Rohrbach an der Gölsen

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Lily field

License plate :

LF

Main town :

Unterrohrbach

Surface:

14.8 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 3 ' N , 15 ° 45' E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '53 " N , 15 ° 44' 30" E

Height :

402 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,549 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

105 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

3163

Area code :

02764

Community code :

3 14 10

NUTS region

AT122

Address of the
municipal administration:

Hauptplatz 4
3163 Rohrbach an der Gölsen

Website:

www.rohrbach-goelsen.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Karl Bader ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

15th

4th

15th 4th

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 15
SPÖ : 4

Location of Rohrbach an der Gölsen in the Lilienfeld district

South view of Rohrbach an der Gölsen

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Rohrbach an der Gölsen is a municipality with 1549 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Lilienfeld district in Lower Austria .

geography

Rohrbach an der Gölsen is located in the Gölsental in the Lilienfeld district in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 14.77 square kilometers. 41.27 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

Bernreit (250) including the Bernreit settlement
Drainage (37)
Prunst (66)
Rohrbach an der Gölsen (1196) including Oberrohrbach, Oberrohrbach and Unterrohrbach settlements

The community consists of the cadastral communities Bernreit, Durlaß, Oberrohrbach, Prünst and Unterrohrbach.

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Bernreit (1.55 km²) Durlaß (3.22 km²) Oberrohrbach (3.99 km²) Prünst (4.92 km²) Unterrohrbach (1.10 km²)	Bernreit (ZH) Bernreit (Sdlg) settlement Durlaß (ZH) Oberrohrbach (ZH) Oberrohrbach settlement (Sdlg) Prünst (ZH) Unterrohrbach (D)
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Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Neighboring communities

In the Lilienfeld district :

In the St. Pölten-Land district :

Michelbach

history

Rohrbach and Bergau Castle around 1775 on a map of the Josephinische Landesaufnahme

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

During the Austrian Civil War in 1934 , two members of the Republican Protection Association were arrested in Rohrbach an der Gölsen after the Heimwehr battalion commander Hans Lintner was shot in the village of Ob der Kirche ( town of Hainfeld ). Those arrested were Johann Hois (born July 23, 1891), factory worker from Rohrbach, commander of the local Republican Protection Association, and Viktor Rauchberger (born July 20, 1908), bricklayer from Rohrbach, member of the Republican Protection Association. The court martial in St. Pölten sentenced Hois and Rauchberger to death by hanging, the execution by executioner Johann Lang took place on February 16, 1934 in the St. Pölten regional court . A tombstone for both of them was unveiled on March 29, 1974 at St. Pölten's main cemetery.

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: 14 ÖVP, and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.

mayor

since 1990 Karl Bader (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Music: The Rohrbach youth brass band was founded in 1978 and is led by chairman Erich Rosenbaum, conductor Herwig Schreiner and staff leader Josef Schweiger (2013).

economy

In 2001 there were 44 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 41 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 692. The 2001 employment rate was 46.31 percent.

Personalities

St. Pölten main cemetery: tombstone for Rauchberger and Hois

Johann Hois (1891–1934), Social Democrat from Rohrbach an der Gölsen, executed in St. Pölten
Alois Rauchberger (1908–1934), Social Democrat from Rohrbach an der Gölsen, executed in St. Pölten
Karl Bader (* 1960), Mayor and President of the Federal Council
Andreas Schager (opera singer, heroic tenor)