Lower Austria. Municipal structure improvement
The Lower Austria. Municipal structural improvement was a municipal reform in Lower Austria in the years from 1965 until the 1970s that the municipality merger aimed from small communities to large communities. Within a few years, the number of municipalities in Lower Austria was reduced from 1652 to 559. From the 1980s, individual amalgamations were reversed, so that there are currently 573 municipalities in Lower Austria.
history
A large part of the Lower Austrian municipalities, 1363 from 1652, had fewer than 1000 inhabitants. The project of creating larger communities was carried out at the state level. In the beginning it was about voluntary mergers, in which financial advantages were promised. Subsequently, with the Municipal Structure Improvement Act 1971 of November 3, 1971, the compulsory implementation of a merger became possible.
Examples of mergers
- Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha negotiated a merger with Sarasdorf and Wilfleinsdorf in 1965 , but the project failed due to resistance from Wilfleinsdorf. On August 6, 1965, the municipal council decided to merge with Sarasdorf. The state government approved this on September 26, 1967 on January 1, 1968. With the Lower Austria. Municipal Structure Improvement Act 1971 it was decreed that the municipality of Trautmannsdorf-Sarasdorf would merge with the municipalities of Gallbrunn and Stixneusiedl on January 1st, 1972. Wilfleinsdorf became part of Bruck an der Leitha .
- The Texingtal community emerged in 1971 from the Texing, St. Gotthard and Plankenstein communities.
Examples of subsequent corrections and correction attempts
Parish separation requests
- 2009: A separation of Enzersdorf an der Fischa from Margarethen am Moos was rejected because Margarethen am Moos would have become too small in terms of population.
Parish separations
- On January 1, 1971, the communities of Raach am Hochgebirge and Trattenbach zu Otterthal were incorporated. On January 1st, 1985 these two communities became independent again. The reason was a finding by the Constitutional Court .
- From 1971 the communities Stratzing and Droß were united and separated again on January 1, 1993.
- Gartenbrunn was started in 1972 and separated again on December 31, 1994.
- In 1972 the market town of Hirschbach was forcibly merged with the market town of Kirchberg am Walde . Against this, a Hirschbach citizens' initiative fought back and on January 1, 1985, Hirschbach became an independent municipality again.
Web links
- Lower Austrian Municipal Structure Improvement Act 1971 on the website of Lower Austria
- Dissolution or associations of municipalities from 1945 on the Statistics Austria website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Klammer: Local politicians and local parties in Austria: an empirical study of the local elite positions in Austria's municipalities. Trainer, 2000. p. 34.
- ↑ Application with the abbreviation <NÖ. Municipal Structure Improvement Act 1971>
- ↑ The emergence of the large community of Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha trautmannsdorf-leitha.gv.at, accessed on April 28, 2019
- ↑ local prospectus Texingtal of 2012, page 2 , accessed on April 29, 2019
- ↑ Market town of Enzersdorf an der Fischa: community separation request, Office of Lower Austria. State government, May 12, 2009
- ↑ Change of community since 1945
- ↑ VfGH G29 / 83 of October 13, 1983
- ^ Ordinance on the separation of the community of Gartenbrunn on ris.bka.gv.at
- ↑ History of the market town Hirschbach hirschbach.gv.at, accessed on April 27, 2019