse 2
2292 Engelhartstetten

Website:

www.engelhartstetten.at

politics

Mayor :

Josef Reiter ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

10

8th

1

10 8th 1

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 10
BFB : 8
FPÖ : 1

Location of Engelhartstetten in the Gänserndorf district

The town center with the parish church of St. Markus in the center of Angerm

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Engelhartstetten is a market town with 2085 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria .

geography

Engelhartstetten, its neighboring towns and the Marchfeldschlösser Schloßhof and Niederweiden around 1873 ( recording sheet of the state survey)

Engelhartstetten is located in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria in the southeast corner of Marchfeld and on the border with the Czech Republic . The municipality borders in the east on the March (Morova), which forms the border to two districts of Bratislava ( Devínska Nová Ves and Devín ), and in the south on the Danube , which forms the border with the Bruck an der Leitha district. The area of the market town covers 65.66 square kilometers. 12.04 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Engelhartstetten (19.24 km²) Groißenbrunn (7.41 km²) Loimersdorf (11.29 km²) Markthof (15.96 km²) Stopfenreuth (11.77 km²)	Engelhartsstetten (M) Groißenbrunn (D) Loimersdorf (D) Teichhof (W) Schloßhof (D) Stopfenreuth (D)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria - List for Lower Austria (PDF)

The municipality includes the following six localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Engelhartstetten (929), ( Slovak Poturno , Croatian Poturna )
Groißenbrunn (220), ( Slovak Kisibrun , Croatian Kisiprun )
Loimersdorf (483), ( Slovak Limišdorf , Croatian Limištrof )
Markthof (137), ( Croatian Hufnak )
Castle courtyard (86), ( Slovak Zámoček )

Stopfenreuth (230)

On January 1st, 1971 with the Lower Austria. Municipal structure improvement Stopfenreuth, Engelhartstetten, Groißenbrunn and Loimersdorf merged.

Neighboring communities

history

In July 1260, the battle of Kressenbrunn was fought near Groißenbrunn .
In the Engelhartstetten community there were several larger settlements of the so-called Marchfeldkroats . In the cadastral community of Loimersdorf lived until the middle of the 20th century, residents who spoke Croatian. Numerous Croatian family names can still be found today.

coat of arms

In 1985 the Lower Austrian provincial government issued the current coat of arms: a split shield, three golden ears of wheat growing out of the base of the shield in front, two red crossbars in silver on both sides. As the oldest proven owner of Engelhartstetten, the family coat of arms of the Lords of Pranckh , once the owners of Schloss Hof , Markthof and Niederweiden, can still be found in the municipal coat of arms . In addition, the agricultural economy, which has been flourishing since the municipality was founded, is to be symbolized by adding the three ears of wheat.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census , there were 1807 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 1668 inhabitants, in 1981 1635 and in 1971 1809 inhabitants.

politics

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The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 9 SPÖ, and 1 citizens' initiative.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 8 ÖVP, 1 FPÖ
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, 3 independent lists per municipality, and 1 list Barnet Johann.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, and 2 LBJ list Barnet Johann.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 SPÖ, 8 ÖVP, and 3 LBJ list Barnet Johann.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 8 BFB citizens for citizens and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

Until 2008 Johann Feigl (SPÖ)
2008–2015 Andreas Zabadal (SPÖ)
Since 2015 Josef Reiter (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Hof Castle

Niederweiden Castle

Bicycle bridge of freedom over the March

Grafenweiden castle ruins
Schloss Hof : Baroque palace and baroque garden: acquired by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1726 and redesigned by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt , acquired by Maria Theresa in 1755 and then owned by the imperial family
Niederweiden Castle : built by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and also acquired by Prince Eugene of Savoy, later imperial property
Catholic parish church Engelhartstetten hl. Markus
Catholic parish church Groißenbrunn hl. Aegydius
Catholic parish church Loimersdorf hl. Mary Magdalene
Catholic parish church Markthof hl. George
Catholic parish church Stopfenreuth hl. Johannes Nepomuk
Marchdamm chapel near Markthof
Marienbründl Chapel Groißenbrunn
Freedom bicycle bridge over the March to Bratislava
Local history collection and beer museum of the Kreiner family in Loimersdorf

economy

In 2001 there were 65 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 154. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 803. The 2001 participation rate was 45.26 percent.

traffic

Railway: Engelhartstetten was the southeastern terminus of the Siebenbrunn – Engelhartstetten local railway , on which passenger traffic was discontinued in 2003.

Personalities

Josef Fitzthum (1896–1945), SS-Obergruppenführer from Loimersdorf
Felix Dvorak (* 1936), actor, lived in Markthof from 1971 to 1989
Harald Serafin (* 1931), singer, lived in Markthof

Web links

Commons : Engelhartstetten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

30814 - Engelhartstetten. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Official appearance of the Engelhartstetten community

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Nikolaus Wilhelm-Stempin: The settlement area of the Burgenland Croats . Ed .: Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt.

↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945

↑ Federal Chancellery | Legal information system: Announcement about the award of a coat of arms ... for the market town of Engelhartstetten. ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Engelhartstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Engelhartstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Engelhartstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Engelhartstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Engelhartstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Engelhartstetten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 14, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[:0-2] Nikolaus Wilhelm-Stempin: The settlement area of the Burgenland Croats . Ed .: Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt.

[3] Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945