Obritzberg-Rust

Obritzberg-Rust is located in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 41.51 square kilometers. 18.3% of the area is forested.

Neighboring communities

In the north Wölbling and Statzendorf , in the east the town of Herzogenburg , in the south the state capital St. Pölten , in the south-west Karlstetten , in the north-west Dunkelsteinerwald ( district of Melk ).

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 25 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Angern (51)
Diendorf (44)
Double (9)
Eitzendorf (25)
Flinsdorf (69)
Fugging (93)
Greiling (56)
Grosshain (176)
Großrust (381)
Grünz (97)
Heinigstetten (25)
Hofstetten (27)
Kleinhain (157)
Kleinrust (133)
Landhausen (46)
Mittermerking (18)
Neustift (95)
Obermerking (58)
Obritzberg (325)
Pfaffing (53)
Pork (146)
Thallern (41)
Lower Merking (36)
Winzing (22)
Zagging (138)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Diendorf, Doppel, Eitzendorf, Flinsdorf, Fugging, Greiling, Großrust, Grünz, Hain, Heinigstetten, Kleinrust, Landhausen, Obermerking, Obritzberg, Pfaffing, Schweinern, Untermerking, Winzing and Zagging.

history

In the market town of Obritzberg-Rust there are numerous archaeological sites from the Late Neolithic Age ( Lengyel culture ) in the form of settlement pits, graves, pottery shards, animal bones, vessels and stone axes, as well as a burial ground and numerous finds from the Hallstatt period . Many place names and names have been preserved from the Celtic times .

In ancient times the area was part of the Roman province of Noricum .

In the year 888 a fortification was mentioned on the church hill in Obritzberg.

The Obritzberg freedom stone

1148 Obritzberg was raised to an independent parish.

In that year, the so-called “freedom stone” on the Kirchenberg Obritzberg in the immediate vicinity of the rectory was built by Heinrich II - nickname “Jasomirgott” - who granted church protection against criminal prosecution for a few days for a fee . These and other rights (but also obligations) were written down in the “ Ban taiiding der Pfarrherrschaft Obritzberg ”.

In 1850 the local community of Obritzberg was established, which was separated in 1883 into the communities of Obritzberg and Kleinrust.

In 1969 the communities were reunited as Obritzberg-Rust. In 1971 the community of Hain was incorporated. The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1987. In 2004 Obritzberg-Rust was elevated to a market town. With a unanimous resolution of the local council, the postcode was to be standardized across the community to 3123 with effect from July 1, 2013 , and street names for all localities and farmsteads introduced. Due to problems with the conversion of the Post, these changes were made for the area of the former Hain community on October 1, 2013 and for the Fugging area on April 1, 2014.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 2268 inhabitants. In 1991 the community had 2,135 inhabitants, in 1981 2106 and in 1971 2028 inhabitants.

religion

Catholic parishes:

Parish Obritzberg with parish church "zum Hl. Laurentius ", from the year 888
Parish Hain with parish church Kleinhain "To the Immaculate Conception - Immaculata " ( belonging to the Augustinian canons of Herzogenburg ). Date of origin approx. 11. – 12. Century

such as:

Free Christian Congregation - Pentecostal Church Großrust (fully recognized by law since 2013)
Catholic priests association Community of St. Joseph in Kleinhain (association under diocesan law, to be classified as conservative, there was a demonstration on Domplatz in St. Pölten in 1995 against the establishment of this branch)

Photo gallery of churches and chapels in the parish:

Kleinhain parish church
Parish church Obritzberg
Großrust village church
Fugging village chapel
Zagging village chapel

politics

Allocation of seats for the current municipal council ( municipal council election 2020 )

13

2

6th

13 2 6th

A total of 21 seats

ÖVP : 13
SPÖ : 2
Citizen list WE : 6

Daniela Engelhart has been mayor of the market town since April 19, 2017. Sandra Bogner has been Head of Office since August 1, 2012. After the municipal council election on January 26, 2020, the municipal council has the following distribution of seats with a total of 21 seats: ÖVP 13 (+2), SPÖ 2 (−1), citizen list WIR 6 (−1).

Parish council

At the constituent meeting of the community council on February 13, 2020, the community board was elected:

Vice Mayor Franz Hirschböck (ÖVP)
Siegfried Binder (ÖVP)
Franz Schalhas (WE)
Lena Stöger (ÖVP)
Jürgen Huber (ÖVP)

Honorary citizen

Former LH Erwin Pröll
Former Mayor Franz Lahmer

Municipal coat of arms

Blazon : The municipal coat of arms shows a red armored black lion in the split escutcheon in front (right) in gold; in the back of the coat of arms (left) five black bars on a gold background.

Explanation: The lion represents the Salzburg lion and refers to the ownership of the Salzburg bishopric , documented in its “chamber books” from the 13th century. The black bars on a gold background symbolize the manorial foundation of the parish Obritzberg by the Kuenringers in the middle of the 13th century The Lower Austrian state government granted the right to use the municipal coat of arms on May 12, 1987.

Community colors

The colors of the municipal flag, which can be derived from the municipal coat of arms, are yellow and black.

Community logo

In 2016, a community logo was presented that is generally available to everyone - with restrictions, it can also be adapted. It was designed by three students from the NDU . With the three first letters of the former old communities "O" britzberg, "R" ust and "H" ain, it depicts a landscape with a sun; Avenir Next Condensed Demi Bold was specified as the font.

Community institutions

Community center Obritzberg
Großrust elementary school
NÖ Landes-Kindergarten Großrust (4 groups, start-up in September 2010, inauguration on October 20, 2010)
Recycling center and building yard in Schweinern
Arzthaus Kleinrust (with medical practice, fire station and four residential units - general renovation 2009/10)
"House of Community" (multi-purpose building and fire station Hain-Zagging, opened on Oct. 22, 2017)

former community institutions

Landeskindergarten Obritzberg (sale of the building in September 2010 to the ZI office "Radlegger-Kral")
Amtshaus Hain (sale of the building on July 1, 2011 to the Hiegesberger family "Greiling 5")
Landeskindergarten Kleinhain (used as a kindergarten from 1977 until the end of August 2010, from July 1, 2011 used as the Hain official building - sold in summer 2017)

Culture and sights

The double-sided Madonna in the parish church Kleinhain (Lower Austria) - before the restoration in 2015

Freedom stone Obritzberg : 1148 - by Heinrich II "Jasomirgott"
Schoenstatt -Marienstein south of the Obritzberg church square: erected by the Schoenstatt family in 1975 for the 30th anniversary of the end of the war
1. Austrian "Eheweg" - a circular hiking trail (3.5 km) with 7 themed stations, start & finish at Kirchenplatz Obritzberg
Double-sided Madonna and Child in the parish church of Hain : the roots of this statue probably go back to the pre-Christian and pre-Roman times, they are probably to be found in the Celtic times (Expertise Prof. Wilhelm Cerveny - Vienna)
Former Zagging Castle - only the moat is left
Pfarrhof Hain (1784 by master builder Josef List)
Branch church Großrust “Hl. Georg "extended from the 13th century.
"Pfaffenstöckl" - historical building in Hain
Cellar lane ensembles, especially in Zagging, Hain, Kleinrust-Fugging
Zagging Chapel (originally a Russian Orthodox wooden chapel), was built by the prisoners of war of the First World War and dismantled from the abandoned Spratzern prison camp in 1922.

Idyllic spot in the basement lane Zagging
The basement lane zagging in autumn
The "small cellars" near Kleinhain, Lower Austria
The Kellergasse Fugging in winter

music

Musikverein Hain (brass band - chairman: Erich Engelhart). 2009 from the Hain music band - first performance on November 21, 1921 / founder: Josef Hornek (teacher) - founded.
Youth brass band Fladnitztal - JBK (chairman: Christian Müllner). Established in 1990. Merger of the three communities Obritzberg-Rust, Wölbling and Statzendorf.
Choirs & Ensembles: Obritzberg Church Choir, Hain Church Choir, Project Choir, Ephata

Regular events

Fugging Kirtag and Harvest Festival Hain: 1st Sunday in October
Kirtag Kleinrust (around August 19: St. Sebald )
Georg-Kirtag in Großrust: Sunday around the Georgsfest (April 23)
ÖKB Hain basement festival zagging: beginning of May
Western party of the Landjugend Hain: 1st Saturday in August
Raising the maypole on April 30th (in several locations)
Rustic party of the rural youth Rust: last Saturday in September

Culinary specialties

The market town of Obritzberg-Rust is known across regional borders for the large number of taverns and wine taverns. Member of the “Lower Austria Wine Route” - Traisental region

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 83 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings 166 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2010 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 1212. The 2010 employment rate was 54.7%.

The market municipality is a “ climate alliance and soil alliance municipality ”, a member of the LEADER + region “Traisental-Donauland-Tullnerfeld” or in the period 2014-2020 in the extended region “Danube - Lower Lower Austria” and of the “Regional Development Association Lower Lower Austria ”.

Fiber optic pilot community in Lower Austria

To support the local businesses, but also for all community citizens, an optical fiber project with the laying of empty piping was started in 2013 , the first connections were activated in October 2015, and all community citizens should be able to connect to the fiber optic cable by 2017 at the latest. At the meeting of the municipal council on June 23, 2015, the company "open-net" was decided as the network operator. This is a pilot project that is intensively supervised and supported by the state of Lower Austria, and which is the first to apply the 3-step model, which is also recommended by the EU Commission; the basic “bandwidth” per connection is 50 Mbit / sec and is unlimited, the official commissioning took place on November 18, 2015 by LR Stephan Pernkopf . At the end of October 2016, more than 160 households already had an active fiber optic connection.

Wastewater treatment

A decade-long effort to decentralized wastewater treatment failed because of the funding legislation. The market town Obritzberg-Rust was to obtain the appropriate financial assistance, thus forced to connect to the Association collector, the sewage to the wastewater treatment plant after Traismauer supplies, from the spring of 2016, every house is properly disposed of in the community.

Sewage cooperatives

Some localities opposed this step by founding independent sewage cooperatives, each with its own sewer system and sewage treatment plant:

AWG Eitzendorf
AWG Kleinrust
AWG Hain (with Kleinhain, Angern and Großhain)
AWG Diendorf
AWG zagging

At the end of 2011, the last of these cooperatives (from 50 to 500 PE ) will be approved under water law. These cooperatives had to finance the establishment exclusively from their own funds and were the only ones in Austria to receive no funding whatsoever.

Fladnitztal cycle path

The Fladnitztal-Radweg (also Fladnitztal-Radroute) leads as a circular route through the communities Obritzberg-Rust, Statzendorf, Wölbling and Karlstetten and is manageable even for inexperienced cyclists. Since 2014 there has also been an official connection to the Danube cycle path via Paudorf and a connection to the Traisental cycle path via the city of St. Pölten cycle path .

1. Austria's “marriage path”

On June 28, 2015, Austria's first “marriage path” was blessed by Bishop Klaus Küng in Obritzberg. This is a circular hiking trail with a length of almost 3 km, start and finish at Kirchenplatz Obritzberg, seven artistically designed stations accompany the way. The reason for the establishment was the end of the war 70 years ago at this point, as well as the 40th anniversary of the Schoenstatt Marienstein.

Wind energy generation

"Hoher Kölbling" wind farm

Since summer 2006, 13 Enercon E70s , each with an output of 2000 kW, have been generating renewable energy. These are operated by EVN-Naturkraft and are divided into three wind parks:

WP Schauerberg with two lifts (Gde. Statzendorf)
WP Hoher Kölbling with six lifts (three each in Gde. Statzendorf and Gde. Obritzberg-Rust)
WP Kleinhain (five plants, Gde. Obritzberg-Rust).

The average annual generation of all 13 systems supplies around 13,000 households with electricity and is fed into the 110 kV network of EVN . In September 2016, as part of the “LJ project marathon”, the Landjugend Hain created a “www” wind hiking trail - a 7.5 km circular route, with information about the wind farm at an information point.

Others

Children's aid project "DIMBALE.com - benefits for kids": Xaver Lahmer and his friend Willi Triml walked 5517 kilometers from Lower Austria from April to November 2008 under the motto "Path of friendship - from house to house - from friend to friend" small village in Senegal, West Africa. This was also the official start of DIMBALE, founded in January 2008. With the proceeds from the donations from the lectures, which started in April 2009, the steadily growing team began to implement aid projects for children in need in Senegal. The fact that 100% of private donations go to projects - u. a. Building new houses, buying food, financing school costs - investing. All DIMBALE members do voluntary work, as do the local employees in Senegal. This is probably one of the reasons why more and more companies and schools are supporting this project.

Voluntary fire brigades

As of 2016, there will be five volunteer fire brigades in the municipality :

FF Hain-Zagging (founded in 1881, until Nov. 2015 "FF Hain". FF Zagging from 1912 branch of FF Hain, from 1953 independent fire brigade, from 10 January 2016 by merger part of FF Hain-Zagging)
FF Großrust-Merking (founded 1898)
FF Kleinrust-Fugging (founded 1898)
FF Obritzberg (founded 1892)
FF Schweinern (from 1927 as a branch of FF Obritzberg, from 1968 independent fire brigade)

On January 15, 2012 (FF Zagging) and 29 January 2012 (FF Hain), the future merger of the two fire departments on the basis of the construction of a joint fire station was decided by a narrow majority. On February 11, 2014, a large majority (55 yes to 25 no, 1 invalid vote) decided on the further implementation of the new building project at the new location in a secret ballot. This marked the beginning of the conception of the project, which was presented to the municipal council by the fire department planning group on June 23, 2015; After the approval of the financing concept, the merger was implemented on January 10, 2016, the groundbreaking took place on April 1, 2016, construction work started on May 9, 2016, the opening of the "House of Community" took place on October 22, 2017, It is known nationwide both for the voluntary merger of the fire brigade and for the cross-functional planning and use for all clubs and is the destination of excursions.

societies

Dorfleben Doppel-Neustift-Hofstetten (Village Renewal Association)
Village renewal association Hain-Zagging "From A to Z"
Country youth grove
Country youth Rust
Union (with individual sections)
Beekeeping Association
ÖKB grove
ÖKB Obritzberg-Rust
Catholic educational institute Hain
Catholic education center Obritzberg-Rust
Hobby football: Hainer Haie / Hain-United / FC Hell
Church choir grove
Church choir Obritzberg
Senior Citizens' Association Obritzberg-Rust-Hain (ÖVP)
Farmers Association with local groups Obritzberg-Rust and Hain (ÖVP)
JVP Obritzberg-Rust-Hain (ÖVP)
SPÖ team future for Obritzberg-Rust-Hain

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Ordinance on the introduction of street names and changes to house numbers in the entire municipality of March 12, 2013
↑ Welcome to the homepage of the parish Obritzberg! Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
^ Parish Hain. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
↑ Website of the Free Christian Community of Großrust
^ Website of the community of St. Joseph
^ Community logo on the website of the community Obritzberg-Rust. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
↑ community logo on www.obritzberg.info (with download option). Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
^ Regional association of Lower Austria-Center. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
↑ Article on "www.obritzberg.info". Retrieved January 18, 2016 .
^ Lower Austria press service. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .
↑ Article on the MGde website. Obritzberg: Award for cycle path connection. Retrieved April 25, 2014 .
^ NÖN, edition Herzogenburg-Traismauer, KW 26. Accessed on June 27, 2015 .
↑ evn naturkraft GmbH - start. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
↑ DIMBALE.com - benefits for kids. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
↑ FF Hain-Zagging website
↑ Volunteer Fire United Rust - merking. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
^ Obritzberg volunteer fire brigade. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .
↑ FF joint project on "www.obritzberg.info". Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
↑ FF house new on the FF Hain-Zagging website. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Obritzberg-Rust - Collection of images, videos and audio files

31930 - Obritzberg-Rust. Community data, Statistics Austria .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Ordinance on the introduction of street names and changes to house numbers in the entire municipality of March 12, 2013

[3] Welcome to the homepage of the parish Obritzberg! Retrieved May 6, 2019 .

[4] Parish Hain. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .

[5] Website of the Free Christian Community of Großrust

[6] Website of the community of St. Joseph

[7] Community logo on the website of the community Obritzberg-Rust. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .

[8] community logo on www.obritzberg.info (with download option). Retrieved April 10, 2016 .

[9] Regional association of Lower Austria-Center. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .

[10] Article on "www.obritzberg.info". Retrieved January 18, 2016 .

[11] Lower Austria press service. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .

[12] Article on the MGde website. Obritzberg: Award for cycle path connection. Retrieved April 25, 2014 .

[13] NÖN, edition Herzogenburg-Traismauer, KW 26. Accessed on June 27, 2015 .

[14] evn naturkraft GmbH - start. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .

[15] DIMBALE.com - benefits for kids. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .

[16] FF Hain-Zagging website

[17] Volunteer Fire United Rust - merking. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .

[18] Obritzberg volunteer fire brigade. Retrieved December 15, 2015 .

[19] FF joint project on "www.obritzberg.info". Retrieved May 6, 2019 .

[20] FF house new on the FF Hain-Zagging website. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .