Mautern on the Danube

Borough

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Krems-Land

License plate :

KR

Surface:

9.07 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 24 ' N , 15 ° 35' E Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '37 " N , 15 ° 34' 39" E

Height :

201 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,539 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

390 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

3512

Area code :

02732

Community code :

3 13 27

NUTS region

AT124

Address of the
municipal administration:

Rathausplatz 1
3512 Mautern an der Donau

Website:

www.mautern.at

politics

Mayor :

Heinrich Brustbauer ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(23 members)

15th

5

2

1

15th 5 2 1

A total of 23 seats

ÖVP : 15
SPÖ : 5
BL : 2
FPÖ : 1

Location of Mautern on the Danube in the Krems-Land district

Northwest view of Mautern on the Danube; on the right in the background the Göttweig monastery and on the left the Danube bridge built in 1895.

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mautern an der Donau is a municipality with 3539 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) on the southern bank of the Danube in Lower Austria across from Krems / Stein.

geography

Community structure

Hundsheim as seen from the Benetiktinerstift Göttweig. On the left bank of the Danube you can see outlets of the village Unterloiben. Above the Dürnstein castle ruins.

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

Baumgarten (171)
Hundsheim (227)
Mautern on the Danube (2892)
Mauternbach (249)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Baumgarten, Mautern and Mauternbach.

Neighboring communities

Dürnstein	Krems at the Donau
Rossatz-Arnsdorf		Furth
Bergern	Paudorf

history

The horseshoe tower

Mautern on the Danube, view from the north

Mautern was an important settlement at the time of the Romans , as it was on an important trade route (iron / salt) and directly on the northern border with the Germanic peoples. The Roman name for Mautern was probably " Favianis " or " Favianae ". The Favianis fort protected an important river crossing (possibly a ford) at the eastern exit of the Wachau . Favianis achieved his greatest fame in late antiquity at the end of Roman times in the second half of the 5th century, when Severin von Noricum founded a monastery here ; At this time the Rugians were already ruling this area (their King Flaccitheus is documented from 467). After the final conquest of the Avar Empire by the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne in 803, the securing and repopulation of the former fort area began. The resulting place was now in the area of the Baierischen Ostland . Mautern was mentioned in the Raffelstetten customs regulations . It was the easternmost trading post in the Danube area. In 1137, Bishop Reginmar von Passau signed a treaty with the Babenbergermark Count Leopold IV, which enabled the first Romanesque construction of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

A steel truss bridge , which was badly damaged in World War II , has stood here for about 100 years - for a long time one of the first and most important high-performance Danube crossings between Linz and Vienna .

End of the 1st century AD. Establishment of a Roman camp under Emperor Domitian, initially as a wood-earth camp, later expanded to a stone warehouse.
Around 300 AD the newly established Legio I Noricorum is stationed in Favianis-Mautern.
After the monastery was founded in 450.
In 482, Saint Severin died on January 8th in his monastery.
893 Transfer to the Kremsmünster Abbey and patronage of the Agapits Church [Nikolaihof].
899 Mautern is mentioned in the Fuldner Annals ( Civitas Mutarensis )
903 Mentioned in the Raffelstetten customs regulations
985 or 991 Mautern comes into the possession of the Diocese of Passau
Around 1050 new parish church St. Stephan
1083 Mention of the Margaret Chapel
1276–1279 King Rudolf I grants civil liberties , the right to fortifications and high jurisdiction .
At the beginning of the 14th century St. Johannes in Hundsheim is mentioned as a pilgrimage church
1463 occupied wooden bridge between Mautern and Stein
1467 Award of a city coat of arms by Emperor Friedrich III.
1615–1620 David Gregor Corner ( later the 45th abbot of Göttweig Abbey ) is pastor of Mautern.
1645 While Krems and Stein are captured by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War , the imperial family successfully defends the city of Mautern.
1734 Sale of the Passau rule of Mautern to Friedrich Karl Graf von Schönborn
1849/50 After the abolition of the manor, Mautern becomes the seat of a district court.
1866 In order to prevent the Prussians who were victorious at Königgrätz from crossing the Danube, the wooden bridge between Mautern and Stein is burned down.
1895 Completion of the steel truss bridge (road bridge) between Stein and Mautern
1907 A fire disaster destroys large parts of Mautern Castle.
1913 The town of Mautern acquires Mautern Castle including extensive real estate from Count Schönborn.
1938 During the National Socialist era, Mautern, Mauternbach and Baumgarten are incorporated into the Gau capital Krems .
On April 17, 1945, Soviet bombers attack the city, killing 30 civilians and members of the military.
September 30, 1945: Reopening of the Stein-Mautern road bridge, which was blown up by the German Wehrmacht at the end of the war, in the presence of State Chancellor Karl Renner and representatives of the four occupying powers
In 1948 the places Mautern, Mauternbach and Baumgarten become independent communities again.
1957 Laying of the foundation stone for the new Julius Raab barracks of the federal army
In 1970 the Baumgarten district and in 1972 Mauternbach were incorporated into the municipality of Mautern.
In 2002 a flood of the Danube flooded the Hundsheim district.

In 2008 a Danube flood protection system in the KG Mautern and Mauternbach will be completed and in 2015 a catch basin against heavy rain events will be added.

Population development

The population of the municipality of Mautern is increasing despite a negative birth balance (−217 from 2001 to 2011), as immigration is very high (+608 from 2001 to 2011).

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Stephen

There are many places in Mautern where archaeological excavations can be found - graves , walls, wine cellars that date back to the Romans. The modern Roman hall, which serves as an event hall, and the “Roman Museum Favianis- St. Severin ” bear witness to the often tourist-motivated reflection on days long past.

Parish Church of St. Stephen ; it was built in the second half of the 14th century, with the northern choir side chapel (death chapel) being older (end of the 14th century). In the years 1695/96 Carlo Antonio Carlone rebuilt the interior of the nave and made it Baroque. The mighty, three-storey church tower in the southern choir corner was built over a medieval core from 1774 to 1777 by the builder Karl Ehmann.

Mautern Castle on the northern edge of the old town is the successor to a medieval fortified courtyard that served as the official residence of the keepers and captains who exercised the manorial power for the Passau bishops. Each of the four castle wings comes from a different era. The palace chapel , profaned in the 18th century , was extensively restored in 2017-2018 . After the renovation is complete, the “Mauterner Altar”, an early Baroque masterpiece created around 1620, will be put back in the castle chapel.

In the center of the village there is an important building complex called Janaburg, originally from 1576.

Baumgarten Castle , a multi-wing baroque building with two courtyards, is located in the southern cadastral community of the same name.

Regular events

Wachau Cycling Days (annually in July since 1998)

Economy and Infrastructure

The Danube bridge Stein-Mautern, a steel truss bridge built in 1895, which was partly rebuilt after the Second World War (the parallel-belt truss). In the background the eastern part of Mautern on the Danube

In 2001 there were 111 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 90 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 1381. The 2001 participation rate was 46.58 percent.

The municipality is the location of a care and support center for the state of Lower Austria with around 100 care places.

A large part of the community's added value can be traced back to the Raab barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces. The barracks is also the location of the 3rd Jäger Brigade (Rapid Forces Brigade) (formerly known as the Rapid Operations Command (2016-2018) and 3rd Panzer Grenadier Brigade (1956-2016)).

politics

The mayor of the municipality is Heinrich Brustbauer (ÖVP), and Thomas Svejda (ÖVP) is the deputy mayor.

Due to the size of the population, the municipal council has 23 seats, after the municipal council election on January 26, 2020 with the following mandate distribution: ÖVP 15, SPÖ 5, Bürgerliste Mautern Anders 2, FPÖ 1.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split of silver and red, in front a rising red" Passau Wolf ", behind a growing silver tinned butter churn tower with a black round portal with a silver half-drawn portcullis, above two black windows, one in the top."

Town twinning

Austria Mautern in Styria

Personalities

Honorary citizen

2018: Hans Penz (* 1950), politician of the ÖVP
2018: Armin Sonnauer, Former Mayor of Mautern

sons and daughters of the town

Franz Xaver Riedel (1738–1773), Jesuit, teacher and author, author of your Savior, your teacher
Anton Kerner, Knight of Marilaun (1831–1898), botanist. Creator of alpine plant geography, one of the founders of plant society theory, university professor in Innsbruck (where he created the chair for botany) and Vienna
Hartmann Strohsacker (1870–1946), Benedictine monk, theologian and abbot of Göttweig Abbey between 1930 and 1946.
Lisl Wagner-Bacher (* 1953), award-winning chef

Personalities associated with Mautern

Severin von Noricum (410–482), missionary and founder of a monastery, founded a monastery near Mautern.
Eugippius (465-533), an early Christian saint and church writer, entered the monastery of St. Severin, whose biography he wrote.
Rosa Papier-Paumgartner (1859–1932), opera singer. Loved the Wachau all her life and after her death was buried in Mautern, where her family roots were.
Karl Vikas (1875–1934), painter, portrayed the Wachau for over 30 years and lived in Mautern until his death.

literature

Marion Buxbaum: The city of Mautern on the Danube from 1945 to 1955. A cross-section , (Vienna 1993).
Karl Reder (Ed.), Manfred Schovanec: Contributions to the city history of Mautern an der Donau 1848–1918 , (Mautern 2018), ISBN 978-3-200-05658-9
Karl Reder (Ed.), Manfred Schovanec: Contributions to the city history of Mautern an der Donau 1918–1955 , (Mautern 2015), ISBN 978-3-200-04023-6

Web links

Commons : Mautern an der Donau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Mautern in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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

^ Hans Krawarik: settlement history of Austria: settlement beginnings, settlement types, settlement genesis , Verlag Lit, 2006, p. 126f

↑ Early Middle Ages in Austria-Forum , the Austrian knowledge network - online (on AEIOU)

↑ The history of St. Stephen's Cathedral. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .

^ Karl Reder, Contributions to the town history of Mautern an der Donau 1918–1955

^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Mautern on the Danube, population development. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .

↑ entry about Jana castle to castle-Austria

↑ Mautern care and support center. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .

↑ 40 years of the Raab barracks. Federal Army , accessed on March 4, 2019 .

↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Mautern an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .

↑ Josef Aschauer: Penz and Sonnauer: Two new honorary citizens for Mautern. January 27, 2018, accessed March 4, 2019 .

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