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Tiefgrabenrotte ( scattered houses ) locality area / Rotte
Basic data
Pole. District , state	St. Pölten  (PL), Lower Austria
Judicial district	St. Polten
Pole. local community	Frankenfels
Coordinates	48 ° 0 '55 "  N , 15 ° 20' 8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '55 "  N , 15 ° 20' 8"  E
height	450  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	125 (January 1, 2016)
Building status	36 (2001 )
Post Code	3213 Frankenfels
Statistical identification
Locality code	05448
Counting district / district	Frankenfels area (31906 001)
The Haltgraben to the south, in the center of Tiefgrabenrotte 9 (vulgo Leiten), in the background the Frankenfelsberg
with Bichl, Hof, Schwabeck, Tiefgraben, Weißenburg (partly) Source: STAT : Ortverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

The deep grave Rottenberg is a district of the municipality of Frankenfels in St. Pölten-Land district in Lower Austria .

geography

The village is located about 32 kilometers southwest of St. Pölten , about 3½ kilometers north of the municipal capital.

The scattered houses lie along the Weißenbach , a left tributary of the Pielach , and in the Haltgraben , northwards towards Schwabeck-Kreuz and St. Gotthard (municipality of Texingtal) , at around 450  m above sea level. A. Height. To the south rises francs Felsberg  (933/ 918  m above sea level. A. of), northeast Bichl Mountain  ( 859  m above sea level. A. of), northwest rolling mountain  ( 868  m above sea level. A. ) and the Grüntalkogel  ( 886  m above sea level. A. ) . Here the mountainous region of the Mostviertel limestone foothills ( Türnitz Alps ) merges into the foothills of the Ötscher region .

The village has almost 40 buildings with around 125 residents. The local area includes parts of the settlement built from 1980 and later called Weißenburg, with the exception of the two previously existing houses, which make up the majority of the locality. B. the houses labeled Hof , and Tiefgraben in Weißenbachtaleinwärts, as well as Bichl and Schwabeck Haltgrabeneinwärts, all classified as single layers.

Neighboring towns and cities

St. Gotthard (O, Gem.  Texingtal , District Melk )		Fischbach (O, Gem.  Texingtal , District Melk ) Schwerbach Area (O, Gem.  Kirchberg adP )
Wiesrotte  (O)		Weissenburg area  (O)
	Leaning area  (O)	Weissenburg

history

One of the oldest houses in Frankenfels is probably the Schwabeck homestead in the north, where a nobleman named Schwab was mentioned as early as 1227. This is a property belonging to the Schwabegg Castle Stables on the Schwabeck Wall. The fortress was probably given up in the 14th century, the Schwabeck homestead still exists.

During the second Turkish siege in 1683 there was a chalk fire east of Schwabeck am Pichlberg , which warned the population of enemies.

In 1837 Franz Xaver Schweickhardt wrote in his historical-topographical descriptions that the group was 7½  hours away from the nearest post office (St. Pölten). It can also be seen that the squad belonged to the military district of Line Infantry Regiment No. 49 . The number of souls was 26 families, 55 males and 58 females and 16 children of school age. 36 oxen, 34 cows, 60 sheep and 40 pigs were recorded for livestock. Among the residents were forest farmers and lumberjacks and a shoemaker. The houses were very scattered at a distance of 1½ to 2 hours from Frankenfels "in a wooded valley with rocky outcrops", where the connecting path to Plankenstein also leads. The "climate, although somewhat rough because of the mountainous location, is healthy, the crystal-clear spring water is excellent." The hunt produces large game .

Until the abolition of serfdom in 1848 , the group was largely managed by the manorial Maierhof of Weißenburg Castle , to whose local rule the settlement always belonged. Rotthaus (local administrative center) was the Tiefgraben homestead with the number 16 - the division of the region into Rotten has been documented since 1629.

In the 19th century, the location was also referred to as Abfaltern or Tief en grabenrotte after a small house .

Population and building status

Archduchy of Austria								Crown land of Austria under the Enns ( Austrian Empire / Austria-Hungary )			State of Lower Austria (Republic of Austria )
1449	1558	1629	1658	1751	1771	1787	1794	1822	1830	1869	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	104	-	113	93	102	94	92	87	139	139
6th	7th	11	16	16	18th	16	20th	20th	20th	19th	18th	17th	17th	22nd	33	36

House and field names

The moat with the Schwabeck farmstead, the Grüntalkogelhütte can be seen in the background

There are currently around forty houses in the Tiefgrabenrotte, around twenty of which have a farm name . Houses from number 22 are located in the settlement area in the Weißenburg district, which was built around 1980 .

List of houses

The origin of the word is given in brackets

• Tiefgrabenrotte 1: Abfalterhäusl (to apple tree )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 2: Unter-Angerhäusl ( Anger , public pasture )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 3: Ober-Angerhäusl
• Tiefgrabenrotte 4: courtyard ( manor court )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 5: Unter-Halt ( pasture area )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 6: Ober-Halt
• Tiefgrabenrotte 7 †: Klein-Hainbach
• Tiefgrabenrotte 8: Schwabeck (to the Schwabegg residence , personal name Schwab , Heinricus Suevus)
• Tiefgrabenrotte 9: Leiten ( Leite , slope )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 10: Bichl ( Bühel , Hügel )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 11: Pulverhäusl (manufacturer of black powder )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 12: Bachhäusl ( house next to the Weißenbach )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 13: Mühlhäusl (mill for crushing the constituents of black powder)
• Tiefgrabenrotte 14: Gatterhäusl ( gate , barrier )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 15: Sperrieglhäusl ( hill )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 16: Tiefgraben ( deep trench , former Rotthaus)
• Tiefgrabenrotte 17 †: Zinsenhof (ownership structure)
• Tiefgrabenrotte 18 †: Wiesl ( small meadow )
• Tiefgrabenrotte 19: Bichl-Häusl (small house next to Bichl)
• Tiefgrabenrotte 20 †: Bichlberg (to the mountain)

Tiefgrabenrotte 17 (Zinsenhof) only existed until 1910, while Tiefgrabenrotte 18 (Wiesl) was closed in 1957. Tiefgrabenrotte 20 belonged to Kirchberg an der Pielach and was already uninhabitable at the end of the 19th century.

