Puchenstuben

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Scheibbs

License plate :

SB

Surface:

41.29 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 56 ′ N , 15 ° 17 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 41 ″ N , 15 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ E

Height :

868 m above sea level A.

Residents :

289 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

7 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

3214

Area code :

02726

Community code :

3 20 07

NUTS region

AT121

Address of the
municipal administration:

Christian Haller Strasse 1
3214 Puchenstuben

Website:

www.puchenstuben.at

politics

mayor

Helmut Emsenhuber ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(13 members)

6th

7th

6th 7th

A total of 13 seats

SPÖ / LUP : 6
ÖVP : 7

Location of Puchenstuben in the Scheibbs district

Puchenstuben in autumn 2000

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Puchenstuben is a municipality with 289 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Scheibbs district in Lower Austria .

geography

Puchenstuben is located in the Mostviertel in Eisenwurzen in Lower Austria . The area of the municipality covers 41.26 square kilometers. 84.2 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Mountain grotto (40)
Brandeben (6)
Fire area (3)
Buchberg (19)
Gösing at the Mariazellerbahn (15)
Laubenbach (12)
Puchenstuben (174)
Sheep fowl (1)
Sulzbichl (14)
Forest area (5)

The community consists of the cadastral community Puchenstuben.

Neighboring communities

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

Gösing, which belongs to the municipality of Puchenstuben, was first mentioned in 1261. Christian Haller, landlord in Puchenstuben, was one of the leaders in the peasant uprising against the noble rulers at the end of the 16th century. As early as the 17th century, there was intensive mining activity in the municipality.

population

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 303 inhabitants. In 1991 the community had 366 inhabitants, in 1981 418 and in 1971 505 inhabitants.

In 2015 the municipality had 317 inhabitants, of which 53 or 16.7% were asylum seekers. This made Puchenstuben the municipality in Austria that accepted the most asylum seekers in relation to the number of inhabitants.

politics

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The municipal council has 13 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 7 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.

mayor

1850–1857 Johann Fallmann
1857–1864 Josef Brandl
1864–1879 Josef Hackner
1879–1912 Franz Bachinger
1912–1934 Ignaz Buder
1934–1938 Josef Rauchberger
1938–1945 Leo Burger
1945–1950 Alois Weinberger
1950–1958 Leopold Sawicki
1958–1965 Leopold Heindl
1965–1974 Adolf Kratzer
1974–1985 Florian Tiefenbacher (ÖVP)
1985–2000 Alois Karner (ÖVP)
2000–2015 Christian Kogler (SPÖ)
2016–2019 Petra Jani (SPÖ)
2019-2020 Ewald Aigner (SPÖ)
2019-2020 Dominik Kogler (SPÖ)
since 2020 Helmut Emsenhuber (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Puchenstuben

Catholic parish church Puchenstuben hl. Anna
Trefflingfall
Shop in Buchenen Stub'n
In Puchenstuben there is next to a swimming pool and a tennis court and the slow train Ötschi's Bahnorama , the scheduled run on Sundays and public holidays twice a day from May 1 to October 26 from the station Puchenstuben over Sulzbichel and Trübenbach after Erlaufboden and back.

economy

There were 24 non-agricultural workplaces in 2001, agricultural and forestry operations 34 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 122. The 2001 participation rate was 41.25 percent.