Geras

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Borough
Geras
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Coat of arms of Geras
Geras (Austria)
Geras
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : horn
License plate : HO
Surface: 67.63 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 48 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '56 "  N , 15 ° 40' 28"  E
Height : 460  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,271 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 19 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 2093, 3752, 3753
Area code : 02912
Community code : 3 11 07
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 16
2093 Geras
Website: www.geras.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Johann Glück ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)
16
3
16 
A total of 19 seats
Location of Geras in the Horn district
Altenburg Brunn an der Wild Burgschleinitz-Kühnring Drosendorf-Zissersdorf Eggenburg Gars am Kamp Geras Horn Irnfritz-Messern Japons Langau Meiseldorf Pernegg Röhrenbach Röschitz Rosenburg-Mold Sigmundsherberg St. Bernhard-Frauenhofen Straning-Grafenberg Weitersfeld NiederösterreichLocation of the municipality of Geras in the Horn district (clickable map)
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Town hall Geras
Town hall Geras
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Geras is a municipality with 1271 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Horn district in Lower Austria .

geography

Geras is located in the northern Waldviertel in Lower Austria, north of Horn , which is 22 kilometers away by road. The area of ​​the municipality covers 67.66 square kilometers. 35.21 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Alone (138)
  • Fugnitz (42)
  • Geras (424) including the Geras Nature Park
  • Goggitsch (135) including Steidlmühle
  • Harth (71)
  • Hoetzelsdorf (151)
  • Kottaun (80)
  • Pfaffenreith (20)
  • Purgstall (40)
  • Schirmannsreith (49)
  • Sieghartsreith (76)
  • Trautmannsdorf (45)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Dallein, Fugnitz, Geras, Goggitsch, Harth, Hötzelsdorf, Kottaun, Pfaffenreith, Purgstall, Schiermannsreith, Sieghartsreith, Thumeritzer Sasswald and Trautmannsdorf.

Several postcodes are used in the municipality of Geras. The main town Geras and the districts Fugnitz, Goggitsch, Kottaun, Pfaffenreith and Trautmannsdorf have the postcode 2093, the town Purgstall the postcode 3752, the remaining districts have the postcode 3753.

Neighboring communities

Drosendorf-Zissersdorf Langau
Japons Neighboring communities Weitersfeld
Irnfritz knives Pernegg Sigmundsherberg

history

The Premonstratensian- Chorherren- Stift Geras was founded in 1153 by Ekbert and Ulrich von Pernegg.

The Lower Austrian Landtag elevated the then market town to a town on September 26, 1928.

Population development


politics

Municipal council elections
 %
90
80
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
80.9%
(+ 6.3  % p )
19.1%
(-6.3  % p )
2015

2020


The municipal council has 19 members.

  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ, and 1 Neue Wahl Geras.
  • With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 1 alternative list.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, and 5 SPÖ.
  • With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
mayor
  • ? -? Otto dirt
  • since ? Johann Glück (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

The “new building” of the monastery with the main facade facing the place
See also:  List of listed objects in Geras

economy

In 2001 there were 63 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry businesses according to the 1999 survey 149. The number of people in work at home was 628 according to the 2001 census. In 2001 the activity rate was 45.21 percent. The most important companies in the municipality are the Geras Abbey, APV, a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, and the Hallenbau Baumhauer company in Dallein, as well as the Weiskircher joinery in Goggitsch.

traffic

Hötzelsdorf-Geras train station

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Geras, Lower Austria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Geras. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Election result of the 2000 municipal council election in Geras. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  4. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Geras. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Geras. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  6. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Geras. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  7. Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Geras. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020 .