The field names are still common today as vulgar names, especially in the agricultural businesses (Schwabeck, Leiten, Bichl, Hof or Tiefgraben) . However, some names, especially those of the houses, have disappeared from today's vocabulary.

Economy and Infrastructure

The fire station of the Weissenburg volunteer fire brigade, which was renovated and expanded between 2009 and 2012, is based on the new building from 1980 with the house number Tiefgrabenrotte 22

In addition to agriculture and forestry, other small businesses were also operated in the Tiefgrabenrotte. A shoemaker resided in Tiefgrabenrotte 2 from the 17th to the 19th century and in Hnr. 11 and 13, gunpowder was produced. Today there is a carpentry business in Tiefgrabenrotte and since January 1st 2014 there is also a potter and tiler. A gravedigger company was later added, and in 2017 a car service and parts dealer.

Due to the large community area and the exposed location of the mainly agricultural businesses, there was a locally separated train of the Frankenfels volunteer fire brigade , now Weißenburg fire station, since 1938 . From this fire station, the Weissenburg volunteer fire brigade was formed on May 7, 2017 with 31 members (28 active members and 2 reservists, as of December 31, 2017).

Culture and sights

Until recently, the northern houses belonged to the parish of St. Gotthard . Due to the long distance to the Frankenfels elementary school, the children from Haus Bichl attended the school in St. Gotthard. The connection to the Texingtal village is still evident today in the regular foot pilgrimages over the Schwabeck Cross to St. Gotthard. As early as 1930, the local council had discussed building a school in the Weißenbachtal.

The following saying is still known today: "The Weißenbach begins in misery and ends in need". Meant are the houses Elendgarten ( Weißenburg region  15) and Not ( Wiesrotte  11).

In the Schwabeck is the oldest tree in Frankenfels, dating from 1610.

The Schwabeck cross at the pass to the Texingtal is a baroque wayside shrine (1647). The Schwabegg Castle Stables not far away is partially preserved or recognizable, but difficult to access. Up there on the ridge line passes the Große Pielachtaler Rundwanderweg 652 and European long-distance hiking trail E4 . The area is also popular as a mountain bike terrain.

literature

• Bernhard Gamsjäger : Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , Frankenfels 1987.
• Bernhard Gamsjäger, Ernst Langthaler (Ed.): The Frankenfelser book . Frankenfels 1997.

Web links

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

• 31906 - Frankenfels. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 374.
2. ↑ Ortsbauernrat Frankenfels, Hubert Größbacher (ed.): Frankenfels corridor monuments . Frankenfels around 1995
3. ^ ^{A b c} Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens, ... 7th volume: District of Upper Vienna Woods . Vienna 1837, chapter Herrschaft Kirchberg: Tiefgraben-Rotte , pp. 9 and 10 (Upper Vienna Woods is today about the Mostviertel); archive.org .
4. ^ Imperial patent concerning the abolition of the subservience association and the relief of peasant property from September 7, 1848, Ferdinand I, constitutional emperor of Austria
5. ↑ ^{a b} Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Lower Austria part 3, carrot , p.  82 ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]). Special sources::  1499: land registers of the sovereign rulers, court chamber archive . After lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch. 1987.
   

   1558: oA

   1629: Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch. 1987. Also: Lit. Gamsjäger, Langthaler: Das Frankenfelser Buch. 1997.

   1658: oA

   1751: Theresian versions . Lower Austrian Provincial Archives (NÖLA), State Archives . Information based on the Weigl estate in the NÖLA.

   1771: Existence of houses when house numbers were introduced. After Heinrich Weigl: Historical book of place names of Lower Austria. 1964-1981; partly local sources.

   1787: Josephine versions 1786/87. NÖLA, State Archives .

   1794: Topographical Materials 1794/97, NÖLA, Ständisches Archiv . According to Kurt Klein: The population of Lower Austrian villages in 1794/97. In: Our home 1/1984, 3 ff.

   1822: Numbers of houses from the military conscription, probably around 1820. According to JWC Steinius: Topographical Land Schematismus or list of all the villages in the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns. 1822.

   1830: Mostly information from the military conscription 1830/37, some older. After Franz Xaver Joseph Schweickhardt (von Sickingen): Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns . 1831–41.

   1869: Statistical Central Commission (ed.): Local repertories of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Austrian Imperial Council . (1871 ff.).

   1951 and later: Austrian Central Statistical Office / Statistics Austria (Ed.): Ortverzeichnis . (Results of the census).

6. ↑ Lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 364
7. ↑ after lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch .
8. ↑ Mitterhauser Feuerdesign website with a note on the opening. accessed on January 20, 2013.
9. ↑ Weissenburg Fire Station website (fw-weissenburg.at)
   Weissenburg Fire Station ( memento of the original from March 16, 2014 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. , on ff-frankenfels.at.
10. ↑ Lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 450
11. ↑ Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 422
12. ↑ Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 376