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Basic data | ||
Country: | Austria | |
State : | Lower Austria | |
Political District : | Wiener Neustadt-Land | |
License plate : | WB | |
Main town : | Maiersdorf | |
Surface: | 24.64 km² | |
Coordinates : | 47 ° 50 ' N , 16 ° 3' E | |
Height : | 450 m above sea level A. | |
Residents : | 1,402 (January 1, 2020) | |
Population density : | 57 inhabitants per km² | |
Postal code : | 2724 | |
Area code : | 02638 | |
Community code : | 3 23 11 | |
NUTS region | AT122 | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Local road 33 2724 Hohe Wand |
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politics | ||
Mayor : | Josef Laferl ( ÖVP ) | |
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members) |
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Location of Hohe Wand in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district | ||
In the foreground are the villages of Maiersdorf, Stollhof and Gaaden in the Hohe Wand community |
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria |
Hohe Wand is a community with 1402 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district in Lower Austria . It was created in 1971 from the union of the former municipalities of Maiersdorf and Stollhof.
geography
Hohe Wand is located in the industrial district in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 24.6 km². 52.98 percent of the area is forested. The Hohe Wand Nature Park is located in the municipality .
Community structure
The municipality includes the following four localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Gaaden (122)
- Maiersdorf (665)
- Netting (84)
- Stollhof (531)
The community consists of the cadastral communities Gaaden, Maiersdorf, Netting and Stollhof.
structure
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Legend for the breakdown table
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history
The Stollhof depot in the Hohe Wand community was discovered in 1864 by a shepherd at an altitude of 700–800 m above Stollhof. It is located in the Natural History Museum Vienna .
Before the birth of Christ, the area was part of the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the surroundings of the Celtic hill settlement Burg on the Schwarzenbacher Burgberg , which was the main town for the entire north-east Noricum . Later under the Romans, today's places of the municipality of Hohe Wand were then in the province of Pannonia .
- Maiersdorf
The former municipality of Maiersdorf was mentioned in a document at the foundation of the Rein monastery in 1128. During the Turkish invasions in 1529 and 1683, the population fled to the fortified church and the caves of the Hohe Wand. During the French Wars from 1805 to 1809 the place was sacked. From 1870 to 1970 Maiersdorf was an independent municipality.
Population development
religion
According to the 2001 census data , 85.7% of the population were Roman Catholic and 2.3% Protestant . 1.1% were Muslims , 0.5% belonged to Orthodox churches . 9.2% of the population had no religious denomination.
politics
The municipalities of Maiersdorf and Stollhof were merged in 1971 to form the newly founded municipality of Hohe Wand. Karl Spatling was the first joint mayor in 1971.
The municipal council has 19 members. In 1990 the members were distributed as follows: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ; until 2020 , the situation had changed: there were now 11 of the People's Party, 4 from the Independent Citizens List New, 2 Green, one from the Social Democratic Party and one from the Freedom Party.
- mayor
- Stollhof
- 1945–1948 Matthäus Binner
- 1949–1954 Matthäus Spätling
- 1955–1958 Fraz Karl
- 1959–1970 Franz Zierhofer
- Maiersdorf
- 1945–1947 Julius Hagen
- 1947–1955 Franz Fink
- 1955–1970 Karl Spatling
- High wall
- 1971–1980 Karl Spatling
- 1980–2005 Heinrich Spatling (ÖVP)
- since 2005 Josef Laferl (ÖVP)
Culture and sights
Parish church Maiersdorf
The fortified church , visible from afar , was built on a rock terrace in front of the Hohe Wand and is surrounded by the cemetery. The sacred building is a Romanesque hall church from the 12th century and St. Consecrated to John. Since it was a defensive refuge, the nave was increased by one storey in the 14th century. Maiersdorf was a branch of the mother parish Muthmannsdorf until 1783; in the year it was raised to the independent parish and first by the landlord (the Neukloster in Wiener Neustadt) and since 1881 by priests from the Stift Heiligenkreuz care.
Engelbertkirche Hohe Wand
Built in 1934/35 as a religious monument of the Fatherland Front for the murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss .
economy
There were 53 non-agricultural workplaces in 2001, agricultural and forestry operations 71 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 613. In 2001, the activity rate was 47.52 percent.
Infrastructure
- The Red Cross has a local office in Maiersdorf.
- There are volunteer fire brigades in Maiersdorf, in Netting and in Stollhof.
- A new community center with community office, mountain rescue and fire brigade is being built in Maiersdorf based on a design by the Hrabal architectural office.
The municipality on the mountain range that gave it its name (top right), around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey ).
Web links
- 32311 - high wall. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Karl Baumgartner: High wall . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . 2nd Edition. Lower Austria. Verlag GesmbH, Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 84 .
- ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Hohe Wand. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ^ Karl Baumgartner: High wall . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . 2nd Edition. Lower Austria. Verlag GesmbH, Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 79 .
- ↑ Dehio, Lower Austria south of the Danube , (Horn 2003), pp. 1257–1259.