Hollabrunn

Borough

Hollabrunn

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Hollabrunn

License plate :

HL

Surface:

152.43 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 34 ' N , 16 ° 5' E Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '46 " N , 16 ° 4' 51" E

Height :

236 m above sea level A.

Residents :

11,882 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

78 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

2020

Area code :

02952

Community code :

3 10 22

NUTS region

AT125

Address of the
municipal administration:

Hauptplatz 1
2020 Hollabrunn

Website:

hollabrunn.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Alfred Babinsky ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(37 members)

20th

6th

5

1

20th 6th 5 5 1

A total of 37 seats

ÖVP : 20
GREEN : 6
LS : 5
SPÖ : 5
FPÖ : 1

Location of Hollabrunn in the Hollabrunn district

Hollabrunn parish church

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hollabrunn is the capital of the political district Hollabrunn in the western Weinviertel in Lower Austria with 11,882 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The name of the city ("Holerbrunen") is derived from Holler ( elder ) and fountain.

geography

The town of Hollabrunn is located immediately west of the Ernstbrunn Forest in the Göllersbach valley in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 152.43 square kilometers. 32.07 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 22 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Altenmarkt im Thale (136)
Aspersdorf (461)
Breitenwaida (797)
Dietersdorf (184)
Eggendorf im Thale (136)
Enzersdorf im Thale (220)
Large (105)
Hollabrunn (7037)
Kleedorf (90)
Kleinkadolz (129)
Kleinstelzendorf (99)
Kleinstetteldorf (127)
Magersdorf (447)
Mariathal (120)
Oberfellabrunn (292)
Puch (102)
Raschala (322)
Sonnberg (612)
Suttenbrunn (193)
Weyerburg (111)
Wieselsfeld (109)
Wolfsbrunn (53)

climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Hollabrunn

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2.1	4.0	9.5	15.4	20.3	23.3	26.0	25.8	20.2	14.1	7.3	2.5	O	14.3
Min. Temperature (° C)	-4.1	-3.6	0.5	4.1	8.6	11.5	13.5	13.5	9.8	5.3	1.4	-2.7	O	4.9
Temperature (° C)	-1.3	-0.3	4.4	9.4	14.5	17.5	19.8	19.3	14.3	9.0	3.9	-0.3	O	9.2

Precipitation ( mm )	21st	18th	33	36	60	78	65	68	50	31	32	27	Σ	519

Humidity ( % )	73.1	65.7	56.7	48.7	51.3	51.3	47.6	47.6	52.7	62.2	74.0	78.5	O	59.1

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2.1

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-3.6

9.5

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15.4

4.1

20.3

8.6

23.3

11.5

26.0

13.5

25.8

13.5

20.2

9.8

14.1

5.3

7.3

1.4

2.5

-2.7

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Source: ZAMG average climate values 1981 - 2010

history

The city and its surroundings have been settled since the Neolithic Age. The first written mention of Hollabrunn was in a deed of donation from 1135, in which Margrave Diepold III. von Vohburg made a donation of "seven landholders and three vineyards" to a Bavarian monastery. This document also mentions a Wilvolvis village near Hollabrunn. It is assumed that this is a settlement in the Hofmühle and Lothringerplatz area, which later merged with Hollabrunn (settlement in the Wiener Straße area).

From 1288 the place name Oberhollabrunn ( Hollabrunn superior ) was used to distinguish it from Niederhollabrunn . The rulership was then exercised by the Lords of Sonnberg , who founded the Hollabrunn parish around 1220 and granted the town market rights before 1377 . Because the Bohemian king Johann devastated Hollabrunn in 1336, the parish church had to be rebuilt.

When the Sonnberger in the 14th century, impoverished the gentry changed in the following years very often until mid- 16th century to the family of the Gilleis passed. From around 1530 the place was a post station on the Vienna– Prague route . In 1565, under Georg von Gilleis, Hollabrunn received the market coat of arms, which is still used today, and in 1574 the market privilege was renewed.

During the Reformation , the population became predominantly Lutheran . In 1662 the Dietrichsteiners took control of the place and promoted the Counter Reformation . A Capuchin monastery was built in 1667 , which Joseph II abolished in 1783. In 1683 the King of Poland Jan Sobieski and his troops traveled through Hollabrunn.

During the French Wars , the site was the scene of the battle of Hollabrunn and Schöngrabern in 1805 . Hollabrunn is therefore also mentioned on the inscription at the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in Paris . Also in 1809 there was fighting between the Austrians and the French near the place.

A savings bank was founded on May 31, 1824, making it one of the oldest in Austria. After the revolution of 1848 , district administrative authorities were established, and a train station was built in Hollabrunn for the south-north German connecting line that opened in 1872 . In 1875 the place received a hospital.

In 1908 the market was elevated to the status of town because of "its regulated community system and its significant upswing" and in 1928 it was finally renamed from Oberhollabrunn to Hollabrunn.

The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Hollabrunn existed from 1902 to 1938 .

On January 1, 1969, the communities Magersdorf, Mariathal, Raschala and Wieselsfeld were incorporated into Hollabrunn, on January 1, 1972 the communities Aspersdorf, Breitenwaida, Enzersdorf im Thale, Groß, Kleinstelzendorf, Oberfellabrunn, Sonnberg and Suttenbrunn.

Community partnerships

since ? Jinhua (China)China People's Republic

since ? Kyjov (Czech Republic)Czech Republic

since ? Holíč (Slovakia)Slovakia

Population development

politics

The municipal council has 37 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 26 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 2 UFO Independent Forum.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 23 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, 3 UFO Independent Forum, 3 FPÖ, and 1 LIF Liberal Forum.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 23 ÖVP, 9 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ, and 2 UFO Independent Forum.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 20 ÖVP, 10 SPÖ, 4 FPÖ, and 3 Greens.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 23 ÖVP, 9 SPÖ, 4 FPÖ, and 1 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 23 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 6 FPÖ, and 2 Greens.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 20 ÖVP, 6 Greens, 5 LS list Scharinger, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

1969 Robert Löffler (ÖVP)
until 2009 Helmut Wunderl (ÖVP)
2009–2019 Erwin Bernreiter (ÖVP)
since 2019 Alfred Babinsky (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Gate to the old court mill

Live tomorrow

A plague column with a statue of the Virgin Mary was erected on the main square in 1681 , and four statues of saints ( Sebastian , Rochus , Franz Xaver , Johann von Nepomuk ) were added in 1713 . Next to it is the Floriani Fountain, built in 1862, with a cast iron statue of St. Florian .

Catholic parish church Hollabrunn hl. Ulrich: Initially a Romanesque church building that was built in the 12th century and expanded to the east at the end of the 13th century . After the destruction (1336) it was rebuilt in Gothic style and redesigned in Baroque style in the 17th century . In 1823 the baroque high altar was removed and in 1908 the current neo-Gothic high altar was erected. There was a cemetery around the parish church, which was closed in 1784. Some grave slabs were attached to the outside wall of the church.

Catholic branch church Gartenstadt Maria, Hilfe der Christians

The Bibersteinerkreuz is located on the old road over the Therner Berg.

The old court mill was originally a manor house and was later used as a mill. In 1974 a baroque wayside shrine from the 17th century was set up in the courtyard. Today the Alte Hofmühle serves as a museum as well as an event location.

Hollabrunn is known among architects for the row houses on the brook promenade planned by Ottokar Uhl in 1972 with the participation of residents .

A curiosity is the so-called Pinkelstein in neighboring Raschala, which belongs to the municipality . The name comes from a legend that says that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart did his "business" on this stone on one of his trips to Prague. The famous "Ringelreih'n am Pinkelstein" takes place at this stone every year.

economy

In 2001 there were 555 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 294 in agriculture and forestry. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at home was 4868. A large proportion of the city's population commutes regularly to Vienna. The employment rate in 2001 was 47.14 percent.

The potato processor Frisch & Frost Nahrungsmittel GmbH is one of the largest companies in Hollabrunn .

Agencies and public authorities

District Commission
Tax office
District Court
Land surveying office
Lower Austria agricultural district authority (branch office)
Labor market service
District office of the Chamber of Commerce
District office of the Chamber of Labor
District Chamber of Farmers

education

Archbishop's secondary school in Hollabrunn

Today Hollabrunn is primarily a school town. The roots of this tradition were laid with the establishment of the grammar school in 1865 and the archbishop's seminary in 1881. There are also several university courses and technical college courses (in cooperation with the Hamburger Fern-Hochschule ).

2 elementary schools (Kirchenplatz: VS 1, Koliskoplatz: VS 2)
Special education center
New Lower Austrian Middle School Hollabrunn
Hauptschule (special education school)
Polytechnic school
Commercial vocational schools for butchers, hairdressers, clothes makers
Agricultural College
Realgymnasium and advanced high school of the Archdiocese of Vienna (since 1974)
Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium (since 1865)
Federal College of Business Administration
Higher Technical Federal College (since 1976)
Higher technical college for food technology
Federal Trade Academy and Federal Trade School
School for general health and nursing at the Hollabrunn State Hospital
Walter Lehner Music School (since 1974)
Department 5 of the University of Education for Lower Austria (since October 2007)
Hollabrunn University Center

health

Landesklinikum Weinviertel Hollabrunn
Nursing home
Red Cross District Office Hollabrunn

safety

District fire department Hollabrunn
Volunteer fire brigade of the city of Hollabrunn

traffic

Hollabrunn is on the Weinviertel expressway (S3) from Stockerau to the Czech border near Znaim ; As the European route 59 , this trunk road is one of the main connecting roads between Vienna and Prague .

Hollabrunn is connected via regional trains between Znojmo and Wien Meidling station and the S3 line of the Vienna S-Bahn directly to the Austrian capital and further south, towards Wiener Neustadt .

Sports

Well-known sports clubs from Hollabrunn are:

UHC Hollabrunn (Handball Bundesliga)
FK Blau-Weiß Hollabrunn (until 2016)
ATSV Hollabrunn
SC Hollabrunn

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

Eduard Angerer (1816–1898), auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Vienna
Otto Kutscher (1867–1952), Vice Mayor of Hollabrunn
Adolf Gal (1816–1884), district captain
August Edler von Gschmeidler (1823–1906), councilor, head of the savings bank
Eduard Adolf Baron-in-law von Hohenbruck (1862–1909), district captain
Konrad Maria Eusebius zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst von Ratibor and Corvey (1863-1918), Prime Minister
Maximilian Kaltenböck (* 1944), mayor
Hans Kny (1851–1918), director of the grammar school
Rudolf Kolisko (1859–1942), mayor, member of the Lower Austrian state parliament
Anton Rapf (1833–1903), Sparkasse director, mayor
Franz Reuckl (1844–1908), rector of the seminar, head of the savings bank
Ferdinand Schirnböck (1859–1930), academic painter
Karl Ritter von Stremayr (1823–1904), Minister for Culture and Education
Josef Veigl (1806–1866), military geographer
Leopold Waber (1875–1945), Vice Chancellor, Minister of the Interior, Education and Justice
Felix Ritter von Winiwarter (1852–1931), surgeon and primary school at the municipal hospital

Sons and daughters of the church

Ehrenreich Weismann (1641–1717), Protestant general superintendent and author of Latin dictionaries

Hieronymus Übelbacher (1674–1740), provost of the Dürnstein monastery

Felix Ritter von Luschan (1854–1924), ethnologist and prehistoric

Ferdinand Schirnböck (1859–1930), academic painter

Josef Bayer (1882–1931), archaeologist

Maria Jordan (1893–1955), poet

Anton Ehrenfried (1895–1974), politician

Johann Bauernfeind (1908–1985), composer, organist, choir director and music educator

Karl Martin Baderle (1920–1991), beetle collector and amateur entomologist

Erwin Ringel (1921–1994), professor of medical psychology, founder of the "International Association for Suicide Prevention" (IASP)

Erich Benedini (1931–2005), composer of light music, arranger, music publisher, lyricist and producer

Rudolf Gehring (* 1948), politician of the CPÖ

Christine Mannhalter (* 1948), biotechnologist, hematologist and university professor

Erich Wessner (1948–2016), tenor at the Vienna State Opera (State Opera Choir)

Ernst Bezemek (* 1949), historian

Margarete Aburumieh (* 1951), politician

Gerhard Mayer (* 1951), graphic artist and photographer

Thomas-Michael Radda (* 1951), ophthalmologist

Gertrude Brinek (* 1952), politician

Hermes Phettberg (* 1952), artist and talk show host

Regina Fritsch (* 1964), actress at the Burgtheater in cinema and on TV

Dominic Heinzl (* 1964), television presenter and entrepreneur

Johanna Mikl-Leitner (* 1964), politician (ÖVP) and governor of Lower Austria

Werner Auer (* 1965), director of the Felsenbühne Staatz, singer, musical writer, cabaret artist, presenter, lyricist and composer, director

Leopold Leeb SVD (* 1967), sinologist, Latinist and professor at the People's University in Beijing

Gina Schwarz (* 1968), jazz musician

Peter Buchta (* 1971), actor

Christian Grobauer (* 1975), musician

Philipp Fleischmann (* 1985), actor and director

Georg Ecker (* 1986), politician

Markus Suttner (* 1987), soccer player

People related to the community

Renate Holm (* 1931), singer and actress, lives in Altenmarkt im Thale

literature

Herta Burger-Ringer: Black Dog drugstore. Böhlau 2005, ISBN 3-205-77348-9
Ernst Bezemek u. Willibald Rosner (Ed.): Past and Present. The Hollabrunn district and its communities . Hollabrunn 1993, ISBN 3-9500209-0-5
Alfred Fehringer: »You have to get out of here«. The Jewish community of Hollabrunn from 1850 to 1938. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85476-273-7 .
Werner Lamm: Hollabrunn. Story in pictures. Sutton, Erfurt 2001, ISBN 3-89702-296-6 .
Werner Lamm: Hollabrunn in old views. European Library, Zaltbommel 1994, ISBN 90-288-5822-9 .
Werner Lamm: Church art in Hollabrunn. Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten 1984, ISBN 3-85326-334-8 .
Werner Lamm: From refugee camp to garden city. Hollabrunner Museumsverein, Hollabrunn 1999, ISBN 3-901693-00-7
Ernst Ritter: That's how it was once in Hollabrunn. Municipality of Hollabrunn 1982 PDF file
Sparkasse Hollabrunn (Ed.): District customer Hollabrunn. Sparkassenverlag, Vienna 1974.