Thaures (municipality of Heidenreichstein)

Thaures ( village ) locality cadastral municipality Thaures
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gmünd  (GD), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Gmünd in Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Heidenreichstein
Coordinates	48 ° 52 '50 "  N , 15 ° 2' 52"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '50 "  N , 15 ° 2' 52"  E
Residents of the village	120 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	62 (2001)
Area  d. KG	5.34 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	03711
Cadastral parish number	07134
Counting district / district	Thaures (30916 007)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Chapel in Thaures

Thaures is a place and at the same time a cadastral community of the municipality of Heidenreichstein in the northwestern Waldviertel. The village is a row village with forest hooves .

geography

Thaures borders in the east on the cadastral community Altmanns of the municipality Heidenreichstein. In the north, the cadastral municipality of Gopprechts of the municipality of Litschau , in the west the cadastral municipality of Finsternau of the municipality of Brand-Nagelberg and in the south the cadastral municipality of Kiensaß of the municipality of Schrems approaches the area of ​​Thaures. The highest elevation of Thaures is 564  m above sea level. A.

history

Chapel in Neuthaures

The place name is derived from the Slavic "Turej", which is the diminutive of "Tur".

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1369. In 1784 the place became a cadastral municipality and was constituted in 1850 with 232 inhabitants as a separate municipality. This also includes the Neuthaures district, a row village from the 19th century that lies between Thaures and Altmanns .

For a time there was a school of its own in Thaures, in 1811 Thaures belonged to Gopprechts (municipality of Litschau) with regard to school attendance and in 1829 the children were enrolled in Brand . In 1872, a schoolhouse with a small tower for the local bell was built in Thaures and later expanded. In 1965 a new primary school building was built.

In 1907 the local chapel was built and consecrated to St. Leonhard. In 1934 the community had 311 and 1939 322 inhabitants. Electrification began in 1946.

In 1970 the local council decided to merge it with the community of Heidenreichstein.

In 1989, the state of Lower Austria established an air quality measuring point in Thaures, where the pollutants sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and the ozone content of the air as well as meteorological parameters such as wind direction, air temperature and so on are recorded.

In 2001 the village had 137 inhabitants.

mayor

• Johann Ruso (1872)
• Franz Trisko (1906)
• Franz Zimmel (1945)
• Otto Weisgram (1946, 1950)
• Rudolf Pichler (1955)
• Josef Bauer (1960)

Honorary citizen

• Otto Weisgram, Mayor

literature

• Erich Geppert, Karl Pichler: Thaures. In: 800 years of Heidenreichstein, Waldviertel - culture and history. Heidenreichstein 2005, p. 388 ff.

Web links

Commons : Thaures  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lower Austria Atlas ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2009 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.