Piesting market

market community

Piesting market

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Wiener Neustadt-Land

License plate :

WB

Surface:

18.3 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 52 ' N , 16 ° 8' E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '22 " N , 16 ° 7' 44" E

Height :

349 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,095 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

169 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

2721, 2724, 2753

Area code :

02633

Community code :

3 23 19

NUTS region

AT122

UN / LOCODE

AT MPI

Address of the
municipal administration:

Marktplatz 1
2753 Markt Piesting

Website:

www.piesting.at

politics

Mayor :

Roland Braimeier ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(21 members)

14th

2

1

14th 2 2 2 1

A total of 21 seats

ÖVP : 14
GREEN : 2
SPÖ : 2
GOOD : 2
FPÖ : 1

Location of Markt Piesting in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district

Town hall on the market square

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Markt Piesting is a market town with 3,095 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district in Lower Austria .

geography

The municipality is located in the Piesting Valley in the Gutenstein Alps , part of the Northern Limestone Alps . Markt Piesting is located in the industrial district in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 18.17 square kilometers. 58.88 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

Dreistetten (734)
Market Piesting (2361)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Dreistetten and Piesting.

Neighboring communities

	Hernstein
Waldegg		Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl
	Hohe Wand , Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf	Bad Fischau-Brunn (for a few hundred meters)

history

Before the birth of Christ, the area was part of the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the surroundings of the Celtic hill settlement Burg on the Schwarzenbacher Burgberg .

Later under the Romans, today's Piesting market was in the province of Pannonia .

In the immediate vicinity of Markt Piesting and Dreistetten, on a hill, lies the Starhemberg castle ruins ( 542 m above sea level ), which is the largest castle in Lower Austria in terms of area. The castle was mentioned in a document as early as 1146. It was built in 1140–1145. It was a border fortress between Ostmark and the Karantische Mark (Styria-Carinthia) and was supposed to protect the fortification belt from the Piesting river to Losenheim near Puchberg am Schneeberg . Today there are only remains of buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Originally the castle was Styrian, after the transfer of the Karantische Mark to the Babenbergs in 1192 it was owned by the sovereign. Frederick II (Austria) , the controversial , Duke (1230–1246) often stayed within the walls of these fortresses and issued numerous documents here; she was u. a. The Babenbergs' archive, the state document Privilegium Minus, was also kept here. After his death in 1278, the Teutonic Knights Order ( Deutscher Orden ) guarded the castle. After the Battle of Dürnkrut , the fortress became Habsburg in 1278. After a large number of administrators, the castle came into the ownership of the Heussenstein family, who owned it until 1817, with one interruption from 1565 to 1577. The house of Salvator Habsburg-Lothringen has owned the Starhemberg ruins (Starker Berg) since 1830.

The first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529 and the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 made the castle very important. Piesting's coat of arms, awarded by the later Emperor Ferdinand I , dates from the time of the first Turkish siege and shows a burning tower, two curved Turkish swords and the year 1529. During the second Turkish siege, the castle was a refuge for more than 10,000 refugees. It then fell into disrepair because the owner at the time had the roofs removed and windows and doors knocked out in order to save the building tax. In 1945 the ruins were badly damaged by fighting.

In 1975 the municipalities of Markt Piesting and Dreistetten were merged by resolution of the Lower Austrian Parliament.

In terms of population, Markt Piesting is now the largest and, next to Pernitz, the most important place in the Piestingtal.

Economic history

In 1775 Joseph Kupelwieser acquired the "Hammer am Kasten" from the Heussenstein lordship outside the Piesting village and expanded it into a sheet metal crockery factory . In 1808 the company was sold to Franz Johann Salzmann, in 1815 Johann Nepomuk Müller bought the factory and switched production to steel and small iron goods. When the company was auctioned again in 1829, Ignaz Bauer was awarded the contract. - Period of existence: 1775 to 1829.

Bauer did not put the "Piestinger Stahl- und Eisenwerke" back into operation, however, but sold it in 1830 to Georg Conradi, who converted the plant into a cotton mill in 1832 and put it into operation the following year. The "Minathal cotton yarn spinning mill" derived its name from Conradi's wife, Wilhelmine. - Period of existence: 1833 to 1982.

In 1824 the owner of the “Piestinger steel and iron goods factory”, Johann Nepomuk Müller, was awarded a “personal brewery fairness” and began building a brewery on his building and land plots north of the Piesting, which was largely completed within three years was. In 1829 Anton Jast bought the company; In 1834 the new owner, Ignaz Betzler, had the buildings increased. In 1841 Joseph Lehn got the brewery from his father Tiberius. - Duration: 1827 to 2005. “ Piestinger Bier ” is now produced and sold by the United Carinthian Breweries .

From around 1800, bad luck was an important industry in the Piestingtal. In Piesting, the vegetable resin (pitch) obtained in the surrounding black pine forests was processed in pitch factories. In 1914 a factory for converting resin into rosin and turpentine was built in Piesting , which continued to produce until the early 1970s.

Personalities

Benedikt Ried , the master builder and church builder who worked mainly in Bohemia, was born in Piesting.
The Biedermeier culture has also developed in the Piestingtal area . Significant representatives of this period lived or were born in this area. The painter Leopold Kupelwieser (1796–1862) was born in Markt Piesting. His most important works are the altarpieces in the Klosterneuburg collegiate church and the Piesting parish church, as well as the frescoes in the marble hall of the Palais Niederösterreichs (until 2005: Niederösterreichisches Landhaus). Another important painter of the era was Friedrich Gauermann (1807–1862). Franz Schubert repeatedly visited the Piestingtal, Ferdinand Raimund lived in Pernitz .
Walter Zimper , ÖVP politician born in Markt Piesting and co-founder of the local authority .
The biblical scholar and Cistercian Father Severin Matthias Grill (1893–1975) was born in Markt Piesting.

Culture and sights

Piesting market

Turmgarten - (also called Thurnhof with the Thurngarten) Baroque manor complex at the end of the 17th century with changes in the 19th century, documented in 1403 (Ulrich von Neudeck from Grünbach sells the tower to Matthias Rayntinger von Piesting), until 1805 the economy (Amtshof) of the Starhemberg rulership for Markt Piesting, three-part system under striking hipped roofs around the courtyard, essentially late medieval, major renovation at the end of the 17th century, 2-storey residential wing with arched portals, parallel and transverse farm buildings with changes around 1900, connected by a mighty archway; formerly surrounded by a wall and moat containing barns and cellars. The oldest property in the market and a symbol for the market's coat of arms - the burning tower with flames beating out of the windows, which was probably destroyed in 1529 during the Turkish siege and later (1569) was still called "the desolate tower of Piesting".

Parish Church of St. Leonhard

Parish church of St. Leonhard built from 1855 to 1859 according to plans by Joseph Schiedl , an official of the Wiener Neustadt building district, the furnishings were made by the Viennese sculptor Josef Pokorny , with an altarpiece by Leopold Kupelwieser and the tomb of the knight Welzer von Eberstein. This work of art ( Renaissance portal with a relief made of white marble and a frame made of red marble) dates from the 16th century and was located first in the chapel of Starhemberg Castle , later in the old Baroque church in Piesting, until it was installed in the current parish church.

Trinity column on the market square, baroque mercy seat from the end of the 17th century above a Tuscan column from the first half of the 19th century, on the column capital the coat of arms, shield and handicrafts of the soap makers

Birthplace of the professor at the kk. Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, history painter and resuscitator of Al-Fresco painting in Austria Leopold Kupelwieser in Minnatal No. 3, former mansion of the iron cookware factory Kupelwieser (foreclosed in 1815), renewed in 1903, chestnut avenue and small Biedermeier park, private property !!

Memorial plaque from 1903 to Leopold Kupelwieser and Franz Schubert in the park in front of the New Middle School

Baroque archway from 1762 as a remnant of the former stately flour mill by Joseph Heudorn in the entrance area to what will later be the old hammer mill

Weisses Kreuz Tabernakelbildstock / - Lanterns of the Dead (changed in the 18th century) from the 16th century on the eastern outskirts of Piesting on the B21, also known as " tourists cross " or "Schebbergredl Cross" referred

Seven crosses on the road to Hernstein . They are reminiscent of a serious railway accident in 1935 in which seven occupants of a Vienna coach were killed.

Piestinger Kreuz - it was built on the Piestingtaler Rundwanderweg 231 - in front of the Herrgottschnitzerhaus on the Hohe Wand - by its founders in memory of the fallen and comrades who stayed in the mountains

Florian Kuntner - Memorial stone for an open church

Florian Kuntner - Memorial stone for an open church - Florian Kuntner (1933–1994) worked as a pastor in the Piesting parishfrom 1962 to 1971. As episcopal vicar and auxiliary bishop, Florian Kuntner developed into a man of the church who was open to people's fears and worries. When he took over the missionary agendas, the concerns and needs of the poorer countries moved him more and more. Since Florian Kuntner was a person to deal with, the Florian Kuntner - memorial stone for an open church stands in the middle of the entrance to the Piesting parish church. The memorial stone was conceived and designed by the sculptor Harry Brenner (born 1939), the glass artist Rudolf Weninger from the Bämbach glassworks created the hand-blown glass body in several attempts. Both artists waived their artist fee. The black-grained sculpture represents the church, the reddish-grained sculpture represents the people. They are the same size and face each other. The glass and shining heart of the Gospel floats between them. The antenna connects earth and sky. It indicates the connection of God - God works through the gospel in church and world.
The brewery , built between 1894 and 1929, is today a striking industrial monument on the western outskirts of Markt Piesting. It was renovated from 1993 to 2000. The brewery served as the brewery for Piestinger beer for 150 years .
Kulturzentrum Alte Hammerschmiede - (Harry Brenner) since 2005 private property
Local history and trade museum in the town hall - created through the private initiative of Mr. Josef Wöhrer and Franz Vukovich
Seiser mill in the center of the village, revitalized into a new middle school
Kupelwiesersaal - former manorial dining room in the Seiser Mühle, today an event location
Forest pool with restaurant - built in 1929, completely renovated between 1986 and 1989 and equipped with a preheating system (300 m² sports pool and 500 m² non-swimmer pool with a 40 m long water slide and separate children's paddling pool)
Ice rink - the ice rink's cooling hoses serve as a preheating system for the forest pool in summer
Ski meadow with mat covering, conveyor belt and ski hut

Dreistetten

Starhemberg Castle - on the "mons Starhenberch" north of Dreistetten (unfortunately the ruin had to be closed to visitors due to disrepair)
Parish church Dreistetten from the 14th century with the grave of Count von Heussenstein
Trinity column in the town center, mercy seat from the second half of the 17th century with coat of arms
Pest cross on the road to Muthmannsdorf
Local history museum in the Gasthof Scherrerwirt - interesting collections of everyday objects, musical instruments, documents and war relics

Natural monuments

The Einhornhöhle , a small stalactite cave, is located at the foot of the Hohe Wand in the cadastral community of Dreistetten. Ancient bones and teeth of cave bears and other animals have been found in the cave . The cave can be visited on Sundays and public holidays from Easter to the end of September or by appointment at the Zither host. The starting point is the Zitherwirt directly under the Starhemberg ruins.
The snail garden is on the footpath between Anger in Dreistetten and the Herrgottschnitzerhaus on the Hohe Wand . The limestone shows fossils from millions of years old snails.
Many rare flowers that are under nature protection grow on the Henninger in Piesting.
The Turks Linde at the eastern entrance was by a legend as much for the victory over the Turks army planted in 1529th

population

Population development

religion

According to the data of the 2001 census , 74.4% of the population are Roman Catholic and 4.4% Protestant . 5.7% are Muslims , 1.1% belong to Orthodox churches . 12.3% of the population have no religious denomination.

politics

In 1975 the municipality of Dreistetten was merged with the municipality of Markt Piesting. The first mayor of the new municipality was Walter Zimper (ÖVP).

The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, and 6 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 1 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 1 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 2 Greens, 2 SPÖ, 2 Gut für Piesting and Dreistetten (GUT) and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

1945–1956 Franz Schuster
1957–1974 August Grill
1975–2002 Walter Zimper (ÖVP)
2002–2010 Gerhard Baumgartner (ÖVP)
since 2010 Roland Braimeier (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Coat of arms as a floral decoration in the green area of the secondary school (former Seisermühle)

Blazon : In a blue shield an upright, corner placed, silver tower, crowned with five battlements. Below the battlements, on the right and left side, a vaulted window, from which, as well as the battlements, one or five fire flames strike. Between the two windows in the middle of the tower there is a red, white and red shield, at the bottom of the tower on the right side an open arched gate. In the shield on both sides next to the tower a bare, silver Turkish saber with a yellow or gold-colored cross, the handles facing each other, above the coat of arms the historical year 1529 (added later).

The market coat of arms was awarded by Emperor Ferdinand I on May 20, 1533 to commemorate the destruction of the place by the Turks in 1529 and 1532. The coat of arms is now kept in the Lower Austrian State Archives, the seal that was previously attached is missing. A seal stamp “SIGILLUM DES MARCKS PIESTING” dating back to the 16th century is kept in the market town. The right of arms was granted in the privileges of the market by Emperor Leopold I (1659) through Emperor Joseph I , Emperor Karl VI. , Empress Maria Theresia , Emperor Joseph II. , Emperor Leopold II. To Emperor Franz II. (1819) confirmed and renewed.

Community partnerships

A partnership had existed with the Hungarian municipality of Gönyü since 1989 .

Regular events

Since the confirmation of privileges by Emperor Leopold I (1659), regular market days have taken place in Markt Piesting on Whit Monday and for the feast of St. Leonhard (the patron saint ) on November 6th.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 105 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 69 according to the 1999 survey. In 2010, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 1,393. The employment rate in 2010 was 51.2 percent.

Larger and better-known companies are Watt-Drive Antriebstechnik (production of motors and drive technology) with around 150 employees, and until 2005 the Piestinger Brewery , which was founded in 1824 and whose production was relocated to Villach.

traffic

Markt Piesting is on Gutensteiner Straße B21, about 4 km west of the south motorway exit A2 Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl .

Good bus and train connections ( Gutensteinerbahn ) open up the town in the direction of Wiener Neustadt (approx. 13 km) and Vienna (approx. 55 km).

Markt Piesting is also the end point of the Biedermeier cycle path , the starting point of which is in Rohr in the mountains and which is a popular destination for young and old. Since 2006 there has also been an asphalt cycle path connection to the EuroVelo 9 in Sollenau.

literature

Franz Vukovich: The old Piesting and Dreistetten - picture album 1900-1970 . Heimat Verlag, Budapest 2006.

Bundesdenkmalamt - Topographic monument inventory (ed.): Dehio guide: Lower Austria south of the Danube, Part 1 and Part 2 A to L M to Z . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 .

Barbara Schedl (Ed.): Starkenberch urbs. A virtual model of Starhemberg Castle in Lower Austria . CD-Rom for Windows and Mac including booklet, Austria. Kunst- und Kulturverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-85437-155-1 .

Beate Stix: The history of the family brewery Lehn . Self-published, Markt Piesting 2000.

Ilse Schöndorfer: Stones and Legends - Castle ruins in Lower Austria . Verlag Np Buchverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-85326-114-0 .

B. Schedl: Building research on the Starhemberg castle ruins in Lower Austria . Unprinted diploma thesis, Art History Institute of the University of Vienna, 1990.

René Riegler: Castles, palaces and ruins in the district of Wr. Neustadt . Self published in 1997.

Erwin Greiner: Pecher , Pech and Piesting . A local historical documentation about the Schwarzföhre, the Pech, the Pecher and the Harzwerk as well as about the early history of Markt Piesting and the surrounding area. Tourist Association, Markt Piesting, (Lower Austrian Publishing Company, Wiener Neustadt) 1988.

Manfred Hoesch: Location typology of the industrial companies in the quarter under the Vienna Woods until 1850. Techn. Univ., Diss., Vienna 1984, Permalink Austrian Library Association .

Ernst Katzer, Franz Stundner: Piesting through the ages - 450 years of market arms . Municipality of Markt Piesting (Wiener Neustädter Verlagsgesellschaft) 1979.

G. Seebach: Starhemberg - residence of the last Babenberger . In: Burgen und Schlösser 11 (1975), p. 31 ff.

Felix Halmer: Castles and palaces between Baden - Gutenstein - Wiener Neustadt . Lower Austria Vol. 2, Vienna 1968.

Felix Halmer: Lower Austria's castles . 1956.

Franz Hula: The death lights and wayside shrines of Austria . Publisher Helene Poech, Vienna 1948.

Franz Hula: Medieval cult marks. The lights of the dead of Europe. Karner, Schalenstein u. Cemetery soculus . Self-published, Vienna 1970.

Moritz Alois Becker Ed. / Dr. Josef von Zahn: Hernstein in Lower Austria his estate and the country in the wider area . History of Hernstein in Lower Austria and the associated Starhemberg and Emmerberg estates. II. Volume. 2nd half. Printed by Adolf Holzhausen, Vienna 1889.

Web links

Commons : Markt Piesting - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry for Markt Piesting in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
Entry for Markt Piesting in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
32319 - Piesting market. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Topothek Markt Piesting historical images, located, tagged and dated

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ ^a ^b ^c Hoesch: Lagetypologie , Textband, pp. 473, 107, 376; Illustrated book, plans 85 f.
^ Community of Markt Piesting: Markt Piesting . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 152 .
^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 .
^ Community of Markt Piesting: Markt Piesting . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 147 .
↑ Bgm. AD Gerhard Baumgartner receives ring of honor from the community of Markt Piesting Marktgemeinde Markt Piesting, accessed on September 27, 2019
↑ Employed persons in 2010 according to their position in the job as well as employment rates and employment rates. (PDF) Statistics Austria , accessed on July 25, 2014 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[Hoesch_Piesting_Textband_Bildband-2] Hoesch: Lagetypologie , Textband, pp. 473, 107, 376; Illustrated book, plans 85 f.

[3] Community of Markt Piesting: Markt Piesting . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 152 .

[NÖGrw1995_32319-4] Result of the local council election 1995 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on September 15, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_32319-5] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_32319-6] Election result of the local council election 2005 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_32319-7] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on September 15, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_32319-8] Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_32319-9] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Markt Piesting. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 .

[10] Community of Markt Piesting: Markt Piesting . In: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its communities . Wiener Neustadt 1996, p. 147 .

[11] Bgm. AD Gerhard Baumgartner receives ring of honor from the community of Markt Piesting Marktgemeinde Markt Piesting, accessed on September 27, 2019

[12] Employed persons in 2010 according to their position in the job as well as employment rates and employment rates. (PDF) Statistics Austria , accessed on July 25, 2014 .