Spitz (Lower Austria)

market community Spitz on the Danube
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Krems-Land
License plate :	KR
Surface:	23.85 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 22 '  N , 15 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '57 "  N , 15 ° 24' 50"  E
Height :	223  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,569 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	66 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3620
Area code :	02713
Community code :	3 13 44
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 15a 3620 Spitz an der Donau
Website:	www.spitz-wachau.at
politics
Mayor :	Andreas Nunzer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	13 5 1 13 5 1  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 5 SGL : 1
Location of Spitz an der Donau in the Krems-Land district
Center of Spitz
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The town center as seen from through the Red Gate

Spitz with parish church

On the banks of the Danube in Spitz

View from the opposite bank of the Danube

Spitz is a market town in the Wachau World Heritage Site with 1569 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Krems-Land district in Lower Austria .

geography

Geographical location

Spitz is located on the orographic left bank of the Danube in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 23.83 square kilometers. 69.21 percent of the area is forested. In Spitz, the Spitzer Bach flowing through the Spitzer Graben flows into the Danube.

Community structure

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

• Good at the dock (137)
• Schwallenbach (92)
• Spitz (1220) including Laaben, Mieslingtal, Radlbach and Zornberg
• Viessling (120)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Gut am Steg, Schwallenbach , Spitz and Vießling.

Neighboring communities

Mühldorf	Weinzierl am Walde	Weißenkirchen in the Wachau
		Rossatz-Arnsdorf
Maria Laach am Jauerling	Aggsbach

history

The area around today's market town belonged to Niederaltaich Monastery from 812 to 1504 and was a Bavarian enclave in Austria for a long time , but is now part of Lower Austria.

Population development

politics

mayor

Mayor of the market town is Andreas Nunzer (ÖVP).

Before Andreas Nunzer, Hannes Hirtzberger was mayor. A poison attack was carried out on him at the beginning of February 2008 using a Mon Chéris prepared with strychnine and he was kept in artificial deep sleep in the Krems hospital until March 18, 2008. The consequences of the poisoning made it impossible for him to exercise his office himself.

Former mayors since 1945:

• 1945–1965 Franz Schöberl , wine maker, economics councilor and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament
• 1965–1983 Franz Hirtzberger, wine maker
• 1983–2000 Walter Nunzer, teacher
• 2000–2010 Hannes Hirtzberger, lawyer
• from 2010 Andreas Nunzer, lawyer

Municipal council

There are a total of 19 seats in the municipal council. Since the municipal council election on January 26, 2020 , the following mandate distribution applies:

• We for Spitz People's Party ( ÖVP ): 13
• Spitzer community list, non-party: 1
• SPÖ : 5

Community partnerships

• Taufkirchen an der Pram
• Vilshofen on the Danube

Culture and sights

Late Gothic parish church

• List of listed objects in Spitz
• Late Gothic parish church of St. Mauritius and rectory north of the church with a medieval wall
• Ruin rear building
• Niederhaus Castle (so-called Lower Castle)
• Erlahof
• Shipping Museum Spitz: This museum offers a variety of insights into the technology and history of historical Danube shipping.
• Red Gate

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 99 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 160 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 760. In 2001, the activity rate was 45.05 percent.

The market town is connected to the Donauuferbahn through the train stations at Spitz an der Donau and Schwallenbach . The north-south long-distance hiking trail has also been running through the town since 1970 .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Franz Schöberl (1895–1977), Mayor of Spitz 1945–1965
• Erich Schöner (1901–1979), teacher and local writer
• Johann Schindl († 1988), pastor of Spitz
• 2001: Walter Nunzer († 2019), Mayor of Spitz 1983–2000
• 2004: Josef Gugler (1941–2019), pastor of Spitz 1979–2017
• 2007: Franz Hirtzberger († 2007), Mayor of Spitz 1965–1983
• 2010: Hannes Hirtzberger, Mayor of Spitz 2000–2010
• 2020: Franz Machhörndl

Sons and daughters of the church

• Karl Jedek (1853–1940), politician ( CSP ), innkeeper and timber merchant
• Karl Mühlberger (1857–1944) composer of the Kaiserjägermarsch
• Franz Schöberl (1895–1977), politician ( ÖVP ) and wine maker
• Josef Jahrmann (* 1947), politician ( SPÖ ) and member of the state parliament

Personalities associated with the community

• Ingrid Burkhard (* 1931), actress
• Josef Kinzel (1852–1925), landscape and genre painter
• Rudolf Zarboch (1878–1960), school director, deputy mayor and politician ( GdP , NWB )

Others

Joseph Kyselak describes Spitz in his sketches , published in 1829, of a foot trip through Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Berchtesgaden, Tyrol and Bavaria to Vienna - along with a romantic, picturesque depiction of several knight castles and their folk tales, mountainous areas and ice glaciers on this hike, undertaken by Joseph in 1825 Kyselak , and cites the following (vol. 2, p. 261):

"There is more and more wine growing in the middle of the Spitz,

As d'Reben lend to the fattest parishes.

This proud confession is said to have been written down on the house of the richest winegrower until 1805 when the French who entered the country took this boast to heart, and now nobody dares to boast of their stocks with strangers or locals. "

In 1947, the film " The Hofrat Geiger " with Paul Hörbiger and Hans Moser was shot in Spitz, among others.

Web links

Wikisource: Spitz in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Commons : Spitz (Niederösterreich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Spitz in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Website of the market town of Spitz in the Wachau
• Entry about the Spitz Hinterhaus castle ruins on Lower Austria castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
• Entry via castle ruin Spitz Hinterhaus on Burgen-Austria
• Entry about Schloss Spitz Niederhaus on Lower Austria Castles online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
• Entry via Schloss Spitz Niederhaus to Burgen-Austria
• 31344 - Spitz (Lower Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wachau World Heritage Site - municipalities. Retrieved April 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ https://www.spitz-wachau.at/Unsere_Gemeinde/Gemeindeehrungen , accessed on April 19, 2020.