Schrattenthal

Borough Schrattenthal
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Hollabrunn
License plate :	HL
Main town :	Obermarkersdorf
Surface:	22.41 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 43 '  N , 15 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '0 "  N , 15 ° 54' 0"  E
Height :	289  m above sea level A.
Residents :	865 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2073
Area code :	02942
Community code :	3 10 41
Address of the municipal administration:	Obermarkersdorf 36 2073 Schrattenthal
Website:	www.schrattenthal.at
politics
Mayor :	Stefan Schmid ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	11 4th 11 4th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 4
Location of Schrattenthal in the Hollabrunn district
Town hall in the cadastral community of Obermarkersdorf
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schrattenthal around 1670, Typographia Austriae inferioris, Georg Matthäus Vischer

Main street of Schrattenthal

Weir systems in Schrattenthal Castle

Schrattenthal parish church

Europawarte after the renovation in autumn 2018

Schrattenthal is a municipality with 865 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria , making it one of the smallest municipalities in Austria .

geography

Schrattenthal is located in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 22.41 square kilometers. 34.33 percent of the area is forested.

The place is named for the crystalline basin of Obermarkersdorf .

Community structure

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

• Obermarkersdorf (364) including Breitenmühle and Rosenau
• Schrattenthal (296)
• Waitzendorf (205)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Obermarkersdorf, Schrattenthal and Waitzendorf.

Neighboring communities

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history

In 1425 the Hussites stood in front of Schrattenthal, which was first mentioned in a document in 1220, and after several days of siege they conquered it as well as the neighboring towns of Retz and Pulkau .

Ulrich von Eyczing acquired Schrattenthal on April 4, 1434 and made it his headquarters in 1435, although he owned extensive lands between the Danube and Moravia with large towns and castles. He had a new castle built and incorporated the place into the defensive systems with common walls.

On September 18, 1472 Schrattenthal was by Emperor Friedrich III. raised to the city and got a city coat of arms.

29 years later (1501) the first printing house in Lower Austria was opened in Schrattenthal.

In 1563 the Eyczinger confessed to the Protestant faith, built a Protestant church in the castle and brought a preacher from the Palatinate who also became a schoolmaster. Schrattenthal became an important center of Protestantism in Lower Austria.

In the early years of the Thirty Years War, the Eyczingers lost their lands, and the small town saw several changes of ownership as a result. From 1620 to 1660 the Counts of Strozzi owned the place.

From March to October 1645 the Swedes were in town with their General Lennart Torstensson , who had set up his headquarters here.

From 1660 to 1734 the place was owned by the Barons von Adlersthurm, then the Counts von Hartig came. In 1740 the fields were measured and the houses numbered. At number 57 it was over. In the suburbs (four houses) were the frowned professions such as executioner , skinner and cattle herder.

The aftermath of a fire in 1783 that destroyed large parts of the city changed its appearance. The city walls were abandoned and used as building material for the reconstruction.

In the Napoleonic Wars in 1797 (General Suworow ) and 1805 ( General Kutusow ) Russian auxiliary troops moved through the city, in 1809 the Austrians, Russians and French.

The "Commerzstrasse" from Krems to Znaim was built for six years ; in 1833 it was opened by Emperor Franz I. He was not the first emperor in Schrattenthal. Emperor Maximilian II often went hunting here and on October 11, 1848 Emperor Ferdinand I traveled through here on his escape from Vienna, accompanied by the heir to the throne Franz Joseph .

The year 1848 brought the liberation of the peasants and the year 1850 the first elections in the city. The previous owner, Hermann Graf von Attems, became the first freely elected mayor. On July 27, 1866, the Prussians came and with them cholera (two dead).

In 1945 the German Wehrmacht moved into Schrattenthal, the city became a war zone from April 11th, the postal service and the distribution of food were stopped. On May 8, bridges and ammunition dumps were blown up and the power supply collapsed. At 10 p.m. the Red Army came into town. She left the city again in mid-June 1946.

With the Lower Austria. Municipal structure improvement was created in 1972 by amalgamating the municipalities of Schrattenthal, Obermarkersdorf and Waitzendorf to form the municipality of Schrattenthal. The eponymous place Schrattenthal has around 250 inhabitants (257 inhabitants according to the 2001 census) and is therefore one of the smallest historical cities in Austria. The 2001 census also showed 376 inhabitants for Obermarkersdorf and 246 inhabitants for Waitzendorf.

Population development

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2008 Werner Grolly (ÖVP)
• 2008–2019 Alfred Schuster (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Stefan Schmid (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Kellergasse Rosenau in Obermarkersdorf

Kellergasse Stadtgraben in Schrattenthal

Kellergasse in Waitzendorf

See also : List of listed objects in Schrattenthal  and List of cellar lanes in Schrattenthal

• Schrattenthal Castle
• Catholic parish church Schrattenthal hl. Augustine
• Europawarte - St. Benedikt: Built in 1980 and extensively renovated in 2018, the 26-meter-high observation tower on the Schafberg north-west of Waitzendorf

Regular events

• Pumpkin Festival in Retzer Land (Obermarkersdorf venue)

economy

In 2010 there were 79 agricultural and forestry holdings (121 in 1999), 39 of which were full-time farms. In the manufacturing sector, eight factories employed nineteen workers, mainly in the manufacture of goods. The service sector gave 59 people jobs in 37 companies, mainly in trade and in social and public services (as of 2011).

Personalities

Daughters and sons of the church

• Michael von Aitzing (~ 1530–1598), nobleman, scholar and author
• Theobald Fritz (1771–1848), Augustinian monk and professor at the University of Vienna
• Ferdinand Steinhauser (1905–1991), climatologist, meteorologist and director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna.

Web links

Commons : Schrattenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Wikisource: Schrattenthal in the appendix of the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 31041 - Schrattenthal. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Schrattenthal. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed April 1, 2020 . 
3. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Schrattenthal. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on April 1, 2020 . 
4. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Schrattenthal. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on April 1, 2020 . 
5. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Schrattenthal. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on April 1, 2020 . 
6. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Schrattenthal. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on April 1, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Schrattenthal. Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on April 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Europawarte at Waitzendorf on weinviertel.net
9. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Schrattenthal, agricultural and forestry operations. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
10. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Schrattenthal, workplaces. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
11. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Sxhrattenthal, employees. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .