Trattenbach

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Trattenbach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Neunkirchen
License plate :	NK
Surface:	30.99 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 36 '  N , 15 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '0 "  N , 15 ° 52' 0"  E
Height :	777  m above sea level A.
Residents :	536 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2881
Area code :	02641
Community code :	3 18 41
Address of the municipal administration:	Trattenbach 10 2881 Trattenbach
Website:	www.trattenbach.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Johannes Hennerfeind ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	10 4th 1 10 4th 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 10 FPÖ : 4 SPÖ : 1
Location of Trattenbach in the Neunkirchen district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Trattenbach is a municipality with 536 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria .

geography

Trattenbach is located in Feistritz Valley, which leads east from Feistritzsattel to Aspang-Markt , right at the foot of the Otter . The area belongs to the industrial district .

The area of ​​the municipality covers 30.86 square kilometers. 81.31 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

There are no other cadastral communities apart from Trattenbach.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (clockwise from the north): Schottwien , Raach am Hochgebirge , Otterthal , Kirchberg am Wechsel and Aspangberg-St. Peter in Lower Austria as well as Rettenegg and Spital am Semmering in Styria .

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

On May 12, 1826, the Kerschbaumer family, who lived in a hut on Sattelweg, fell victim to the notorious Nikolaus Schmidhofer alias Holzknechtseppl . He was the leader of the Stradafüßler band of robbers and was sometimes able to live with the family with some of his cronies. After he and one of his men were provoked by the Wegmacher's wife on one of these occasions, the two robbers murdered the parents Franz and Josefa Kerschbaumer and their daughter Maria (between 12 and 16 years old depending on the source) and set the family home on fire on. There was also a fourth fatality with the foster daughter Juliane (between 3 and 10 years old, according to the source) who probably burned alive because the robbers had forgotten it, as Schmidhofer later admitted during interrogation.

In the early 1920s, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein worked for some time as a primary school teacher in Trattenbach.

In the last weeks of the Second World War , the Red Army tried to penetrate the Semmering into northeast Styria in order to stab in the back of the German armed forces fighting on the border . This could be prevented by alarm groups, which at the end of April 1945 were combined in the 9th Mountain Division . This defensive action also led to fighting in the vicinity of the village.

On January 1, 1971, the communities of Raach am Hochgebirge and Trattenbach zu Otterthal were incorporated. On January 1st, 1985 these two communities became independent again. The reason was a finding by the Constitutional Court .

Population development

religion

According to the data of the 2001 census , 94.3% of the population are Roman Catholic and 1.5% Protestant . 0.5% are Muslim . 2.9% of the population have no religious denomination.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 others, 5 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, and 1 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, 1 SPÖ, and 1 nomination by Tauchner.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 4 FPÖ and 1 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2010 Ernst Schabauer (ÖVP)
• since 2010 Johannes Hennerfeind (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Trattenbach

Economy and Infrastructure

Trattenbach (top left) around 1873 (recording sheet of the regional survey )

In 2001 there were 25 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 53 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 269. In 2001, the activity rate was 44.96 percent.

Personalities

• Ludwig Wittgenstein (* 1889 Vienna; † 1951 Cambridge ), Austrian-British philosopher, worked as a primary school teacher in Trattenbach from 1921 to 1923.

Web links

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

• 31841 - Trattenbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Tepperberg: Der Holzknechtseppl from Festschrift 680 Years Market Community Riedlingsdorf , Riedlingsdorf 2011, publisher market community Riedlingsdorf
2. ^ Johann Anton Laschober: From the life of a robber captain from Edlitz - our home community , Edlitz 1992, publisher Marktgemeinde Edlitz
3. ↑ Change of community since 1945
4. ↑ VfGH G29 / 83 of October 13, 1983
5. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Trattenbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 9, 2019 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Trattenbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 9, 2019 . 
7. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Trattenbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 9, 2019 . 
8. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Trattenbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 9, 2019 . 
9. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Trattenbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 9, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Trattenbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .