Rottal (Haugschlag municipality)

Rottal ( Rotte ) locality cadastral community Rottal
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gmünd  (GD), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Haugschlag
Coordinates	49 ° 0 ′ 36 "  N , 15 ° 2 ′ 12"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 36 "  N , 15 ° 2 ′ 12"  E
height	537  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	70 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	11.82 km²
Post Code	3874
prefix	+ 43/02865
Statistical identification
Locality code	03641
Cadastral parish number	07129
Counting district / district	Haugschlag (30 915 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Rottal is a group two kilometers north-west of Haugschlag directly on the border with the Czech Republic , and is a cadastral municipality and village of the municipality of Haugschlag in the Gmünd district in Lower Austria . It is the northernmost cadastral municipality in Austria .

geography

Rottal is located in the northwest of the Waldviertel . The village is traversed by the Rottaler Bach, which flows into the Neumühlbach at the northernmost point of Austria . The Weißenberg (586 m) rises to the south and the Sternberg (617 m) to the east . The Grenzbachl / Červený potok forms the state border north of the village . The Rottaler Forest extends to the southwest as far as the Neumühlbach and Stankauer Teich .

The scattered houses Lerchenfeld and the Gasthof Perzy also belong to the village .

Neighborhoods:

	Nový Vojířov ( Bohemian Bernschlag , Gem. Nová Bystřice CZ)	Smrčná ( Fichtau , Gem.  Nová Bystřice  CZ)
		Blank houses (locality Haugschlag), Mnich ( Münichschlag , Gem. Nová Bystřice CZ, desert)
	Lerchenfeld (locality Haugschlag)	Haugschlag

history

The place was founded around 1740 as a lumberjack settlement.

The scattered settlement of Rottal was settled in the first half of the 18th century. Rottal is mentioned in the death registers from the 1730s. From 1740 the newly founded huts in Rottal are mentioned in the land register. In 1751 Rottal had 17 subordinate houses.

The village belonged to the lordship of Litschau and got its name from Maria Antonia, Verw. Countess von Kuefstein, née von Rottal , who administered the entails for her underage son Johann Anton.

In 1829 a poison hut was built in Rottal. a. Produced cyanide and Berlin blue . In 1842 it ceased operations. There was a customs house in the village on the Lower Austrian-Bohemian border. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, Rottal was on the Austrian-Czechoslovak border. In 1922, the Peršlák border barracks were built on the Bohemian side at the Neumühle . In 1948 the border was closed and Rottal was on the Iron Curtain until 1990.

There is a large population of pug bats in the place .

Attractions

• Meridian stone at the intersection of the 15th longitude and 49th parallel, in the Rottaler Forest on the border at the Stankau pond, three kilometers southwest of the village
• northernmost point of Austria, at the lower end of Rottal, at the former Peršlák barracks . This is where the Eisenwurzenweg begins , a long-distance hiking trail that leads near the southernmost point of Austria.
• Chapel with a baroque onion dome, built in 1801 as a path chapel and expanded into a village chapel in 1894
• Gasthaus Perzy with tavern and grocery store from the 1920s

literature

• Stefan René Buzanich: The lifeworld of the village subjects of the Kuefstein rule Litschau as reflected in the legacy treatises of the 1st half of the 18th century (dissertation at the University of Vienna, 2020, 4 volumes).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: The lifeworld of the village subjects of the Kuefstein rule Litschau as reflected in the legacy treatises of the 1st half of the 18th century (dissertation at the University of Vienna, 2020, 4 volumes) . S. 22 .