Spitz (Lower Austria)
market community Spitz on the Danube
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Basic data | ||
Country: | Austria | |
State : | Lower Austria | |
Political District : | Krems-Land | |
License plate : | KR | |
Surface: | 23.85 km² | |
Coordinates : | 48 ° 22 ' N , 15 ° 25' E | |
Height : | 223 m above sea level A. | |
Residents : | 1,569 (January 1, 2020) | |
Population density : | 66 inhabitants per km² | |
Postal code : | 3620 | |
Area code : | 02713 | |
Community code : | 3 13 44 | |
NUTS region | AT124 | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Hauptstrasse 15a 3620 Spitz an der Donau |
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politics | ||
Mayor : | Andreas Nunzer ( ÖVP ) | |
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members) |
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Location of Spitz an der Donau in the Krems-Land district | ||
Center of Spitz |
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria |
Spitz is a market town in the Wachau World Heritage Site with 1569 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria .
geography
Geographical location
Spitz is located on the orographic left bank of the Danube in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 23.83 square kilometers. 69.21 percent of the area is forested. In Spitz, the Spitzer Bach flowing through the Spitzer Graben flows into the Danube.
Community structure
The municipality includes the following four localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Good at the dock (137)
- Schwallenbach (92)
- Spitz (1220) including Laaben, Mieslingtal, Radlbach and Zornberg
- Viessling (120)
The community consists of the cadastral communities Gut am Steg, Schwallenbach , Spitz and Vießling.
Neighboring communities
Mühldorf | Weinzierl am Walde | Weißenkirchen in the Wachau |
Rossatz-Arnsdorf | ||
Maria Laach am Jauerling | Aggsbach |
history
The area around today's market town belonged to Niederaltaich Monastery from 812 to 1504 and was a Bavarian enclave in Austria for a long time , but is now part of Lower Austria.
Population development
politics
mayor
Mayor of the market town is Andreas Nunzer (ÖVP).
Before Andreas Nunzer, Hannes Hirtzberger was mayor. A poison attack was carried out on him at the beginning of February 2008 using a Mon Chéris prepared with strychnine and he was kept in artificial deep sleep in the Krems hospital until March 18, 2008. The consequences of the poisoning made it impossible for him to exercise his office himself.
Former mayors since 1945:
- 1945–1965 Franz Schöberl , wine maker, economics councilor and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament
- 1965–1983 Franz Hirtzberger, wine maker
- 1983–2000 Walter Nunzer, teacher
- 2000–2010 Hannes Hirtzberger, lawyer
- from 2010 Andreas Nunzer, lawyer
Municipal council
There are a total of 19 seats in the municipal council. Since the municipal council election on January 26, 2020 , the following mandate distribution applies:
Community partnerships
Culture and sights
- Late Gothic parish church of St. Mauritius and rectory north of the church with a medieval wall
- Ruin rear building
- Niederhaus Castle (so-called Lower Castle)
- Erlahof
- Shipping Museum Spitz: This museum offers a variety of insights into the technology and history of historical Danube shipping.
- Red Gate
Economy and Infrastructure
In 2001 there were 99 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 160 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 760. In 2001, the activity rate was 45.05 percent.
The market town is connected to the Donauuferbahn through the train stations at Spitz an der Donau and Schwallenbach . The north-south long-distance hiking trail has also been running through the town since 1970 .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Franz Schöberl (1895–1977), Mayor of Spitz 1945–1965
- Erich Schöner (1901–1979), teacher and local writer
- Johann Schindl († 1988), pastor of Spitz
- 2001: Walter Nunzer († 2019), Mayor of Spitz 1983–2000
- 2004: Josef Gugler (1941–2019), pastor of Spitz 1979–2017
- 2007: Franz Hirtzberger († 2007), Mayor of Spitz 1965–1983
- 2010: Hannes Hirtzberger, Mayor of Spitz 2000–2010
- 2020: Franz Machhörndl
Sons and daughters of the church
- Karl Jedek (1853–1940), politician ( CSP ), innkeeper and timber merchant
- Karl Mühlberger (1857–1944) composer of the Kaiserjägermarsch
- Franz Schöberl (1895–1977), politician ( ÖVP ) and wine maker
- Josef Jahrmann (* 1947), politician ( SPÖ ) and member of the state parliament
Personalities associated with the community
- Ingrid Burkhard (* 1931), actress
- Josef Kinzel (1852–1925), landscape and genre painter
- Rudolf Zarboch (1878–1960), school director, deputy mayor and politician ( GdP , NWB )
Others
Joseph Kyselak describes Spitz in his sketches , published in 1829, of a foot trip through Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Berchtesgaden, Tyrol and Bavaria to Vienna - along with a romantic, picturesque depiction of several knight castles and their folk tales, mountainous areas and ice glaciers on this hike, undertaken by Joseph in 1825 Kyselak , and cites the following (vol. 2, p. 261):
"There is more and more wine growing in the middle of the Spitz,
As d'Reben lend to the fattest parishes.
This proud confession is said to have been written down on the house of the richest winegrower until 1805 when the French who entered the country took this boast to heart, and now nobody dares to boast of their stocks with strangers or locals. "
In 1947, the film " The Hofrat Geiger " with Paul Hörbiger and Hans Moser was shot in Spitz, among others.
Web links
- Entry on Spitz in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Website of the market town of Spitz in the Wachau
- Entry about the Spitz Hinterhaus castle ruins on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via castle ruin Spitz Hinterhaus on Burgen-Austria
- Entry about Schloss Spitz Niederhaus on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
- Entry via Schloss Spitz Niederhaus to Burgen-Austria
- 31344 - Spitz (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wachau World Heritage Site - municipalities. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ https://www.spitz-wachau.at/Unsere_Gemeinde/Gemeindeehrungen , accessed on April 19, 2020.