Reinsberg (Lower Austria)

Better known than the place itself is the Reinsberg castle ruins , which were expanded into an event arena in 1990. As a result, tourism increased again in the community. Various adventure weeks or country school weeks are also offered.

Community structure

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

Buchberg (96)
Kerschenberg (86)
Reinsberg (484)
Robitzboden (294)
Schaitten (86)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Buchberg, Kerschenberg, Reinsberg and Robitzboden.

Neighboring communities

	Steinakirchen am Forst	Purgstall on the Erlauf
Gresten Land		Scheibbs
	Gaming

history

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

First settlement

In today's municipality of Reinsberg, sedentary cattle breeders settled 4000 years ago, as a stone ax find shows. The 10 cm long, perforated stone ax made of light green serpentines is the best preserved find in the district from this period. It comes from the end of the Neolithic or the beginning of the Copper Age around 1900 to 1800 BC. For the first owner, it was more of a badge of rank than a tool.

Until it was first mentioned in a document in 1215, there were no further references to the history of Reinsberg. The settlement will have taken place parallel to that of the rest of the area. Around 800 BC Illyrian tribes immigrated in the 4th century BC - the name "Erlaf" (Erlauf) comes from them, 400 years later the Celts penetrated the Alpine region. In 50 AD the population consisted of a Celtic-Illyrian mixed population who lived in small hamlets, in addition there were Roman individual farms with farms. In the time around 996 the Carinthian border probably ran in this area. The castle ruins still bear witness to the former dividing line between the Ostmark and the Karantanische Mark .

Counter-reformation

Reinsberg Castle , copper engraving, Georg Matthäus Vischer, 1672

Reinsberg remained Protestant until 1627. Because the income of the parish of Reinsberg was very low and a pastor could hardly survive here without additional income, Reinsberg was cared for by the pastors of the neighboring parish of Gresten from 1630 to 1688 and the parish of Purgstall from 1689 to 1699 , albeit without his independence as a parish to lose.

During this time without a pastor, the Counter Reformation had only slow success. When the Kaiser took increasingly tough measures, many Protestants left their home in Austria and emigrated to Germany.

Around 50 people emigrated from 19 houses from Reinsberg around 1650.

Turkish year 1683

The Thirty Years' War , which our homeland survived without any particular consequences, was followed by the Turkish year 1683 . A huge Turkish army set out to move to Vienna via Belgrade . In June it reached the suburbs of Vienna, which had previously been burned down in order not to provide shelter for the Turks. Again, like 150 years ago (1529), Turkish cavalry troops (Akinschi) advanced south of the Danube to Amstetten . They attacked the peasants during the grain harvest, cut them down, burned the farms down, robbed the young women and children. Fortified places such as Purgstall and Scheibbs were mostly left unscathed in the Mostviertel. The Turks brought hardship and ruin in Reinsberg as well. According to a list of the Purgstall rule from 1683, great damage was done by the Turks on July 17, 1683 in Reinsberg.

Baroque period

Reinsberg Castle Arena

After overcoming Lutheranism and the Turkish threat, the rulers and the church in Austria experienced a great boom: the baroque age began. Artists, builders, locals and those who had moved here, such as Jakob Prandtauer, were given a rich field of activity. Many village churches, monasteries, castles, but also private houses were converted or rebuilt. Much Gothic art was destroyed during this time. The great baroque landscape of Lower Austria was created for this. After the upstairs church had already been built in 1614/15, the church in Reinsberg received a baroque interior at the beginning of the 18th century. From the years 1699–1704 church accounts come from, which suggest that in Reinsberg modernization, i. H. was furnished in baroque style.

19th and 20th centuries

Austria suffered greatly in the first decade of the 19th century from the three French occupations when Napoleon won his wars against Austria and Russia and occupied Austria. The inhabitants of the Erlauftal had to endure a lot of occupation hardship. After the victory of the Alliance against Napoleon and after the Congress of Vienna, in which Europe was reorganized, the people of our country finally had a few decades of peace. The economy flourished and industrialization was rapid. Agriculture could improve. The situation for the peasants changed after the peasants' liberation, which was decided by the Reichsrat following the overthrow of 1848. Ferdinand, the benevolent emperor, had to resign in 1848; Franz Joseph became emperor for 68 years. The peasant liberation probably brought the peasants freedom from the dependence on the landlord, from all the taxes and the robot. From now on he also had to do without the protection of the landlord he knew personally. Instead, the anonymous state came with its taxes and civil servants from the city, who often did not understand the peasants with their dialect. Many farms perished, were auctioned off, or bought up by large companies or industrial companies when the farmer could no longer pay his taxes. In the second half of the 19th century. Hundreds of thousands of young peasant people, also from Reinsberg, migrated to the big cities, above all Vienna, and to the industrial companies that needed more and more people. There was great social tension and more inhuman living conditions than people had previously in the country. Political parties were formed that were in sharp contrast to one another. The gradual improvement of living conditions in rural and urban areas in the first years of the 20th century. was suddenly and decisively interrupted by the First World War .

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1014 inhabitants. In 1991 the community had 947 inhabitants, in 1981 834 and in 1971 739 inhabitants.

politics

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The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ. (15 members)
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 6 Reinsberg list and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 Reinsberg list and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.

mayor

until 2009 Rudolf Daurer (ÖVP)
2009-2013 Franz Mayer (ÖVP)
since 2013 Franz Faschingleitner (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Reinsberg Castle

Reinsberg Castle

economy

In 2001 there were 24 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 83 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 490. In 2001, the employment rate was 49.3 percent.

traffic

Train: The nearest train station is Saffen bei Scheibbs on the Erlauftalbahn , line 12 about 10 km away.
Road: On the Westautobahn to the Ybbs exit, on the B25 via Wieselburg to Saffen vor Scheibbs, then right on the B22 towards Gresten and from the “Schnalle” left to Reinsberg. From Waidhofen an der Ybbs on the B31 to Gstadt, on the B22 via Ybbsitz and Gresten to the “Schnalle” and shortly right to Reinsberg.
Bus: Reinsberg can be reached with the Postbus (line 1666 Waidhofen an der Ybbs - Ybbsitz - Gresten - Reinsberg - Scheibbs).

Personalities

Josef Plank (* 1958), ÖVP regional councilor in Lower Austria

Web links

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

www.reinsberg.at
32010 - Reinsberg (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
↑ List waives mandates! In: NÖN Erlauftal . Retrieved April 6, 2016.
^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .

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

[NÖGrw1995_32010-2] Result of the local council election 1995 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_32010-3] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_32010-4] Election result of the local council election 2005 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_32010-5] Election result of the local council election 2010 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[6] List waives mandates! In: NÖN Erlauftal . Retrieved April 6, 2016.

[NÖGrw2015_32010-7] Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_32010-8] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Reinsberg. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .