Pfaffstätten

Pfaffstätten is located in the industrial district in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 7.81 square kilometers. 35.55 percent of the area is forested. The highest point is the Pfaffstättner Kogel in the Anninger massif .

Districts are desert and Pfaffstätten. The well-known wine village is located directly on the Thermenlinie , the district of Pfaffstätten is in the flat part of the municipality, while the district of Einöde is already in the Vienna Woods .

Community structure

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

Wasteland (93)
Pfaffstätten (3496)

The community consists of the cadastral parish Pfaffstätten.

Gaaden	Gumpoldskirchen
Heiligenkreuz		Traiskirchen
	to bathe

history

Pfaffstätten has been associated with viticulture since its historical beginnings. A description of the boundaries of the original parish of Traiskirchen, which refers to the year 1060, names the north-western boundary up from Mödling between vineyards to the Lindkogel . The origins of the place are certainly in the grain farms - such as the farm of the Rohrer family from Baden, which later became the rectory - whose grain was ground in the mills of the Mühlbach (e.g. the farmer's mill in Tribuswinkel).

The first documented mention of Pfaffstätt is related to viticulture: A knight Margrave Leopold the Holy named Bopo - he belongs to a family that owned Sittendorf, later Burg Wildegg - donated a vineyard in Pfaffstätten to Klosterneuburg Monastery in 1120/30 . Pfaffstätten also owes its name to the Klosterneuburg monastery, the “place of the priests”: subjects of priests lived here, by no means negatively speaking: they were secular clergy who were engaged in proselytizing, pastoral care and cultivation of the areas of the Vienna Woods that were repossessed by the Magyars and to the east assumed of it.

Since the foundation of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1133, the development of Pfaffstatt has been linked to the Vienna Woods Monastery, but other monasteries also valued the wine-growing region: the monasteries Gaming , Mauerbach , Kleinmariazell , Melk , Lilienfeld and Heiligenkreuz had and still have property in the wine-growing community. Melk had a special influence because the mother parish of Traiskirchen belonged to this abbey.

Catholic parish church of Pfaffstätten

The parish church was built in the 12th century; the settlement was raised to a parish in 1535 and became a property of Heiligenkreuz in 1538; the proximity to Baden suggests joint pastoral care. Only three local residents are said to have survived the Turkish invasion of 1683. In the era of Josephinism , Pfaffstätten was raised to a parish again in 1783, this time as a separate entity from Baden.

Population development

census	Residents
2011	3,411
2008	3,188
2006	3,077
2001	3,031
1991	2,461
1981	2,449
1971	2,603

Source: population development of Pfaffstätten. (PDF) Statistics Austria

politics

Mayor of the market town is Christoph Kainz, head of the office Reinhard Henschl. With a total of 23 seats, there is the following distribution of mandates in the municipal council: ÖVP 17, Greens 4 and SPÖ 2.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 118 non-agricultural workplaces; according to the 1999 survey, there were 57 agricultural and forestry holdings. According to the 2001 census, 1119 people were employed at the place of residence. The employment rate in 2001 was 45.27 percent. On average in 2003 there were 8 unemployed people in the area.

traffic

Pfaffstätten is on the southern runway . The S-Bahn lines S3 and S4 stop at Pfaffstätten station . This results in half-hourly intervals in the direction of Vienna during the week and hourly intervals on the weekend.

Culture and sights

Please refer:

List of listed objects in Pfaffstätten

Personalities

Honorary citizen:

Johann Hösl, former mayor
Anton Hofmann, co-founder of the Musikverein and composer

Sons of the city:

Urban Sagstetter (1529–1573), Bishop of Gurk and administrator of the Archdiocese of Vienna
Michael Schnabel (1607–1658), Abbot of Heiligenkreuz
Bernhard Hans Breil (1609–1683), abbot of Neukloster Abbey and Baumgartenberg Abbey

Others

Gertraud Klemm (* 1971), writer who lives in Pfaffstätten.
Peter Meissner (* 1953), author and cabaret artist

Town twinning

GermanyMarket town of Hörstein , Lower Franconia (D). Community partnership since 1971

literature

Karl Buchegger, Anton Knopp: Pfaffstättner Heimatbuch . (1st part: Karl Buchegger: The Chronicle of Pfaffstätten . 2nd part: Anton Knopp: The home book of Pfaffstätten ). Self-published, Pfaffstätten 1952.
Petrus Hübner (ed.): 450 years Pfaffstätten parish 1538–1988 . Festschrift . Catholic parish office, Pfaffstätten 1988.

Web links

Commons : Pfaffstätten - collection of images, videos and audio files

30625 - Pfaffstätten. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Local History Association

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Heimatkundeverein: local history http://web.utanet.at/kacerovg/
↑ Dehio, Lower Austria south of the Danube , (Horn 2003), pp. 1677–1680.
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Pfaffstätten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 6, 2020 .

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

[2] Heimatkundeverein: local history http://web.utanet.at/kacerovg/

[3] Dehio, Lower Austria south of the Danube , (Horn 2003), pp. 1677–1680.

[NÖGrw2020_30625-4] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Pfaffstätten. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 6, 2020 .