Weissenbach near Mödling

Weissenbach bei Mödling ( village ) locality cadastral community Weißenbach bei Mödling administrative district
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Mödling  (MD), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Hinterbrühl
Coordinates	48 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  N , 16 ° 13 ′ 16 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  N , 16 ° 13 ′ 16 ″  E
height	299  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	287 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	5.16 km²
Post Code	2371
prefix	+ 43/2236
Mayor	Jörg Preiss
Statistical identification
Locality code	05167
Cadastral parish number	16127
Counting district / district	Weissenbach near Mödling (31 712 003)
A look at Weissenbach
Incorporation date: 1972 Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Weissenbach is a village about 15 kilometers south of Vienna in the conservation area Föhrenberge in the Vienna Woods and village and one of the three cadastral and Zählsprengel the market town of Hinterbrühl . Weissenbach can be reached via the Vienna outer ring motorway A 21, Hinterbrühl exit or with a public bus from Mödling station.

geography

In terms of area, Weissenbach, with 5.16 km², is the smallest of the three cadastral communities in the market community of Hinterbrühl (Hinterbrühl: 5.44 km²; Sparbach: 6.34 km²). Most of it, however, is forested. On the two state roads L 2095 and L 2096 there are around 120 houses in Weissenbach and the associated Rotte Wassergspreng with around 350 residents. It borders on the cadastral communities Hinterbrühl and Sparbach , as well as the communities Gießhübl , Kaltenleutgabe and Gaaden . Most of them only know the village where the houses are.

However, the external borders of the cadastral community are much further away. Some key points are mentioned to give a better idea:

• In the direction of Gaaden , the last house (villa) is located directly in front of the former paint factory in the Weissenbach area. The border runs along Mödlinger Straße B 11 towards Hinterbrühl until the entrance to the left towards the old quarry. These houses, named after the former owner of the quarry, "Haberlsiedlung", also belong to Weissenbach, although they have a Gaadnerstrasse address consecutively from Hinterbrühl. The border then runs diagonally over the Schweinzerberg in the direction of Hinterbrühl across the site of the former Sauerstiftung.
• The border in a completely different direction in the north. At the top of the Gießhübler Kuhheide is the Nemecekhütte. This hut itself is also in the Weissenbach area. The settlement area lies at an altitude of between about 280 m and 380 m. The highest point is called "Hoher Ge" (see note) and is located on the Mitterberg at 530  m above sea level. A. directly on the municipality boundary to Kaltenleutgabe.

A new neighborhood was created in 2012 through an exchange of territory between Perchtoldsdorf and Kaltenleutbaren on the order of 58  hectares . Perchtoldsdorf now borders on Weissenbach over a length of about 300 meters, while Gießhübl lost the common border with Kaltenleutgabe.

The place is drained by the Weissenbach of the same name, which comes from Wassergspreng and flows into the Mödlingbach in the Hinterbrühl . The Weissenbach has a catchment area of ​​over 8 km². Although it has very little water in summer, it can swell very strongly in rainy periods. The brook, which does not often overflow its banks due to its brook bed, has values ​​of discharge rates at HQ30 of 13 m³ / sec and HQ100 of 19 m³ / sec before the confluence .

Population and economy

Originally, the Weissenbachers were all farmers and forest workers. In the middle of the 19th century, numerous mills settled along the streams to use water power. In 1860, the Kühtreiber company set up a braid factory in order to use the water from the Weissenbach to power the braiding of ribbon. Although the hydropower was soon insufficient, the later Gruber company became a major employer in Weissenbach until after the Second World War .

Today there are hardly any businesses in Weissenbach, so the population has to commute to work and Weissenbach became a pure residential community. Similar to Hinterbrühl, where this development already took place at the end of the 19th century, many Viennese have settled here in recent decades due to the city's proximity to Vienna and the good transport connections via the motorway.

Weiſsenbach (at that time it was written with a long and a short s) and its surroundings around 1872 (recording sheet of the state survey)

"One man's joy, the other's pain," says an old saying. This applies here to the Vienna outer ring motorway . A village that used to be very quiet is now more and more affected by the constantly growing flow of traffic on the A21. Be it the noise and exhaust gases that dominate day and night or the townscape shaped by the Wassergspreng valley crossing . The motorway was already started in the war years (some plots were already replaced at that time). Construction continued in the late 1970s. In the autumn of 1980 this section was opened to traffic. But traffic increased dramatically after the opening of the east .

administration

Weissenbach was an independent municipality until 1938. Like the other communities in today's Mödling district , it belonged to the Baden district until 1896 . In 1938, part of the 24th district was attached to the municipality of Vienna during the Nazi era . It was not until 1954 that the 24th district of Vienna became the Lower Austrian district of Mödling again . Thus, Weissenbach became an independent municipality again. At the same time, the Wassergspreng squad , which previously belonged to Kaltenleutzüge , also came to Weissenbach. In the course of the Lower Austria. Community reform In 1971, Weissenbach - like Sparbach - came to the market community of Hinterbrühl as a cadastral community.

Infrastructure

The current was introduced in Weissenbach in 1927, while Wassergspreng had to wait until 1956. To this day, Wien-Strom is the main supplier. The aqueduct was laid between 1967 and 1969 and supplied from its own springs. Gas pipes were only laid by Wien-Gas in the 1970s. However, the network was taken over by EVN in the 1990s . The canal was the last to be laid in 1993–95. At the beginning of 2011, the water supply was taken over from the municipality by the water pipeline association of the Triestingtal and Südbahngemeinden, which had been maintaining the system for the past few years.

High Ge

How the mountain "Hoher Ge" got its name is stated in the summit book:

“ This peculiar name results from the first letters of the first names of seven mountain friends from the Mödling area, who opened up a private summit here in the 1980s - with freshly laid out and marked paths, cross and a pretty view: Helmut, Oskar, Heinz, Erich , Rudi as well as Gert and Edi - HOHER GE "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lower Austria Atlas: Weissenbach cadastral community near Mödling ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ All Tirolerhofers now “compatriots” in the NÖN edition Mödling: Week 04/2012 p. 23
3. ↑ The community of Hinterbrühl (PDF; 1.0 MB)