Drasenhofen

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Mistelbach

License plate :

MI

Surface:

35.2 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 45 ' N , 16 ° 39' E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '26 " N , 16 ° 38' 56" E

Height :

224 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,107 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

31 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

2165

Area code :

02554

Community code :

3 16 06

NUTS region

AT125

UN / LOCODE

AT DRA

Address of the
municipal administration:

Brünner Strasse 43
2165 Drasenhofen

Website:

www.drasenhofen.at

politics

Mayor :

Horst Frank ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

16

2

1

16 2 1

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 16
FPÖ : 2
SPÖ : 1

Location of Drasenhofen in the Mistelbach district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Drasenhofen is a municipality with 1107 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria .

geography

Schweinbarther Berg

Drasenhofen, view over the Kellergasse

Drasenhofen is located in the northernmost part of the Weinviertel in Lower Austria . The area of the municipality covers 35.19 square kilometers. 10.55 percent of the area is forested.

There is an international border crossing on Brünner Straße (B 7 / E 461) to the city of Mikulov (Nikolsburg) in the Czech Republic, seven kilometers to the north .

The Jakobsweg Weinviertel , which has been signposted since 2010 and which leads from the Holy Mountain ( Svatý kopeček u Mikulova ) near the South Moravian town of Mikulov to Krems an der Donau and is part of the Via Francigena and Via Slavica , leads through the municipality .

Community structure

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

Drasenhofen (539)
Kleinschweinbarth (180)
Steinebrunn (296)
Stützenhofen (92)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Drasenhofen, Kleinschweinbarth, Steinebrunn and Stützenhofen.

Neighboring communities

history

Archaeological excavations have already proven the presence of humans in the Paleolithic . Finds of 18,000–28,000 year old mammoth tusks , animal bones and tools prove that Stone Age people once cut up hunting prey here. Graves have been found from the time of the Bell Beaker Culture and traces of settlement from the Bronze Age .

Drasenhofen was mentioned for the first time in 1190 under the name Taisenhof , which was common until the 16th century .

From the 14th century, the Fünfkirchner family acquired the first goods in Steinebrunn. At the end of the Middle Ages, the aristocratic family rose to become the most powerful landlords in the northern Weinviertel.

The Brünnerstraße , which leads from Vienna via Drasenhofen to Brno , is characteristic of the place and its history . At the end of May 1945 the place was the first stop in Austria for the Brno death march , which began on May 31, 1945 and in which the German citizens of Brno were driven out of their city. Thousands did not survive. 186 of the dead were buried in a mass grave in the local cemetery.

Population development

In the 20th century the community lost almost two thirds of the population. The decline was stopped at the turn of the millennium and the migration balance has been positive since then .

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: 19 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ and 1 SPÖ.

mayor

until 2005 Hubert Bayer (ÖVP)
2005–2010 Josef Studeny (ÖVP)
2011–2020 Reinhard Künzl (ÖVP)
since 2020 Horst Frank (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Fünfkirchen Castle

Parish church Drasenhofen

Filial church Steinebrunn

Crypt chapel of the Counts of Fünfkirchen in Stützenhofen

Brno death march : memorial plaque on the cemetery in Drasenhofen

Drasenhofen

Catholic parish church Drasenhofen hl. Vitus
Rectory in the homeland style
Jubilee hill with the bust of Emperor Franz Joseph and a war memorial on the triangular church square
Tractorium: The museum offers an exhibition of old, restored tractors for viewing, with a selection of old Puch motorcycles and Zündapp scooters, old gendarmerie and postal uniforms, signs, a fire engine, Puch 500 cars and an old gas pump.

Kleinschweinbarth

South Moravian Cross on Schweinbarther Berg

Steinebrunn

Fünfkirchen Castle
Catholic branch church Steinebrunn hl. Anna

Stützenhofen

Crypt chapel of the Counts of Fünfkirchen in the cemetery
The cellar lane from Drasenhofen runs along a section of the old Kaiserstraße to Brno. Since 2005 a festival with historical costumes has been celebrated here in August, which is dedicated to the memory of the time of Kaiserstrasse and famous travelers.

economy

In 2001 there were 48 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 109. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 487. In 2001 the activity rate was 43.48 percent. The largest employer in the community is Fuhrmann Fahrzeugbau in Steinebrunn with 140 employees. In addition to vehicles, steel drop sides are produced, which are exported to 20 countries around the world.

traffic

Road: The Drasenhofen bypass was opened in 2019 as part of the Nord / Weinviertel motorway .
Hiking trails: Drasenhofen is located on the Lower Austrian regional hiking trail , on the Jakobsweg Weinviertel and is the end point of the Weinviertelweg .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Otto Franz Fünfkirchen (1800–1872), landowner, administrative lawyer and politician
Friedrich Wailand (1821–1904), miniature painter
Josef Dengler (1894–1976), politician and resistance fighter