Sonnberg (Hollabrunn municipality)

Sonnberg ( village ) locality cadastral community Sonnberg
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Hollabrunn  (HL), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Hollabrunn
Coordinates	48 ° 32 '26 "  N , 16 ° 3' 29"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '26 "  N , 16 ° 3' 29"  E
height	218  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	612 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	5.4 km²
Post Code	2020
prefix	+ 43/02952
Statistical identification
Locality code	03866
Cadastral parish number	09054
Counting district / district	Sonnberg (31022 020)
Center of Sonnberg with the parish church hll. Peter and Paul in the background
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Sonnberg is a village in Lower Austria and a locality and cadastral municipality of the Hollabrunn municipality in the district of the same name. Until the end of 1971, Sonnberg was an independent municipality.

geography

The village is about two kilometers to the south-west of Hollabrunn. The remote Rohrmühle also belongs to the village .

Neighboring towns of Sonnberg are Dietersdorf , Raschala and Wolfsbrunn .

History, castle and parish of Sonnberg

The name of the first owner appeared in 1066. It was the Vohburger Rapoto. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1177. At a depth of 8 meters, an underground passage led from the castle to the town square. This is said to still exist today, but details are not known. In 1231 Sonnberg was destroyed in the fight against Duke Friedrich II . After that, the owner of Sonnberg changed constantly. In 1377 Sonnberg came into the possession of the Eckartsauer. They were known to have a keeper at the castle. In 1497 the new owner was called Rohrer. In 1570 Sonnberg came into the possession of the Gilleis family. Wolf Georg von Gilleis had the outdated and destroyed castle rebuilt in another location, also in Sonnberg. Today nothing can be seen of the old castle.

Archduke Anton Salvator von Habsburg-Lothringen acquired the castle in 1934 and, as an enthusiastic private pilot, had a private airfield built. At the end of the Second World War, Sonnberg Castle was used as a military hospital for a time . In 1955 the castle was sold to the judicial administration and has been a modern penal institution since 1973 - the Sonnberg prison - which offers space for 350 prisoners.

From 1871 to 1949, the Nordwestbahn (Austria) had its own stop in Sonnberg . The Roman Catholic parish of Sonnberg was established before 1307. The parish ceased to exist in 1620 and was rebuilt in 1784 by Emperor Joseph II . Since then, the villages of Dietersdorf and Wolfsbrunn have also been part of the parish.

Clubs from Sonnberg

• Association for home care Sonnberg
• Sports club Sonnberg
• Sonnberg volunteer fire department
• Academy Sonnberg

Traditional festivals

One of the most famous festivals in Sonnberg is the annual sports festival of the Sonnberg sports club . The first sports festival was held in 1974.

In 2006 the castle festival of the Sonnberg Home Care Association took place for the first time.

Every two years the Sonnberg fooling takes place in Sonnberg, which is a carnival parade through Sonnberg.

literature

• Andreas Kusternik, Maximilian Weltin : Municipality of Hollabrunn . In the past and present. The Hollabrunn district and its communities. Association for the promotion of local history research in the Hollabrunn district, Hollabrunn 1993, ISBN 3-9500209-0-5 .

See also

• Sonnberg Castle

Web links

Commons : Sonnberg (Municipality of Hollabrunn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of Sonnberg on “ www.heimatpflege.at ” accessed on September 21, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry about Sonnberg on Burgen-Austria
2. ↑ Sonnberg parish  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Association for home care Sonnberg www.heimatpflege.at
4. ^ Sports club Sonnberg
5. ↑ Sonnberg Academy ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.