Oberndorf (municipality of Zwettl-Lower Austria)

Oberndorf ( cadastral community , desert ) cadastral community Oberndorf
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Zwettl , Lower Austria
Judicial district	Zwettl
Pole. local community	Zwettl-Lower Austria
Locality	Oberndorf
Coordinates	48 ° 40 ′ 14 ″  N , 15 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 14 ″  N , 15 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E
Area  d. KG	4.86 km²
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	24356
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Parish Church Oberndorf (before 1911)

Wedding procession in front of the parish church Oberndorf (before 1914)

Oberndorf is a former village and former municipality in Lower Austria, which was relocated and dissolved when the Döllersheim military training area was created in 1938. Since January 1st, 1964, it has been an uninhabited cadastral municipality of the municipality of Zwettl-Niederösterreich with an area of ​​4.86 km². The village is since the dissolution deserted .

location

The street village of Oberndorf, built only on the north side, was at an altitude of about 580  m . The church, parsonage, school and inn were located on a hill about 1 km south between the village and the neighboring village of Oberplöttbach further south. The church ( ) was surrounded by the cemetery and old deciduous trees. The buildings around the church formed a striking ensemble. At the foot of the church hill was the "Brünnl", which was visited to heal eye problems.

history

Oberndorf is mentioned for the first time in 1150 in the exchange document between Bishop Konrad von Passau and Heinrich von Kamegg. A Gebehart from Oberndorf appears in 1170 in a document from Nizo von Glognice ( Großglobnitz ) as a witness. Its ownership passed to Ulrich von Schönleuthen, who handed it over to Melk Abbey in 1292 . Gerrad Gogman, a feudal man of Hadmar von Ottenstein, sold a fiefdom in Oberndorf to Zwettl Abbey before 1283 . The monastery pension book shows two fiefdoms in Oberndorf around 1320. The district court, local authority and authority over Oberndorf belonged to the Allentsteig rule until serfdom was abolished.

In 1661 Melk Abbey ceded the patronage to Joachim Freiherr von Windhag , whereupon Oberndorf was united with Großpoppen in 1662 . It only became an independent parish again under Emperor Josef II . The seat of the common pastor was in Großpoppen until 1757.

Extract from the topographical land scheme from 1795, which was used for the land registry search from 1740 to 1850:

Location:	Oberndorf OMB not far from Döllersheim
City, market, place:	a village with a parish
Houses:	24
Post station:	Zwettl
Parish:	Oberndorf
Defense district:	Grand Duke Ferdinand Tuscany
District Court:	Allentsteig
Local authority:	Allentsteig
Manorial rule:	Allentsteig, Zwettl Abbey

local community

The community included the cadastral communities Hörmanns , Oberndorf and Oberplöttbach . The village had 218 inhabitants in 1854, the community a total of 580 inhabitants.

Pilgrimage site in Oberndorf

The parish church of St. Vitus in Oberndorf dates back to the Romanesque period; the Romanesque windows in the longitudinal walls were bricked up. From 1350 the church was changed with Gothic windows and a Gothic organ gallery. Soon after 1662, Joachim Freiherr von Windhag had the “bawfall parish church in Oberndorf sambt der Fretof-Maur completely renovated and instead of the old worn-out high altar erected a new one”. In 1767 a pilgrimage to a replica of the Mariazell image of the grace of the Virgin was made in Oberndorf , Oberndorf was given the pilgrimage name "Klein Mariazell" and became a popular pilgrimage site.

The pastor moved from Großpoppen back to Oberndorf and at the end of the 18th century two cooperators had to help cope with the onslaught of pilgrims. Around 120,000 pilgrims are said to have come to Oberndorf within 13 years. The church was a popular wedding church for couples from near and far. In 1861 Oberndorf received an altar (5 × 9 shoe size) and six statues of saints 5 shoe height from the chapel of Neunzen Castle. In 1767 the choir under the tower was enlarged and the raised tower was covered with a baroque helmet.

Brünnl Chapel

In 1888 the Brünnl Chapel was built opposite the stairway to the church at the foot of the Kirchenberg and on the other side of the Plöttbach ( ). Their water was thought to be helpful against eye problems. People came from far and wide to fetch the well water.

A legend has been handed down to the Oberndorfer Brünnl:

“There was a little Brünnl there. Pilgrims always came up to the church. After mass they went down to the meadow and had a snack and drank water from the spring. This is said to have been repugnant to the owner of the property, because the pilgrims always ruined his meadow. So he relieved himself in the spring so that the water could no longer be drunk. As a result, the man is said to have gone blind. And then he made a vow that when he could see again he would build a chapel over the Brünnl. And so it was. "

- according to Margot Schindler : having to go

Dissolution of the place in 1940

800 years after its creation, the Oberndorf parish with the villages of Oberplöttbach, Perweis, Steinberg and Kühbach was wiped out by the Nazi regime because a shooting range was set up. 932 people from 180 houses in the Oberndorf parish lost their homes as a result of the forced resettlement. The official evacuation date for all places in the parish was October 1, 1939, but the Oberndorf parish was only dissolved on April 1, 1940. The parish had to be closed by Diocesan Bishop Michael Memelauer . The diocese of St. Pölten should have received a transfer for the parish. The diocese received no compensation whatsoever for the land on which the church and cemetery were located, since - just as in Großpoppen - the Windhag scholarship foundation held the patronage and the church property was obviously assigned to the foundation.

159 people from 31 houses were resettled in Oberndorf. From the entire area of ​​the military training area 6,847 people were resettled from 1,385 houses in 42 locations. The houses and the church have been abandoned and are largely devastated.

See also

• List of settlements relocated for the creation of the Döllersheim military training area

literature

• Johannes Müllner: The desecrated homeland . Ed .: Association Information Waldviertel. 2nd Edition. Waldviertel, Allentsteig 1998, ISBN 3-9500294-0-0 ( allentsteig.at [accessed on February 3, 2019]).

Web links

• Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns . Volume 3: Ober-Manhardsberg district. JB Wallishausser, Vienna 1839, p. 97-99 ( full view in Google Book Search [accessed February 2, 2019]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Topographischer Landschematismus, or Aechtes directory of all the villages in the Archduke Austria under the Ens . Second volume RZ. Anton Möstl, Krems 1795, p. 25 ( digital copy in the Google book search - ONB signature 396.990 B).
2. ↑ OMB: District above the Manhartsberg ( Waldviertel )
3. ^ Office of the k.-k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Ed.): Alphabetical directory of all places in the Crown Land of Lower Austria . Vienna 1954 ( complete view in the Google book search [accessed on February 2, 2019]).
4. ↑ image of Brünnls. 1938, Retrieved January 31, 2019 .