Ruppersthal

Ruppersthal ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral community Ruppersthal
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Tulln (TU), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Großweikersdorf
Coordinates	48 ° 27 '57 " N , 15 ° 56' 48" E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '57 " N , 15 ° 56' 48" E
height	277 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	409 (January 1, 2020)
Area d. KG	10.17 km²
Post Code	3701
prefix	+ 43/02955
	Statistical identification
Locality code	06266
Cadastral parish number	20026
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

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Ruppersthal is a place in the market community Großweikersdorf in the western Weinviertel between Wagram and Schmidatal and is located in the cadastral community of the same name . The two-kilometer-long place is located in the northern part of the Tulln district .

history

Ruppersthal is mentioned in a document around 1300 as a vicariate . Since 1400 it has been considered a separate parish and that of St. The fortified church , consecrated to Aegidius , dates from the 13th century and was enlarged and baroque in the 16th century . Up until 1783 the parish Ruppersthal also belonged to the communities Baumgarten am Wagram and Groß- and Kleinwiesendorf.

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Aegidius

Pleyel Museum : The Ignaz Josef Pleyel Museum is housed in Pleyel's birthplace next to the high church and is dedicated to the life and work of the composer . It enables insights into his compositional work and it also documents Pleyel's work as a piano maker . The showpieces of the exhibition are two Pleyel pianos: a fortepiano from 1831 (the piano has the opus number 1614) and a square piano (opus number 7134). The museum also functions as a performance space for concerts and chamber music performances in which the music of Pleyel and his contemporaries is performed.

Catholic parish church Ruppersthal: The parish church is consecrated to St. Aegidius . This late Gothic staggered church is built on a hill in the center of the village . The three-aisled church consists of a four-bay nave under a steep gable roof . The square east tower, with plastered stone ashlar, round arch and sound windows , was built in the second half of the 19th century. Special features of the tower are the tent roof and the clock gable. The inside of the church is equipped with a baroque high altar and two side altars. Worth seeing is an oil painting depicting the death of St. Joseph represents. Because Ruppersthal is its own parish, it has a cemetery around the church.

There are two chapels in Ruppersthal that are pilgrimage destinations for the faithful from the area: the Loretto Chapel (at the exit towards Königsbrunn am Wagram ) and the Lourdes Chapel (at the exit towards Baumgarten am Wagram).

Ruppersthal Castle , stately farm yard , expanded like a castle in the 19th century

Sports

There is a sports club in Ruppersthal, the USC Ruppersthal.

Regular events

Grape Harvest Festival (September)
International Ruppersthaler Weintraubenlauf (last weekend in June)
Ruppersthal Wine Country Hiking Day (September / October)
Advent market (November or December)
Ruppersthaler Mammut Cross Run (at the time of the Conception of Mary on December 8th)

Viticulture

Vineyard in Ruppersthal facing south

The wine-growing is an important economic factor in Ruppersthal. The Kogel (also called Kogelberg, a hill in Ruppersthal) with its loess soils and sunny southern slopes offers ideal conditions for the pressing of good wines. The Ruppersthal winemakers invite you to taste the wines in their cellars or to the Heuriger . In addition to the main variety, the Grüner Veltliner , you can also find the types of white Burgundy , Rivaner , Chardonnay , Riesling and red wines.