Persenbeug-Gottsdorf

market community

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Melk

License plate :

ME

Main town :

Persenbeug

Surface:

8.32 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 11 ' N , 15 ° 5' E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '16 " N , 15 ° 4' 47" E

Height :

230 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,174 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

261 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

3680

Area code :

07412

Community code :

3 15 30

NUTS region

AT121

Address of the
municipal administration:

Rathausplatz 1
3680 Persenbeug-Gottsdorf

Website:

www.persenbeug-gottsdorf.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Manfred Mitmasser ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : ( 2015 )
(21 members)

13

5

3

13 5 3

A total of 21 seats

SPÖ : 13
KRANZL : 5
ÖVP : 3

Location of Persenbeug-Gottsdorf in the Melk district

town hall

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Persenbeug-Gottsdorf is a market town with 2174 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Melk district in Lower Austria . It is located on the left bank of the Danube at an altitude of 222 m above sea level. A.

geography

The name of the place means "evil bend" and is derived from the dangerous rocks and water eddies in the Strudengau .

Until 1968 Persenbeug and Gottsdorf were separate communities.

Community structure

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

Gottsdorf (690)
Hagsdorf (85)
Loja (9)
Butcher (80)
Persenbow (1310)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Gottsdorf, Hagsdorf and Persenbeug.

Neighboring communities

Court Office Priel		Marbach on the Danube
		Curved nut tree
	Ybbs on the Danube

politics

The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ and 5 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ, 4 list Christa Kranzl and 2 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 5 list Christa Kranzl and 3 ÖVP.

mayor

until 2005 Adolf Riegler (SPÖ)
since 2005 Manfred Mitmasser (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Persenbeug-Gottsdorf community as seen from Maria Taferl.

Parish church Gottsdorf

Persenbeug Castle

Ybbs-Persenbeug power plant

Persenbeug Castle with the birthplace of Emperor Charles I of Austria-Hungary .
Catholic parish church Gottsdorf Hll. Peter and Paul
Catholic parish church Persenbeug Maria Queen of All Saints
Persenbeug local history museum
Ybbs-Persenbeug power plant

economy

In 2001 there were 96 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 21 according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in work at the place of residence was 958 according to the 2001 census. In 2001, the activity rate was 46.78 percent.

Sports

The SV Gottsdorf-Marbach-Persenbeug has existed since 1949.
A swimming pond with a beach volleyball court is located in Gottsdorf, near the old gravel pit.

Personalities

Anna Maria Punz (1721–1794), painter
Charles I (1887–1922), Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
Dora Kahlich-Könner (1905–1970), anthropologist
Franz Köck (1931–2015), politician
Christa Kranzl (* 1960), politician

Evil bend near Gottsdorf
1000 Schilling - the power plant at Persenbeug is shown on the back of this note

Others

During an art theft in Vienna in August 2014, two pictures of Persenbeug were stolen:

Josef Dobrowsky : Ybbs on the Danube. View of Persenbeug Castle (1929).
Emil Beischläger : Construction site at Persenbeug Castle (1955/1956). (Steam ram on the sheet pile wall for the locks)