Harbach mud bath

Harbach mud bath
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Gmuend
License plate :	GD
Main town :	Harbach
Surface:	35.54 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 43 '  N , 14 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '33 "  N , 14 ° 47' 52"  E
Height :	683  m above sea level A.
Residents :	734 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3970
Area code :	02858
Community code :	3 09 13
Address of the municipal administration:	Harbach mud bath 22 3970 Harbach mud bath
Website:	www.moorbad-harbach.gv.at
politics
Mayoress :	Margit Göll ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	15th 15th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 15
Location of Moorbad Harbach in the Gmünd district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Moorbad Harbach is a municipality with 734 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria .

geography

The municipal area has a size of 35.51 km² and is located in northwestern Lower Austria, in the western Waldviertel , in the administrative district of Gmünd. The north-western part of the municipality is delimited from the Czech Republic by a 13.5 km long state border. This border runs through almost exclusively high forest area. 68.33 percent of the community area is forested.

Moorbad Harbach is located in the middle of a valley delimited in the south by the 1017  m high Nebelstein and in the north by the 874 m high Mandlstein .

The individual cadastral communities have very different altitude values. The lowest is the village of Wultschau at 631 m above sea level, followed by Harbach at 683 m, Lauterbach 703 m, Maißen 720 m and Hirschenwies 825 m.

Community structure

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

• Harbach (163)
• Hirschenwies (118) including heaven and forest houses
• Lauterbach (196) including ditch and wood mill
• Maißen (113)
• Schwarzau (7)
• Wultschau (137)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Harbach, Hirschenwies, Lauterbach and Wultschau.

With the Lower Austria. In 1971, the two cadastral communities of Harbach and Wultschau merged voluntarily to form the municipality of Harbach, and in 1972 the cadastral communities of Harbach, Hirschenwies, Maißen, Lauterbach and Wultschau were merged to form the greater municipality of Harbach.

Neighboring communities

Nové Hrady (CZ)	Unserfrau-Altweitra
Horní Stropnice (CZ)		Weitra
	St. Martin

history

With the establishment of the sanatorium, the community was renamed Moorbad Harbach.

coat of arms

In 1999, the Lower Austrian provincial government awarded the municipality of Moorbad Harbach the municipal coat of arms described below:

In gold on a green hill, in it a silver wavy bar, a black bowl on a granite base, a stylized, three-leaved green bog plant growing out of the bowl.

Population development

After a sharp decline in population from 1910 to 1981, it has since stabilized.

politics

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 and 7 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 4 UBL-independent citizen list Moorbad Harbach and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 3 UBL-independent citizen list Moorbad Harbach.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 2 UBL-independent citizen list Moorbad Harbach.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP.

mayor

• until 2005 Maximilian Aspelmayr
• 2005–2010 Gerhard Pichler
• since 2010 Margit Göll (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Harbach parish church

Rectory

See also:  List of listed objects in Moorbad Harbach

• Catholic parish church Harbach hl. John the Baptist
• Xundwärts Parcours - “The joy of movement in the motor skills park” in the Hirschenwies district
• Themed hiking trail "My way to happiness"
• "Garden of Human Rights" in the Lauterbach district
• Stone spiral "Milestone of Peace" at the border crossing to the Czech Republic
• Mandlstein
• Fog stone

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  Stone spiral "Milestone of Peace"

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  Garden of Human Rights

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  Mandlstein viewing platform

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  Summit cross on the Nebelstein

economy

There are 84 agricultural and forestry businesses in the municipality, 21 of which are full-time businesses (as of 2010). Ten factories employ eighteen people in the manufacturing sector. The strongly developed service sector employs 510 people in 46 companies, more than three quarters in the hotel and catering sector (as of 2011).

The most important employer is the health and rehabilitation center Moorheilbad Harbach. This is also reflected in the number of overnight stays: Moorbad Harbach has around 20,000 overnight stays per month.

traffic

• Bus: Moorbad Harbach can be reached by bus routes 759 and 1360 from Gmünd and Weitra.

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in the community.

Web links

Commons : Moorbad Harbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 30913 - Harbach mud bath. Community data, Statistics Austria .

• Website of the municipality of Moorbad Harbach
• Hiking village Moorbad Harbach on Waldviertel.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Moorbad Harbach now has its own municipal coat of arms. In: ots.at. July 10, 1999, accessed December 2, 2018 . 
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Moorbad Harbach, population development. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
4. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Moorbad Harbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
5. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Moorbad Harbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Moorbad Harbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Moorbad Harbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Moorbad Harbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 28, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Moorbad Harbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
10. ↑ [1]
11. ↑ [2]
12. ↑ Garden of Human Rights
13. ↑ Milestone of Peace (PDF)
14. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Moorbad Harbach, agricultural and forestry operations. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
15. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Moorbad Harbach, workplaces. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
16. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Moorbad Harbach, employees. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
17. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Moorbad Harbach, overnight stays. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region, Timetable Moorbad Harbach. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
19. ^ Community of Moorbad Harbach, Citizen Service, Education. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .