Meiseldorf

Meiseldorf is located east of Horn on the edge of the Manhartsberg in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 35.45 square kilometers. 26.24 percent of the area is forested.

In the east is the Meiseldorfer pond .

Community structure

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

Kattau (192)
Klein-Meiseldorf (383)
Maigen (90)
Stocking (211)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Kattau, Kleinmeiseldorf, Maigen and Stockern. The main town is Klein-Meiseldorf .

The municipality of Meiseldorf is a member of the small region of Manhartsberg .

The main town Klein-Meiseldorf and Stockern have the postcode 3744 (Meiseldorf) , Kattau the postcode 3730 ( Eggenburg ) and Maigen the postcode 3751 ( Sigmundsherberg ) .

Neighboring communities

	Sigmundsherberg	Pulkau ( District Hollabrunn )
horn		Röschitz
Rosenburg mold	Burgschleinitz-Kühnring	Eggenburg

history

coat of arms

Blazon :

In a blue shield, divided obliquely to the left by a silver wave bar, a golden crescent moon open at the top, a golden wolf tang below and three silver stones in the base of the shield .

The municipality colors are yellow-blue-white.

With the decision of the Lower Austrian provincial government on June 13, 2006, the municipality of Meiseldorf was awarded a municipal coat of arms.

Population development

politics

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The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

until 2005 Gerhard Hager (ÖVP)
2005-2014 Josef Daniel (ÖVP)
since 2014 Nikolaus Reisel (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish Church of Kattau

Parish Church Stockern

Kellergasse Friedhofsweg in Kattau

Missingdorferstrasse basement lane in Kattau

Kellergasse Nördliches Hintaus in Klein-Meiseldorf with a transformer station

Kattau Castle in Kattau
Catholic parish church Kattau Mariä Himmelfahrt
Catholic local chapel Kleinmeiseldorf
Catholic branch church Maigen
Stockern Castle in Stockern
- Painting St. Florian Saves the Burning Stockern Castle by Martin Johann Schmidt 1772
Former parish church Stockern
Catholic parish church Stockern Sacred Heart of Jesus
Calvary Stockern

economy

In 2001 there were 18 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 67 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 393. The 2001 employment rate was 41.78 percent.

traffic

Train: The place Klein-Meiseldorf is on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn . The ÖBB operates the station Klein-Meiseldorf Maria Dreieichen to 12 December 2015. The passenger traffic on the leading also by the municipality Pulkautalbahn was set 1988th

Bus: The PostBus bus company runs to Klein-Meiseldorf, Kattau, Maigen and Stockern stops on lines 1253 ( Horn - Retz ) and 1302 ( Horn - Eggenburg ). Line 1254 (Eggenburg - Retz) has two stops in Kattau.

Road: The state road 1205 leads through Stockern.

Personalities

Candidus Ponz, Imperial Knight of Engelshofen (1803–1866), prehistoric and early historian, lived at Stockern Castle.

Josef von Hempel (1800–1871), Austrian painter, 1832–1839 owner of the Kattau estate.

Johann Maximilian von Lamberg (1608–1682), Austrian nobleman, diplomat and minister, owner of the Stockern estate

Bertha von Suttner , wrote her work The weapons down at Stockern Castle . (1899)

literature

Voluntary fire brigade Stockern (Ed.): Stockern - Chronicle of our place. Stockern 1990.
Johannes Müllner: Small Kattauer Heimatbuch. Kattau 1974.

Web links

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

Community website
Entry on Meiseldorf in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
31114 - Meiseldorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Literature about Meiseldorf in the Lower Austrian State Library
Pictures of Meiseldorf in the topographical collection of the Lower Austrian regional library

Individual evidence

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

↑ Announcement of the Lower Austrian provincial government of July 6, 2006 ( Memento of the original of December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. (ris.bka).

^ Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Meiseldorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Meiseldorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Meiseldorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

^ Election results for the municipal council election 2010 in Meiseldorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Meiseldorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Meiseldorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 .

^ Description of the castle on austria-forum.org

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