Gföhl

Borough

Gföhl

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Krems-Land

License plate :

KR

Surface:

80.73 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 31 ′ N , 15 ° 29 ′ E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E

Height :

579 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,783 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

47 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

3542

Area code :

02716

Community code :

3 13 11

NUTS region

AT124

Address of the
municipal administration:

Hauptplatz 3
3542 Gföhl

Website:

www.gfoehl.at

politics

Mayoress :

Ludmilla Etzenberger ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(23 members)

14th

5

4th

14th 5 4th

A total of 23 seats

ÖVP : 14
SPÖ : 5
FPÖ : 4

Location of Gföhl in the Krems-Land district

Main square of Gföhl

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gföhl is a municipality with 3783 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria .

geography

Geographical location

Gföhl is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria on a plateau northeast of the Kremstal . The city of Krems an der Donau is about 20 km away. The area of the municipality covers 80.75 square kilometers. 46.03 percent of the area is forested. Gföhl is located on the southwestern edge of the Gföhl forest.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 19 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Felling (103)
Garmanns (77) including Au
Gföhl (2138) including Alt Gföhl and Seefeld
Gföhleramt (294) including defeat
Grand Moths (130)
Grotto Village (48)
Hohenstein (62)
Lengenfelderamt (36)
Litschgraben (23)
Mittelbergeramt (50)
Moritzreith (118)
New building (35) including Am Rodinger
Ober-Meisling (90)
Rastbach (107)
Rice pudding (60)
Horsemen (97)
Seeb (117)
Unter-Meisling (175) including Leisberg
Wurfenthalgraben (23)

The community consists of the cadastral communities of Felling, Garmanns, Gföhl, Gföhleramt, Großmotten, Grottendorf, Hohenstein, Lengenfelderamt, Litsch and Wurfenthalgraben , Mittelbergeramt, Moritzreith, Neubau, Obermeisling, Rastbach, Reisling, Reittern, Seeb and Untermeisling.

Neighboring communities

Notch field	Jaidhof	Langenlois
Lichtenau
Albrechtsberg	Senftenberg , Weinzierl	Lengenfeld , Droß

history

The street group settlement was created when the streets to Zwettl , Krems an der Donau , Langenlois and Gars am Kamp met south of the old aristocratic palace Jaidhof .

In 2011/12, the Lotos-Lindmayer-Privatstiftung wanted to build a Buddhist stupa with parking lots and a building for monks on the outskirts of Gföhl . A referendum was held on February 12, 2012 about the necessary reallocation of the property. The turnout reached 52 percent, around two thirds of the votes cast rejected the project.

From 1988 to 2016, the Gföhlerwald open-air theater took place every year with the Karl May Festival .

Population development

Culture and sights

economy

In 2001 there were 152 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 276 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 1,691. In 2001, the employment rate was 46.92 percent.

politics

Municipal council

The city council has a total of 23 seats.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following mandate distribution: ÖVP 14, SPÖ 5, FPÖ 4.

mayor

until 2013 Karl Simlinger (ÖVP)
since 2014 Ludmilla Etzenberger (ÖVP)

Personalities

Honorary citizen

2008: Erwin Pröll (* 1946), governor

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Baptist Wisgrill (1795–1851), doctor and professor of medicine, fellow student of Franz Schubert in the Wiener Stadtkonvikt
Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg (1884–1943), classical philologist, Germanist and Byzantinist
Karl Simlinger (1906–1965), politician (ÖVP) and farmer
Franz Fux (1927–2009), politician (SPÖ), farmer and author
Bernhard Naber (1934–2018), Benedictine, abbot of Altenburg Abbey
Erwin Waldschütz (1948–1995), philosopher
Erwin Redl (* 1963), artist
Josef Edlinger (* 1969), politician (ÖVP)