Zellerndorf (municipality of Zellerndorf)

Zellerndorf (capital of a market town) locality cadastral community Zellerndorf
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Hollabrunn  (HL), Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Zellerndorf
Coordinates	48 ° 41 '46 "  N , 15 ° 57' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 41 '46 "  N , 15 ° 57' 17"  E
height	230  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	1139 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	10.3 km²
Post Code	2051 Zellerndorf
prefix	+ 43/2945
Statistical identification
Locality code	03888
Cadastral parish number	18133
Counting district / district	Zellerndorf (31052 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

The listed train station in Zellerndorf

Trinity Column

War memorial with parish church in the background

The listed Karner near the parish church in Zellerndorf

The baroque parsonage in Zellerndorfer

The local cellar lane Maulavern

Castle mill Zellerndorf

Zellerndorf is a town and cadastral community in the Austrian Weinviertel and the main town of the market town of Zellerndorf . The village gained fame through the annual pumpkin festival.

geography

Zellerndorf is located in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria in the "Retzer Land" in the immediate vicinity of the cities of Retz and Pulkau. The landscape itself is hilly and consists mostly of vineyards and fields.

geology

Zellerndorf is due to the Diendorfer Fault , a geological fault between the Bohemian Massif and the Alps that has repeatedly caused damage to buildings in the past. However, not all of the attributed harms are caused by this disorder. Investigations by the geological institute show that the so-called Zellerndorf Formation , an extension of the Bohemian Massif between Retz and Pulkau , is often not a stable subsoil for buildings and therefore settlement cracks and other damage can occur. The Diendorf disturbance has been inactive for several years.

population

The village of Zellerndorf has 1182 inhabitants (as of 2011).

Agriculture

In agriculture - in addition to viticulture, of course - the cultivation of grain, sugar beet, pumpkin, vegetables, fruit and sunflowers play a major role.

history

Early Stone Age to 1000 AD

The oldest archaeological finds in Zellerndorf date from the early Bronze Age. Several finds in the area of ​​the parish church and the old brickworks (Hofstötter and Pass) are located here. Both settlement pits and stool graves were recovered there in the first half of the 20th century.

In the early Iron Age, the area around Zellerndorf was part of the Hallstatt culture . The population was subject to the Celtic influence and probably took over relatively peacefully around 450 BC. Christ the Celtic Customs and Culture. For the place Zellerndorf a settlement of all epochs up to the 10th century AD is documented with living and grave finds. It is uncertain whether this was actually carried out continuously. Most of the finds for Zellerndorf took place in the area of ​​the old brickworks and the church. Zellerndorf belonged to the Great Moravian Empire and there are individual finds such as a bronze coin that was found in the area of ​​the Zellerndorf church (dated between 751 and 775 AD), but we speak of "densification centers" and not of settlements but these should not be seen as local centers. However, based on existing finds, Zellerndorf can only be described as a center of Slavic settlement in the 9th century. This assumption is reinforced by the name Zellerndorf, which begins with a Slavic personal name with * cel- or * sedl-.

During the 10th century there were frequent invasions of the Magyars. This period is characterized by the lack of sources.

From AD 1000 to AD 1500

In the course of the 11th century, this part of the Weinviertel gradually became part of the Babenberger Mark. Only in the 12th century are four of the six places mentioned for the first time. Zellerndorf is mentioned for the first time in 1149 as "Celdrandorf" in the Göttweiger tradition code . The name is passed down in other sources as Celdramendorf and Celderendorf. The name is likely to be a Slavic personal name, Celedrem - sleepy, sleepyhead and celý, Czech., Whole, drêmati, aslaw., Slumber. This was later corrupted to "Zellerndorf". In the Göttweig Code of Traditions, this entry indicates a fiefdom from Warmund von Eggenburg to the Göttweig Abbey.

From the 12th to the 14th century, Zellerndorf was split up under many landlords. The most powerful of them were the Counts of Hardegg. During the 15th century, parts of the community gradually became the property of the Eitzinger von Eitzing family. It should be mentioned that Zellerndorf was only a sideline for stately properties during this time. There was no gender that Zellerndorf would have seen as the center of its rule and accordingly the owners of the already fragmented property apparently changed quickly and to many different masters.

From AD 1500 to AD 1700

After Eitzinger had risen in the 15th century to the most important basic rule in today's municipal area, these possessions in the 16th century under the rule Schrattenthal are partly as a possession, partly as a fief together for the most part. The liberation from the manorial rule and the establishment of a separate rule Zellerndorf happened around the last quarter of the 16th century. In 1590 Sebastian II Grabner zu Rosenburg is mentioned as having 57 houses and the local authority for Zellerndorf. Furthermore 13 houses in Watzelsdorf and 14 houses as well as the local authority in Dietmannsdorf. In 1604 he left the office to an Albrecht Hoffmann zu Unterstalb, who in turn sold everything to Ludwig von Starhemberg in 1605 . He handed the estate over to his brother Martin and his wife Sidonia, but bought everything back in 1613. At this point in time, the property included 54 subjects, pensions from castle rights, interest, labor and vineyards and income from various tithes on the crops and a mill.

