Sigmundsherberg

market community

Sigmundsherberg

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Basic data

Country: Austria

State : Lower Austria

Political District : horn

License plate : HO

Surface: 47.96 km²

Coordinates : 48 ° 41 ′ N , 15 ° 45 ′ E Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 10 " N , 15 ° 44 ′ 47" E48.686111111111 15.746388888889 429

Height : 429 m above sea level A.

Residents : 1,642 (January 1, 2020)

Population density : 34 inhabitants per km²

Postal code : 3751

Area code : 02983

Community code : 3 11 24

NUTS region AT124

Address of the
municipal administration: Hauptstrasse 50
3751 Sigmundsherberg

Website: www.sigmundsherberg.gv.at

politics

Mayor : Franz Göd ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

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A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 13
SPÖ : 6

Location of Sigmundsherberg in the Horn district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Sigmundsherberg is a market town with 1642 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Horn district in Lower Austria .

geography

Sigmundsherberg is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria on the northeastern edge of the Horner Basin . The area of the market town covers 47.95 square kilometers. 28.51 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Brugg (2.17 km²) Kainreith (6.77 km²) Missingdorf (3.06 km²) Rodingersdorf (6.91 km²) Röhrawiesen (5.96 km²) Sigmundsherberg (4.29 km²) Theras (13.85 km²) Walkenstein (4.94 km²)	Brugg (D) Kainrath (D) Missingdorf (D) Rodingersdorf (D) Röhrawiesen (D) Sigmundsherberg (M) Theras (D) Therasburg (W) Walkenstein (D)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

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

Brugg (74)
Kainreith (158)
Missingdorf (101)
Rodingersdorf (300)
Röhrawiesen (66)
Sigmundsherberg (631)
Theras (225) including Therasburg
Walkenstein (87)

With the Lower Austria. Local structural improvements were merged as of 1 January 1972, the municipalities Sigmundsherberg, Rodingersdorf, Kainreith, Walkenstein, Brugg, Röhrawiesen and Missingdorf to the municipality Sigmundsherberg.

The main town Sigmundsherberg, Missingdorf and Rodingersdorf have the post code 3751, Brugg, Kainreith, Röhrawiesen and Walkenstein the post code 3752 and Theras the post code 3742.

Neighboring communities

Geras	Weitersfeld
Pernegg		Pulkau
horn	Meiseldorf

history

On the occasion of the sale of two fiefs, Sigmundsherberg was first mentioned in writing on June 13, 1302. The Geras Abbey had the manorial rule, but both the Dachsberger and Eyczinger families owned land here. In 1425 the Hussites devastated the place, but the imperial troops that passed through here on the way to Bohemia in 1619/1620 were no better.

The fact that Sigmundsherberg belonged to the advertising district of the Ferdinand Toskana regiment in 1795 did nothing to change the fact that it was in reality meaningless. From 1867 to 1870 the Franz-Josefs-Bahn ran through the town. In 1872 a connecting line to Zellerndorf was built and in 1889 the Kamptalbahn . Within twelve years, Sigmundsherberg had become a railway junction and yet in 1880 it only had 28 houses and 251 residents. In 1900 there were already 49 houses and 538 inhabitants. The gendarmerie post established on October 20, 1892 was housed in one of these houses .

In 1902 the Franz-Josefs-Bahn received its second track and in 1911 Sigmundsherberg received electricity. In 1914 the First World War broke out, in 1915 the Sigmundsherberg prisoner of war camp, one of the largest prisoner of war camps (for 125,000 prisoners) of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (with its own siding), was originally occupied by Russian prisoners, but from 1916 Italian prisoners. The camp existed until 1919, a sad reminder of this is the still existing camp cemetery .

Because of the inflation after the war, the community Sigmundsherberg issued emergency money , which was changed back to legal money between December 1 and 31, 1920. This money was printed by the Berger printing company in Horn . A cinema was opened in 1919 and the volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1920. In 1923 there were 102 houses and 906 residents.

On September 15, 1938, tank and flak units were quartered in Sigmundsherberg during the occupation of the Sudetenland . October 20, 1938 brought the amalgamation of the communities Sigmundsherberg, Maigen, Rodingersdorf, Kainreith, Walkenstein, Brugg, Röhrawiesen, Stockern and Klein Meiseldorf to form Sigmundsherberg with a population of 3,021. In 1946 this large community was dissolved again. In 1959, the Franz-Josefs-Bahn between Sigmundsherberg and Gmünd was once again single-tracked and switched from steam to diesel operation.

The Landtag of Lower Austria resolved the market survey of Sigmundsherberg in 1961 , the market survey celebrations took place on May 27, 1962. From 1967 a track was also dismantled on the railway line between Absdorf and Sigmundsherberg.

