Stillfried

Stillfried ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral community Stillfried
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gänserndorf (GF), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Gänserndorf
Pole. local community	Angern on the March
Coordinates	48 ° 24 '40 " N , 16 ° 50' 39" E Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '40 " N , 16 ° 50' 39" E
height	160 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	360 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	169 (2001)
Area d. KG	11.38 km²
	Statistical identification
Locality code	03565
Cadastral parish number	06023
Counting district / district	Stillfried (30803 003)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

BW

Museum of Prehistory and Early History

Former fortified church with a medieval curtain wall

Stillfried an der March , which forms the border with Slovakia here, is a cadastral municipality in the municipality of Angern an der March in eastern Lower Austria . The place has about 300 inhabitants. The local life of Stillfried is very closely linked to that of the roughly equal cadastral community of Grub an der March , with which Stillfried has numerous institutions in common, such as the mayor and the volunteer fire brigade . On the other bank of the March lies the village Suchohrad , which was once called Dimburg ; a bridge does not exist.

history

Located on Bernsteinstrasse , the place was first mentioned in 1045 in a deed of donation from Emperor Heinrich III. called to the Spanheim Margrave Siegfried . With this donation, Stillfried became the capital of the very short-lived Hungarian Mark , which was soon incorporated into the margraviate of Austria . In 1278 the fighters of Rudolf I met at Stillfried for the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen , a key event in Austrian history. In 1355 Stillfried was granted market rights , already in the Habsburg Duchy of Austria.

The border on the March was an internal border of the Danube Monarchy from the 16th century, when the Habsburgs became kings of Hungary , until 1918 . Since November 1918 it has been a state border that was heavily guarded on the Czechoslovak side during the decades of the “ Iron Curtain ” up to 1989. On both sides of the border, the controls were suspended due to the accession of Slovakia to the Schengen area on December 21, 2007.

Since 1972 the place belongs to the municipality of Angern an der March.

Archaeological finds

The prehistoric finds in the area of Angern show finds from a long period of time. They range from the Paleolithic to Roman times. This results in a unique settlement continuum of almost 30,000 years with over 120 years of research tradition. Excavations have been carried out in Stillfried since 1874.

A stone cutter's job was found from the Paleolithic Age. From the Iron Age , more precisely the late Latène period (190 BC to the birth of Christ), a body burial with ceramics from this era was excavated in Grub in the hallway "brickworks" in 1917 ( ovoid bottles, painted and crested vessels, smoothed and sickle edges) . Another site was the "church hill", also with late Latène ceramics. A grave and a settlement of this time horizon were excavated in the municipality of Dürnkrut in the corridor "Beim Walde".

The Roman finds come from a military station from the 2nd century.

traffic

Stillfried has been accessible via the Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn since 1839 . The distance from Wien Praterstern train station is 44 tariff kilometers, there is regional transport integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region every hour ( travel time 45 minutes). The express trains to Brno and Prague do not stop in Stillfried.

Attractions

In addition to archaeological excavation sites, the sights of Stillfried include the parish church and the former elementary school. There is also a museum for prehistory and early history.

literature

Lambert Karner : Artificial caves from ancient times. Vienna 1903, reprint 2018, ISBN 978-3-96401-000-1 , Stillfried, pp. 17-19.

Web links

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

Stillfried Museum
Entry on Stillfried in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Website of the association "Livable Stillfried-Grub"

Historical maps

Stillfried in the regional survey around 1873

Stillfried (bottom left), with information about military accommodations (900 men and 40 horses, far right) and the March

The March Plain east of Stillfried with Dimburg , then the Kingdom of Hungary, then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia, could be reached via several ferries and bridges

The municipality of Velm-Götzendorf is to the west of Stillfried

Individual evidence

^ Clemens Eibner : Topography of the excavations in the Stillfried area, Lower Austria. Research in Stillfried I. In: Publications of the Austrian Working Group for Prehistory and Early History VI, 1974, p. 32 ff.
^ Susanne Sievers / Otto Helmut Urban / Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A-K and L-Z ; Announcements of the prehistoric commission in the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , p. 1783 f.
↑ Otto Helmut Urban: Celts, Romans and Teutons. In: Catalog excavations in Stillfried, 1985.

[1] Clemens Eibner : Topography of the excavations in the Stillfried area, Lower Austria. Research in Stillfried I. In: Publications of the Austrian Working Group for Prehistory and Early History VI, 1974, p. 32 ff.

[2] Susanne Sievers / Otto Helmut Urban / Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A-K and L-Z ; Announcements of the prehistoric commission in the publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , p. 1783 f.

[3] Otto Helmut Urban: Celts, Romans and Teutons. In: Catalog excavations in Stillfried, 1985.