Gutenstein, Austria

  • ÖVP: 14
  • SPÖ: 5

Good stone is an Austrian market town in the district of Wiener Neustadt- Land in Lower Austria with 1281 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

Good stone is a major Catholic pilgrimage site. Due to its climatic location is good stone also a health resort.

  • 6.1 Demographics
  • 6.2 Religion

Geography

Good stone is located in the industrial area in the valley of Piesting in Lower Austria. The area belongs to the Northern Limestone Alps, whose core zone forms to the named after the place of the group Gutensteiner Alps Piestingtal. The area of ​​the municipality covers 104.2 km ². 91.22 % of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following eight villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Good stone (367)
  • Hintergschaid (6)
  • Kloster (157 )
  • Längapiesting (129 )
  • Steinapiesting (67 )
  • Urgersbach (2)
  • Vorderbruck ( 566 )
  • Cells Bach ( 11)

The municipality consists of a single cadastral Good stone.

Good Stone (M)   Hintergschaid (ZH)   Kloster ( ZH)

Längapiesting (ZH)

Steinapiesting ( ZH)   Urgersbach (ZH)   Vorderbruck (D)

Cells Bach ( ZH)

History

Before Christ's birth, the area was part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the area of the Celtic hillfort castle on the Schwarzenbacher Castle Hill, which was the capital of the entire north-eastern Noricum.

Among the Romans, then today's Good stone lay in the province of Pannonia.

1321 Good stone of Frederick the Handsome was raised to the market.

Culture and sights

  • Good stone castle ruins
  • Castle Hoyos Castle Park
  • Parish Church
  • Sanctuary Mariahilfberg: built 1668-1688, baroque; built as a church dedicated to " useful Virgin Mary ", destroyed by fire in the 18th century, slightly expanded again
  • Raimund Memorial Memorial on the dramatist Ferdinand Raimund
  • Fire Museum
  • Waldbauer Museum
  • Foundation Hubert Aratym: presentation of the works of the painter Hubert Aratym

Regular events

  • Cultural Summer Good stone with the Festival Good Stone (formerly Raimund games): Founded in 1993 by Peter Janisch. In the years 2000-2007, all eight written by Ferdinand Raimund plays were performed in a series of nearly the same ensemble under the direction of Ernst Wolfram Marboe. The recording of the pieces by the ORF studios Lower Austria for the first time revealed a complete collection of Raimund works that could be seen already in the ORF and 3sat. From 2008 works by other authors such as Tutankhamun were - played The Musical. The Raimund Games changed their name to Gutenstein festival.
  • Concerts Master Classes Good stone and other

Policy

  • Mayor of the municipality is John Seper, Office Manager, Friedrich Fischer.
  • In the market there are a total of 19 council seats after the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, the following distribution of seats:
  • ÖVP 14, SPÖ 5, no other seats.

Population

Demographics

Religion

According to the data of the 2001 census, 80.6 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 3.7% Protestant, 3.8% are Muslims. 2.2% belonged to the Orthodox churches, 7.9% of the population had no religious affiliation.

Twinning

  • Germany, good stone in the Upper Danube Valley, Baden- Württemberg

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001, 85 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 69 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census 547 The employment rate in 2001 was 40.29 %.

Traffic

Both the Gutensteiner road B 21 and ending in Gutenstein Gutensteiner path form a direct connection to the capital of the industrial district of Wiener Neustadt.

Personalities

Freeman

  • Hiltraud branch ( * 1923), folklorist and researcher home
  • Ernst Wolfram Marboe (1938-2012), conducted some years the festival Gutenstein
  • Adi Reuscher, former mayor

Sons and daughters

  • Aratym Hubert (1926-2000), Austrian painter, sculptor and stage
  • Rudolf Hoyos - Sprinzenstein (1884-1972), Austrian nobility,
  • Hedy Kempny (1895-1986), Austrian journalist
  • Sepp Tiefenbach (1925-2009), local poet

People with relationship to good stone

  • Frederick the Fair (1289-1330), Duke of Austria and Styria, 1314-1330 (as Frederick III. ) Anti-king of the Holy Roman Empire, died on Gutenberg stone where he spent the last years of life.
  • Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836), Austrian dramatist; Good stone is inseparable from Ferdinand Raimund. The poet and actor of the Biedermeier is not born into good stone, but in 1834 settled down here after he had already spent in previous years, a lot of time here and is buried here.
  • Rudolf Tyrolt (1848-1929), Austrian actor and writer, died in Good stone and buried.
  • Peter Kempny (1862-1906), Austrian entomologist
  • Hans Kaltneker (1895-1919), Austrian storyteller, poet and playwright, one of the main representatives of Austrian Expressionism, buried in Good stone.
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