Weitersfeld

Weitersfeld is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 87.2 square kilometers. 25.1 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Fronsburg (8.97 km²) Heinrichsdorf (5.04 km²) Nonnersdorf (2.78 km²) Oberfladnitz (5.87 km²) Oberhöflein (11.32 km²) Obermixnitz (5.92 km²) Prutzendorf (3.79 km²) Rassingdorf (3.97 km²) Sallapulka (3.94 km²) Starrein (7.77 km²) Untermixnitz (6.56 km²) Weitersfeld (21.27 km²)	Fronsburg (D) Heinrichsdorf (D) Nonnersdorf (D) Maria in the mountains (W) Oberfladnitz (D) Oberhöflein (D) Obermixnitz (D) Prutzendorf (D) Rassingdorf (R) Sallapulka (D) Starrein (D) Untermixnitz (D) Weitersfeld (M)
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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 -

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

Fronsburg (111)
Heinrichsdorf (71)
Nonnersdorf (43) with Maria in the mountains
Oberfladnitz (68)
Oberhöflein (147)
Obermixnitz (95)
Prutzendorf (44)
Rassingdorf (63)
Sallapulka (66)
Rigid (129)
Untermixnitz (82)
Weitersfeld (639)

Several postcodes are used in Weitersfeld. Oberfladnitz has the postcode 2081, Oberhöflein the postcode 2091, Heinrichsdorf the postcode 3742, Sallapulka and Nonnersdorf the postcode 3752. In Starrein, the postcodes 2084 and 2091 are used. The main town of Weitersfeld and the other towns have the postcode 2084.

The market town of Weitersfeld is a member of the Taffa-Thaya-Wild region .

Neighboring communities

Langau	Hardegg
Geras		Retz
	Sigmundsherberg	Schrattenthal

Population development

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year	1923	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Residents	2,888	2,611	2,505	2,293	2,074	1,842	1,753	1,652

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: 17 ÖVP, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 1 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, 1 Birgit Kristen list, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 1 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

2003–2015 Werner Neubert (ÖVP)
since 2015 Reinhard Novak (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Fronsburg Castle

Weitersfeld parish church

Maria in the mountains

Fronsburger Bründl

Kellergasse Trautmannsdorfer Strasse in Starrein

Kellergasse Oberhöfleiner Strasse in Weitersfeld

Kellergasse Fronsburger Strasse in Weitersfeld

Fronsburg Castle
Catholic parish church Weitersfeld hl. Martin
Pilgrimage Church of Maria in the Mountains
Local chapel Untermixnitz
Fronsburger Bründl

economy

In 2001 there were 59 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 217 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 758. In 2001, the activity rate was 44.15 percent.

traffic

Rail: The Lower Austrian Transport Organization operates the Weitersfeld and Oberhöflein stations on the Retz – Drosendorf local railway . Since 2001, these stations have only been served by the nostalgic train, Reblaus-Express, on weekends in the summer months . The closest ÖBB train stations with regular passenger traffic are Hötzelsdorf - Geras on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and Retz on the Nordwestbahn .
Bus: The regular bus company PostBus drives to stops on lines 1253 ( Horn - Retz ), 1255 (Retz - Horn) and 1315 (Horn - Weitersfeld) in several places in the municipality.
Road: The Thayatal Straße (B30) leads north past Weitersfeld.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Sigmund Anton Steiner (1773–1838), music publisher and art dealer
Ignaz Rudolph Schiner (1813–1873), entomologist
Leopold Kletter (1912–1989), meteorologist, was born in Sallapulka

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Population development 1869–2011 from Statistics Austria (PDF file; 35 kB)
↑ Historisches Ortlexikon Niederösterreich ( Memento from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.1 MB), Part 2, p. 56.
^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
↑ Results of the 2020 municipal council elections in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
^ Weitersfeld: Honors for Mayor Werner Neubert on his departure! Lower Austria People's Party , Decoration of Honor in Gold, undated, without author, accessed on February 2, 2017

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

[2] Population development 1869–2011 from Statistics Austria (PDF file; 35 kB)

[3] Historisches Ortlexikon Niederösterreich ( Memento from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.1 MB), Part 2, p. 56.

[NÖGrw1995_31129-4] Result of the local council election 1995 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_31129-5] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_31129-6] Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_31129-7] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_31129-8] Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_31129-9] Results of the 2020 municipal council elections in Weitersfeld. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .

[10] Weitersfeld: Honors for Mayor Werner Neubert on his departure! Lower Austria People's Party , Decoration of Honor in Gold, undated, without author, accessed on February 2, 2017