Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel

Borough Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Mistelbach
License plate :	MI
Surface:	44.6 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 23 '  N , 16 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '59 "  N , 16 ° 31' 5"  E
Height :	178  m above sea level A.
Residents :	7,299 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2120
Area code :	02245
Community code :	3 16 55
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 28 2120 Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel
Website:	www.wolkersdorf.at
politics
mayor	Dominic Litzka (Team Wolkersdorf - The People's Party)
Municipal Council : (2019) (29 members)	13 7th 4th 3 2 13 7th 4th 3 2  A total of 29 seats ÖVP : 13 TEAM Wolkersdorf : 7 MITus : 4 WUI : 3 SPÖ : 2
Location of Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel in the Mistelbach district
town hall
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel is a town with 7299 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel . It is located in the south of the Mistelbach district , not far from the federal capital Vienna .

geography

Wolkersdorf and its northern environs around 1873 (recording sheet of the 3rd regional recording )

Dry grass on the Wartberg

To the west of Riedenthal lies the Wartberg, on the steep western slope of which there are not only wooded areas but also valuable Pannonian dry grassland over tertiary sand. Rare and endangered species grow on these dry, nutrient-poor but species-rich areas, such as spring hawks , Austrian pygmy clover , sword elephant , narrow-leaf flax , yellow tooth rust , pasque flower and horse donkey . The areas are endangered, among other things, by the robinia imported from North America , which accumulates nitrogen in the soil, thereby fertilizing it and making it populable for common species, which then displace the rare, specialized species. Lean, unsuitable sites for farming have been grazed with sheep and goats in the Weinviertel since the Neolithic and thus kept open. In the course of the intensification and mechanization of agriculture, this form of cultivation was given up a few decades ago and the areas are now threatened with bushy bushes and, in the long term, disappearing together with their flora and fauna. For this reason, the Austrian Nature Conservation Union and the City of Wolkersdorf have drawn up a maintenance concept that is intended to secure the stock. Building on this, regular maintenance measures are carried out and, for example, bushes are removed.

The Wolkersdorf municipality is part of the Hochleithenwald , the largest oak and hornbeam forest in the Weinviertel.

Community structure

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

• Münichsthal (741)
• Obersdorf (1595)
• Pfösing (210)
• Riedenthal (410)
• Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel (4343)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Münichsthal, Obersdorf, Pfösing, Riedenthal and Wolkersdorf.

The incorporation took place between 1969 and 1972.

Neighboring communities

Ulrichskirchen-Schleinbach	Hochleithen	Bad Pirawarth
Harmannsdorf		Groß-Schweinbarth
Großebersdorf	Gerasdorf Pillichsdorf	Bockfließ Auersthal

history

Wolkersdorf Castle

The first, but controversial, documentary mention of Wolkersdorf took place in 1170, around 100 years after the assumed foundation. A secure mention is made in a donation from 1186, in the next few decades further evidence of the existence of Wolkersdorf emerged. According to legend, the name "Wolkersdorf" was derived from a nobleman named Wolfger, who is said to have built the "Veste Wolfgersdorf". However, this originally accepted naming is now heavily questioned. It seems much more likely that the name can be traced back to a place in Franconia that already existed at the time . Accordingly, settlers from Franconia who settled in what is now Wolkersdorf named this place after their hometown. Mistelbach, Falkenstein, Drosendorf, Retz and Retzbach could have been named after the same pattern. These place names can be found both in Franconia and in the Weinviertel. Even in the centuries after the town was founded, there are strong ties with Franconia, especially with the Burgraves of Nuremberg , who maintained fiefs in Wolkersdorf for a long time , so that Wolkersdorf is likely to be founded by Franconian settlers.

The castle (the "Veste Wolfgersdorf") was built as a moated castle and changed owners and uses several times over the centuries. For a short time it also served as a hunting lodge. Today it is owned by the municipality of Wolkersdorf.

Today's Kellergasse was once part of the former Kaiserstraße. For thousands of years it was the only connecting road between the Baltic Sea and the Adriatic. It is the connecting corridor between the Baltic States and the Mediterranean, the imperial capital Vienna and Bohemia. On this trade route there was the important mail traffic, freight transport such as cloth, salt and linen goods, but above all the wine trade. The wine from Wolkersdorf was delivered to the court of the Russian tsar.

