Wolfpassing

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Scheibbs

License plate :

SB

Surface:

20.29 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 5 ' N , 15 ° 4' E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '40 " N , 15 ° 3' 50" E

Height :

296 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,643 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

81 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

3261

Area code :

07488

Community code :

3 20 18

NUTS region

AT121

UN / LOCODE

AT WOL

Address of the
municipal administration:

Schlossstrasse 9
3261 Wolfpassing

Website:

www.wolfpassing.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Friedrich Salzer ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(19 members)

14th

3

2

14th 3 2

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 14
FPÖ : 3
SPÖ : 2

Location of Wolfpassing in the Scheibbs district

Wolfpassing Castle

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wolfpassing is a municipality with 1643 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Scheibbs district in Lower Austria .

geography

Wolfpassing is a lane group village in the valley of the Kleine Erlauf and belongs to the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. The area of the municipality covers 20.31 square kilometers. 16.68 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 16 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Book (48)
Dörfl (18)
Etzerstetten (134)
Figelsberg (22)
Fischerberg (27)
Hofa (23)
Keppelberg (19)
Klein-Erlauf (94)
Krottenthal (46)
Linden (12)
Loising (72)
Stetten (105)
Thorwarting (41)
Thurhof glasses (24)
Wolfpassing (509)
Zarnsdorf (449)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Buch, Etzerstetten, Wolfpassing and Zarnsdorf.

Neighboring communities

	Neumarkt an der Ybbs ( Melk district )	Wieselburg country

Steinakirchen am Forst		Purgstall on the Erlauf

history

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

Wolfpassing was founded in the 10th or 11th century and was owned by the rulers of the same name.

In 1848 came the dissolution of the manorial system , the community was Wolfpassing.

During the Second World War , 63 men from the cadastral communities of Wolfpassing died in the war.

In 1970 the municipalities of Buch, Etzerstetten and Zarnsdorf were incorporated.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1301 inhabitants. In 1991 the municipality had 1321 inhabitants, in 1981 1268 and in 1971 1208 inhabitants.

politics

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The municipal council has 19 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 citizen lists more light and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, 2 citizen lists more light and 1 non-partisan list Wolfpassing.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 2 non-partisan list Wolfpassing, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 2 non-partisan list Wolfpassing, 2 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

until 2005 Rudolf Glösmann (ÖVP)
2005–2015 Josef Sonnleitner (ÖVP)
since 2015 Friedrich Salzer (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Wolfpassing Castle : The castle is a baroque four-storey four-wing complex with an arcade courtyard , corner towers and a hipped roof and was built around 1690 from a previous building. In 2013, the so-called “Führer Bell” in the castle's bell tower caused a stir.

economy

There were 30 non-agricultural workplaces in 2001, agricultural and forestry businesses according to the 1999 survey 111. The number of people in work at the place of residence was 634 according to the 2001 census. In 2001 the activity rate was 49.73 percent.

In 2010, the Ecoplus Business Park Wolfpassing was founded in close cooperation with the local authority association of the IKB (intermunicipal operating area Kleines Erlauftal, a cooperation between the six municipalities Wolfpassing, Steinakirchen, Gresten, Gresten-Land, Reinsberg, Wang) and the Raiffeisenbank Region Eisenwurzen.

Personalities

Josef Leichtfried (1926-2018), politician (SPÖ)

Web links

Commons : Wolfpassing - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official homepage of the municipality
32018 - Wolfpassing. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Wolfpassing business park at ecoplus.at

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Steinakirchen war memorial. In: War memorials from our homeland in LOWER AUSTRIA. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Steinakirchen war memorial. In: War memorials from our homeland in LOWER AUSTRIA. Retrieved April 10, 2017.

[NÖGrw1995_32018-3] Result of the local council election 1995 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2000_32018-4] Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2005_32018-5] Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2010_32018-6] Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2015_32018-7] Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2019 .

[NÖGrw2020_32018-8] Results of the local council election 2020 in Wolfpassing. Office of the Lower Austrian state government, January 26, 2020, accessed on February 29, 2020 .