In 1614 Otto Friedrich Geyer became the owner of the Zellerndorf estate through an exchange. The Protestant puts the community in financial distress and is outlawed in 1620. His property was confiscated. The entire estate is placed under an imperial guardian. A certain Hans Unterholzer bought the ailing property in 1622, but he sold it to Ferdinand Dillher before 1627. However, the sources speak of continued ailing financial situation of the community in the following period, until the entire property finally has to be sold to the Jesuit College in Vienna in 1710.

Parallel to these processes in the 16th century, Deinzendorf broke away in 1572 as a separate rule under Ulrich von Eitzinger. Deinzendorf bequeaths this to his son Georg. The rule was taken over by Ulrich, heavily in debt, and it is still there when Georg dies. Georg's widow finally hands over the estate to his brothers after his death, from whom Albrecht takes it over. Deinzendorf becomes his headquarters. In 1594 Albrecht sold Deinzendorf to Jakob Franz Herberstein. He dies without a male heir and in 1660 divides the property among the daughters. In 1702 the niece of the daughter Octavia Esther Ötting, named Constantia Elisabeth, and her husband, Christoph Georg Schallenberg inherit the property.

From 1700 to 1945

After the situation of the Zellerndorf rulership has been handed down as ailing and the property further splintered and divided again into several manors, the remaining Zellerndorf rulership was sold to the Jesuit College Vienna in 1710. After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, Zellerndorf was placed under the state ex-Jesuit fund of the camera administration. From this, Zellerndorf was bought by the Schottenstift Vienna in 1826.

In 1713 the plague broke out in nearby Deinzendorf - and then in Zellerndorf . During the War of the Austrian Succession, Zellerndorf and the towns in the municipality had to repeatedly provide supplies (billeting, provision of provisions) to changing armies. In both places combined, 124 people died of the plague in this epidemic. A severe cholera epidemic has been reported in 1832 and 1836 .

In 1848 the manor in Austria was abandoned and this also affected Zellerndorf. In 1850 the first municipal elections took place in Zellerndorf. Leopold Putz was elected mayor. On July 15, 1866, marauding Prussian troops invaded the town. They demanded supplies from the people of Zellerndorf, but no billeting - because of the poor water in Zellerndorf, as the pastor reported in his notes. After the Prussians withdrew in August, cholera raged across the entire municipality. The pastor of Zellerndorf at the time wrote that people were carried away by the disease unusually quickly, often several hours after it broke out.

On September 8, 1870, Zellerndorf was connected to the Northwest Railway . This was followed by a strong influx of railway workers to Zellerndorf by 1890 and the associated significant population growth. Zellerndorf became a traffic junction through the subsequent construction of the connecting railways to Sigmundsherberg and Laa an der Thaya .

In the First World War, 33 soldiers died, six were missing and eleven soldiers were prisoners of war. Due to the station and the favorable traffic situation, the military set up a transit station through which the trains with wounded from the front were supplied. From 1915 on, Zellerndorf was severely affected by the supply problems with food and consumer goods.

After the National Socialists came to power on October 26, 1938, a train with Adolf Hitler coming from Znaim drove through the Zellerndorf train station. The cheers and the influx of the people from Zellerndorf was so great that the train stopped for 10 minutes and Adolf Hitler even opened the window to wave to the people. It is known that there was little resistance from the Church against the National Socialists. Only the pastor of Watzeldorf was convicted in 1938 on suspicion of espionage. Any appropriation of Jewish property has not been dealt with historically or is not reported on in contemporary sources. On May 8, 1945, Zellerndorf was occupied by Soviet troops. It is reported that in the first days after the Russian occupation, the Soviets looted, murdered and raped extensively. The post-war situation in Zellerndorf was similar to that in the rest of Austria. In January 1945 alone, 40 children fell ill with typhus.

economy

Zellerndorf has several craft businesses and local suppliers. The main part are agricultural businesses, with viticulture dominating. Most of the workers in Zellerndorf commute, however.

traffic

Zellerndorf has been connected to the Nordwestbahn since 1870 , a direct connection to Vienna and Znojmo .

Culture and sights

Regular events

• Pumpkin festival in the Retz region

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Prinz, Marktgemeinde Zellerndorf, In: Past und Gegenwart, p. 938.