From May 16, 1809, Emperor Franz I resided in the Wolkersdorf rectory. On May 29th, in Wolkersdorfer handbillet, he announced to Andreas Hofer that he would not sign a peace treaty that would separate Tyrol from Austria. The content of this proclamation was nullified by the Znojmo armistice in July . Between July 7 and 10, Napoleon Bonaparte took his headquarters in Wolkersdorf Castle in the course of the Battle of Wagram . The revolutionary Ernst Franz Salvator von Violand from 1848 lived in Wolkersdorf until his escape.

With the commissioning of Laa Eastern Railway and the railway station Wolkersdorf in 1870 the massive enlargement of municipal area and population began, as it is for the near Vienna -working officers came, industrial and other high earners from Vienna as an alternative residential site in question.

Ludwig Anzengruber wrote the farmer's comedy Der G'wissenswurm in 1874 in the former guest house Zum golden Strauss .

In the final days of World War II , Wolkersdorf was attacked from the air on March 20, 1945, killing 36 civilians and destroying several buildings. On April 12, street fights took place in Wolkersdorf with the use of artillery and Stalin organs , after which the German troops, in view of the overwhelming strength of the Soviet army, moved towards Ulrichskirchen and Kreuttal . Before that, six bridges in the municipality of Wolkersdorf were blown up. On the same day the Russians occupied Obersdorf, killing three civilians by artillery fire. On April 13th, the village of Münichsthal was occupied by the Soviets without a fight. The population was driven from their homes and had to live in the wine cellars and barns until mid-May. Münichsthal was looted by the Red Army and the entire livestock was confiscated. Two civilians were abducted by the Russians. During the fighting in Riedenthal, 13 German and around 20 Russian soldiers were killed. The mayor of Riedenthal wrote about these events: “After the artillery bombardment, the Russians came. The soldiers of the combat force behaved correctly and decently. But the following entourage was the opposite. "

A military cemetery was set up in the Wolkersdorf cemetery during the First World War, in which fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were also buried during the Second World War. In 1976 the remains were exhumed and reburied in the newly built military cemetery in Retz . Also from 1945 comes a mass grave occupied by 27 victims of the Brno death march , which is also located in the cemetery.

In 1969 the market town of Wolkersdorf was elevated to a town council.

In December 2005, on the initiative of the municipality, a working group was founded which carried out and published a project to document the history of the Jewish population in Wolkersdorf.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 6191 inhabitants. In 1991 the municipality had 5696 inhabitants, in 1981 5062 and in 1971 4669 inhabitants.

politics

The municipal council has 29 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 21 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, 3 WUI (Greens) and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, 4 WUI (Greens) and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 9 SPÖ, 4 WUI (Greens) and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 4 WUI (Greens) and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 6 MITUNS – Independent Citizen List With: Us, 4 WUI (Greens), 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the early municipal council election on March 24, 2019, the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 7 TEAM – Team Wolkersdorf (ÖVP), 4 MITUNS – Independent Citizen List With: Us, 3 WUI (Greens) and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2019 Norbert Heurteur (ÖVP)
• 2019–2019 Anna Steindl (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Dominic Litzka (Team Wolkersdorf - Die Volkspartei)

Culture and sights

Münichsthal parish church

Parish church Obersdorf

Parish church Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel

Branch church Riedenthal

Kellergasse in Obersdorf

See also : List of listed objects in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel  and List of cellar lanes in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel

• Wolkersdorf Castle
• Catholic parish church Münichsthal hl. Johannes Nepomuk
• Catholic parish church Obersdorf hl. Antony
• Catholic parish church Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel hl. Margareta
• Catholic branch church Riedenthal hl. Franz Xaver

economy

In Wolkersdorf there is the industrial center of Lower Austria North , which includes the industrial sites Wolkersdorf Ost , Wolkersdorf West and the Ecoplus business park. Well-known companies such as Manner , Kotányi or Velux have their headquarters here. Other company branches: Akkutron, Beltec, CE Services, COCON Sicherheitssysteme, Herz Austria, Kramess, Kuzdas Wintergärten, Malik, Ölz , Papier Mettler, Regber, Schwölberger, Luwa-Dessous, SPL Tele, Fertinger, Wittmann and Niedax.

