Angern on the March

market community Angern on the March
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Gänserndorf
License plate :	GF
Surface:	38.22 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 23 '  N , 16 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '0 "  N , 16 ° 50' 0"  E
Height :	154  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,417 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2261
Area code :	02283
Community code :	3 08 03
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnstrasse 5 2261 Angern ad March
Website:	www.angern.at
politics
Mayor :	Robert Meißl ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (23 members)	19th 4th 19th 4th  A total of 23 seats SPÖ : 19 ÖVP : 4
Location of Angern an der March in the Gänserndorf district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Angern an der March is a market town with 3417 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria .

geography

Stillfried (bottom left, land view ) with information on military accommodations (900 men and 40 horses, far right) and the March around 1873

The March plain east of Stillfried, then the Kingdom of Hungary, then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia, could be reached via several ferries and bridges.

The municipality of Velm-Götzendorf is to the west of Stillfried.

The community is located on the northern edge of the Marchfeld and at the same time at the southern end of the Weinviertel about 40 kilometers northeast of Vienna . The border river March separates the village from Slovakia . A bridge used to connect the two countries and there has been a ferry for some years now, but this has to be closed in the event of floods - which is mostly caused by melting snow and heavy rain.

The area of ​​the market town covers 38.13 square kilometers. 13.1 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

• Angern an der March (1445)
• Grub an der March (326)
• Mannersdorf an der March , Croatia. Lean peat (487)
• Ollersdorf (799)
• Stillfried (360) (including Klein Stillfried)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Angern, Grub an der March, Mannersdorf, Ollersdorf and Stillfried .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are:

Ebenthal	Dürnkrut	Suchohrad
Prottes		Záhorská Ves
Weikendorf	Willows on the March	Vysoká pri Morave

history

Angern an der March was first mentioned in 1260 as Anger .

The market law was first mentioned in 1465 and the second time the 1819th It was re-awarded in 1970. The local Angern Castle was destroyed in 1945 and later completely demolished. Today only a small part of the wall remains as a memento. The castle and its location can be viewed in the Franziszeischen Cadastre of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1821 as the first complete real estate cadastre of Austria .

Bridge construction project

In October 2007 a referendum was held on the construction of a new bridge between Záhorská Ves and Angern. The citizens of the entire municipality of Angern were entitled to vote. 60% voted for the construction of the bridge. In the run-up, there was a violent exchange of blows between a citizens' initiative and the community (several leaflets with various allegations, allegations and counter-claims), primarily about the location of the new bridge. The originally planned start of construction in 2010 could not be kept. In another referendum in 2014, however, a majority voted against a bridge.

Population development

census	Residents
2011	3280
2001	3176
1991	2872
1981	2958
1971	3172

Source: Population development of Angern an der March. (PDF) Statistics Austria

coat of arms

Blazon : The municipal coat of arms shows on a red background covered with a silver sloping bar , a golden reaper with a sickle in her right hand and a rake in her left .

History of the coat of arms: The seal of the market from 1806 already shows such a reaper in the field of corn.

politics

The municipal council has 23 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ and 8 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ. (21 members)
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 19 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.

mayor

• until 2004 Leopold Abraham
• since 2004 Robert Meißl (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Kellergasse Kellerberg Rochusberg

See also : List of listed objects in Angern an der March  and List of cellar lanes in Angern an der March

• Catholic parish church Angern an der March To find the cross
• Catholic parish church Mannersdorf an der March hl. Agatha
• Catholic parish church Ollersdorf hl. Leonhard
• Catholic parish church Stillfried hl. George
• Museum of Prehistory and Early History Stillfried Museum in the Stillfried cadastral community; shows finds from 30,000 years of history that have been made during archaeological excavations in Stillfried and the surrounding area since 1874

economy

Warehouse in Angern

The community is characterized by agriculture and forestry. According to a survey in 1999, the number was 136. In 2001 there were 76 non-agricultural workplaces. The number of people in employment at the place of residence was 1,367. The employment rate was 44.08 percent.

traffic

Border crossing from Angern (Austria) to Slovakia

• Rail: Angern has a connection to the Northern Railway
• Road: Federal road network (B 8 / B 49)
• Border: There is a ferry service between Záhorská Ves ( Slovakia ) and Angern as a border crossing . The transport capacity is six cars including passengers.

Personalities

People related to the community

• Leopold Abraham, Mayor of Angern an der March until 2004; He became known through the Lassing mine accident in the summer of 1998, he led the rescue drilling to the eleven buried miners, of whom only one could be rescued after nine days.
• Roland Minkowitsch (1920–1986), farmer and politician (ÖVP)

literature

• Walpurga Antl-Weiser: Angern on the March - Ollersdorf - Mannersdorf - Stillfried - Grub on the March. A local history. Market town of Angern an der March (Ed.), Angern an der March 1989.
• Walpurga Antl-Weiser: Stillfried - center of prehistoric times. Stillfried 2007.
• Walpurga Antl-Weiser: Angern - Mannersdorf - Ollersdorf - Stillfried / Grub in old views. 2006.
• Leonhard Franz: Stillfried an der March. In: Series local history hikes, booklet 6 . Austrian school book publisher, Vienna 1926.

Web links

Commons : Angern an der March  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 30803 - Angern an der March. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Nikolaus Wilhelm-Stempin: The settlement area of ​​the Burgenland Croats . Ed .: Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt.
3. ^ Habsburg Monarchy - Franziszeischer Cadastre | Mapire - The portal for historical maps. Retrieved March 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Angern gets a bridge to Slovakia on ORF from October 21, 2007, accessed on December 24, 2008
5. ↑ Niederösterreichische Nachrichten: Bridge Angern will be available on September 21, 2010 at the earliest in 2014 , accessed on December 31, 2010
6. ^ Wiener Zeitung: "The iron curtain in the head" [1]
7. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Angern an der March. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Angern an der March. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
9. ^ Election results for the municipal council election 2005 in Angern an der March. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
10. ^ Election results for the municipal council election 2010 in Angern an der March. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
11. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Angern an der March. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Angern an der March. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 3, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Information evening in the OMV OMV Executive Board Director Hans-Peter Floren and the long-standing ÖIAG Supervisory Board and OMV Works Council Chairman Ing.Leopold Abraham August 20, 2013 ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ^ SPÖ-NÖ congratulates OMV operations manager in Lassing ots.at, July 27, 1998