St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen

St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	horn
License plate :	HO
Main town :	St. Bernhard
Surface:	29.45 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 41 '  N , 15 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '58 "  N , 15 ° 35' 38"  E
Height :	328  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,288 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	3580
Area code :	02982
Community code :	3 11 23
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Bernhard 56 3580 St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen
Website:	www.stbernhard.at
politics
Mayoress :	Gabriele Kernstock ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	17th 1 1 17th 1 1  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 17 SPÖ : 1 FPÖ : 1
Location of St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen in the Horn district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen (also Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen ) is a municipality with 1288 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Horn district in Lower Austria ( Austria ).

geography

St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria in the Taffa valley. The area of ​​the municipality covers 29.45 square kilometers, about 21 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The community is divided into six cadastral communities or localities of the same name (area 2016, population on January 1, 2020 by locality):

KG / locality	surface	Pop.	annotation
Frauenhofen	697.70 ha	514
Great Burgstall	553.17 hectares	193
Grünberg	150.53 ha	031
Poigen	441.26 hectares	190	with the district Kaidling
Saint Bernhard	950.34 hectares	286	Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
Pour	154.65 ha	074

The main town St. Bernhard and all other places in the municipality have the postcode 3580. In parts of the town Poigen, the postcode 3761 was used until the end of October 2017.

The community of St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen is a member of the Taffa-Thaya-Wild region .

Neighboring communities

All six neighboring communities are in the Horn district.

Irnfritz knives	Pernegg
Brunn an der Wild		horn
Röhrenbach	Altenburg

history

The Cistercian convent of St. Bernhard was dissolved in 1586. From 1620 to 1773 the place was the seat of a Jesuit college.

coat of arms

With the decision of the Lower Austrian provincial government of August 20, 1975, the municipality of St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen was awarded a municipal coat of arms.
Blazon :: "A red shield divided by a silver oblique left bar, covered with two crossed golden vine knives" . The community colors are red-white-yellow.

Population development

politics

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: 18 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 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 elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 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

• 1958–1995 Josef Steinböck (ÖVP)
• 1995–2017 Karl Gabler (ÖVP)
• 2017–2020 Josef Gundinger (ÖVP)
• since 2020 Gabriele Kernstock (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

St. Bernhard Monastery

Parish Church of St. Bernhard

Frauenhofen branch church

Parish Church Strögen

Kellergasse at the church in Frauenhofen

See also : List of listed objects in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen  and List of cellar lanes in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen

• St. Bernhard Monastery, former Cistercian monastery
• Catholic parish church of St. Bernhard Assumption of Mary, former monastery church of the St. Bernhard monastery
• Catholic branch church Frauenhofen hl. wolfgang
• Catholic parish church Strögen hll. Peter and Paul

economy

In 2001 there were 67 non-agricultural workplaces, in 1999 there were 95 agricultural and forestry holdings. The number of people in employment at the place of residence according to the 2001 census was 597, and the 2001 employment rate was 48 percent.

traffic

• Bus: The villages of Frauenhofen, Groß Burgstall, Grünberg, Poigen and St. Bernhard are served by several regional bus routes operated by PostBus .
• Train: The closest ÖBB train stations are Horn on the Kamptalbahn and Irnfritz on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn .
• Street: St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen is located on Waldviertler Straße B 2 and on Landesstraße L 2.

Personalities

• Karl Hrdlicka (1908–1989), Austrian politician, worked as Vice Mayor and City Councilor in Frauenhofen.
• Johann Steinböck (1894–1962), Governor of Lower Austria, was born in Frauenhofen.
• Josef Steinböck (1927–2001), Lower Austrian politician, member of the state parliament and federal councilor, was born in Frauenhofen.

Web links

Commons : St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 31123 - St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Literature on St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen in the Lower Austrian State Library
• Journal articles about St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen in Lower Austria Bibliography of the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies
• Pictures of St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen in the topographical collection of the Lower Austrian State Library
• Entry about the Grünberg castle ruins at Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The official spelling is specified or represented in the law on the division of the State of Lower Austria into municipalities, LGBl.No. 1030–94 of December 9, 2011 and on Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality
2. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Announcement of the Lower Austrian provincial government ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated August 20, 1975. 
5. ^ Result of the local council election in 1995 in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Mayor Gabler goes to NÖN , February 8, 2017.