In 2001 there were 330 non-agricultural workplaces, and there were 121 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey. The number of people in employment at the place of residence was 2,869 according to the 2001 census. The employment rate in 2001 was 47.6 percent.

traffic

Wolkersdorf station

Obersdorf train station

• Train: From the Wolkersdorf train station in Weinviertel on the Laaer Ostbahn , you can take the S-Bahn line S2 to Vienna up to four times an hour and, since December 13, 2015, the S7 to Vienna Airport . Both lines also take you to the district capital Mistelbach and the thermal town of Laa an der Thaya once or twice an hour . Regional trains also run. Another train station, also on the Laaer Ostbahn, is located in the Obersdorf cadastral community. The same S-Bahn lines run from Obersdorf station as in Wolkersdorf, but some regional trains do not stop here.
• Bus: There are also several regional bus routes that connect Wolkersdorf with Vienna, the surrounding communities and the communities in the direction of Gänserndorf and Groß Schweinbarth.
• Street: Wolkersdorf is right on the Brno road (B7) and the North Autobahn (A5) and is about the connection points Wolkersdorf-South , Ulrichskirchen and Wolkersdorf North achievable.

Public facilities

• Branch office of the District Commission Mistelbach
• Registry office
• District Chamber of Farmers
• Police inspection
• Road maintenance
• Lower Austria Road Construction Department 3
• Forestry Office
• Palace Park Hall

education

• Library
• Elementary school
• Hauptschule I (specialty school)
• Secondary school II
• Special education center
• Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium
• Polytechnic School (Obersdorf)
• music school
• Community College
• Hoard
• six kindergartens

Health and social institutions

• Austrian Red Cross, Wolkersdorf branch
• Volkersdorf, Obersdorf, Pfösing, Riedenthal and Münichsthal volunteer fire departments
• State pensioners home

Sports

• Summer bath
• Artificial ice rink
• Skater arena
• Toboggan Hill
• Tennis court
• Tennis hall
• Croquet courts
• Beach volleyball court
• Bowling alley
• Soccer fields
• Children's playgrounds
• Streetball court

Personalities

• Vitus Scheffer (1648–1717), Jesuit, author of numerous philosophical and theological works
• Ernst Franz Salvator von Violand (1818–1875), Austrian revolutionary
• Therese Seehofer (1846–1936), opera singer
• Emmy Stradal (1877–1925), politician
• Leopold Weinhofer (1879–1947), politician
• Ernestine Roberts (1904–1977), writer
• Hermann Withalm (1912–2003), politician, Vice Chancellor
• Christian Konrad (* 1943), bank manager
• Bernhard Kohl (* 1982), racing cyclist

Web links

Commons : Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Wolfergsdorff in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 31655 - Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry about Burg-Schloss Wolkersdorf on NÖ-Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
• History of the castle (10 MB) (PDF; 9.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ ^{a b} City of Wolkersdorf: History and sights . www.wolkersdorf.noe.gv.at, accessed on March 10, 2009.
3. ↑ Kultursommer Schloss Wolkersdorf: [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  www.schlosswolkersdorf.at, accessed on April 14, 2009.
4. ↑ History of Wolkersdorf Castle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ The historical development of Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 995 kB), accessed on October 21, 2011 
6. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (HGM / MHI) , Military History Research Department (MilFoA), study collection, inventory 1945, box 5, fasc. 45/9, municipality reports Lower Austria, District Mistelbach
7. ↑ http://www.wolkersdorf1938.at/das-projekt.html
8. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
9. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
10. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
11. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
12. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel region. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Municipal council election 2019: Steindl wins in Wolkersdorf . Article dated March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019.
15. ↑ NÖN: Local council election: The Wolkersdorfer and Pillichsdorfer vote . Article dated March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019.
16. ^ NÖN: Wolkersdorf: Hackl undesirable as vice . Article dated November 11, 2014, accessed March 31, 2019.
17. ^ Wolkersdorf: coalition of four and new city chief. In: noe.ORF.at. March 29, 2019, accessed March 31, 2019 . 
18. ^ NÖN: No Political Peace: reprisals against ÖVP mandatars in Wolkersdorf? . Article dated April 26, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019.
19. ^ NÖN: Clear majority: Litzka is the new mayor of Wolkersdorf . Article dated May 6, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019.
20. ↑ SPL Tele moves from Vienna to Wolkersdorf , accessed on April 28, 2015.
21. ↑ Press release OTS , accessed on April 28, 2015.
22. ↑ Metal goods production at Fertinger relocated , accessed on April 28, 2015.
23. ↑ Fertinger Metallwaren is expanding in Wolkersdorf ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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. Retrieved April 28, 2015 
24. ↑ Wittmann GmbH moves to Wolkersdorf , accessed on April 28, 2015.
25. ^ Wittmann new building in Wolkersdorf , accessed on April 28, 2015.
26. ↑ Lower Austria press archive ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2015 
27. ^ Münichsthal volunteer fire brigade: [2] . www.ff-muenichsthal.at, accessed on September 16, 2011.