Willows on the March

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Gänserndorf

License plate :

GF

Main town :

Oberweiden

Surface:

55.87 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 18 ' N , 16 ° 49' E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '0 " N , 16 ° 49' 0" E

Height :

162 m above sea level A.

Residents :

996 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

18 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

2295

Area code :

02284

Community code :

3 08 65

NUTS region

AT126

Address of the
municipal administration:

Oberweiden 25
2295 Weiden an der March

Website:

www.weiden-march.at

politics

Mayor :

Markus Lang ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(15 members)

13

2

13 2

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 13
SPÖ : 2

Location of Weiden an der March in the Gänserndorf district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Weiden an der March is a municipality in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria with 996 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Marchau next to Bernstein Straße in the area of the municipal boundary of Weiden an der March (district: Baumgarten an der March) and Marchegg

Weiden an der March is located in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria . The area of the municipality covers 55.8 square kilometers. 19.63 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

Baumgarten an der March (188), (Croatian Pangort na Moravi)
Oberweiden (439)
Zwerndorf (369), (Croatian Cvendrof)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Baumgarten an der March, Oberweiden and Zwerndorf. The large community of Weiden an der March was founded on January 1, 1975, when the three towns of Baumgarten, Oberweiden and Zwerndorf merged.

Neighboring communities

	Angern on the March
Weikendorf		Malacky (Slovakia)
Untersiebenbrunn	Lassee	Marchegg

history

In this area, finds from the early Paleolithic were made, about 800,000 years old rubble tools of Homo erectus.

Population development

census	Residents
2011	985
2001	904
1991	822
1981	854
1971	921
1939	1484
1869	1184

Source: Population development of Weiden an der March. (PDF) Statistics Austria

In the Popreg database for the year 2009 942 inhabitants were determined. According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 904 inhabitants. Since the 1991 census, the number of inhabitants in the municipality and in the district of Gänserndorf has increased.

Religions

About 96% of the residents of Weiden are Roman Catholic . The churches of Weiden are among the oldest in the Gänserndorf district .

politics

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The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

1975–1980 Josef Schultes
1980–1995 Walter Hansi (ÖVP)
1995–1999 Franz Denk (ÖVP)
1999–2005 Josef Bubenicek (ÖVP)
2005–2010 Josef Dienst (ÖVP)
2010–2019 Franz Neduchal (ÖVP)
since 2019 Markus Lang (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Branch church Baumgarten an der March

Parish church Oberweiden

Parish church Zwerndorf

Former school building in Baumgarten

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Catholic branch church Baumgarten an der March hl. Markus
Catholic parish church Oberweiden hl. Leopold
Catholic parish church Zwerndorf hl. Pancras

Nature and conservation

The sand mountains of Oberweiden extend over an area of around 117 hectares, where rare species, some of which are threatened with extinction in Austria, such as the sand straw flower ( Helichrysum arenarium ), the sand radmelde ( Bassia laniflora ), the late carnation ( Dianthus serotinus ) and the sand plantain ( Plantago arenaria ) grow.

In Zwerndorf and Baumgarten there are alluvial forests with the Marchauen nature reserve for hiking. The Kamp-Thaya-March cycle route and the March panorama path lead through the municipality. There is a swimming pond in Zwerndorf.

FFH area Pannonian sand dunes
Sandboden bird sanctuary and Prater terrace
March-Thaya-Auen European Protected Areas
March-Thaya-Auen bird sanctuary
Sandberge Oberweiden nature reserve
Salzsteppe nature reserve Baumgarten an der March

economy

In 2001 there were 26 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 90 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 403. The 2001 participation rate was 45.79 percent.

Natural gas storage facility: In 1952 the largest natural gas storage facility in Austria was developed here. During the first drilling, a gas eruption occurred on March 15, 1952, as a result of which the entire drilling rig was destroyed and sank into a crater that was forming. As a result, the outbreak could no longer be brought under control with conventional means. By three to the eruption site of Soviet Turbinenbohrbrigaden down placed directional drilling , of which m in 1295 depth encountered misfortune well and then Totpumpen so-called natural gas outburst after 11 months, in which an estimated one billion cubic meters of natural gas flowed from uncontrolled, could be completed. This application represents the first application of turbine drilling technology outside of the Soviet Union. The natural gas-bearing layers of the Zwerndorf gas field are located at depths of 650 to 2753 m. Most of the gas, however, is in a sandstone layer at a depth of 1410 to 1500 m. By 1992, 12.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas had been produced from the Zwerndorf-Baumgarten storage complex. The extracted natural gas reaches the central distribution point in the Baumgarten district , into which several natural gas pipelines also flow, making it one of the most important European distribution centers for natural gas.