Weistrach

Weistrach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Amstetten
License plate :	AT THE
Surface:	35.76 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 3 '  N , 14 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '14 "  N , 14 ° 35' 2"  E
Height :	350  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,262 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	3351
Area code :	07477
Community code :	3 05 39
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorf 1 3351 Weistrach
Website:	www.weistrach.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Erwin Pittersberger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (21 members)	17th 2 2 17th 2 2  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 17 SPÖ : 2 FPÖ : 2
Location of Weistrach in the Amstetten district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Weistrach is a municipality with 2262 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Amstetten in the Austrian state of Lower Austria .

geography

Weistrach is located in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. 16.48% of the area of ​​the municipality is forested.

Community structure

The community Weistrach consists of one village or six cadastral communities :

• Grub (7.78 km²)
• Hartlmühl (7.70 km²)
• Holzschachen (3.68 km²)
• Rohrbach (4.95 km²)
• Schwaig (5.98 km²)
• Weistrach (5.70 km²)

Districts are: Dorf, Gmörktner, Goldberg, Grub, Hartlmühl, Holzschachen, Kerschbaumerhäuser, Mitterhäuser, Ofner, Reithäuseln, Rohrbach, Schwaig, Weistrach and Zauchermayrhäuser as well as numerous individual locations.

Neighboring communities

	Hague
Haidershofen
		St. Peter in the Au

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province .

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Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 2,197 inhabitants. In 1991 the community had 2,113 inhabitants, in 1981 2,017 and in 1971 1,952 inhabitants.

politics

The municipal council has 21 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

• until 2010 Ignaz Wieser (ÖVP)
• since 2010 Erwin Pittersberger (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Weistrach parish church

Elisabethwarte

See also:  List of listed objects in Weistrach

• Catholic parish church Weistrach hl. Stephanus: The church with a nave around 1520 is a building of late Gothic architecture.
• Rohrbach Castle , built around 1600
• Elisabethwarte , observation tower on the Plattenberg

economy

In 2001 there were 60 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 174. The number of people in work at home was 1,025 according to the 2001 census. The employment rate in 2001 was 48.24%. There were 96 unemployed people on average in 2003.

Web links

Commons : Weistrach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 30539 - Weistrach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Weistrach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
2. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Weistrach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
3. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Weistrach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
4. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Weistrach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
5. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Weistrach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Weistrach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Entry about Rohrbach Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg