Wolfsegg (municipality of Heidenreichstein)

Wolfsegg ( scattered houses ) locality cadastral community Wolfsegg
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gmünd  (GD), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Gmünd in Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Heidenreichstein
Coordinates	48 ° 49 '32 "  N , 15 ° 8' 55"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '32 "  N , 15 ° 8' 55"  E
Residents of the village	88 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	65 (2001)
Area  d. KG	2.89 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	03743
Cadastral parish number	07141
Counting district / district	Wolfsegg (30916 009)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Wolfsegg is a place and at the same time a cadastral municipality of the municipality of Heidenreichstein in the northwestern Waldviertel.

geography

Wolfsegg borders on the following cadastral communities of the municipality of Heidenreichstein: In the north on Seyfrieds , in the west on Haslau and in the south on Guttenbrunn . Wolfsegg also borders on the cadastral community of Artolz in the municipality of Pfaffenschlag near Waidhofen an der Thaya and the cadastral community of Edelprinz in the municipality of Waidhofen an der Thaya-Land .

The highest elevation of the cadastral community is 593  m above sea level. A. stated.

The natural monument “Stone Woman” is located in Wolfsegg. It is a boulder with a height of about 1.7 meters and a thickness of about 0.4 meters. The stone is 1.2 meters thick at the base and tapers towards the top. According to legend, a woman was said to have been turned into a stone block as a punishment after she sickled grass during the Corpus Christi procession. It is more likely, however, that a stonemason from the quarry next to it worked on it.

history

In the Schremser Urbar of 1499, the field name Wolfsegkh is referred to as the border point of the Schrems Regional Court. In Propsteiurbaren of 1523 and 1563 a wood called Am Wolfseckh near the Hasselauerteiche is mentioned.

The village is a scattered settlement from the 18th century, the courtyards of which were partly subject to the rule of Heidenreichstein and the Zwettl monastery . A boundary stone on a farmer's field bears the year 1720. In 1784 the village was established as a separate cadastral community and assigned to the Seyfrieds parish, which was rebuilt at the same time . Wolfsegg was established together with Guttenbrunn as a separate community in 1850 . In 1934 it had 370 inhabitants, in 1939 there were 368 inhabitants. It was incorporated into Heidenreichstein in 1976.

literature

• Erich Geppert, Karl Pichler: Wolfsegg , in: 800 years of Heidenreichstein, Waldviertel - Culture and History, Heidenreichstein 2005, p. 371

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lower Austria Atlas 4.0 on Atlas.NOE.gv.at, accessed on January 11, 2019.
2. ↑ Stone woman. In: Erich Geppert: Natural monuments Heidenreichstein. Ed .: Berg- und Naturwacht Heidenreichstein, Heidenreichstein 1992.