Zwentendorf on the Danube

market community

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Tulln

License plate :

TU

Surface:

53.75 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 21 ' N , 15 ° 55' E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '33 " N , 15 ° 54' 50" E

Height :

182 m above sea level A.

Residents :

4,097 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

76 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

3435, 3454

Area code :

02277

Community code :

3 21 41

NUTS region

AT126

UN / LOCODE

AT ZDD

Address of the
municipal administration:

Rathausplatz 4
3435 Zwentendorf an der Donau

Website:

www.zwentendorf.at

politics

Mayoress :

Marion Török ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(23 members)

14th

8th

1

14th 8th 1

A total of 23 seats

SPÖ : 14
ÖVP : 8
NEOS : 1

Location of Zwentendorf an der Donau in the Tulln district

town hall

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Memorial stone for Nazi victims in the IG Farben plant in Moosbierbaum

Zwentendorf an der Donau is a market town with 4097 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Tulln district in Lower Austria . The place has become known as the location of the only nuclear power plant in Austria that has never been commissioned .

geography

Zwentendorf an der Donau is located in Tullnerfeld on the southern bank of the Danube in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 53.85 square kilometers. 37.42 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 11 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Bärndorf (108)
Buttendorf (71)
Dürnrohr (479)
Erpersdorf (1566)
Kaindorf (89)
Kleinschönbichl (114)
Maria Ponsee (113)
Oberbierbaum (213) including the Maria Ponsee bathing lake
Pischelsdorf (129)
Preuwitz (112)
Zwentendorf on the Danube (1103)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Bärndorf, Dürnrohr, Erpersdorf, Kaindorf, Kleinschönbichl, Maria Ponsee, Pischelsdorf, Preuwitz and Zwentendorf.

Neighboring communities

history

Zwentendorf was the location of the Roman fort, Piro Torto or Asturis from the 1st to the 5th century AD, but historians have not yet come to an agreement on its actual name. The settlement was about seven hectares in size and consisted of pit houses . A rare mansio , a rest stop, was also discovered during geophysical surveys carried out in 2011. However, no excavations should be carried out in this area.

After the final conquest of the Avar Empire by the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne in 803, the security and settlement of the former Roman fort began. The resulting place was now in the area of the Baierischen Ostland . It was first mentioned in a document as "Zewentendorf" in 1147. The pilgrimage church Maria Ponsee was built from a 12th century chapel. Around 1420 it was expanded with a three-bay aisle and ribbed vaults. From 1716 to 1726 the church was enlarged and redesigned in Baroque style according to plans by Jakob Prandtauer . In 1529 and 1683, mounted Turkish troops caused great damage and devastation in the community.

In 1917 the Skoda-Wetzler AG powder factory was built near Moosbierbaum . Romanian prisoners of war deployed here and deceased were buried in the so-called Romanian cemetery. During the Second World War , the industrial site was expanded to become the Moosbierbaum hydrogenation plant and an oil refinery . Before the end of the war, the refinery and the Tullnerfeld were hit by more than 40,000 bombs. Large numbers of prisoners of war, civilian slave laborers, political prisoners and Hungarian Jews were forced to work here. They succeeded in making contacts with the population, which were betrayed in January 1945. Of around 200 arrested people - including locals - over 120 were brought to Mauthausen concentration camp. Seven people died there as a result of the conditions in which they were detained, and 40 more were murdered on April 27, 1945. A memorial stone in the Zwentendorf cemetery commemorates them.

The refinery was rebuilt during the Soviet occupation and remained in operation until 1961. On January 1, 1971, the former community of Maria Ponsee was incorporated into Zwentendorf. On July 30, 1983, the community of Zwentendorf was granted market rights and it also got its own coat of arms .

Zwentendorf has had a partnership with the Czech city of Břeclav since 1988 . The place became famous for the only commercial nuclear power plant in Austria, the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant , which was built here, but which was prevented from starting up by a referendum on November 5, 1978. A narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the commissioning .

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census , there were 3715 inhabitants. In 1991 the market town had 3280 inhabitants, in 1981 3170 and in 1971 3123 inhabitants.

Population development:

year	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1923	1934	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2018
Residents	2562	2624	2585	2529	2782	2772	2945	3079	3123	3123	3170	3280	3715	3955	3982

politics

The municipal council has 23 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 8 ÖVP and 2 others.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 8 ÖVP, 1 FPÖ and 1 KLS-Horst Pilhofer.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ and 1 KLS-Horst Pilhofer.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 1 FPÖ and 1 KLS – Horst Pilhofer.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 1 FPÖ and 1 NEOS.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 8 ÖVP and 1 NEOS.

mayor

Josef Mohnl
until 2019: Hermann Kühtreiber (SPÖ)
since 2019: Marion Török (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Roman Catholic Parish church hl. Stephan

economy

Dürnrohr power plant

Zwentendorf nuclear power plant

In 2001 there were 112 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 85 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 1,729. In 2001, the employment rate was 47.59 percent.

In Zwentendorf are

the Dürnrohr power plant (1986) and connected to it the
Dürnrohr waste incineration plant
The GK Dürnrohr on the site of the substation Dürnrohr (1983, 1996 decommissioned) with a transmission capacity of 550 megawatts at a DC voltage of 145 kV. Until 1996, this system was used to exchange energy with Czechoslovakia (from 1993 the Czech Republic ) via a 380 kV three-phase overhead line leading from the HVDC close coupling Dürnrohr to the Slavětice substation (position: 48 ° 19 ′ 28 ″ N , 15 ° 55 ′ 30 ″ E )48.324444444444 15.925

Donau Chemie has an important chemical company in Pischelsdorf . The first is also in the same location

Austria's bioethanol plant . The plant operated by the Agrana company produces up to 240,000 t of bioethanol annually and is supplied by EVN heat with steam for the refining process.

the new middle school Zwentendorf the same opposite

the adult education center Zwentendorf.

Personalities

Gundacker von Althan (1665–1747), general, diplomat and court building director
Hans Brachmann (1891–1969), politician, mayor of Zwentendorf
Günther Chaloupek (* 1947), economist
Hans Kellner (1929–2005), politician, Vice Mayor of Zwentendorf
Josef Mohnl (1945–1991), politician, mayor of Zwentendorf

literature

Anton Handelsberger: Chronicle of the market town Zwentendorf. 1994.
Market community Zwentendorf on the Danube (ed.): Zwentendorfer Heimatbuch. 2010.

Web links

Commons : Zwentendorf an der Donau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

32141 - Zwentendorf on the Danube. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Official website of the market town of Zwentendorf

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ Roman settlement under Acker discovered on ORF November 16, 2011, accessed on November 16, 2011.

^ Hans Krawarik: settlement history of Austria: settlement beginnings, settlement types, settlement genesis , Verlag Lit, 2006, p. 126f

↑ http://rote-spuren.gpa-djp.at/2015/04/12/der-rumaenenfriedhof-in-zwentendorf/

↑ http://www.doew.at/cms/download/fdth1/2_tulln.pdf

↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 57, 170 , accessed on February 6, 2019 .

^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Zwentendorf, population development. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .

^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Zwentendorf an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Zwentendorf an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

^ Result of the 2005 municipal council election in Zwentendorf an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Zwentendorf an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Zwentendorf an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

↑ Results of the 2020 municipal council elections in Zwentendorf an der Donau. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 31, 2020 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c NÖN: Zwentendorf has a mayor . Article dated February 14, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019.

↑ AGRANA Bioethanol - Now the environment is refueling ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), as of June 19, 2010.

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

[2] Roman settlement under Acker discovered on ORF November 16, 2011, accessed on November 16, 2011.