Pernitz

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 .

Later under the Romans, today's Pernitz was then in the province of Pannonia .

The name comes from perenica , which means a stream that is worked on with glowing coals . This name comes from Slavic . Celts were already in this place before the Slavs .

The place is mentioned for the first time in the Falkensteiner Codex in 1165 . The place was bought in 1632 by Count Hoyos , which made the place up. Setbacks, however, were the plague in 1679 and soon afterwards the second Turkish siege in 1683.

In 1828 the road was built over the neck into the Triestingtal , in 1877 the Gutensteinerbahn or Piestingtalbahn. This represented further progress, as did the construction of a high spring aqueduct in 1904 and electrification in 1908.

At the end of the Feichtenbach valley is the former Wienerwald sanatorium , which was founded in 1904 , originally a pulmonary hospital that was used as a Lebensborn home in the Third Reich . After a renovation by Franz Mörth, the building became the ÖGB home “ Karl Maisel der Metall- und Bergarbeiter” from 1952 until the 1980s , later a rest home for the health insurance company and finally the “Hotel Feichtenbach”. The architecturally interesting building has not been in use since 2002.

Pernitz was made a market on July 16, 1961.

Population development

religion

According to the 2001 census data , 64.4% of the population are Roman Catholic and 4.2% Protestant . 9.2% are Muslims , 1.4% belong to Orthodox churches . 18.4% of the population have no religious denomination.

politics

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The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP, and 2 FPÖ.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 3 FPÖ.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ, and 1 Pernitz citizens' list.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, and 2 LWP.

In 2006 the municipal council had no quorum due to the resignation of the ÖVP and LWP (list “Wir Pernitzer”). In the municipal council election in April 2006, which was brought forward for this reason, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 4 Rupprecht list, and 3 LWP.

With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 3 LWP list, 1 SBR list, and 1 Greens.

With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 5 List Wir Pernitzer, 5 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ, and 1 Greens. After the municipal council election, the ÖVP and SPÖ agreed on a coalition. At the constituent municipal council meeting on February 23, Hubert Postiasi (ÖVP) was elected mayor and Christine Scheibenreif (SPÖ) was elected vice mayor

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 5 list UP-SPÖ, 3 Greens, 3 list WITH each other, 2 list We Pernitzer. At the constituent municipal council meeting on March 9, 2020, Hubert Postiasi (ÖVP) was elected mayor and Markus Panzenböck (Greens) was elected deputy mayor. Lukas Brodtrager (UP-SPÖ), Johanna Gruber (ÖVP) and Johanna Bayer (ÖVP) as well as Erich Panzenböck (list with each other) were elected to the community council.

mayor

until May 9, 1945 Josef Sumasgutner
1945–1945 Hans Mayer, term of office from 9 to 30 May 1945
1945–1946 Franz Lenz
1946–1947 Franz Moderegger
1947–1974 Julius Berger (SPÖ)
1974–1984 Johann Federsel (SPÖ)
1984–1994 Walter Wastl (SPÖ)
1994-2005 Frieda Rauchegger (SPÖ)
2005-2006 Silvia Rupprecht (SPÖ)
2006–2013 Rudolf Postl (ÖVP)
since 2013 Hubert Postiasi (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Pernitz

The "Luckerte Stein" in Pernitz

The Roman Catholic parish church in Pernitz is dedicated to St. Nicholas . The hexagonal component with the main room was built from 1969 to 1970 according to plans by the architect Georg Lippert . A side chapel is attached to it, which consists of the Gothic choir of the previous building.

The well-known limestone formation "Luckerter Stein" is located on a hill north of the village.

economy

The economy of Pernitz is mainly characterized by an agricultural and small-scale business structure, but is also of national industrial importance due to the paper mill located in the Ortmann district (formerly owned by the Bunzl Group, today Essity ).

Due to the diverse range of leisure and cultural activities, Pernitz is also a popular tourist destination.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Bruno Ertler (1889–1927), Austrian writer
Stefan Pauer (1922–2011), alpinist
Reinhard Mürle (* 1939), member of the state parliament
Herbert Zeman (* 1940), Austrian literary and linguist, former director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna
Heinrich Wefelscheid (1941–2020), mathematician
Hermann Reichert (* 1944), Austrian philologist, Scandinavian and Germanist
Rainer Schlagbauer (* 1949), former Austrian soccer player
Adolf Michel (* 1952), writer and cabaret artist
Christine Pellikan (* 1957), Austrian visual artist

People related to the community

Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), Austrian actor and playwright

John Bunzl (* 1945), Austrian political scientist, Middle East expert and sociologist

Petra Gamper-Wleczek (* 1966), four-time World Cup winner in the skibob

Historical maps

Pernitz and its surroundings around 1872 (recording sheets of the regional survey )
Local area of Pernitz and the Piestingtal with the road over the neck
West of Pernitz with Muggendorf, Gutenstein and the Myra Falls
In the north is the Steinwandgraben towards Triestingtal