Schweiggers

Schweiggers is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 58.65 square kilometers. 25.04 percent of the area is forested.

The German Thaya , one of two source rivers of the Thaya, rises between the districts of Mödershöf and Schweiggers .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 16 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Großreichenbach (110)
Kleinwolfgers (52)
Limbach (200)
Man's Stalk (105)
Meinhartschlag (21)
Perndorf (75)
Pure Bolden (11)
Sallingstadt (237)
Schwarzenbach (55)
Schweiggers (777)
Siebenlinden (148)
Streitbach (43)
Unterwindhag (76)
Quadruplets (20)
Walterschlag (56)
Windhof (31)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Brunnhöf, Großreichenbach, Kleinwolfgers, Limbach, Mannshalm, Meinhartschlag, Perndorf, Reinbolden, Sallingstadt, Schwarzenbach, Schweiggers, Siebenlinden , Streitbach, Unterwindhag, Vierlings, Walterschlag and Windhof.

Neighboring communities

	Waldenstein ( Gmünd District ), Kirchberg ( Gmünd District )
Weitra ( Gmünd District )
Großschönau ( Gmünd District )		Zwettl

geology

The flat, undulating landscape of granite and gneiss did not always shape the landscape of today's Schweiggers. In the Paleozoic , huge mountains towered up in what is now the Waldviertel. Due to the erosion of the mountains down to the base, today's granite and gneiss plateau was left, which belongs to the Bohemian masses . In the west of the municipality, the Weinsberg granite predominates, in the east (Walterschlag, Sallingstadt, Limbach) paragneiss of the Ostrong unit ("monotonous series").

landscape

The landscape of the municipality is characterized by wooded hills, valleys formed by rivers and small structured fields and meadows. The highest point in the community is the Holmberg (738 m) near Siebenlinden, on the top of which there is a 30-meter-high observation tower.

climate

The climate can be described as a "cool mountain climate". The average annual rainfall is 695 mm, of which 70% falls in the summer half-time. In winter, an average of 1–1.5 meters of snow falls. The number of days with frost is very high at 133 days (4.5 months).

history

The name Schweiggers is derived from the Old High German first name Swidger and appears in the documents for the first time around 1182 as "Swichers". The name changed over the centuries until it appears in 1643 as "Schweiggers".

In 1394 the community was granted market rights and thus has a spacious market square in the center of the village.

In 1966 the market town of Schweiggers was merged with the communities of Mannshalm (with the cadastral communities of Mannshalm, Streitbach Schwarzenbach and Meinhartsschlag) and Perndorf (with the KGs Perndorf, Kleinwolfgers and Unterwindhag).

In 1971 the second amalgamation took place with the municipalities of Sallingstadt (KG Sallingstadt and Walterschlag) as well as Limbach (KG Limbach and Windhof) and Siebenlinden (KG Siebenlinden, Vierlings, Brunnhöf, Bichlhof, Groß Reichenbach and Reinbolden).

Population development

year	Residents
2019	2223
2018	2239
2017	2258
2016	2245
2013	1986
2001	2039
1991	2067
1981	2127
1971	2162

politics

Town hall in Schweiggers

Municipal council

After the municipal council election on January 26, 2020, there are 19 seats in the municipality council as follows: ÖVP 17, SPÖ 1, FPÖ 1.

mayor

Mayor of the market town is Josef Schaden.

coat of arms

Definition according to the document: "A split shield with two crossed upward-pointing golden arrows in its front red field and two black stakes in its rear golden field." The rear part is based on the coat of arms of the Kuenringer .

Culture and sights

Waldviertel potato world

Siebenlinden parish church

Economy and Infrastructure

Distribution of employed persons in 2008

Type of acquisition	% of population
Agriculture and Forestry	22.8%
Manufacture of goods	19.5%
trade	16.3%
construction	8.6%
Health and social affairs	7.3%
Others	25.5%

In 2001 there were 61 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 239 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in work in the place of residence was 969. In 2001, the activity rate was 48.6 percent.

Personalities

Bertrand Koppensteiner (1876–1961), Abbot of the Cistercian Monastery of Zwettl
Willi Engelmayer (* 1929; † 2014), artist
Franz Romeder (* 1938), President of the State Parliament of Lower Austria

Web links

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

32525 - Schweiggers. Community data, Statistics Austria .
schweiggers.gv.at - official website
sallingstadt.net - Sallingstadt - The colorful village, website of the beautification u. Hiking club Sallingstadt u. Surroundings

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 14 , accessed on July 4, 2019 .
↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 40 , accessed on July 4, 2019 .

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

[2] Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 14 , accessed on July 4, 2019 .

[3] Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 40 , accessed on July 4, 2019 .