Weidling (municipality of Klosterneuburg)

Weidling ( district ) locality cadastral community Weidling
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Tulln  (TU), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Klosterneuburg
Coordinates	48 ° 17 ′ 26 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 31"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 26 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 31"  E
height	196  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	3261 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	14.63 km²
Post Code	3400
Primaries	+ 43/0 22 43
Statistical identification
Locality code	06708
Cadastral parish number	1706
Center with the parish church
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Weidling is a place and a cadastral community of the city of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Weidling has about 3300 inhabitants and a total area of ​​16.5 km².

history

Weidling was first mentioned in a document in 1108 and therefore celebrated its 900th anniversary in 2008. After the plague epidemic in early modern times, the place with eight inhabitants was almost extinct.

In the 19th century it became a health resort and relaxation area, which is why famous Viennese also settled here. In the Weidlinger Friedhof there are, for example, the graves of the poet Nikolaus Lenau , the orientalist Joseph Freiherr Hammer von Purgstall and the mayor of Vienna Cajetan Felder .

The community, established in 1848, was an independent community until it was incorporated into Greater Vienna in 1938 . When Vienna was outsourced, which was de facto carried out in 1954, Weidling stayed with the city of Klosterneuburg like the other towns and did not become independent again.

politics

In terms of administrative law, Weidling is subordinate to the municipality of Klosterneuburg, with a local mayor looking after the interests of the city and the population of Weidling. Mayor is Martin Trat.

Infrastructure, economy, culture and transport

Weidling has an elementary school that is over 125 years old. The place also has its Weidling volunteer fire brigade , a boy scout group and an old scout guild , a football club that merged with the Klosterneuburg sports club and a cultural club that promotes and collects historically significant documents and objects as well as various vernissages and exhibitions employed.

From 1908 to 1919 Weidling was connected to the electric trolleybus company of the municipality Weidling with the Klosterneuburg-Weidling train station, this line was one of the first trolleybus companies in Austria.

From Rothengraben in the forest area of ​​the Austrian Federal Forests, a forest railway led to the transport of wood to Weidling. This forest railway was built between 1921 and 1922 and ended in Weidling at the storage area between Reichergasse and Elisabethgasse (Möstelgrund). Its tracks were 600 mm wide, the railway was 3.3 km long, it had a 300 m long feeder line and a loading siding in the Kierlinger Rotgraben. Long logs and logs were transported, approximately 72,000 solid cubic meters of wood are said to have been transported. The loaded wagons rolled downhill without a locomotive, braked by hand, and were pulled uphill again by the locomotive. Derailments were common, and a brakeman died in an accident. In 1926 a section of the line was dismantled, in 1927 the rest of the line and a road was built on the route.

Culture and sights

The Weidlinger parish church celebrated its 600th anniversary in 2008.

See also the list of listed objects in Klosterneuburg , section Weidling cadastral community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Aemilian Edlauer (1882–1960), malacologist
• Willibald Eigner (* 1948), architect and politician
• Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (1882–1967), doctor
• Helmut Kinzel (1925–2002), eco- and plant physiologist
• Georg Kulka (1897–1929), writer
• Richard Mauch (1874–1921), painter and illustrator
• Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand (1885–1978), psychologist
• Josef Schreder (1878–1948), politician
• Fritz Weinzinger (1890–1963), sprinter and long jumper

Honorary citizen

• Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn (1852–1923), writer, theater director and anti-Semitic politician
• Josef Reither (1880–1950), governor

Web links

Commons : Weidling  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Weidlinger homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Manfred Hohn: Forest railways in Austria. Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1980, pp. 21-22.
2. ↑ Egon Charlemont: The Rothengraben – Weidling Forest Railway of the Austrian Federal Forests. In: Railway. ISSN  0013-2756 ZDB -ID 162227-4 , year 1970, issue 11, p. 168.
3. ↑ Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn for greetings. In:  Vorarlberger Tagblatt , October 20, 1922, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ Honor of Governor Reither. In:  New Klosterneuburger Zeitung. Non-political and independent paper for the judicial districts of Klosterneuburg and Tulln , November 16, 1935, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).