Waldkirchen an der Thaya

market community

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Waidhofen an der Thaya

License plate :

WT

Surface:

42.69 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 56 ' N , 15 ° 21' E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '0 " N , 15 ° 21' 0" E

Height :

478 m above sea level A.

Residents :

501 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

3844

Area code :

02843

Community code :

3 22 22

NUTS region

AT124

Address of the
municipal administration:

Waldkirchen an der Thaya 65
3844 Waldkirchen an der Thaya

Website:

www.waldkirchen-thaya.at

politics

Mayor :

Rudolf Hofstätter ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(15 members)

15th

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 15

Location of Waldkirchen an der Thaya in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district

Municipal Office

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Waldkirchen an der Thaya is a market town with 501 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district in Lower Austria .

geography

Waldkirchen an der Thaya is located in the northern Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the market town covers 42.72 square kilometers. 31.46% of the area is forested. The Zlabingsbach flows through the community and flows into the Deutsche Thaya a little south .

In Fratres there is a border crossing to Zlabings in the Czech Republic .

Community structure

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

Fratres (26)
Gilgenberg (34)
Rappolz (77)
Rudolz (66)
Schoenfeld (48)
Waldhers (92)
Waldkirchen an der Thaya (158)

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Fratres (4.20 km²) Gilgenberg (4.61 km²) Rappolz (7.20 km²) Rudolz (3.69 km²) Schönfeld (4.80 km²) Waldhers (11.61 km²) Waldkirchen (6.61 km²)	Fratres (D) Gilgenberg (D) Rappolz (D) Rudolz (D) Schönfeld (D) Waldhers (D) Waldkirchen an der Thaya (M) Hanftal (R)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria - List for Lower Austria (PDF)

The community belongs to the small region of the future area Thayaland .

Neighboring communities

	Slavonice (CZ)	Písečné u Slavonic (CZ)
Dobersberg		Raabs an der Thaya
	Karlstein on the Thaya

history

Waldkirchen was first mentioned in a document in 1188 and raised to a market town in 1928.

Population development

Since 1934 the population has been decreasing. In the last few decades, both the birth balance and the migration balance have been negative.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 1 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP.

mayor

until 2005 Franz Hummel (ÖVP)
2005-2010 Gerhard Rillander (SPÖ)
since 2010 Rudolf Hofstätter (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church

Memorial for the displaced

Reinhold Messner and Peter Coreth in the Museum Humanum

The parish church of Waldkirchen to St. Martin is essentially Romanesque and was redesigned in the Baroque era . Its tower was built between 1713 and 1715.
The ossuary southeast of the church was built in 1773.
At the Waldkirchen cemetery there is a memorial for the Sudeten German expellees from Iglau for 25 small children who died of starvation in the expulsion on June 21, 1945, as well as a memorial plaque for the war dead of Iglau.
Gilgenberg Castle is a late Renaissance building and dates back to an earlier festival.
In Fratres is the Museum Humanum by Peter Coreth , who represents the museum as a cultural bridge between the Czech Republic and Austria over thousands of years.
Immediately before the Fratres border crossing there is a memorial for the Sudeten German expellees from Zlabings and the Zlabingser Ländchen to commemorate the dead at home.

economy

There are 80 agricultural and forestry businesses in the municipality, 35 of which are full-time businesses (as of 2010). In the manufacturing sector, five companies employ fourteen people, mainly in the manufacture of goods. The service sector employs 32 people in 18 companies (as of 2011).

traffic

Train: Waldkirchen is located on the Thayatalbahn , which originally ran from Schwarzenau via Waidhofen to Slavonice (Zlabings). The railway line was discontinued in 2010.
Bicycle: A cycle path was built on the former embankment of the Thayatalbahn .

education

There is a kindergarten and an elementary school in Waldkirchen.

Web links

Commons : Waldkirchen an der Thaya - Collection of images, videos and audio files

32222 - Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, population development. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
^ Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed June 17, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed June 17, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
^ Gerhard Stenzel: From lock to lock in Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 , p. 176.
↑ Entry on Kulturbrücke in Fratres in the Austria Forum (in the Heimatlexikon)
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, agricultural and forestry operations. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, workplaces. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, employees. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
↑ The standard, Thayatalbahn is discontinued. June 10, 2010, accessed August 29, 2019 .
^ Community Waldkirchen an der Thaya, elementary school. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

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

[2] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, population development. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

[NÖGrw1995_32222-3] Result of the municipal council election 1995 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed June 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_32222-4] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on June 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_32222-5] Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed June 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_32222-6] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on June 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_32222-7] Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_32222-8] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Waldkirchen an der Thaya. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .

[9] Gerhard Stenzel: From lock to lock in Austria . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 , p. 176.

[10] Entry on Kulturbrücke in Fratres in the Austria Forum (in the Heimatlexikon)

[11] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, agricultural and forestry operations. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

[12] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, workplaces. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

[13] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Waldkirchen an der Thaya, employees. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .

[14] The standard, Thayatalbahn is discontinued. June 10, 2010, accessed August 29, 2019 .

[15] Community Waldkirchen an der Thaya, elementary school. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .