Vösendorf

market community Vösendorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Mödling
License plate :	MD
Surface:	10.47 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 7 ′  N , 16 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	194  m above sea level A.
Residents :	7,329 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	700 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2331
Area code :	0 1
Community code :	3 17 23
Address of the municipal administration:	Schlossplatz 1 2331 Vösendorf
Website:	www.voesendorf.gv.at
politics
mayor	Hannes Koza ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (29 members)	12 12 3 1 1 12 12 3 1 1  A total of 29 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 12 GREEN : 3 LIST : 1 FPÖ : 1
Location of Vösendorf in the Mödling district
Local road from Vösendorf
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Aerial view of the center of Vösendorfer, view from the south

Vösendorf is a market town with 7,329 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Lower Austria , in the Mödling district . It borders directly on the federal capital Vienna (west on the 23rd, Liesing , north on the 10th district of Vienna , Favoriten ).

geography

Community structure and neighboring communities

Vösendorf consists of a cadastral community. In addition to the actual local area, Statistics Austria shows the Haidfeld and Tröber-Siedlung settlements as well as the Shopping City Süd and the castle as parts of the municipality.

structure Cadastral communities Locations in the municipality Vösendorf (10.49 km²)  Vösendorf (M)  Haidfeld (Sdlg)  Trober settlement (Sdlg) Legend

Vösendorf borders the federal capital Vienna to the north and west . In the west the community borders on the 23rd Viennese district Liesing and in the north on the 10th Viennese district Favoriten . All other neighboring communities are part of the Mödling district in Lower Austria.

Liesing	Favorites
		Hennersdorf
Brunn am Gebirge	Wiener Neudorf	Biedermannsdorf

history

Name story

The name "Vösendorf" could come from the Indo-European - Slavic root wis , fis or fes , which stands for "swamp water". Other places with this language root are Bad Fischau or Bad Vöslau .

Primeval times, Celts and Roman times

The first archaeological finds date from the Neolithic Age . These show that the municipality of Vösendorf was already settled in the 5th millennium BC. Around 400 BC there were Celts in Vösendorf and the Romans were also present in Vösendorf. During archaeological excavations, a milestone of Marcus Julius Phillippus , two tombstones and roof tiles were found. In the course of building the Vienna outer ring expressway a cemetery was Avars found around 500 burials.

middle Ages

A document from 1175 contains the first mention of Vösendorf. The document is kept in Admont Abbey . In this document, Wichard von Vestenburg gave Admont Abbey four " manses " (courtyards) and a vineyard to accommodate his daughters in the monastery. Vösendorf Castle was first built around 1200 . Legend has it that the money for the construction of this facility was financed from part of the ransom for Richard the Lionheart . The arrow-slit windows rediscovered during a renovation could symbolize this . Apart from brief interruptions, the castle remained in the possession of the Chunigunde von Winden family for over 150 years . There are records from 1487 that state that Matthias Corvinus had his castle administrator in Vösendorf deliver wine to Vienna. After his death, Emperor Maximilian again enfeoffed the Winden family with the castle.

Turkish sieges, Protestantism and the French Wars

Vösendorf castle and town were completely destroyed in the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna . Of the around 800 inhabitants at that time, around 20 survived. In the following time, the owners quickly changed and the place was not rebuilt. Georg Egger zu Lichtenegg , Marx Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1537), Hans Matseber (1544) and Bernhard von Meneses (1554) were named among the owners . It was Caspar Erbeck zu Schellenhof who pushed the reconstruction, but failed due to lack of money. In 1556 the old Romanesque church was restored. In 1578 the court war councilor Wilhelm von Hofkirchen acquired the castle and village. The castle was restored in 1584 and the well-run rulership produced good income, one third of which came from farming and two thirds from viticulture. At that time, Vösendorf became a center of Evangelical-Lutheran faith . A school in Vösendorf was first mentioned in 1601, although it can be assumed that it had existed for some time. In 1620 Carl Lazarzs Henckel von Donnersmark owned the palace. Around 1670 the Countess von Buquoy had the first clockwork installed in the castle tower. The fresco room was also designed at this time. In 1683 the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna destroyed the place. Of the 600 inhabitants, 42 survived. In 1694, Vösendorf was owned by Countess Maria Josepha Starhemberg , the wife of Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg . The Starhembergs had some farms rebuilt and gave them to immigrants free of charge for twenty years in order to revive the village. In 1709 a new school was built next to the church. This was later used as a post office. Emperor Charles VI. 1716 had the Laxenburger Allee laid out by Vösendorf in order to get to his summer residence in Laxenburg more quickly . In 1742, Empress Maria Theresia also had Schönbrunner Allee laid out by Vösendorf. In 1746, Countess Maria Gabriela von Colloredo inherited the castle. In 1773 a "community house" was built in Vösendorf to provide food and accommodation for needy Vösendorfer. The rule of Vösendorf was acquired in 1794 by Emperor Franz II . He set up a contiguous hunting area between Inzersdorf and Laxenburg. In 1806, the imperial family estate Vösendorf was converted into an agricultural teaching, experimental and model estate under the direction of the agricultural scientist Peter Jordan . This was the basis for the establishment of today's University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna . In 1809, Vösendorf was largely destroyed and looted during Napoleon's French campaigns .

Independent municipality

The manor of Vösendorf was dissolved in 1848 and there was a revolution in Vienna, in which neither the Vösendorf farmers nor the brick workers took part. The local community of Vösendorf was founded in 1850. In 1865, Ritter von Brenner Felsach leased the castle. In 1866 a railway line was opened to simplify the delivery of bricks from Vösendorf to the construction site of the line wall in Vienna. As a result, the railway line became today's Vienna – Baden local railway . In the 19th century, Vösendorf was a center of the brick industry. Seven brick kilns supplied building materials - mostly to Vienna. Among other things, the buildings on Vienna's Ringstrasse were built with the bricks . The first kindergarten was built on Triester Straße in 1910. After the end of the First World War and the end of the monarchy, Vösendorf Castle was handed over to the Invalidenfonds for management.

National Socialism

Vösendorf was incorporated into Greater Vienna by the National Socialist dictatorship in 1938 and formed part of what was then the 25th district, Liesing , until 1954 . Due to the agreement of the federal states of Vienna and Lower Austria in 1946 to rejoin 80 towns that were incorporated into Lower Austria in 1938, Vösendorf became part of this state again in 1954. From 1946 to 1954 the Soviet occupying power had vetoed this change of border. In 1940 the municipality of Vienna also became the owner of the palace. In 1940/41 a large grave field with high-quality ceramics was partially exposed - in the same year construction of the planned Reichsautobahn began.

Second republic

In 1966 Vösendorf was raised to a market town. In 1976 the first cornerstone was laid for the Shopping City Süd , which is now Austria's largest shopping center. In 1991 the community bought the completely desolate palace back from the city of Vienna and began restoring it in 1996. The frescoes in the Sala Terrena were rediscovered. On November 20, 1990 the new community center was opened in the castle.

population

Population development

The following graphic shows the development of the population of Vösendorf based on the data from Statistics Austria:

politics

Municipal council

12

12

3

1

1

12 12 3 1 1 

A total of 29 seats

• SPÖ : 12
• ÖVP : 12
• GREEN : 3
• LIST : 1
• FPÖ : 1

Status: after the 2020 election

The 29 members of the municipal council are re-elected every five years. The mayor presides over the monthly municipal council meetings, in which municipal issues are discussed and appropriate resolutions are passed.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the market town of Vösendorf is divided by a silver crutch from green to red. In the upper green-colored field you can see a gold-colored, three-story building with a helmet-topped tower. The building also has an open black gate and five open black windows on the second and third floors. The lower red-colored part of the shield has a brick-shaped pattern.

The silver crutch represents the traffic routes of antiquity and modern times, the Roman road and the motorway. The red field, patterned in the form of a brick wall, represents industry and trade, but especially the brick industry, which dominated local life in the 19th century . The green color in the upper part of the coat of arms stands for agriculture - Vösendorf was a modest farming village for centuries. The golden-colored building represents the oldest building in Vösendorf, the castle.

The market coat of arms was created in 1966 on the occasion of the elevation to the market community. The design and the execution of the coat of arms originate from the hand of the graphic artist Elfriede Svoboda from Vienna.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Vösendorf Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Vösendorf

Sacred buildings

The parish church of Vösendorf dates from the baroque period.

Secular buildings

In Vösendorf there is the approx. 800 year old Vösendorf Castle , which today houses the municipal administration. It also houses a museum about the history of Vösendorf and a bicycle museum.

Archaeological digs

In the north of Vösendorf there is an Avar burial ground that has been examined in several excavations. Around 150 graves from the 7th to 9th centuries were discovered in it during the construction of the expressway. The finds document the coexistence of Avars and Slavs in this area, Slavic clothing components could also be found and grave goods were examined more closely using the animal skeletons.

Infrastructure

traffic

Road traffic

The place is located directly on the two autobahns Südautobahn A 2 and Wiener Außenringautobahn A 21, which have their junction here. The Vienna outer ring road S 1 is also integrated here.

Rail transport

Class 400 railcars in Vösendorf-Siebenhirten

At the municipal boundary to Hennersdorf , the Pottendorfer line leads over a few hundred meters to the municipality of Vösendorf. This has no stop or train station in the area of ​​the municipality.

The Wiener Lokalbahn also counts as a full line in the area of ​​Vösendorf . This serves the stops "Schönbrunner Allee", "Vösendorf-Siebenhirten" and "Shopping City Süd" along Triester Straße.

Local public transport

Six bus lines of the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region run through Vösendorf. The bus line 266 serves the center of Vösendorf and guarantees a transfer-free journey to Schwechat , Kledering , Vienna Oberlaa , Leopoldsdorf , Hennersdorf and Vienna Siebenhirten . In Oberlaa and Siebenhirten there is a connection to the Vienna subway and in Schwechat to the “airport express train” . Five other bus lines serve stations on Triester Straße, such as the “Vösendorf-Siebenhirten” junction or the Shopping City Süd. For example, you drive to southern Burgenland, Eisenstadt or Mödling . There is also a privately operated shuttle bus line between the U6 terminus Siebenhirten and the Shopping City Süd. Vösendorf can be reached by rail along Triester Straße with the Badner Bahn . During the night, the stations of the Wiener Lokalbahn are served by the 360 ​​bus.

Water supply and sewerage

Up until the middle of the 19th century, a large part of Vösendorf's water requirement was met from house wells, fed by groundwater . As a result, the idea of ​​setting up a group water supply came up. Since 1929 Vösendorf has been a member of the Triestingtal and Südbahn municipalities' water pipeline association .

The Vösendorfer sewer network was partly built in 1930. Due to the steadily growing population and increasing industrialization, the network had to be continuously expanded. The sewage treatment plant on Johannisweg was built from 1986.

The Petersbach flows openly through the town center.

economy

Vösendorf is one of the richest communities in Austria. The most important economic factor is the Shopping City Süd , which is largely located in the Vösendorfer municipality. But there are also large department store chains with branches along Wiener Neustädter Strasse (B 17, local name as in Vienna Triester Strasse ). The “ pyramid ” visible from afar is also striking : the “Austria Trend Eventhotel Pyramide” with its transparent pyramid-shaped roof. The complex was originally used as a swimming pool under the name "Eldorado" or "City Club".

In 2014, the world's largest manufacturer of shopping trolleys, Wanzl , moved its Austrian subsidiary from Vienna to Vösendorf.

In the interwar period and after the Second World War, there was a refinery on the west side of Wiener Neustädter Strasse .

sport and freetime

societies

• AKH Vösendorf : weightlifting club founded in 1923, in the years 2003–2012; 10-time Austrian national team champion
• Arbeiter-Sportverein Vösendorf : Football club founded in 1920, whichroseto the Second Bundesliga in the early 1990s.

Partner communities

• Kindberg in Styria
• Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) in Germany
• Reggello near Florence in Italy

Personalities

• Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701) imperial general, city commander of Vienna during the Turkish siege in 1683.
• Josef Hesoun (1930–2003), politician, Minister of Social Affairs
• Karl Brauneder (* 1960), football player

Historical maps

• Vösendorf and the surrounding area around 1780 and around 1870–1880 ( 1st regional survey and recording sheets of the 3rd regional survey )
• 

  "Vösendorff" (top left) around 1780. The "Haasen Remisen" in the fields in the north of the village still existed 100 years later

• 

  Center (top left) and southeast of the community

• 

  The brickworks in the southwest of the municipality (top right) instead of today's shopping and commercial operations on Triester Straße

• 

  Siebenhirten (bottom right) in the north-west of Vösendorf

• 

  The upper and lower Vösendorfer field with the no longer designated Hasenremisen in the northeast on the border to Inzersdorf (bottom left)

Web links

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

Wiktionary: Vösendorf  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• 31720 - Vösendorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Vösendorf website
• City portrait Vösendorf: The village that has a city - Detailed portrait from the Ö1 series Diagonal - Radio for Contemporaries (2001)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Brochure Marktgemeinde Vösendorf p. 8
2. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 169 , accessed on February 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Brochure market town Vösendorf
4. ↑ Population development 1869–2017 - final resident population and number of citizens (with population development since 1869). (PDF) Statistics Austria, January 1, 2017, accessed on May 18, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Vösendorf. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Dorothea Talaa, Ingomar Herrmann: Late antique grave finds in the Lower Austrian thermal region (districts Mödling and Baden). Section 2.10: Vösendorf West burial ground. Römisches Österreich Volume 27. Self-published by the Austrian Society for Archeology at the Institute for Ancient History, Archeology and Epigraphy of the University of Vienna. Vienna 2004. pp. 112–117.
7. ↑ Christa Frank: Malacological finds from the Avar burial ground of Vösendorf-Laxenburgerstrasse . In: Find reports from Austria 46, 2007. Vienna 2008. ISSN  0429-8926 . Pp. 377-404.
8. ↑ Erich Pucher u. a .: Animal skeletons and animal bones from the Avar burial ground of Vösendorf-Laxenburgerstraße. In: Find reports from Austria 45, 2006. Vienna 2007. pp. 481–522.
9. ↑ Karina Grömer, Mathias Mehofer: metal finds with ankorrodierten textiles from Vösendorf and Mautern. Scanning electron microscopic analyzes based on Urnfield and Late Antique examples. In: Archeology of Austria Volume 17, Issue 1. Vienna 2006. Communications from the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History, Vienna. ISSN  1018-1857 . Pp. 59-65.
10. ↑ SCS shuttle bus
11. ↑ ^{a b} Brochure Marktgemeinde Vösendorf p. 16
12. ↑ Tweng vor Lech: The richest communities in the press of July 16, 2007, accessed on June 25, 2010.
13. ↑ Remisen are small, artificially created bush zones or wooded areas in which otherwise there would be no shelter for hares, deer and other game that could be hunted (and therefore no hunting possible, in the 18th century there was the idea of ​​nature conservation that promotes such zones today , not yet); www.jagd.de, hunter language.