Purgstall on the Erlauf

The market town is located approx. 8 km north of the district capital Scheibbs directly on the B 25 and the Pöchlarn - Kienberg - Gaming ( Erlauftalbahn ) railway line and belongs to the Lower Austrian part of Eisenwurzen .

The Große Erlauf cuts through the local area and has dug itself deep into the conglomerate rocks . To the north of Purgstall Castle, the Feichsen merges with the Erlauf, and other tributaries form the Zehnbach, Schlarassingbach, Schluchtenbach and Schaubach. The area of the market town covers 55.88 square kilometers. 21.21 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipal area includes the following 31 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Anthill (32)
Edelbach near Purgstall (27)
Erb (44)
Feichsen (362)
Föhrenhain (65)
Gaisberg (275)
Galtbrunn (57)
Gimpering (31)
Hague (17)
Harmersdorf (8)
Heidegrund (72)
Hochrieß (85)
Court (38)
Feces (35)
Kroißenberg (47)
Mayerhof (30)
Nottendorf (38)
Bad near Purgstall (120)
Petzelsdorf (53)
Pugling (16)
Purgstall (2657)
Reichersau (28)
Rogatsboden (117)
Display floor (247)
Solling (239)
Soellinger Forest (159)
Floor (73)
Unterberg (45)
Weigstatt (56)
Vineyard (40)
Zehnbach (259)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Feichsen, Hochrieß, Petzelsdorf, Purgstall, Rogatsboden, Schauboden, Sölling, Söllingerwald and Zehnbach.

Neighboring communities

Wolfpassing	Wieselburg country
Steinakirchen		Oberndorf
	Scheibbs

Panoramic view of Purgstall from the southeast

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province . A Roman settlement above the confluence of the Feichsen in the Erlauf is documented. However, there is no reliable information up to the year 900 AD.

Around 900 AD, Bavaria settled the area. The lords of Purchstale build a fortress and some farmers settle partly on the left and partly on the right bank of the Erlauf. The lords von Eisenbag and Heussler took over the festival around 1210. A castle chapel is built in 1220. Purgstall becomes a parish vicariate in 1260 .

The community continues to expand. A school was set up in 1300, a chaplain was active on site from 1318 and in 1360 Purgstall was given market rights . The place is secured in 1370 by a fortification trench. From 1375 the Walsee ruled over the community. Around 1380 the farming village became a flourishing trading center. A circular wall with two market gates and towers is built. In 1390, Wyden was included in the market.

Purgstall Castle (residential wing)

In 1400 Purgstall received a letter of freedom. In 1410 a regional court was established in the village. The parish church was built in 1430. The market is included in the dedication in 1448. The castle was expanded in 1540 and divided into an old and new castle in 1568. The Lutheran movement took root in Purgstall in 1550. The community received its own coat of arms in 1603 and was able to defend itself against the Turks in 1683.

The dedication privileges end in 1773. Market jurisdiction ends in 1787. Purgstall is taken three times by the French. This happens in 1800, 1805 and 1809. The market gates are demolished in 1850. In the same year the municipality becomes a post office. A railway station is established in 1877. The connection to the telegraph network took place in 1893, to the electricity company in 1899 and to the telephone network in 1902. In 1910 the southern ring wall was torn down and the fortification ditch filled in.

From 1915 to 1918 there was a prisoner of war camp in Purgstall . There were accommodations for 24,500 prisoners on an area of 50 hectares.

In November 1934 Leopold Moser fell victim to a robbery in Mayerhof near Purgstall on the Erlauf. The perpetrator from Münichreith was sentenced to death for this as well as for the attempted murder of his wife Katharina Pritz and was executed on March 12, 1937 in the Krems district court.

At least 15 members of the IKG Ybbs / Amstetten from Purgstall fell victim to the Shoah .

coat of arms

The market has had the right to carry a coat of arms since August 21, 1603. It was awarded by Emperor Rudolf II on the basis of the intercession of the landowner in Purgstall Freiherr Weikard von Auersperg . This was justified with the merits of Purgstall in the provision trade with iron ore and his good behavior during the peasant uprising in 1597. The description of the coat of arms in the coat of arms is:

"A brown, nail-colored field, in which an angel raised entirely for himself, with open wings, shaded in white or silver and brown, on the head a long, gold-colored hair flying with a cut-out skirt belted in blue and azure-colored, who is shaded white or silver, has a chalk-white, yellow or gold-colored stole around his neck or chest, holding a red or ruby-colored shield with both hands in front of him, in which a tower built on a hill or base of ashlar stucco, or Open portals appear, under which a half-drawn yellow or gold-colored lock gate in length with three with white tips, but between two rungs or beams, half raised, on top of each of the sides of the tower a round, on top of it a white or silver-colored flag in the middle above of the main tower instead of a button or flag, half a bow with the string above it, yellow or gold-colored he steel stands, just like coats of arms or market sigil described in this way, a round circle with a rosemary wreath adorned with silver, with roses on it from its four middle places, above and below red or ruby, both middle ones are blue or azure, each of which is then The same are adorned with upwardly flying red ends in such a wreath. "

Community partnerships

Makers in Germany , Free State of Saxony (since 2016)

Population development

Purgstall is the most populous municipality in the Scheibbs district.

2014: 5,355 inhabitants
2001: 5,211 inhabitants
1991: 5,196 inhabitants
1981: 5,231 inhabitants
1971: 4,854 inhabitants
1961: 4,186 inhabitants
1951: 3,831 inhabitants

politics

The municipal council has 29 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 21 ÖVP and 8 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 3 Greens.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 5 Purgstall citizens' list (ÖVP), 2 Greens and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 3 Greens and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ and 3 Greens.

mayor

1929–1938 Franz Zehetgruber
1938–1940 Josef Fabris
1940–1945 Ignaz Luksch
1945–1957 Franz Zehetgruber
1957–1975 Heinrich Schläger
1976–1985 Edgar Schober
1985–1997 Ignaz Bruckner
1997–2009 Franz Ressl (ÖVP)
2009–2014 Marianne Fallmann (ÖVP)
2014–2018 Christoph Trampler (ÖVP)
since 2019 Harald Riemer (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Purgstall

Chapel of the High Court

Defense tower, built in 1380

Museum in the Ledererhaus

Erlaufschlucht

Catholic parish church Purgstall hl. Petrus: The first building was built in the 14th century , of which the lower part of the tower and the current northern side portal are still preserved today. At the beginning of the 15th century the three-aisled late Gothic hall church was built. The choir closure of this late Gothic church and the arcade-like galleries were rebuilt in the years 1712–1719. From the year 1711 there is an invoice for church elevations, which Jakob Prandtauer had delivered to Purgstall. It can therefore be assumed that the well-known Baroque builder helped plan the church. Renovation work took place in 1871, 1980, 1985 and most recently in 1996. The interior of the church is essentially a three-aisled room from the late Gothic period , the ceiling of which is formed by a ribbed vault . In contrast to the late Gothic room, the furnishings come from the Baroque period .
Catholic branch church Feichsen hl. Nikolaus: A late Romanesque church building around 1220/1260.
The high court at the lower end of the market, next to the Steinmetz inn, outside the no longer existing market gate is a chapel, the so-called torture cross. In the immediate vicinity, for example in the triangle formed by Pöchlarnerstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse, was the place of execution of the Altschloss Purgstall regional court until around 1700. A plaque in the chapel tells us the builder: "In gratitude to the Most Holy Trinity and the blessed Queen of Heaven, Maria, I engaged Johann Franz Lang iron and provisions merchant here, together with my wife Eva Rosina, the" Cross Chapel "and had it built 1695 July 12" . Franz Lang was also a market judge (roughly equivalent to a mayor), the chapel stands at the end of his former garden.
The defense tower: Around 1380 the people of Walsee obtained permission from sovereign Albrecht III to surround the market in Purgstall with a curtain wall. Around 1850 the first of the 5 towers was demolished when the market gates were torn down. The last remaining fortified tower is now at “Feichsengassl”. This defense tower and the defensive wall in this "Gassl" next to the Feichsen are under monument protection. The tower has now been renovated and is used for events.
The museum in the Ledererhaus is located in a house richly decorated with sgraffito in the center of the village. The tanning trade was practiced in the building on the Erlauf from the early 17th century. Accordingly, leather production is a focus of the exhibition. The topic was supplemented with objects from local history. Purgstall was on " Dreimärktestrasse ", where the iron and provisions trade with Styria was carried out. It is also worth mentioning the wooden shooting targets on display , some of which date from the 17th century. Also on display are finds from a Slavic or Avar burial ground from the Carolingian era , which was only discovered in 1997. The garden is also part of the museum. The museum is at Mariazellerstraße number 2.
The Erlauftale Fire Brigade Museum in the fire station at Pöchlarnerstrasse 56 shows the historical development of the fire service in Lower Austria. In addition to a comprehensive exhibition of historical fire fighting equipment, vintage fire brigade trips are offered every first Saturday of the month. An old cart syringe is available for children with which they can carry out a " fire fighting attack ".
The Erlaufschlucht natural monument is an essential element of the Purgstall landscape. Over the millennia, the river has dug itself deep into the gravel that has landed since the Ice Ages, some of which has already baked into conglomerate rocks . The Erlaufschlucht has been a natural monument since 1972 due to its unique landscape features.
In the former Purgstall prisoner-of-war camp from 1915 to 1918, people from the then "enemy states" were kept under guard. The painter Egon Schiele , who created some well-known works in the Erlauftal, was also among the guards for a short time . In the 1920s, the summer resort "Schauboden-Föhrenhain" was built on the site of the warehouse. A two-family house there in the Dr. Karl-Heinrich-Brunner- Strasse No. 5–6 has a hipped roof with towers , a pillar-supported gable roof in the middle and side fronts with polygonal bay windows . The architect Karl Heinrich Brunner played a key role in the design of the Föhrenhain estate.

The Purgstall Book Village was built in 2000 based on the model of the Book Village in Hay-on-Wye . The idea of the book village is to collect and sell antiquarian books and to liven up the town center with the bookshops. There are currently three bookshops in Purgstall, some of which have been recorded in a database and are accessible to interested parties via the Internet.

In the district of Schauboden, the "Path of Peace" was set up: information boards provide information on the subject of prisoner-of-war camps, and there is also a permanent exhibition on this subject. The circular route begins at Gasthaus Schager in Schauboden and also passes the former camp cemetery.

economy

Busatis double knife cutter bar

In 2001 there were 222 non-agricultural workplaces, and 248 agricultural and forestry businesses according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in employment at home was 2,405 according to the 2001 census. The 2001 participation rate was 46.88 percent.

The most important employers in Purgstall are Busatis and mainly commercial enterprises.

Groceries are available from Billa , Spar , Penny-Markt and Hofer KG .

traffic

Purgstall train station

Purgstall has a train station on the Pöchlarn – Kienberg-Gaming line .

Sports

Purgstall is only one of 4 places in Lower Austria that operates a bowling center.

Personalities

Dominik Peckenstorfer (1705–1786), Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Lilienfeld
Franz Zehetgruber (1882–1970), mayor
Emmo Langer (1891–1949), Austrian politician (NSDAP), member of the Lower Austrian state parliament, district leader for the district above the Vienna Woods from 1930, 24th Mayor of St. Pölten (1938–1945)
Edgar Schober (1926–2016), mayor
Ignaz Bruckner (* 1938), mayor
Franz Stepwieser (1940–2017), Episcopal Vicar and editor of the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten
Hans Raimund (* 1945), writer
Paul Scharner (* 1980), professional footballer
Dominik Distelberger (* 1990), athlete
Philipp Plank (* 1995), professional footballer

literature

Cölestin Schachinger: History of the Purgstall market on the Erlauf in Lower Austria - Self-published by the author - Printing: Elbemühl Ges. Mb H., Vienna, 1913 2nd unchanged edition published by the Purgstall volunteer fire department, 1973

Hans-Hagen Hottenroth: Purgstall in old views / European Library - Zaltbommel / Netherlands, 1980 ISBN 90-288-0130-8

Franz Ressl: Natural history of the Scheibbs Tierwelt district (1) : First part Faunistic working principles and their evaluation; Natural history study group of the Scheibbs district - Rudolf and Fritz Radinger publishing house, Scheibbs, 1980

Franz Ressl: Natural history of the Scheibbs animal world (2) : Part two - development of faunistic local research Third part The molluscs and vertebrates of the Scheibbs district; Natural history study group of the Scheibbs district - Verlag Rudolf and Fritz Radinger, Scheibbs, 1983

Franz Wiesenhofer: Captured under the Habsburg crown: Austro-Hungarian prisoner-of-war camp in the Erlauftal . Franz Wiesenhofer. - 3rd edition - Purgstall: Wiesenhofer, 1998

Web links

Commons : Purgstall an der Erlauf - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Burgstal in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Entry about Schloss Purgstall in Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
Entry via Schloss Purgstall to Burgen-Austria
32008 - Purgstall on the Erlauf. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

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

↑ Cölestin Schachinger: The history of the Purgstall market on the Erlauf , 1913

↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Purgstall an der Erlauf , accessed on June 13, 2016

↑ Johannes Kammerstätter: Portable Fatherland . Wieselburg 2012.

↑ Cölestin Schachinger: History of the market Purgstall on the Erlauf in Lower Austria Self-published by the author. Elbemühl Ges. Mb H., Vienna, 1913. 2nd unchanged edition published by the Purgstall volunteer fire brigade in 1973.

↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Purgstall an der Erlauf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Purgstall an der Erlauf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Purgstall an der Erlauf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Purgstall an der Erlauf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Purgstall an der Erlauf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Purgstall an der Erlauf. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
^ Church leaders of the Purgstall parish
^ Museum in the Ledererhaus
↑ Othmar Birkner: Viennese summer resort of the 20s. The history of the summer resort “Föhrenhain” in Schauboden. In: Association for the history of the city of Vienna : Viennese history sheets . Volume 63, Issue 4. LIT Verlag Wien 2008. ISSN 0043-5317 ZDB -ID 2245-7 pp. 1-14.
^ Purgstall an der Erlauf, Föhrenhain . In: Dehio Handbook - Austria's Art Monuments: Lower Austria south of the Danube, Part 2 M to Z. Topographical Monument Inventory , ed. from the Federal Monuments Office, department for inventory and monument research. Berger publishing house. Horn / Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-85028-365-8 . P. 1770.

↑ [1] . “Captured under the Habsburg crown in Wieselburg and Purgstall” on www.ots.at

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

[2] Cölestin Schachinger: The history of the Purgstall market on the Erlauf , 1913

[3] Information on the website of the municipality of Purgstall an der Erlauf , accessed on June 13, 2016

[4] Johannes Kammerstätter: Portable Fatherland . Wieselburg 2012.

[5] Cölestin Schachinger: History of the market Purgstall on the Erlauf in Lower Austria Self-published by the author. Elbemühl Ges. Mb H., Vienna, 1913. 2nd unchanged edition published by the Purgstall volunteer fire brigade in 1973.