Arbesbach

This article deals with the Lower Austrian municipality of Arbesbach, for the river of the same name in Vienna see Arbesbach (Krottenbach)

market community Arbesbach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Zwettl
License plate :	ZT
Surface:	55.08 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 28 '  N , 14 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '0 "  N , 14 ° 56' 0"  E
Height :	850  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,610 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	3920, 3925
Area code :	02813
Community code :	3 25 02
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 35 3925 Arbesbach
Website:	www.arbesbach.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Martin Frühwirth ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (19 members)	17th 1 1 17th 1 1  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 17 SPÖ : 1 FPÖ : 1
Location of Arbesbach in the Zwettl district
Village center and castle from the west
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Arbesbach is a market town with 1610 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Zwettl district in Lower Austria .

geography

Arbesbach is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the market town covers 54.98 square kilometers. 48.59 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Arbesbach (661)
• Brunn (134)
• Etlas (72)
• Haselbach (65)
• Camp (64)
• Neumelon (50)
• Pretrobruck (71)
• Purrath (77)
• Rammelhof (148)
• Schoenfeld (91)
• Schwarzau (57)
• Wiesensfeld (120)

Neighboring communities

Liebenau (Upper Austria)	Great Gerungs
		Rappottenstein
Königswiesen (Upper Austria)	Altmelon	Schönbach

history

The castle Arbesbach , called "Stockzahn the Waldviertel ", is over 900  meters on a granite formation . It was built at the end of the 12th century in the middle of the Arbesbach Forest on the then long-distance road from Spitz to Freistadt and was built around 1190 by the Kuenringers on the Weitra- Rappottenstein line . In 1593 the Arbesbach manor was built as a mansion to replace the castle .

Arbesbach emerged at the beginning of the 13th century below this castle as the economic and pastoral center of the rule. In 1246 the parish Arwaizpach is mentioned for the first time in a document. The market rights of the place have been attested since the end of the 14th century .

The parish church of St. Giles was built on the narrow side of the regular rectangular square. In its place, after a fire in 1756, today's baroque building was built (1761–1772).

On Galgenberg , southwest of the village, there is a gallows in a forest , which was last used for an execution in 1728. The gallows is built on a granite rock and consists of three stone pillars and a wall circle with a passage.

The incorporation of Purrath and Rammelhof took place on January 1st, 1967, that of Pretrobruck and Wiesensfeld on January 1st, 1970.

Population development

In 1971 the market town still had 1841 inhabitants, in 1981 1836 and in 1991 only 1770 inhabitants. According to the results of the 2001 census , Arbesbach has 1785 inhabitants.

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 1 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ and 1 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 1 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 1 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• until 2009 Josef Weidmann (ÖVP)
• 2009–2020 Alfred Hennerbichler (ÖVP)
• since 2020 Martin Frühwirth (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Play media file

Blacksmith museum in the Kamp district

See also:  List of listed objects in Arbesbach

• Arbesbach castle ruins
• Arbesbach mansion
• gallows
• Catholic parish church Arbesbach hl. Aegidius
• Bear forest Arbesbach

economy

In 2001 there were 71 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 197 according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in work at home was 831 according to the 2001 census. In 2001, the activity rate was 50.7 percent.

Sports

• The URA (Union Volleyball Arbesbach) plays in the Austrian Bundesliga.
• The UFCA (Union Football Club Arbesbach) plays in 2nd class Waldviertel Süd - relegation in summer 2010 from 1st class Waldviertel.
• There is also a stick shooting, tennis and table tennis club.
• Two Austrian long -distance hiking trails run through Arbesbach, the north-south long-distance hiking trail and the Eisenwurzenweg .

Web links

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

• 32502 - Arbesbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Official website of the municipality of Arbesbach
• Entry on Arbesbach in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ The story of Arbesbach
3. ↑ Stefan Lefnaer: Preserved gallows in Austria , in: Jost Auler (Ed.): Richtstättenarchäologie 2 . archaeotopos-Verlag, Dormagen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938473-12-2
4. ↑ Detailed description
5. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 22, 41 , accessed on February 6, 2019 . 
6. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Arbesbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on January 11, 2020 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Arbesbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on January 11, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Arbesbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on January 11, 2020 . 
9. ^ Election result of the local council election 2010 in Arbesbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 2015 municipal council elections in Arbesbach. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2020 . 
11. ^ Union Volleyball Arbesbach
12. ^ UFC Arbesbach
13. ^ Sports Union Arbesbach