Rosenfeld (municipality of Melk)

Rosenfeld ( village ) village Rosenfeld cadastral community Rosenfeld
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Melk  (ME), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Melk
Pole. local community	Melk
Coordinates	48 ° 11 ′ 40 "  N , 15 ° 19 ′ 23"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 40 "  N , 15 ° 19 ′ 23"  E
height	328  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	35 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	1.93 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	04744
Cadastral parish number	14159
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Rosenfeld is a village and a cadastral municipality of the municipality of Melk in the Melk district in Lower Austria .

location

Rosenfeld lies on the northern slope of the Hiesberg and the Buchberg, which are separated by the Marchgraben, in which the Greilenbach rises. A 4-kilometer-long spring water pipeline, built in 1469, extends from this ditch to Melk Abbey.

Above the village, at the origin of the Greilenbach, is the former Hirsberg Castle, the remains of which can still be clearly seen in the ramparts and moats.

history

Finds from the Older Stone Age indicate that Rosenfeld was a settlement, as are artefacts from the Bronze Age . An old road led through Rosenfeld, which possibly even goes back to de Römer and could have been a shortcut of the Reichsstraße leading around the Hiesberg.

A fiefdom in Rosenfeld was donated to the Melk Abbey in 1229, and two further fiefs are mentioned in the land register of 1420, which were presumably in Rosenfeld.

The place consists of two parts, an eastern and a western one, the western one being the actual place and the eastern one including the core of the former Stollehen .

At times the place was separated by the Greilenbach running in the middle and the eastern part was assigned to the parish of Loosdorf. Later the Greilenbach was also the border of the regional courts in Melk and in the Schallaburg.

literature

• Gerhard Flossmann (ed.), Anton Harrer, Wilfried Kowarik and Harald Ofner: Stadtbuch Melk. Data & facts. (Volume II), written by the “Melker Stadtbuch” working group of the Melk Culture and Museum Association, Melk 1999