Sankt Leonhard am Hornerwald

St. Leonhard am Hornerwald is a market town with 1139 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Krems- Land in Lower Austria.

  • 4.1 Demographics
  • 8.1 Regional Cooperation
  • 8.2 traffic

Geography

St. Leonhard am Hornerwald located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 51.57 square kilometers. 51.06 percent of the area is forested.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

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

  • Upper Taut Strand Office ( 126)
  • St. Leonhard am Hornerwald (308 )
  • Under Taut Strand Office ( 123 )
  • Wilhalm (81 )
  • Wolfshoferamt ( 516)

The municipality comprises the cadastral upper Taut Strand Office, St. Leonhard am Hornerwalde, sub Taut villages office Wilhalm and Wolfshoferamt.

Area Code

In the market town of St. Leonhard am Hornerwald find several zip codes use. Under Taut Strand Office has the ZIP Code 3571st The village of St. Leonhard am Hornerwald and all other districts have the zip code 3572nd

History

In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place told the eventful history of Austria.

Population

Demographics

2678

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Hermann Steininger, Head Office is Gertraud Winkler. Since the local elections on March 14, 2010, the following distribution of seats is valid for a total of 19 seats:

Culture and sights

Northwest of St. Leonhard is the ruins of the castle Round castle. The castle was built in 1150, was abandoned from 1300, however, and fell into disrepair. From the castle, parts of the former donjon still exist.

The living crafts museum is unique in Austria, as it is manned by voluntary Vorführsonntagen people that show off a variety of crafts, like them. Already decades ago, and even centuries have been practiced The museum is furnished with love and in the same building is the Museum Cafe, which invites for a short rest.

The far into the countryside looking on a Hill, a late Baroque parish church was built around 1770.

Opened on April 13, 2001 Waldviertel spirits workshop is a tourist attraction in St. Leonhard. It is housed in an old farm and extends over 850 square feet. The scenes show underground passages, magic forests, sunken places, ritual spaces, original props and haunted castles. Together with six other Lower Austrian castles spirits workshop was included in the book "Ghost Castles in Austria " ( Ueberreuter Verlag).

Sports

In winter, St. Leonhard is a popular destination for skiers. In the village there is also a successful cross-country team, which again achieved top positions in national and international races.

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001, 36 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 145 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census 566 The employment rate in 2001 was 46.73 percent.

Regional Cooperation

The market town of St. Leonhard am Hornerwald is a member of the small region Kamp lakes.

Traffic

The bus company PostBus moves the stops St. Leonhard am Hornerwald - Abzw Steinegg, St. Leonhard am Hornerwald - Ghosts Workshop and St. Leonhard am Hornerwald - Municipal Office at line 1310 ( Horn - St. Leonhard am Hornerwald ) to. The nearest railway station is the ÖBB - Gars Thunau.

Significant born in St. Leonhard am Hornerwald or acting here people

  • Josef Bugala (1908-1999), Austrian football player, was born in St. Leonhard am Hornerwald.
  • Erni Mangold ( * 1927), Austrian actress, lives in St. Leonhard am Hornerwald.
  • Paul Yvon ( b. 1949 ), Austrian journalist and author, was born in St. Leonhard am Hornerwald.
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