Merzenstein

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Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '  N , 15 ° 5'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Austria
District : Zwettl
Cadastral parish of: Zwettl-Lower Austria
KG number: 24345
Residents : 144 (2001 census)
Area : 4.13 km²
Population density : 34.87 / km²
Postal code : A-3911
Area code : 02828
politics
Mayor : Johannes Friedl
(as of September 16, 2019)

Merzenstein is a village in Lower Austria and a cadastral municipality of the municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria . According to the 2001 census, the cadastral community had 144 inhabitants on an area of ​​34.87 km².

location

Merzenstein is about 6 kilometers as the crow flies southwest of the city center of Zwettl at the confluence of Königswiesener Straße (B 124) and Böhmerwald Straße (B 38) between Gschwendt and Etzen . The place is connected to the Austrian intercity bus network by post buses .

The municipality borders the cadastral communities of Jahrings and Waldhams to the north , Gschwendt and Uttissenbach to the east, Rottenbach and Marbach am Walde to the south and the Josefsdorf and Oberneustift cadastral communities belonging to Groß Gerungs to the west .

Population
development
date Residents
1869 150
1951 148
1961 142
1971 158
1981 160
1991 172
2001 144
2011 137

history

Merzenstein was first mentioned in 1291 as Mersenstain . It is a castle name meaning "Castle on the rock, which is named after a man named Marso".

In the vicinity of Merzenstein there is an abandoned quarry with deposits of rock crystals and chalcopyrite . Sources from the 19th century report that the mined material was used to make millstones because of its hardness and porosity .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor - All. In: zwettl.gv.at. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Census of May 15, 2001: inhabitants by locality. (PDF; 16 kB) In: Statistics Austria. Bundesanstalt Statistics Austria, p. 1 , accessed on January 22, 2010 .
  3. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): The cities of Lower Austria . Self-published, 1982, ISBN 3-7001-0463-4 , p. 388 .
  4. ↑ Kurt Klein: Historisches Ortslexikon - Statistical Documentation on Population and Settlement History. Lower Austria, part 4: Waidhofen an der Thaya, Wiener Neustadt (Land), Vienna area, Zwettl. (PDF; 840 KB) In: oeaw.ac.at. ÖAW , August 31, 2016, p. 116 , accessed on May 4, 2019 .
  5. ^ Cadastral communities, initial mention and interpretation of names. City of Zwettl-NÖ, accessed on January 22, 2010 . Cf. Elisabeth Schuster: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names . Ed .: Association for regional studies of Lower Austria. 3 volumes, 1989, 1990, 1994. Vienna.
  6. ↑ MinMax - Locations: Quarzbruch Merzenstein. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012 ; Retrieved January 23, 2010 .
  7. ^ Yearbook of the quays. Kings Geological Reich Institute . tape 16 . Kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1866, p. 28 ( books.google.com [PDF]).