Wieselburg

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Borough
Wieselburg
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Coat of arms of Wieselburg
Wieselburg (Austria)
Wieselburg
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Lower Austria
Political District : Scheibbs
License plate : SB
Surface: 5.42 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 8 '  N , 15 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '0 "  N , 15 ° 8' 20"  E
Height : 269  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,252 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 785 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3250
Area code : 07416
Community code : 3 20 16
NUTS region AT121
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptplatz 26
3250 Wieselburg
Website: www.wieselburg.at
politics
Mayor : Josef Leitner ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(23 members)
16
6th
1
16 6th 1 
A total of 23 seats
Location of Wieselburg in the Scheibbs district
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town hall
town hall
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wieselburg is a municipality with 4252 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Scheibbs district in Lower Austria .

geography

Wieselburg is located in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality of Wieselburg covers 5.43 square kilometers. 7.25% of the area is forested. The city lies at the confluence of the Small and Great Erlauf . The municipality of Wieselburg has no other cadastral communities. The city also includes the Rottenhaus and Schacha districts in the south.

In addition to the township, there is also the Wieselburg-Land village community .

Neighboring communities

Bergland ∗ ( District Melk ) Petzenkirchen ∗ ( District Melk )
Neighboring communities Bergland ∗ ( District Melk )
Wieselburg country
∗ Wieselburg and Petzenkirchen are embedded between Wieselburg-Land and Bergland, so that the latter is adjacent on both sides

history

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

The name Wieselburg comes from the location, because "zwisila" in Old High German and "zwisel" in Middle High German mean "confluence". At the "Zwisel" of the two rivers, the large and the small Erlauf, a castle was built in 976 , in which there was also a fortified church ( Wieselburger Oktogon ).

In 1848 the political community was established. In 1913, the Wieselburg market was united with parts of the Mitterwasser community (with Berg and Schacha) and the Rottenhaus community.

With the establishment of the Erlauftalbahn and the crossing with the narrow-gauge railway line Ober-Grafendorf-Gresten into the Kleiner Erlauftal, Wieselburg, like Amstetten , became a junction and thus a railway town, which increased the population.

Wieselburg was the site of one of the monarchy's largest prisoner-of-war camps . Up to 60,000 prisoners were stationed between 1915 and 1918. Together with the officers' camp in Mühling and the camp in Purgstall, over 80,000 prisoners were interned, which meant the highest concentration in the entire Habsburg monarchy.

During the Second World War , 187 men from Wieselburg died in the war.

In May 1976 the market town of Wieselburg was elevated to a town .

Community partnerships

E-government

With the help of online forms, the municipality enables government services to be carried out more quickly and to improve the service. Form solutions from the Austrian IT service provider aforms2web are used.

Population development

3,979 people are registered in Wieselburg who have their main residence there, and an additional 652 have their secondary residence there (as of January 1, 2017).
Diagram Wieselburg Source: Statistics Austria

politics

The municipal council has 23 members.

mayor

Culture and sights

Wieselburg Castle
Octagon with wall paintings in the Wieselburg parish church
  • Wieselburg Castle : The castle was built in the 13th century and today houses the Museum of Prehistory and Early History.
  • Rottenhaus Castle: The administration building of the Federal Agricultural Research Institute is located in the castle.
  • Perzelhof Palace
  • Catholic parish church Wieselburg hl. Ulrich: The Wieselburg Octagon, one of the most important buildings of the Babenberg era, in the parish church is of particular historical importance. The church was built around 1000 and expanded around 1500. In 1706 Mondsee Abbey ceded the Wieselburg parish to the Bishop of Passau . When the diocese of St. Pölten was founded in 1785, Wieselburg became a princely parish. Between 1953 and 1958 the church in Wieselburg was expanded.
  • Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences, Wieselburg campus: The study building is a multi-storey, low-energy timber structure directly at the entrance to the town.
  • Castle park: The castle park is located in the center of Wieselburg. The figures in the park represent the main rivers of the monarchy - Raab, Mur, Traun, Salzach and Enns. They were brought from the City of Vienna to Wieselburg during the Second World War, but the originals returned to Vienna ( Albertina ) in 1986 Figures placed in the palace gardens are casts.

economy

Wieselburg Brewery

In 2001 there were 221 non-agricultural workplaces, and there were 10 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in employment at home was 1,623 according to the 2001 census. The employment rate in 2001 was 47.6 percent.

  • ZKW Lichtsysteme GmbH: (approx.9,700 employees worldwide, as of 2018)
  • Wieselburg Brewery
  • Wieselburger Inter-Agrar: Since 1928, the one-week Wieselburger Inter-Agrar with Volksfest (an agricultural fair ), which is the largest fair in Lower Austria with over 300,000 visitors and 550 exhibitors and takes place every year at the end of June, has had supraregional importance . The focus is on the areas of building and living and, in the agricultural part, the subjects of animal husbandry , grassland management and, since 2006, renewable raw materials and renewable energy . In addition, events such as the Bau & Energie trade fair or the Ab Hof Wieselburg take place on the Wieselburg exhibition grounds throughout the year .
  • Since April 2003 there has been a shopping center in the center of the city called City Center Wieselburg with a retail area of ​​8000 m² and a parking lot with 220 parking spaces. The historic brewery in the center of the village was demolished for the construction.
  • In 2009, through the establishment of the Technology Center Wieselburg-Land , part of Austria's bioenergy competencies were bundled in one location ( Bioenergy 2020+ ). The Technology and Research Center Wieselburg-Land / Technopol Wieselburg is an international center for bioenergy, agricultural and food technology. It includes the focus on bioenergy, biomass, energy systems, agricultural and food technology and water management.
  • After the number of local suppliers has declined in the numerous small neighboring towns, Wieselburg has also developed into a shopping center in the small region. The city center as well as branches of well-known chains have established themselves on the outskirts of the city.

education

Wieselburg is also known as a “school town” with its technical college (Wieselburg campus of the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences ), the grammar school , the secondary school , elementary school , music school and the higher federal teaching and research institute for agriculture, the Francisco Josephinum (in Wieselburg-Land ) . A bypass is currently being built to relieve the city of heavy traffic.

Personalities

  • Karl Bienenstein (born November 1, 1869 in Wieselburg, † February 1, 1927 in Bruck an der Mur ), teacher, poet, storyteller and writer
  • Paul Hörbiger (born April 29, 1894 in Budapest † March 5, 1981 in Vienna ), popular actor, lived from 1965 until his death in Wieselburg, in the district of Mühling (today Paul-Hörbiger-Gasse)
  • Eugen Wüster (born October 3, 1898 in Wieselburg; † March 29, 1977 in Vienna), interlinguist and founder of terminology
  • Alfred Böhm (born March 23, 1920 in Vienna; † September 22, 1995 in Wieselburg), chamber actor, member of the theater in the Josefstadt, lived in Ströblitz near Wieselburg
  • Hermann Lechner (born November 29, 1924 in Wieselburg; † June 12, 2012 in Gaming), Mayor of Gaming
  • Anton Wattaul (born May 13, 1957 in Wieselburg), politician and entrepreneur
  • Stephan Pernkopf (born August 17, 1972 in Wieselburg), Lower Austrian Provincial Councilor and design. LH deputy

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieselburg war memorial. In: War memorials from our homeland in LOWER AUSTRIA. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 163 , accessed on February 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Forms. Retrieved June 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Numbers and facts. Retrieved July 22, 2015 .
  5. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Wieselburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Wieselburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Wieselburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  8. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Wieselburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  9. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Wieselburg. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Wieselburg. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Leitner new mayor of Wieselburg on ORF April 11, 2019, accessed on April 11, 2019.
  12. ↑ Entry about Rottenhaus Castle in Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
  13. ↑ Entry about Rottenhaus Castle on Burgen-Austria
  14. ↑ Entry about Schloss Perzelhof at Lower Austria-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, University of Salzburg
  15. ↑ Entry about Perzelhof Castle on Burgen-Austria
  16. ^ Opening of the technology center Wieselburg-Land , noe-news.at, November 15, 2009
  17. ↑ Ecoplus - Technopol Wieselburg ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on June 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecoplus.at
  18. ^ NÖN: Technopol Wieselburg - New Technopolmanager ; accessed on June 11, 2015
  19. ^ University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Campus Wieselburg