St. Georgen am Steinfelde

St. Georgen am Steinfelde district of St. Pölten
Basic data
Surface:	12.85 km²
Residents:	3,458 (December 31, 2015)
Population density:	269 ​​inhabitants per km²
Height:	244  m above sea level A.
Post Code:	3151
Geographical location:	48 ° 8 '  N , 15 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '  N , 15 ° 37'  E
Cadastral communities
Eggendorf Ganzendorf Hard Kreisberg Mill run Reitzersdorf St. Georgen am Steinfelde Steinfeld Wetzersdorf Wolfenberg Wörth
Location in St. Pölten
Parish church of St. Georgen am Steinfelde

St. Georgen am Steinfelde (also: Sankt Georgen am Steinfelde ) is a place in Lower Austria and has been a district of St. Pölten since it was incorporated in 1971 .

geography

St. Georgen from Reith : Ganzendorf on the left, Eggendorf on the right

St. Georgen is located on the Traisen and Mariazeller Straße (B20) between Wilhelmsburg and St. Pölten .

The district is divided into the cadastral communities Eggendorf, Ganzendorf, Hart, Kreisberg, Mühlgang, Reitzersdorf, St. Georgen am Steinfelde, Steinfeld, Wetzersdorf, Wolfenberg and Wörth. The individual villages have more or less grown together, St. Georgen, Eggendorf, Hart, Wörth and Mühlgang are only separated on paper. Before 1971, the district of Ochsenburg , the cadastral communities Altmannsdorf and Windpassing of the district of Harland and Völtendorf of the district of Spratzern belonged to the municipality of St. Georgen.

The districts of Ochsenburg , Spratzern and Harland and the communities of Ober-Grafendorf , Pyhra and Wilhelmsburg border St. Georgen .

history

The parish church by Aquilin Hacker in 1758

St. Georgen in 1828

Settlement of the present part of the city from the 1st century BC. BC is documented by a grave find. In the grave of a man from the late La Tène period (190 BC to the birth of Christ), besides an iron fibula from the Middle La Tène period (280 to 190 BC) , blacksmith tools (joint pliers, file, hammer, scissors) were found as grave goods. The blacksmith was lying on his back in a north-south direction, was 175 cm tall - so stately for this time - and, according to an anthropological analysis, had the characteristics of a right-handed man with above-average muscle marks on the forearms. The finds are kept in the Museum Niederösterreich in St. Pölten.

No further archaeological evidence of settlement was discovered until Roman times . It was not until the 2nd century that human life was found again when Roman gravestones were found. One of the tombstones also proves the existence of a provincial road from Aelium Cetium (St. Pölten) to the south.

The next reports from the area date from the 12th century . They testify to a settlement in almost all of today's cadastral communities. The residents were mainly active as farmers and winegrowers, at that time there was a noble estate in Hart. The Georgskirche is mentioned for the first time in 1248, in the course of the occupation of Lower Austria by Matthias Corvinus it was consecrated as a parish church.

During the 1st Turkish siege in 1529, a large part of the properties was destroyed. In contrast to St. Pölten and Wilhelmsburg, which were spared, St. Georgen had no city wall. The noble seat Hart was also partially destroyed, the owners, the hackers to Hart , were wiped out. During the Reformation , the majority of the St. George population switched to Protestantism. The Thirty Years War revised this development, today the area is largely Catholic. Towards the end of the Peasant Wars , the peasant army in the St. Georgen area was defeated by the imperial armed forces.

During the second Turkish siege in 1683, the St. Georgians fled to the surrounding fortified cities, the area was used as a field camp by the Ottoman army. The place and the church were almost completely burned down. The church was only rebuilt in the baroque style in 1749. During this time the image of St. George by Bartolomeo Altomonte was created . In 1794 the first school was built. St. Georgen was also sacked in 1805 and 1809, this time by Napoleon's troops.

In 1848 St. Georgen became an independent municipality. The community area comprised the present area as well as Ochsenburg, Altmannsdorf, Windpassing and Völtenorf. After a short affiliation with the municipality of Wilhelmsburg, the area became independent again in 1850. Before the railway was built in the 1870s, St. Georgen was mainly home to farmers and craftsmen. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century , numerous companies were founded, including the Wörth plant and the Kössler company. Many St. Georgians also worked in the Harlander Coats plant in Ochsenburg . In the years after 1899 the Traisen was regulated and the second Viennese spring water pipeline was built, which created numerous jobs.

After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, St. Georgen was also affected by the political turmoil in Austria after the war, such as the civil war in 1934 and the annexation of Austria in 1938. There were also a large number of armaments factories, including the Wörth works. In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, most of the town's houses were damaged or destroyed by air raids and fighting at the front. The community was occupied by Soviet troops from 1945 to 1954. Reconstruction began in 1948 and was completed after 1955 with the restoration of the historical buildings and the design of the town.

In the time after the end of the occupation, numerous companies for gravel extraction were founded. The resulting pits are now used as sports or playgrounds. The B20 got its current appearance in 1969.

In 1971 St. Georgen and all of its cadastral communities were incorporated into St. Pölten against the will of most of the residents. The Traisen Bridge to Ochsenburg was built in 1974.

politics

As a district of St. Pölten , St. Georgen does not have its own municipal council; the mayors before 1972 can be found in the list of mayors of St. Pölten .

See also: St. Pölten: Politics

Public facilities

In St. Georgen there is a primary, elementary and special school as well as two kindergartens.

The Samariterbund St. Georgen is responsible for the rescue service, and the volunteer fire brigade is responsible for fire protection and other tasks of the fire brigade. In 1992 the St. Pölten – St. Georgen founded.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Georgen am Steinfelde

• Parish church of St. Georgen am Steinfelde

literature

• Cultural administration of the state capital St. Pölten, 1992: A village in stone and arable land - On the history of the districts of St. Georgen and Ochsenburg

Web links

Commons : St. Georgen am Steinfelde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magistrate of the City of St. Pölten: Annual Statistical Report 2015.
2. ↑ J. Jungwirth: Anthropological findings of the late Latène Age skeleton from St. Georgen am Steinfeld. In: Archaeologica Austriaca 34, 1963, p. 17 f.
3. ^ Susanne Sievers / Otto Helmut Urban / Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A-K and L-Z ; Announcements of the prehistoric commission in the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , p. 1648.
4. ^ M. Taus: A late Latènezeiliches forge grave from St. Georgen am Steinfeld. In: Archaeologica Austriaca 34, 1963, p. 13 f.