Münchendorf

Münchendorf
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Mödling
License plate :	MD
Surface:	19.98 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 2 '  N , 16 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '48 "  N , 16 ° 22' 43"  E
Height :	186  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,955 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	148 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2482
Area code :	02259
Community code :	3 17 18
Address of the municipal administration:	Trumauerstraße 1 2482 Münchendorf
Website:	www.muenchendorf.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Ehrenberger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (21 members)	11 6th 4th 11 6th 4th  A total of 21 seats SPÖ : 11 ÖVP : 6 PROMDF : 4
Location of Münchendorf in the Mödling district
Aerial view
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The municipality of Münchendorf with 2955 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) is located in the Vienna Basin in the Mödling district in Lower Austria .

geography

Münchendorf is located a few kilometers south of Vienna in the industrial district in Lower Austria. The municipality is traversed by the Triesting .

Community structure

The community consists of a single cadastral community and town .

Neighboring communities

and places

Laxenburg (Gem.)	Achau (Gem.)	Himberg (  municipality, Bruck an der Leitha district )
Guntramsdorf (Gem.) Möllersdorf (Gem.  Traiskirchen , District Baden )		Velm (Gem.  Himberg , Bruck an der Leitha district )
Traiskirchen (Gem.,  District Baden ) Trumau (Gem.,  District Baden )		Moosbrunn ( Bruck an der Leitha district )

^∗ The Ebreichsdorf municipality is not adjacent because Trumau is in between.

history

The area of ​​Münchendorf was settled as early as the Neolithic Age (around 5000–2000 BC). In the following Bronze Age, Nordic cattle breeders lived here, later Illyrians . The settlement by the Celts followed , then by the Romans . Under the latter, the area belonged to the province of pannonia superior . On the current route of the Eisenstädter Bundesstraße ( Ödenburger Straße ) B 16 there was probably a road to Ödenburg .

The name of the place should come from the time of Charlemagne around 800. A Father Dominicus was awarded the property. The short form of Dominicus is Minigo . In the dialect one speaks of Mingadoaf even today . But it was not until 1147 that Minichdorf was first mentioned in a document when it was donated by the Babenbergers to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

The troubled times of the first and second Turkish sieges followed . (See also history of the parish church ).

In the first half of the 19th century, textile manufacturers were set up here, as in the neighboring communities. The viticulture was only just received, but by the entrainment of phylloxera from America many gardens were destroyed.

In the chaos of the First World War , the cotton mill, which had now become an industrial company, had to close.

In 1938 the municipality lost its independence like all the peripheral municipalities of Vienna and became part of the 24th district of Greater Vienna , where it remained until 1954.

Münchendorf and the surrounding area around 1873 ( recording sheet of the state survey)

Population development

census	Residents
2011	2,498
2001	2,229
1991	1,690
1981	1,152
1971	1,055

Source: population development of Münchendorf. (PDF) Statistics Austria

Economy and Infrastructure

In the past, the inhabitants lived from agriculture, according to the situation mainly from agriculture . But viticulture is also practiced here. Today, the majority of employees have to commute to work.

Only a few larger companies are based in the village. In terms of traffic, Münchendorf is easily accessible on the one hand thanks to the south-east motorway , which was only completed in 1996, and on the other hand it is  freed from through traffic that used to take place on Ödenburger Straße B16. The commuters from the surrounding area such as Ebreichsdorf or the others from Burgenland all had to drive through the town to get to their workplaces in Vienna .

Münchendorf can also be easily reached by rail on the Vienna - Ebenfurth - Wiener Neustadt line ( Pottendorfer line ).

As the quality of life improves, more and more Viennese are moving into the community again. In Münchendorf it rains very little (less than 600 mm per year), which attracts many summer guests to the bathing ponds ( Münchendorfer Seenland ) , around which several weekend house settlements have developed. These are the settlements Babenbergerseen , lakes , Birkensee , Dürrsee , Big Gemeindesee , Little Gemeindesee and Seedörfl in the municipality and directly afterwards more settlements west of Velm in the municipality of Himberg.

Culture sights

• Parish church hl. Leonhard : Baroque-classicist hall with facade tower built in1773/74 according to plans by Franz Anton Pilgram

See also : List of listed objects in Münchendorf

Personalities

Daughters and sons of the place

• Mario Traxl (* 1964), racing cyclist

People related to the place

• Johann Wurth (1828–1870), teacher, poet, folklore collector
• Manfred Wakolbinger (* 1952), visual artist
• Felix Latzke (* 1942), soccer player and coach

literature

• Petrus Kaserer (Ed.): Chronicle Münchendorf: 4300 BC to 2004 AD. Self-published by the community of Münchendorf, Münchendorf 2004.

Web links

Commons : Münchendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Münchendorf  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Community website
• Entry on Münchendorf in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 31718 - Münchendorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Term coined in Johann Richter: Münchendorfer Seenland . In: Lit. Kaserer: Chronik Münchendorf , 2004, p. 82 ff.