Partner communities

since ? Berndorf in the Baden district in Lower Austria.

Population development

About one third of the population decline in recent decades is due to a negative birth balance and two thirds to a negative migration balance.

politics

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The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 9 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 8 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 8 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 9 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 4 BLS citizens list Livable Sigmundsherberg and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.

mayor

1920–1923 Josef Bachmaier
1923–1934 Anton Huber
1934–1938 Franz Stift
1938–1945 Franz Siegert
1945–1962 Josef Gassner (SPÖ)
1962–1986 Ernest Schmid
1986–2005 Josef Waldher
since 2005 Franz Göd (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Neudegg ruins

Walkenstein Castle

Therasburg Castle

Sigmundsherberg parish church

Parish Church of Theras

Walkenstein parish church

Missingdorf bulk box

Steam locomotive BBÖ 378 in the Sigmundsherberg Railway Museum

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Neudegg ruins
Walkenstein Castle
Catholic parish church Sigmundsherberg hl. Christophorus: The parish church was built from 1936 to 1937 according to a design by the St. Pölten architect Rudolf Wondracek .
Catholic parish church Theras: The elevated parish church on the heights of the cross combines different architectural styles, from the presumably Romanesque core to Gothic and Baroque elements to the predominantly neo-Gothic furnishings.
Catholic parish church Walkenstein: The parish church of Sankt Margaretha was built in 1804 as a Josephine hall church, whereby the medieval floor plan was retained.
Catholic Filialkirche Rodingersdorf: The Filialkirche Sankt Laurenz , first mentioned in a document and consecrated in 1281, is a Romanesque building that was changed to Baroque style from 1724 to 1727 .

Museums

The Sigmundsherberg Railway Museum was opened in 1987. It provides information about the Kamptalbahn, the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and the various former and current ÖBB, BBÖ etc. locomotives. Diesel multiple units of the Kamptalbahn can also be viewed.
Sigmundsherberg Motorcycle Museum: The 1st Austrian Motorcycle Museum - Ehn Collection, founded in Eggenburg in 1980, has been located in Sigmundsherberg since 2009 .

Oldtimermuseum, Sigmundsherberg Motor Vehicle Museum: Since 2010, the history of numerous car brands from the USA and Europe has been documented here with over 150 exhibits.

economy

In 2001 there were 50 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 120 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 777. In 2001, the employment rate was 44.28 percent.

In Austria, wafers were only produced in Sigmundsherberg until 2010 . In Rodingersdorf, the Esterbauer publishing house is the publisher of a wide range of bike tour books (“bikeline”), mountain bike, skate and hiking guides. It developed from the ARGUS cycling initiative in Vienna around 1985 .

traffic

Railway: Sigmundsherberg is a railway junction on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and the Kamptalbahn . The ÖBB operate the Sigmundsherberg station . The Kainreith-Walkenstein station on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn was closed in 1994.

Bus: The PostBus bus company has stops on line 1251 ( Retz - Jetzelsdorf ) in Sigmundsherberg, Missingdorf and Rodingersdorf , and stops on line 1253 ( Horn - Eggenburg ) in Sigmundsherberg, Brugg, Kainreith, Röhrawiesen, Theras and Walkenstein, as well as in Sigmundsherberg, Missingdorf and Rodingersdorf Line 1351 stops (Horn - Weitersfeld ). On the nights from Saturday to Sunday, the N8BUZZ (Schweinburg - Eggenburg - Horn) runs to transport young people to and from discos in the two district centers of Horn and Eggenburg.

Road: The Pulkautal Straße (B45) leads through Sigmundsherberg.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

Josef Waldher (1936–2018), Mayor of Sigmundsherberg 1986–2005

Sons and daughters of the church

Josef Gassner (1890–1969), Lower Austrian politician, member of the state parliament and federal councilor, from 1945 to 1962 mayor of Sigmundsherberg, was born in Sigmundsherberg.
Ernst Magerl (1896–1988), Lower Austrian politician, district judge and member of the state parliament, was born in Rodingersdorf.
Karl Hrdlicka (1908–1989), Lower Austrian politician and member of the state parliament, was born in Sigmundsherberg.
Robert Krapfenbauer (1923–2005), Austrian structural engineer and civil engineer, was born in Rodingersdorf.
Kurt Ohnsorg (1927–1970), sculptor and ceramicist, was born in Sigmundsherberg.

literature

Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube. Vienna: Anton Schroll 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 .
Erwin Frank: ... from our home history. Chronicle of the village of Sigmundsherberg. Sigmundsherberg 2006.