Zistersdorf

Borough Zistersdorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Gänserndorf
License plate :	GF
Surface:	88.75 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 31 ′  N , 16 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	199  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,379 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	2225
Area code :	02532
Community code :	3 08 63
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 12 2225 Zistersdorf
Website:	www.zistersdorf.at
politics
Mayor :	Helmut Doschek ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (29 members)	19th 6th 2 2 19th 6th 2 2  A total of 29 seats ÖVP : 19 SPÖ : 6 FPÖ : 2 GREEN : 2
Location of Zistersdorf in the Gänserndorf district
City Office
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Zistersdorf ( city ) locality ( capital of the municipality ) Zistersdorf cadastral community
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gänserndorf , Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Zistersdorf
Coordinates	48 ° 32 ′ 41 "  N , 16 ° 45 ′ 43"  E
height	199  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	2796 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	949 (2001)
Area  d. KG	18.7 km²
Post Code	2225
Statistical identification
Locality code	03580
Cadastral parish number	06128
Counting district / district	Zistersdorf center, west, north east (30863 001–3)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Zistersdorf is a municipality with 5379 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Gänserndorf district in Lower Austria .

geography

Zistersdorf is located at the foot of the Steinberg in the Weinviertel , in the middle of vineyards. The area of ​​the municipality covers 88.75 km², 8.13% of the area is forested.

Community structure

structure Cadastral communities Locations in the municipality Blumenthal (6.31 km²) Eichhorn (6.13 km²) Gaiselberg (6.13 km²) Gösting (5.63 km²) Großinzersdorf (13.17 km²) Loidesthal (13.25 km²) Maustrenk (12.97 km²) Windisch Baumgarten (6.37 km²) Zistersdorf (18.70 km²) Blumenthal (D) Eichhorn (D) Gaiselberg (D) Gösting (D) Großinzersdorf (D) Loidersthal (D) Maustrenk (D) Windisch Baumgarten (D) Zistersdorf (St)   Legend

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

• Blumenthal (141)
• Squirrel (295)
• Gaiselberg (222)
• Goesting (309)
• Grossinzersdorf (515)
• Loidesthal (603)
• Maustrenk (318)
• Windisch Baumgarten (180)
• Zistersdorf (2796)

Zistersdorf is the seat of the Euregio Weinviertel-South Moravia-West Slovakia, which was founded in 1997 .

The town of Zistersdorf is the main town of the community as well as the town and cadastral community .

The village has around 950 buildings with a good 2500 inhabitants, i.e. almost half of the community's population. The urban area is divided into the historic center, in which the old core town, which is concentric around the main square, becomes clear, Zistersdorf Castle, as well as the young expansion settlement areas Zistersdorf-West (along Kaiserstraße, and southwest on Gaiselbergerstraße and Albrechtstraße), and Zistersdorf-Nord- East (Alte Marktstrasse and Schalthausgasse), and southeast on Großinzersdorferstrasse and Dürnkruterstrasse.

The cadastral community with about 1870  hectares includes the grounds over the Albrechtstal to the Föhrenwald in the west, the Stadtlüssln to the Hofäckerkapelle (on Dürnkruterstraße) in the south, the whole of Rustenfeld almost to the Groß-Inzersdorfer Bach in the east, and the corridors of Third Half Gwanden, Vierthalbgwanden and Zulüssfeld in the northeast. The latter all express old ownership structures. They are only marginally populated.

Neighboring communities

Wilfersdorf ( District Mistelbach )	House churches    Neusiedl a.dZ	Palterndorf-Dobermannsdorf Ringelsdorf-Niederabsdorf
Mistelbach ( District Mistelbach )		Drösing
Sulz in the Weinviertel	Spannberg	Dürnkrut Velm-Götzendorf

See also : Antonshof

Neighboring towns to the village of Zistersdorf

Maustrenk * Windisch Baumgarten		Palterndorf * (Gem.  Palterndorf-Dobermannsdorf ) Gösting
		Squirrel
Gaiselberg Blumenthal *	Grossinzersdorf Loidesthal *	Dürnkrut (Gem.  Dürnkrut )

^∗the places themselves are behind it, Maustrenk behind Windisch Baumgarten (cadastral area Maustrenk borders south of it); Palterndorf lies behind Gösting (cadastral area borders in the northeast, which includes Gösting); Blumenthal lies behind Gaiselberg; Loidesthal is behind Großinzersdorf

history

Maneuvers of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Maustrenk in 1876, painting by Theodor Breitwieser in the Army History Museum

Zistersdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1160 and founded by the Kuenringers as a walled city around 1250 . The city charter was granted in 1284.

The place and its surroundings were victims of hostile incursions several times, so in the 15th century large parts of the Weinviertel were attacked and plundered by the Hussites , including Zistersdorf. Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War , the Swedish General Torstensson, after his victory at Jankau in 1645, left a trail of devastation as far as Vienna, where he also invaded Zistersdorf with his army. On October 17, 1706, the Kuruc under Count Simon Forgatsch (Forgács) invaded Zistersdorf with 16,000 men, plundered the place and killed around 400 people in the castle.

After the last Kuenringer died in 1594, the Pottendorfer , later the Counts of Althan, became the city lords of Zistersdorf. Among the lords also belonged to Rudolf von Teuffenbach , who as a field marshal in the Thirty Years' War in the army of Wallenstein served. He founded a hospital and a Franciscan monastery with a church, today's parish church. Around 1820 the castle was handed over to the Imperial and Royal Knight  Academy .

Zistersdorf became famous for its oil discoveries . Crude oil was produced for the first time in August 1930. However, the output was insufficient for exploitation. Four years later the Gösting 2 well struck gold and reached a daily production of 30 tons of oil. These oil deposits were of enormous importance for the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . As a result, there were bottlenecks in the volume of available fuels when on June 16 and 26, 1944 the Allies bombed the oil production facilities there.

Due to the fact that the last still functioning oil fields of the " Third Reich " were in Zistersdorf and its surroundings , the place was one of the primary targets of the Red Army when it crossed the March to the west on April 6, 1945 . The area was vigorously defended by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS , but was overrun by the Russians in April.

Since 1994, the FCC Austria has been trying to set up a waste incineration plant in the scenic location, construction began in autumn 2006 and in 2009 the incineration plant for the thermal utilization of residual waste and sewage sludge started operations.

In 1995 the first small wind turbine was built, in 1998 already 70 m high and 2014/15 105 m high masts for wind turbines were erected. Since then, several wind farms have shaped the landscape.

Population development

coat of arms

The official description of the coat of arms of the city of Zistersdorf reads:

"In a blue shield on a green background a silver crenellated city wall closed to a round with a crenellated gate tower, which shows an open gate with a golden gate and an arched window above it, and two round, tinned and windowed defensive towers with red, pointed roofs provided with golden knobs, between which a shield divided in blue and red with a silver tailed lion growing out of the division hovers above the gate tower . "

Community partnerships

• Hodonín , Czech Republic
• Zwettl in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria
• Nienhagen (district of Celle) , Lower Saxony , Germany

politics

The municipal council has 29 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 22 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 7 ZIB-Zistersdorf in motion and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 4 ZIB-Zistersdorf in motion and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 20 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 2 Greens.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 18 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ and 1 Greens.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ and 2 Greens.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 19 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ and 2 Greens.

mayor

• ? -? Franz Schöchtner (GdP)
• ? -? Leopold Lederer
• 1960 - 1985 Ferdinand Reiter (ÖVP)
• 1985 - March 1st, 1992 Rudolf Streihammer (ÖVP)
• 02.03.1992 - 31.03.2004 Johann Hofstetter (ÖVP)
• 04/01/2004 to 11/30/2018 Wolfgang Peischl (ÖVP)
• since December 1st, 2018 Helmut Doschek (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Plague column in Zistersdorf (1747)

The city wall of Zistersdorf

Kellergasse Schlossbergstrasse

See also : List of listed objects in Zistersdorf  and List of cellar lanes in Zistersdorf

• Zistersdorf Castle :: from 1278, with modifications from the 17th and 18th centuries. The state vocational school for plumbing, heating and ventilation has been located there since 1960.
• City wall: partially preserved city wall with powder tower and city gate
• Baroque plague column: from 1747
• Zistersdorf Catholic parish church: was founded as a Franciscan monastery
• Pilgrimage church Maria Moos : the oldest spring shrine in Lower Austria (1160), originally Romanesque, later Gothicized, with baroque elements and an altarpiece by Paul Troger
• Zistersdorf City Museum

economy

In 2001 there were 205 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 332 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment in the place of residence was 2368. The 2001 participation rate was 42.98%.

• Wind energy industry: Today the area is also heavily influenced by wind power. In addition to the small system of the road maintenance department from 1995, a wind farm with four 70 m towers was built near Maustrenk in 1998 ( Zistersdorf wind farm ), which was dismantled in 2008 - as one of the first in Lower Austria - without any problems. At Maustrenk, a field with currently 7 2 MW plants (105 m tower height) from WEB Windenergie  AG has been in operation since 2005 ( Maustrenk wind farm ). In the east, a RENERGIE (Raiffeisen) and ImWind wind farm with 9 140 m towers with 3 MW each will be connected to the grid (Zistersdorf Ost) in 2014/15 , which will then continue in the Velm-Götzendorf wind farm .
• Zistersdorf is also the location of a biodiesel refinery . In 2009, a waste incineration plant built by .ASA Abfall Service Zistersdorf GmbH for the thermal utilization of residual waste and sewage sludge went into operation.

traffic

• Railway: Zistersdorf is the end point of the railway line from Drösing, which has only been used for freight traffic since June 9, 2001 .

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• Karl Friedl (1898–1966), geologist, promoter of the Austrian oil industry (honorary citizen of the then independent municipality of Gösting)
• Karl Freiherr House of Hausen (1823–1889)
• Leopold Lederer, Mayor of Zistersdorf
• Ferdinand Reiter (1926–2013), politician
• Benedikt Amon, Cistercian priest of Zwettl Abbey, long-time pastor of Zistersdorf

Sons and daughters of the township

• Gustav Braun (1829–1911), gynecologist
• Carl Braun von Fernwald (1822–1891), obstetrician
• Franz Ignaz von Holbein (1779–1855), stage poet and theater director
• Johann Petzmayer (1803-1884), zither player
• Franz Schöchtner (1881–1936), Mayor of Zistersdorf
• Otto Steineck (1920–1990), crop scientist
• Karl Vretska (1900–1983), classical philologist
• Wolfgang Wiedermann (* 1940), OCist, Cistercian abbot

Sons and daughters of the villages

• Johann Georg Frimberger (1851–1919), Austrian dialect poet and writer, born in Groß-Inzersdorf
• Adolf Frohner (1934–2007), Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, born in Groß-Inzersdorf
• Josef Wille (1855–1935), politician ( CSP ), born in Loidesthal

People related to the community

• Franz Haas (1948–2004), Austrian painter, lived and worked in Zistersdorf
• Ferdinand Reiter (1926–2013), Austrian politician, secondary school teacher, councilor and mayor of the city of Zistersdorf

literature

• Franz Binder: 800 years of the Maria Moos pilgrimage church and 800 years of Zistersdorf . Self-published, Zistersdorf 1960
• Franz Binder: Zistersdorfer Heimatbuch . Self-published, Zistersdorf 1966
• Lambert Karner : Artificial Caves from Ancient Times , Vienna 1903, reprint 2018, ISBN 978-3-96401-000-1 , Zistersdorf, pp. 26–28

Web links

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

• Official website (municipality)
• Entry on Zistersdorf in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 30863 - Zistersdorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Rathauspost, municipality of Zistersdorf, March 2013.
3. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Zistersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on March 7, 2020 . 
4. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2000 in Zistersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on March 7, 2020 . 
5. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Zistersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on March 7, 2020 . 
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Zistersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2020 . 
7. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Zistersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on March 7, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Zistersdorf. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Entry about Zistersdorf Castle on Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
10. ↑ Entry on Zistersdorf in the Austria Forum  (in the Heimatlexikon)
11. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Windpark Zistersdorf / Lower Austria , elektrotankstellen.net, photo archive
12. ^ Zistersdorf: First dismantling in the Weinviertel: wind turbines leave no traces in the landscape after dismantling , igwindkraft.at, September 11, 2008;
    Zistersdorf Windpark (Austria) , thewindpower.net
13. ↑ WP Maustrenk , WEA Maustrenk - extension , both windenergie.at
14. ↑ Press releases 2013: Groundbreaking ceremony for WP Zistersdorf on September 25, 2013 ( Memento of September 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , renergie.at;
    October 4, 2013 - Fresh wind for the energy transition, raiffeisen-klimaschutz.at
    RENERGIE - Windpark Zistersdorf Ost GmbH and ImWind ZiOst GmbH, project "Windpark Zistersdorf Ost" - construction and operation of 6 wind turbines in the KGs Loidesthal and Großinzersdorf, municipality of Zistersdorf, district Gänserndorf; Amendment application according to § 18b UVP-G 2000; Announcement of the change request + extension of the change request, noe.gv.at → Environmental Protection → Umweltrecht aktuell , accessed November 9, 2013.