Waidhofen an der Ybbs
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Statutory city Waidhofen an der Ybbs
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| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Lower Austria | |
| Political District : | Statutory city | |
| License plate : | WY | |
| Surface: | 131.19 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 58 ′ N , 14 ° 46 ′ E | |
| Height : | 356 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 11,222 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 86 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postcodes : | 3263, 3340 | |
| Area code : | 07442 | |
| Community code : | 3 03 01 | |
| NUTS region | AT121 | |
| UN / LOCODE | AT WAF | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Oberer Stadtplatz 28 3340 Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
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| Mayor : | Werner Krammer ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (Election year: 2017) (40 members) |
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.JPG) View over the town center towards the southeast |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Waidhofen an der Ybbs is a statutory town with 11,222 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Lower Austria . The history of the city has been shaped by its centuries-old position as a center of iron processing. In 2016 Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs was awarded the honorary title “ City of the Reformation of Europe ” by the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe .
geography
The city of Waidhofen an der Ybbs is located in the southwest of Lower Austria in the Lower Austrian Eisenwurzen in the Mostviertel and borders in the west on the federal state of Upper Austria . In the system of small agricultural production areas , the city belongs to the Lower Austrian Limestone Alps , which belong to the main production area of the Austrian Pre-Alps .
Waidhofen an der Ybbs is embedded in foothills of the Alps at 362 m above sea level (measured at the parish church). The river Ybbs cuts through the city like a canyon. The highest elevation in the municipality is the 1115 m high Wetterkogel (on the municipality border with Opponitz ). The local mountains of Waidhofen are the Buchenberg (790 m) and the Schnabelberg (958 m). The administrative area of the city also includes the four places Windhag (711 m), Konradsheim (651 m), St. Leonhard am Walde (714 m) and St. Georgen in der Klaus (665 m). 48.62% of the area of the city is dominated by fields and pastures and 43.88% by forest.
geology
Waidhofen an der Ybbs is located at the transition between the Northern Limestone Alps and the Pennine Flysch Zone . Wedged in between and intricately tectonically inserted are the ultra-Helvetian Gresten cliff zone and the Penninic Ybbsitzer cliff zone .
The calcareous rocks, mainly the main dolomite and the Opponitz formation, are found south of the city center, z. B. at the Buchenberg summit, the Schnabelberg and up to the Wetterkogel.
The Grestener Clip zone consists of readily erodible colorful marls of chalk to Paläogen ( stained marl series ) and Härtlingen from limestones of Jura to chalk, extends from the Pöchlau (Hochkogel) over the cliff of Konradsheim and Vordereck to city core and traverses the Ybbs after cell Arzberg and Schwarzenberg over.
The Ybbsitzer cliff zone, which mainly consists of flysch- like rocks, is split into two branches: the southern one runs from the northern lower slope of the Buchenberg over the Ybbs to the Großöd homestead, the northern one begins in the northern Schwarzenberg and crosses the Urnbach North and extends over the southern part of St. Leonhard into the headwaters of the Urnbach.
The whole northern part of the township, from Hirschberg over the north of Rien, St. Georgen in Klaus, Windhag to St. Leonhard am Walde belongs to Flyschzone consisting of sandstones , marls and shales is and the Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene for slides ( Schwyzerdütsch flyschen ) tends.
climate
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Community structure
Since 1972 the municipalities of Waidhofen-Land, Zell an der Ybbs , Windhag and St. Leonhard, together with the municipality, have formed the large municipality of Waidhofen an der Ybbs.
The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Konradsheim (624)
- Kreilhof (285)
- Rien (613)
- St. Georgen in der Klaus (545)
- St. Leonhard am Walde (485)
- Waidhofen an der Ybbs (3764)
- Windhag (1730)
- Host (538)
- Zell Arzberg (1091)
- Zell Market (1547)
The community consists of the cadastral communities Konradsheim, Kreilhof, Rien, St. Georgen in der Klaus, St. Leonhard am Walde, Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Windhag, Wirts, Zell Arzberg and Zell Markt.
Neighboring communities
The neighboring communities of Waidhofen an der Ybbs are:
- Randegg
- Biberbach
- Neuhofen an der Ybbs
- Sonntagberg
- Allhartsberg
- Ertl
- Opponitz
- Seitenstetten
- Ybbsitz
- Maria Neustift
- Gaflenz
history
Surname
The origin of the name is uncertain. According to tradition it derives from a Waidhof (d. E. A hunting) of the bischöflich-Freising Vögte from. A more recent theory assumes a connection between the name and pasture farming.
middle Ages
In 1033 the possessions of the Freising diocese in the area of the lower Ybbstal , which had existed since 955, were extended to the Styrian border by donations from Emperor Konrad II (990-1039) . The first mention of the name waidhouen and a capella (pastoral care office) is in 1186 in a confirmation document from Pope Urban III. (1120-1187). In 1215 the term forum (market, business location) is used for Waidhofen for the first time .
The importance of the castle, which was built in the 12th century, was initially very low, as the administrative seat for the Freising areas in the upper Ybbstal was Konradsheim Castle (3 km from the city center). Since the Freising Vogt Konrad II. Count von Peilstein († 1195), who himself owned large areas in what is now Lower Austria , built this castle without the permission of the lender, a lawsuit that lasted generations broke out, which only began with the extinction of the Peilsteiners (or one of the last Sideline) ended in 1218 with the relapse of all Freising possessions.
In the decades that followed, the city was first fortified and expanded as planned on the strategically favorable terrace at the confluence of the Ybbs and Schwarzbach rivers . Waidhofen does not have a town census document, but it is referred to as civitas (town) for the first time in a document as early as 1273 . Since then, the typical layout of the two parallel city squares has also existed at different heights.
In the course of a dispute between the Habsburg Duke Rudolf IV (1339–1365) and the Hochstift Freising , Konradsheim Castle and the city were occupied in 1360. The castle was demolished under circumstances that were not exactly clarified, which is why, after the conclusion of peace five years later, the already quite important Waidhofen became the seat of the Freising keepers and thus the regional jurisdiction .
The Bishop of Freising, Berthold von Wehingen , who was also Chancellor of Austria, had the city's defense system thoroughly modernized between 1390 and 1410 (including the construction of 13 towers along the walls).
Iron processing center
Iron ore mining began on the Styrian Erzberg in the 12th century . In Waidhofen, at the intersection of two trade routes (from the Ybbstal and from Weyer im Ennstal ), the first blacksmiths developed quickly. In 1236 the minstrel Neidhart von Reuenthal celebrated the quality of a Waidhofner sword. The Eisenwurzen as a decentralized - but well-organized - economic area did not emerge until the late Middle Ages. At that time 10% of European iron production was handled in this region, and around the middle of the 16th century even 20%.
Along with Steyr, Waidhofen became the most important iron processing center. At the time of its heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries, 200 blacksmiths from different sectors were active in the city and not only traded in the products throughout the Habsburg Empire, but also exported them via Venice to the Middle East. The Waidhofen motto comes from this time: Ferrum chalybsque urbis nutrimenta , German "Iron and steel feed the city" . The late Gothic parish church and the unique knife monstrance are signs of the prosperity of this time .
Hungarians and Turks
Numerous dangers threatened the city over the centuries: The Hungarians fought in vain in front of the city walls and then tried to force Waidhofen to its knees through a siege, but this was caused by the surprising death of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus (* 1443; † 1490) was prevented.
The most striking event in the city's history took place in 1532: after the first Turkish siege of Vienna (1529), mounted, lightly armed auxiliary troops ( Akıncı ) marched through Lower Austria as runners and burners and devastated the country in a kind of terror war. The 500 armed men Waidhofen was able to muster succeeded in driving the enemy to flight in three casualties without any significant fighting. They had to leave rich booty behind, as well as their prisoners, most of which had been murdered by them beforehand: 339 civilians were killed in this way. Thanks to funds from the “Turk Treasure”, the city tower was increased to 50 m. In Waidhofen historiography, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this event was hyped up as a heroic test of Waidhofen.
Decline in the 16th century
In the 16th century there was an economic decline of the city, which was mainly due to the preference of the princely city of Steyr by Emperor Maximilian I (* 1459; † 1519) in the tough competition for metal processing. Serious city fires and pests are also reported from this time.
The biggest catastrophe in Waidhofen developed in the course of the Reformation: In line with the extensive trade relations, numerous young Waidhofers were enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in Saxony. One of them, the playwright Paul Rebhun , even became a close associate of Martin Luther . The new ideas quickly gained a foothold in Waidhofen and at the end of the 16th century the city was largely Protestant . At the same time the city acted as de facto independent of Freising. Taking advantage of the burgeoning Counter-Reformation, the bishop succeeded in getting the sovereign on his side and in 1587/88 the entire Protestant city council was deposed by an imperial commission and expelled from the country. The town clerk Wolf Ebenperger, leader of the Protestant community, was imprisoned in the castle tower under miserable conditions, where he died after two years. Especially around 1600, the recatholicization was uncompromisingly enforced by the Freising carers and many blacksmith families emigrated to Protestant areas. Almost half of the houses were empty. The crisis was lasting: 100 years later, 87 houses in Waidhofen were uninhabited.
Counter-Reformation and the heyday of the 18th century
In the 17th century Waidhofen was looked after by several pastors, under whose work there was an inner renewal of the social life of the city. Bernhard and Augustin Pocksteiner were of outstanding importance. Construction projects from this period include the baroque transformation of the hospital church, the parish church, the extension of the Marienkapelle and the erection of the Marian column. In economic terms, too, things went uphill again with the introduction of the water-powered forge hammers , the switch to scythe production and the permanent inclusion of Waidhofen in the food production for the Erzberg. In the heyday of the 18th century, 360,000 scythes and 200,000 sickles were produced annually .
Crisis, anti-Semitism and reorientation in the 19th and 20th centuries
In 1786 the function of the city judge as the highest representative of the city was replaced by the office of mayor. Freising's rule ended in 1803 and “Bayrisch Waidhofen” became part of the Habsburg family .
The 19th century brought hard times for Waidhofen: In 1809, 40,000 French soldiers had to be cared for by the population of Waidhofen for eight months. After the French Wars , the developing economic crisis hit the scythe trade existentially. And finally, from 1860 onwards, industrialization led to the disappearance of the small iron industry with the switch to mineral coal instead of charcoal, steam engines instead of water power and the construction of railways that disadvantaged valleys off the main transport routes . Despite some rescue attempts, such as the opening of a teaching and research institute for metal processing (1890) and the construction of the narrow-gauge Ybbstalbahn (1896–1899), the future belonged to large companies like the Böhler -Werke.
In the 19th century, the fortifications fell into disrepair and were finally demolished to make way for the growing city. In 1868 the district administration was relocated to the prosperous Amstetten ; as compensation, Waidhofen became an autonomous city with its own statute. In 1872 the Kronprinz-Rudolfs-Bahn was opened, with which Waidhofen was connected to the monarchy's railway network. Waidhofen was then able to achieve a certain importance in tourism as a summer resort . The liberal mayor Theodor Freiherr von Plenker (in office from 1894 to 1911) made great contributions to the reorientation of the city.
Due to the decline of the iron industry in the Eisenwurzen at the end of the 19th century, the entire region became impoverished. The Rothschild family became the largest landowner in Lower Austria in the Waidhofen and Gaming area, built up Waidhofen Castle and financed infrastructure, school and cultural projects. In addition, they became the initiators of tourism in the region through hiking tours, skiing and cycling tours. Despite this commitment and the renewed blossoming of the region, especially Waidhofen, which had fallen behind the growing railway town of Amstetten, the region became a model region for anti-Semitism in Austria.
On May 24, 1890, the anti-Semitic Waidhofner Association of the defensive associations of German students in the Ostmark was founded in Waidhofen , the local German national-minded gymnasts, singers and innkeepers met to implement the racist program of Georg von Schönerer in their statutes. In 1893 they passed the Waidhofner resolution , with which all Jewish professors and students were to be excluded from the connections involved. In 1896, the Waidhofen principle was enshrined, according to which "Jewish students are dishonorable and lacking in character and devoid of any honor and consequently no satisfaction is to be given to them". To be Mr. Waidhofner as a middle school pupil, student or old man was considered an anti-Semitic trademark. Theodor Herzl , who is generally considered to be the founder of Zionism, was originally a German national fraternity. Only when he was expelled from his association because of the Waidhofen resolution did he begin to campaign for the Jewish nation and vehemently demand the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel. He expressed this view in 1896 in his book " Der Judenstaat ".
In July 1919, workers from the Ybbstal marched to the Waidhofner Rathaus and demanded the expulsion of all Jews from the city, then to the Bundeskonvikt, where they demanded the dismissal of all Jewish schoolgirls, and then to the Jewish businessmen and the Rothschild Castle. This Waidhofner event was propagated as a model for all of Austria.
In the 20th century, Waidhofen also gained supraregional importance as a school town. In 1972 the large municipality of Waidhofen was established, which meant a doubling of the population and a multiplication of the area. Thanks to several successful medium-sized companies, Waidhofen has been able to detach itself somewhat from the economic stagnation in the upper Ybbstal in the last few decades. In the last few decades tourism has also played an increasingly important role. In 2018, a plan of measures to regenerate the town center last affected by vacancies and business closings was adopted.
Population development
The population in Waidhofen has remained almost constant since the 1930s. Of the 11,662 inhabitants (2001 census) of the administrative area, 94.6% were born in Austria. 1.1% each come from Germany and from Bosnia-Herzegovina . 0.5% of Waidhofers come from Turkey .
In 2001, 96% stated German as a colloquial language. The most common non-German colloquial languages are Turkish with 0.7% and Bosnian and Croatian with 0.5% each .
Religions
86.6% (2001 census) of Waidhofers profess to be part of the Roman Catholic Church . For them there are nine churches in six parishes in Waidhofen . Waidhofen belongs to the diocese of St. Pölten and is the seat of a deanery (whose area, however, far exceeds that of the political community).
251 people (2.2%) feel they belong to Islam and thus form the second largest group of believers. Waidhofen is part of the Vienna district of the Islamic religious community. The next designated prayer room is in Kematen (14 km away).
The 243 Christians (2.1%) of the Evangelical Church (AB and HB) belong to the parish of Amstetten, in Waidhofen there is a preaching station. The services have been celebrated since 2005 in the renovated Bürgerspitalkirche, which is shared with the Catholics.
In Waidhofen there is also a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, recognized as a religious community in Austria since 2009 . It serves as a meeting place for parishioners from across the region.
801 Waidhofers (6.9%) do not feel they belong to any denomination.
politics
As a statutory town, Waidhofen an der Ybbs did not take part in the 2015 municipal council elections in Lower Austria . The elected organs of the community are divided into an external body, the 40-seat local council, and an internal body, the city senate elected by the local council, which includes the mayor and the two deputy mayors as well as the eight city councils.
- The results of the 2012 municipal council elections were: WVP 20 mandates, SPÖ 10, UWG 6, FUFU 2, Greens 1 and FPÖ 1.
- The results of the municipal council election on January 29, 2017 resulted in the following distribution: Waidhofner People's Party 26 (+6), SPÖ 6 (−4), FPÖ 2 (+1), UWG (Independent Voting Community) 1 (−5), Greens 1 (± 0) and FUFU (Colorless Independent Formed Uniforms) 4 (+2).
mayor
- 1911–1913 Josef Steindl
- 1913–1918 Georg Riegelhofer
- 1919–1923 Josef Waas
- 1923–1925 Franz Kotter
- 1925–1931 Alois Lindenhofer (CS)
- 1931–1932 Ignaz Inführ
- 1932–1938 Alois Lindenhofer (CS / VF)
- 1938 Josef Haider (NSDAP)
- 1938–1945 Emmerich Zinner (NSDAP)
- 1945–1947 Erich Meyer (KPÖ)
- 1947–1952 Alois Lindenhofer (ÖVP)
- 1952–1972 / 73 Franz Josef Kohout (1938–1945 NSDAP; ÖVP)
- 1972–1996 Erich Vetter (ÖVP)
- 1996–1998 Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP)
- 1998–2014 Wolfgang Mair (ÖVP)
- since 2014 Werner Krammer (ÖVP)
Town twinning
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Freising ( Bavaria , Germany ) since 1986 -
Laatzen ( Lower Saxony , Germany ) since 1986 -
Möhringen an der Donau ( Baden-Württemberg , Germany ) since 1956
Culture and sights
- City fortification Waidhofen an der Ybbs : The city center of Waidhofen has a remarkably closed historical building stock. The core of the residential buildings in the inner city area is late medieval. In many houses there are therefore Gothic courtyards with arcades . Most of the facades were created from the beginning of the 19th century and mostly belong to the Biedermeier , Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque styles . Only remnants of the medieval fortifications are still preserved, for example the walls around the parish church with the tower of the former armory. In addition to the Ybbstor, described below, there is also the historically altered Müllnerturm and the Lachenturm, which has been adapted as a residential building. With a bit of intuition, following the course of the street, you can also discover the Eckelturm integrated into a house. You have a good overview of the city from the Heimkehrerkreuz on the Krautberg.
- Catholic parish church Waidhofen an der Ybbs Hll. Maria Magdalena and Lambert: The late Gothic three-aisled hall church was built in 1470–1510 in place of a Romanesque predecessor church. The filigree net, ribbed and gusset vaults rest on slender octagonal pillars. The galleries were built in the Baroque (1680) or in the Neo-Gothic (1879–1881) to offer more space. The richly decorated baroque Lady Chapel (1715) is attached to the side. The most important piece of the interior is the striking late Gothic winged altar (around 1500), which was taken over from the Bürgerspitalkirche in 1935. The most valuable sculpture in the church is the late Gothic statue of St. Leonhard (around 1500). Also noteworthy are two pictures of the two church patrons, created by Martin Johann Schmidt (known as Kremser Schmidt), an important Austrian baroque painter: St. Maria Magdalena (1762) and St. Bishop Lambert (1779–1781). Another historical detail is the church gate: this comes entirely, i.e. wood including the fittings, from the time it was built. The church tower is essentially Romanesque, but was redesigned in 1689 in Baroque style through a redesign of the tower facade and an increase in the bell storey.
- Waidhofen’s most valuable work of art is not housed in the church, but well secured in the parsonage: the Gothic knife monstrance (created in Freising 1469–1472), which was given to the parish by the wealthy knife guild . It can usually only be seen during the Corpus Christi procession , where the 1.05 m high and 6 kg heavy piece is ceremoniously carried through the city.
- Kirchhof: The cemetery was located around the parish church until 1542, which was subsequently relocated to the location of today's Schillerpark. This cemetery was closed in 1887 and the new cemetery opened at its current location (Pocksteinerallee / Friedhofstrasse).
- Former armory, also called Lutherturm: Today this building is mostly referred to as the Boy Scout Tower because the home of this youth organization is located inside. The late Gothic three-quarter round tower with an attached rectangular building was built at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. First the building was used as a chapel, later it was used as an armory and today the holy grave with a baroque, carved and gilded crucifixion group is housed in the basement .
- Rothschildschloss or Schloss Waidhofen: It is named after the most important former owner, the banker Albert Salomon Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild (1844–1910). From 1875 to 1938, the estate administration of the extensive Rothschild lands in the region was established here. The first castle on this site dates from the 12th century. From 1365 it was the seat of the Freisingischen Pfleger (Vögte) and thus the administrative center. Today's keep was built around 1400. In 1881 there was a profound, high-quality neo-Gothic redesign, albeit with extensive loss of medieval building fabric, by the builder of the Vienna City Hall and Vienna cathedral master builder Friedrich von Schmidt (1825-1891). The architect Hans Hollein carried out a redesign in 2006/2007 , who achieved a new interpretation that was noticed but controversial among the Waidhofner population with several additions that clearly stood out from the existing building fabric through the use of modern materials. In 2007, the castle and St. Peter in der Au Castle hosted the Lower Austrian State Exhibition . Today the castle houses the city-history “ museum” alongside various other city facilities.
- City tower: The landmark of the city, the mighty, square tower, has to be climbed. With the booty from the expulsion of the Turkish troops (1532), the tower was raised to 50 m in 1535–1542. However, the view that the tower was built as a symbol of victory over the Turks cannot be substantiated, as the well-known inscription from 1932 suggests. One of the four clocks always shows a quarter to twelve, not because of a technical problem, but to announce the hour of legendary victory.
- Citizens Hospital Church and Former Citizens Hospital : Originally it was the church of the hospital founded in 1274 in front of the city wall (asylum for the poor and elderly). The current two-aisled building with a polygonal choir and diamond vault dates from the middle of the 15th century and is thus the second late Gothic church in the old town. The stone pulpit and a statue of the Virgin Mary date from the time it was built; the renovated late Gothic fresco cycle is also of interest. From the outside, the baroque tower (1777) is particularly striking. Since 2005, the church, which is owned by the city, has been shared by Catholics and Protestants. The Bürgerspital has been the spiritual center of the Order of St. John in Austria since 2010. Since 2015, the Bürgerspital has been the seat of the Lower Austria Sub-Coming of the Austrian Coming of the Order of St. John.
- Ybbsturm with city gate: On the only surviving medieval gate tower of the city fortifications there is an inscription with the motto of the city: Ferrum chalybsque urbis nutrimenta. “Iron and steel feed the city.” The facade was redesigned several times in the 19th century.
- Marian column: In the course of the Counter-Reformation under Pastor Pocksteiner in 1665, the baroque Marian column was erected on the site of the pillory .
- Monastery Church (. Former Capuchin Church): An essential support for the Counter-Reformation was the 1663 Waidhofen them by Capuchin . The simple hall church was built in 1644–1652 in front of the city wall. Inside is a late Gothic Madonna (around 1520). The youngest part of the church is the simple main facade (1833–1834) with a stone relief - Pietà from the period after the Second World War. In the past, the monastery church was shaped by the Konvikt, the school and student church in Waidhofen. This tradition is still maintained by the Catholic-Austrian student union Norika in the MKV , who celebrate mass there several times during the semester together with other visitors to the fair.
- Schloss Zell an der Ybbs : The Hotel Schloss an der Eisenstrasse was the former administrative seat of the Gleiß rulers and was built in the early baroque style when the importance of the market in Zell, which they owned, increased due to its favorable location next to Waidhofen.
- City Hall: This building consists of several Gothic houses under a uniform exterior facade, a legacy from the Nazi era (1942). In 1994 the interior was redesigned, exposing and incorporating the medieval building fabric (e.g. the Gothic arcade courtyard). The exterior, familiar to the Waidhofner, in this architecturally sensitive area of the old town remained untouched.
- Schwarzbach Viaduct of the Ybbstalbahn: This bridge leading past the city center and spanning the Schwarzbach valley is also the largest bridge structure on the Ybbstalbahn. It was built in 1896 as a " fish belly construction " using steel lattice construction.
- Zeller Hochbrücke : When the simple footbridge that crossed the deep cut of the Ybbs between Waidhofen and Zell was once again very dilapidated, the then poor market in Zell decided in 1898 to find a sustainable solution to the problem: without any support from the city administration The first flood-proof Ybbs bridge in the area was built in just one year. The project was carried out as a reinforced concrete structure according to the Monier system , with a slim, 42 m long arch spanning the Ybbs.
- Catholic parish church Konradsheim hl. Nicholas
- Catholic parish church St. Georgen in der Klaus
- Catholic parish church St. Leonhard am Wald
- Catholic parish church Windhag hl. Nicholas
- Catholic parish church Zell an der Ybbs hl. Florian
Museums and permanent exhibitions
In the " Museum", which was newly opened in 2008 (named after the five classic Chinese elements ), visitors are brought closer to the history of Waidhofen through the development of the themes of fire, water, earth, wood and metal. The 500 most interesting exhibits of the museum association, which draws from a fund of over 8000 objects, are shown. In addition, 50 experiments provide insights into scientific contexts.
The private rural folklore collection Piaty is set up on the upper floor of the pastry shop of the same name. 2500 exhibits from the Waidhofen area can be viewed, including a mountain farmer's parlor from 1614.
A tour of the Schwellöd museum show power station on the Ybbs River takes you back to the pioneering days of electrical energy generation . A jump into the present of the energy supply follows immediately afterwards, with a tour of the new Ybbs power station of EVN built next door .
Culture city Waidhofen
Waidhofen was awarded the title “City of Culture” in 1992 by the state of Lower Austria.
Waidhofen has three event centers: Castle Center, City Hall and Home Hall. A varied program of events with classical music, cabaret and concerts of contemporary music from pop to jazz is offered all year round.
The Waidhofen Chamber Music Orchestra, an amateur orchestra founded in 1972, mainly performs classical and romantic works. The music school in Waidhofen, one of the largest in Lower Austria, forms the basis of musical training.
The Pendel Gallery positioned itself in the visual arts sector . It presents the works of visual artists from the region, but also international contemporary artists. Under the motto "raumimpuls" there are also regular exhibitions in the multifunctional hall, which the architect Ernst Beneder realized for the Waidhofner Museum on the upper town square.
The amateur theater association Waidhofner Volksbühne performs on evenings in summer in the arcade courtyard of the Rothschild Castle. There are also plays in the town hall in spring (every two years) and in autumn. With the modern Plenker hall in the school center, Waidhofen also has a professional stage for concerts and theater events.
Economy and Infrastructure
In a comparison of Lower Austria, Waidhofen has a very low unemployment rate of 3.8% (2003: 202 unemployed), the employment rate is 47.94% (2001). There are a total of 517 non-agricultural holdings with 5741 employees (2001).
Companies
- Bene AG : Founded in 1790, industrial production of office furniture since 1951, headquarters and production in Waidhofen.
- Filterbau GmbH: air filters, pipes, expansion tanks, punched and bent parts.
- Forster Verkehrs- und Werbetechnik GmbH, Forster Metallbau GmbH, Forster Industrietechnik: founded in 1956. Austrian market leader in the production of traffic signs.
- IFE Aufverarbeitungstechnik GmbH: vibration conveyors, machines for the bulk goods industry.
- Knorr-Bremse GmbH , IFE Division: Automatic door systems.
- Meiller GmbH : Tipper technology.
- Anton Steiner GmbH & Co. KG: Guardrail assembly, Austrian market leader.
Agriculture
There are 420 agricultural and forestry operations in Waidhofen (1999). In accordance with the topographical and climatic conditions, livestock farming dominates in Waidhofen (especially cattle breeding). At lower altitudes, agriculture also takes place to a limited extent (mostly grain and maize). Due to the small size of the farm, it is mostly part-time farming. The density of organic farmers in the region is one of the highest in Austria (around 50%).
traffic
Waidhofen an der Ybbs is located off the main Austrian traffic routes. Head north on Weyerer Straße B121, at Amstetten , after 25 km the Westautobahn (A1). To the south, the Ybbstal is accessed via the Ybbstal Straße B31. Other well-developed road connections exist in the direction of Weyer (B121), Scheibbs ( Grestner Straße B22) and Steyr .
Waidhofen is an important station on the standard-gauge single-track electrified railway line Amstetten– Selzthal (a branch line of the Rudolfsbahn ), which has a connection to the Westbahn in Amstetten . The station is also the starting point of the narrow-gauge, diesel- powered Ybbstalbahn , which, however, has only been served by rail on a short, discontinued stretch to Gstadt since 2009.
Leisure and Tourism
The city adventure trail leads to all the important buildings in the city and explains interesting facts about the regional economic and cultural history. The Ybbsuferweg, which runs deep in the moat of the Ybbstal, allows you to get to know a piece of nature in the city.
In Nature and Wildlife Park Buchenberg about 130 animals live (lynx, deer, mouflon, eagle owl, tawny owl, polecat, wild cat u. V. M.). The facilities are specially tailored to the needs of children. A total of 20 km of walking and hiking trails have been laid out on the Buchenberg. The two pilgrimage chapels from the 19th century, decorated with votive pictures, are ideal destinations for hikes . In addition, several hundred kilometers of hiking trails are marked in the extensive surroundings of the Ybbstal Alpine Foreland.
The swimming pool was redesigned in 1989 as an "adventure park pool" and offers bathers a 60 m slide, a 10 m diving tower, an "adventure pool", a swimming pool and an area for small children. In addition, a beach volleyball and streetball court were built on the site.
The leisure offer is rounded off by the possibility of going to the cinema in the Filmbühne Waidhofen and by the youth center Bagger, an open space for the city's students and apprentices.
Waidhofen is the main town in the Niederösterreichische Eisenstrasse tourist region and is therefore a central starting point for trips to the region, which is characterized by historic mining buildings ( Hammerherrenhäuser , Hammerwerke, etc.).
safety
Besides Krems an der Donau , Waidhofen an der Ybbs is the only statutory town in Austria for which a state police department is not a security authority . This function is carried out by the city council. However, the city has its own district police command (and not a city police command , as one would assume ), to which, however, only a police station is attached.
Sports
In the Buchenberg Nature Park there are three running routes of varying degrees of difficulty and a network of eight mountain bike routes has been created around Waidhofen. The Ybbstal cycle path leads past Waidhofen.
At the Ybbs, near the Schwellöd power station, it is possible to borrow rowing boats and canoes.
There are three indoor courts and seven clay courts available for tennis. An artificial ice rink for ice skating or hockey games and an outdoor pool are also available, as is the multifunctional sports hall, which is used by the sports clubs as well as the schools. Club football, represented by SG Waidhofen an der Ybbs (1st class west), is at home in the Alpenstadion with a roofed spectator stand, while the artificial turf football pitch is open to everyone. An indoor climbing wall is available for the Waidhofen climbing scene. The sports facilities at the Parkbad complete the offer, as do several asphalt and ice stock rinks , a fitness center and two bowling alleys.
The Forsteralm ski area is just outside the city . The facilities consist of a four-person chair lift, six surface lifts and a baby lift. 18 km of slopes are available and four ski huts make up the gastronomic offer.
education
- Bundesrealgymnasium Waidhofen an der Ybbs
- Higher technical federal teaching and research institute Waidhofen an der Ybbs: Higher departments for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, technical schools for electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and manufacturing technology. The mechanical engineering college is also run with a focus on sports (football).
- Federal Commercial Academy and Federal Commercial School with Waidhofen Training Center (Schisport-TZW)
- Forestry School Waidhofen - one-year, vocational school that imparts silvicultural, forestry and hunting knowledge and is the only one of its kind in Austria. It concludes with the forestry skilled worker examination.
- Waidhofen special education center
- Regional special school Reichenauerhof
- Lower Austria child and youth care center Reichenauerhof
- Waidhofen Adult Education Center
- Polytechnic School Waidhofen / Ybbs - "Poly an der Eisenstrasse"; Subjects: metal technology, electrical engineering, wood technology, construction technology, trade / office, services, tourism
- Sports secondary school
- two main schools
- six elementary schools
- nine state kindergartens
Health facilities
With the Waidhofen State Clinic, the city has a primary care hospital with departments for internal medicine, surgery (with a department for trauma surgery), gynecology and obstetrics, anesthesia and radiology.
Waidhofen is the location for the Buchenberg therapy center run by the Public Employees Insurance Company (BVA). A total of 156 beds are operated in the Department of Convalescence and Health Care and the Department of Neurorehabilitation.
The Johanniter operate a mobile palliative team from the Bürgerspital site.
politics
As a statutory town, Waidhofen an der Ybbs did not take part in the 2015 municipal council elections in Lower Austria . The elected organs of the community are divided into an external body, the 40-seat local council, and an internal body, the city senate elected by the local council, which includes the mayor and the two deputy mayors as well as the eight city councils.
- The results of the 2012 municipal council elections were: WVP 20 mandates, SPÖ 10, UWG 6, FUFU 2, Greens 1 and FPÖ 1.
- The results of the municipal council election on January 29, 2017 resulted in the following distribution: Waidhofner People's Party 26 (+6), SPÖ 6 (−4), FPÖ 2 (+1), UWG (Independent Voting Community) 1 (−5), Greens 1 (± 0) and FUFU (Colorless Independent Formed Uniforms) 4 (+2).
mayor
- 1911–1913 Josef Steindl
- 1913–1918 Georg Riegelhofer
- 1919–1923 Josef Waas
- 1923–1925 Franz Kotter
- 1925–1931 Alois Lindenhofer (CS)
- 1931–1932 Ignaz Inführ
- 1932–1938 Alois Lindenhofer (CS / VF)
- 1938 Josef Haider (NSDAP)
- 1938–1945 Emmerich Zinner (NSDAP)
- 1945–1947 Erich Meyer (KPÖ)
- 1947–1952 Alois Lindenhofer (ÖVP)
- 1952–1972 / 73 Franz Josef Kohout (1938–1945 NSDAP; ÖVP)
- 1972–1996 Erich Vetter (ÖVP)
- 1996–1998 Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP)
- 1998–2014 Wolfgang Mair (ÖVP)
- since 2014 Werner Krammer (ÖVP)
coat of arms
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Blazon : "The coat of arms of the city of Waidhofen an der Ybbs shows in blue field on a green triple mount a silver crenellated city walls with (heraldic) open gate , a raised portcullis surmounted by two underlying silver city towers with red roofs; between the city towers above the gate is a (heraldic) right-hand Mohrenkopf crownedwith a golden three-pointed crown . " |
| Justification of the coat of arms: The Mohrenkopf comes from the centuries-long connection between the city of Waidhofen and the sovereign territory of the Freising diocese . The city of Waidhofen has been the rulership of the Freising Bishop since the Middle Ages and therefore Waidhofen has the Freising Moors in its city coat of arms. The rule lasted until 1803 and was then replaced for Waidhofen by the title of statutory town. |
Community partnerships
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Freising ( Bavaria , Germany ) since 1986
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Laatzen ( Lower Saxony , Germany ) since 1986
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Möhringen an der Donau ( Baden-Württemberg , Germany ) since 1956
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Anton Aloys Buchmayer (1770–1851), Bishop of St. Pölten
- Gottfried Edmund Frieß (1836–1904), Benedictine, historian and teacher
- Ferdinand Andri (1871–1956), painter and graphic artist
- Frieda Berryhill (1922–2012), anti-nuclear activist who emigrated to the United States
- Franz Dorfer (1950–2012), boxer
- Kilian Fischhuber (* 1983), overall World Cup winner and runner-up in bouldering
- Sebastian Göttlinger (* 1980), beach volleyball player
- Günther Groissböck (* 1976), opera singer, bass voice
- Ludwig Halauska (1827–1882), painter
- Norbert Haselsteiner (* 1957), district captain
- Christian Krall-Wartlsteiner (* 1955), author
- Rainer Küchl (* 1950), concert master of the Vienna Philharmonic
- Franz Peyerl (1920–2011), politician and trade unionist
- Paul Rebhun (1505–1546), Lutheran pastor, educator and playwright
- Gisela Salcher (* 1969), actress
- Anselm Salzer (1856–1938), literary historian
- Alfredo Schäffler (* 1941), Catholic clergyman and emeritus bishop of Parnaíba
- Evelyn Schlag (* 1952), writer
- Elfriede Schüsseleder (* 1951), actress
- Wolfgang Sobotka (* 1956), Austrian politician (ÖVP) and President of the National Council
- Georg Zellhofer (* 1960), soccer player and coach
- Richard Lietz (* 1983), racing driver
- Mathäus Jurkovics (* 1998), volleyball player
People related to the community
- Sergius Pauser (December 28, 1896 - March 16, 1970), Austrian painter
- Claus Raidl (born November 6, 1942 in Kapfenberg), President of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
- Anton Steiner (born September 20, 1958), ex-ski racer and Olympic medalist
- Thomas Sykora (born May 18, 1968 in Tulln), Slalom World Cup winner 1996/97 and 1997/98, President of the football club FC Harreither WY
- Revoked honorary citizenship
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945); Waidhofen an der Ybbs was one of the last cities in the world in which Hitler held an honorary citizenship. One took the position that honorary citizenship would automatically expire with the death of the person concerned. Nonetheless, in April 2012, honorary citizenship was revoked by a unanimous decision of the local council.
Waidhofen in literature
Waidhofen an der Ybbs is one of the central locations of the first novel Let go of the bears! by the American writer John Irving , who repeatedly refers to Austria in his works.
literature
- Friedrich Almer: Waidhofen an der Ybbs in old views. [Part 1.] European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1994, ISBN 90-288-5988-8 .
- Peter Maier: Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Metropolis of the Ybbstal. Edited by the municipality of Waidhofen an der Ybbs. City of Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1993, DNB 94730441X ; 2nd Edition. 2003.
- Peter Maier: Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs. Traces of history. From the beginning to the present. Publisher: Magistrate of the City of Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Waidhofen an der Ybbs 2006, DNB 987038753 .
- Martin Prieschl (Ed.): Document treasures from the Waidhofen an der Ybbs city archive and the Ybbsitz market archive. Volume I: 1355-1500. Self-published, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 2009.
- Friedrich Richter, Mathias Settele, Wolfgang Sobotka, Walter Zambal: 800 years Waidhofen an der Ybbs. 1186-1986. Published by the city of Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1986.
- Stefan René Buzanich: "First commanded judge and guess alhie ..." The "Memorabilia book" of the city of Waidhofen an der Ybbs - the edition of a city book from the 16th century. Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2011 ( PDF; 1332 kB ).
- Stefanie Moser: The Waidhofen an der Ybbs Hospital in the early modern period. Reconstruction of everyday hospital life using invoice books. Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2011 ( PDF; 880 kB ).
- Franz Hofleitner: Waidhofen an der Ybbs under Mayor Franz Josef Kohout, 1952–1973. The structural change of the city from the time of occupation to municipal structural adjustment. Vienna, Univ., Dissertation, 2011, urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-30117.32265.406470-3 ( PDF; 9.8 MB ).
- Magistrate of the City of Waidhofen an der Ybbs (Ed.): Looking back to the front. 150 years of statutory town Waidhofen a / d Ybbs. Waidhofen an der Ybbs 2019, ISBN 978-3-200-06205-4 .
- Roman Sandgruber: Rothschild. Glory and decline of the Viennese world house. Molden Verlag, 2018.
- Franz Hofleitner: Waidhofen an der Ybbs under Mayor Franz Josef Kohout, 1952–1973. The structural change of the city from the time of occupation to municipal structural adjustment. Vienna, Univ., Dissertation, 2011, urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-30117.32265.406470-3 ( PDF; 9.8 MB ).
Web links
- Helmut Fielhauer : The “Gassaten” of the Turkish pipers in Waidhofen an der Ybbs (1971). in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (film on local history; 24:39 min.)
- Website of the city of Waidhofen an der Ybbs
- 30301 - Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reformation Cities of Europe. In: reformation-cities.org, accessed on September 28, 2016. For the significance of Waidhofen in the history of the Reformation, see the section Decline in the 16th Century and the city portrait of the project Reformation Cities of Europe: Reformation City of Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Austria. Evangelical despite the Catholic landlord. In: reformation-cities.org/cities, accessed July 20, 2017.
- ↑ Mostviertel Lower Austria - Geography, Economics, Statistics | Similio. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ^ Lower Austrian Limestone Alps - Lower Austria - Geography, Economics, Statistics | Similio. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ^ Pre-Alps - Austria - geography, economics, statistics | Similio. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ^ Waidhofen an der Ybbs - Lower Austria - Geography, Economics, Statistics | Similio. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Federal Geological Institute (ed.): Geological map of Lower Austria 1: 200,000, Lower Austria South. Vienna 2002.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Waidhofen an der Ybbs - Lower Austria - Geography, Economics, Statistics | Similio. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ^ Peter Maier: Waidhofen ad Ybbs. Traces of history. From the beginning to the present. Edited by the Magistrate Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Waidhofen an der Ybbs 2006, DNB 987038753 .
- ↑ Hoher Markt: The fight against vacancies. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. March 28, 2018.
- ^ Waidhofen: landslide victory for ÖVP. In: orf.at, January 29, 2017, accessed on January 29, 2017.
- ^ ÖVP recaptured Absolute in Waidhofen / Ybbs. In: NÖN , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 27, 2017.
- ↑ Wolfgang Atzenhofer: Blast effect: ÖVP city chief Mair resigns. In: kurier.at. October 17, 2014, accessed July 20, 2017.
- ↑ Mayor of the city. List of all mayors. In: waidhofen.at accessed on June 5, 2019.
- ^ City of Waidhofen an der Ybbs: City history of Waidhofen - Departure into the modern age - The Waidhofner Friedhöfe . Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ↑ Walter Zambal: Former cemetery in today's Schiller Park and the showpieces obtained in Waidhofner Museum (PDF; 325 KB). In: eisenstrasse.info, accessed on April 10, 2019 (from: Musealverein Waidhofen / Ybbs [Hrsg.]: 100 Jahre Musealverein Waidhofen / Ybbs. 1905–2005. 2005).
- ↑ Johanniter locations. In: die-johanniter, accessed on February 20, 2016.
- ^ Federal Monuments Office Austria: Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Schwellöd power station. (No longer available online.) In: bda.at. Federal Monuments Office Austria, July 21, 2012, archived from the original on July 21, 2012 ; accessed on October 3, 2018 .
- ^ Citybahn on the test stand , Niederösterreichische Nachrichten, March 7, 2018
- ↑ Forestry School. In: forstfachschule.at, accessed on September 29, 2016.
- ^ Waidhofen: landslide victory for ÖVP. In: orf.at, January 29, 2017, accessed on January 29, 2017.
- ^ ÖVP recaptured Absolute in Waidhofen / Ybbs. In: NÖN , January 27, 2017, accessed on January 27, 2017.
- ↑ Wolfgang Atzenhofer: Blast effect: ÖVP city chief Mair resigns. In: kurier.at. October 17, 2014, accessed July 20, 2017.
- ↑ Mayor of the city. List of all mayors. In: waidhofen.at accessed on June 5, 2019.
- ↑ Waidhofner Stadtrecht 1977. In: ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on September 28, 2016.
- ↑ Why is there a black head on the city arms of Waidhofen / Ybbs in Lower Austria? In: afrikanet.info, accessed on September 28, 2016.
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↑ Honorary citizenship: Waidhofen / Ybbs reacts. In: noe.orf.at. April 11, 2012, accessed September 29, 2016;
Hitler honorary citizenship: Waidhofen / Ybbs prior to the decision of determination. In: noen.at. May 25, 2011, accessed September 29, 2016;
Waidhofen / Ybbs: Hitler no longer an honorary citizen. In: noe.orf.at. April 11, 2012, accessed September 29, 2016. - ^ Library link to Maier 1993.
- ^ Library link to Maier 2009.
- ↑ Library link to Richter u. a. 1986.
- ↑ Library link to Looking Back Forward in the Austrian National Library .
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