Weißenburg area

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Weißenburg region ( scattered houses )
locality
region / Rotte
Weißenburg area (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state St. Pölten  (PL), Lower Austria
Judicial district St. Polten
Pole. local community Frankenfels
Coordinates 48 ° 0 '12 "  N , 15 ° 21' 8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '12 "  N , 15 ° 21' 8"  E
height 580  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 60 (January 1, 2016)
Building status 23 (2001 f1)
Post Code 3213 Frankenfels
Statistical identification
Locality code 05450
Counting district / district Frankenfels area (31906 001)
with Mitter-Wies, Unter-Wies, Vorder-Wies, Weißenburg (partly)
Source: STAT : Ortverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS
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Weißenburg region is a village in the Türnitz Alps in Lower Austria's Mostviertel , municipality of Frankenfels , district of St. Pölten-Land .

geography

The village is located about 30 kilometers southwest of Sankt Pölten , about 3 km northeast of the municipality's capital. The scattered houses lie along the Pielach and Weißenbach , on the southern slopes of the Bichlberg  ( 859  m above sea level ), which belongs to the ridge between the Pielach and Texingtal . Here the mountainous region of the Mostviertel limestone foothills ( Türnitz Alps ) merges into the foothills of the Ötscher region .

The village has a good 20 buildings with around 60 inhabitants. The local area includes parts of the Rotte Weißenburg am Weißenbach, which make up the majority of the locality, as well as the individual layers Vorder-, Mitter- and Unter-Wies Pielachtalauswärts. At the spur of the Weißenbach confluence with the Pielach - foothills of the Frankenfelsberg - stands the recently renovated ruins of Weißenburg .

Neighboring towns and cities

Tiefgrabenrotte  (O) Schwerbach Area
(O, Gem.  Kirchberg adP )
Neighboring communities Rugged area  (O, district of  Loich )
Leaning area  (O) Hofstadtgebiet  (O) Pielachleitengegend  (O)

history

Weißenburg Tunnel of the Mariazellerbahn and road in the Weißenburg area in Frankenfels around 1907 with a stamp of the German School Association

The name of this area was derived from the Weissenburg Castle . Below the castle was the village with the tavern , a farm and a mill. Until 1860, the route from Kirchberg an der Pielach led over two wooden bridges over the Weißenbach to the tavern and then over the Annakreuz and Ober-Grub to the village of Frankenfels .

In 1905, the Pielachtal route of the Mariazellerbahn from Kirchberg to Laubenbachmühle was completed (the train ran as far as Kirchberg and the branch to Mank in 1898). A loading station was set up in Weissenbach. Around 1930, the local council discussed building a school in Weißenbachtal.

On January 1, 1938, a branch of the Frankenfels volunteer fire brigade was established near the tavern, initially as a detached group. This fire brigade moved to Tiefgrabenrotte in 1981 as a separate train . From May 7, 2017, it will be run as the Weissenburg volunteer fire department.

House and field names

Gasthaus Schönau in Weißenburg region 17 in Frankenfels around 1908

There are currently around forty houses in the Weißenburg area, 17 of which have a house name that is largely no longer used today .

List of houses
(The origin of the word is given in brackets)
  • Weißenburg area 1: Steingrund or Landgerichtsdienerhäusl (house of a court usher )
  • Weißenburg area 2: Scheibstatthäusl ( location where wood was to be cut )
  • Weißenburg area 3: Weissenburg Castle
  • Weißenburg area 4: Saghäusl (home of a sawmill master)
  • Weißenburg area 5: Brandgrabenhäusl (the house of the Brandgraben homesteads in Kirchberg an der Pielach, which were named because of clearing and fire clearance )
  • Weißenburg area 6: Unter-Wies (next to a meadow)
  • Weißenburg area 7: Mitter-Wies (see Weißenburg area 6)
  • Weißenburg area 8: Vorder-Wies (see Weißenburg area 6)
  • Weißenburg region 9: Jägerhaus (residence of the manorial hunter)
  • Weißenburg region 10: Bleichgarten (bleaching of the flax , which was produced in the Haarstubenhäusl)
  • Weißenburg area 11: Untersäge (power saw and mill)
  • Weißenburg region 12: Tavern (tavern that belonged to the rule or castle of Weißenburg until the 17th century)
  • Weißenburg area 13: Hofhäusl ( court here means property )
  • Weißenburg region 14: Haarstubenhäusl (flax was warmed here so that it could be extracted from the stalk)
  • Weißenburg region 15 †: Elendgartenhäusl (allegedly there was a zoo in the Weißenburg where moose were kept)
  • Weißenburggebiet 16: Tavernmühle (mill of the Weißenburg)
  • Weißenburg area 17: Schönau (location on a beautiful meadow )

The Elendgartenhäusl (Weißenburg area 15) no longer exists. The Weissenburg loading point of the Mariazellerbahn used to be at this point .

Today there are only residential buildings, and the historical field names and vulgon names are slowly being forgotten. The following saying is still known today: “The Weißenbach begins in misery and ends in need”. Meant are the houses Elendgarten (Weißenburg region 15) and Not ( Wiesrotte  11).

Economy and sights

In addition to agriculture and forestry, other businesses were also operated in the Weißenburg area. There was a tavern, a sawmill and a farrier in the Weißenburg area. Roof tiles were made later. A wooden handle production facility moved from Weißenburg area 2 to Tiefgrabenrotte  23 around 1930 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Weißenburg region  - collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Schweickhardt : Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens, ... 7th volume: District of Upper Vienna Woods . Vienna 1837, chapter Herrschaft Kirchberg: Weissenburg , p. 21 (Upper Wienerwald is today about the Mostviertel; text online , archive.org).
  2. ↑ Lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 450
  3. ↑ after lit. Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch .
  4. ↑ Gamsjäger: Frankenfelser Häuserbuch , p. 422