Ternitz

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The municipality is Ternitz with 14,784 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is the most populous and with a total area of 65 km ² in area, the fifth largest municipality in the district of Neunkirchen in Lower Austria.

• 4.1 Demographics

• 5.1 municipal
• 5.2 City Council
• 5.3 Town twinning

• 6.1 Museums 6.1.1 Steel City Museum

• 6.2.1 Castle Stixenstein

• 6.3.1 Nature Park Sierningtal - Flatzer wall

• 7.1 Mailüfterl bubbles
• 7.2 Peter Kirtag

Geography

Ternitz is in the lower Schwarzatal at the beginning of Steinfeld ( dryness level) in the industrial area (also fourth among the Vienna Woods ) in Lower Austria. With the Gösing - Hochberg group, which at the same time with 898 m oa is the highest point of the municipality, the municipality of Ternitz forms the northern boundary of the hunchback world on Alpenostrand. Main river is the Schwarza, which flows through the municipal area in west-east direction. In the route of the local part Pottschach the river is the border to the municipality of Wimpassing in Schwarzatale.

Area balance

The entire Ternitzer city covers an area of ​​approximately 65.32 km ² ( 6539 ha). Of this total accounts for 56.59 % ( 3700 ha) of forest areas, 29.10% or 1902 ha agricultural land ( arable land, meadows and pastures ) and 1.65 % are reported as a construction area. The green space is a total of 91 %.

Community structure

Darkstone ( 5.04 km ²) Flatz ( 8.74 km ²) Wrong track (0.75 km ²) Mahrersdorf (2.16 km ²) Pottschach (6.15 km ²) Putzmannsdorf (1.34 km ²) Raglitz (7.05 km ²) Rohrbach am Steinfelde ( 3.43 km ²) Sieding ( 24.20 km ²) St. Johann am Steinfelde (6.50 km ²)

Flatz (D) Gadenweith (W) Good man (W) Wrong track (R ) Pottschach (Stt ) Putzmannsdorf (Stt ) Raglitz (D)

Reith (R ) Sieding (D)

St. Lorenzen am Steinfelde (D) Stixenstein (R ) Ternitz (Stt )

Thann (D)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

• M = center of the municipality
• Stt = district
• R = Rotte
• W = hamlet
• D = village
• ZH = Scattered houses
• Sdlg = settlement
• E = bowery (only if they have their own locality code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Neighboring communities

History

The name " Ternitz " 1352 for the first time as a place name mentioned in a document (for the Tehannts, land register of St. Lorenzen ). The center of today's Ternitz likely to have been densely populated since the Middle Ages, but it was deserted over the centuries. Recovery only came back in the 19th century by the extension of the Southern Railway in 1842 ( station Ternitz 1847) and through the establishment of a hammer mill in 1846 by Franz Müller. 1862 bought by Alexander Schoeller the factory by the then owner Reichenbach and founded four years later, the Ternitzer iron and steel works (→ Schoeller- Bleckmann steel mills ). Created by the settlement of the steel industry workers' settlements and the population grew steadily, now over 1000 people worked in the factory. The Ternitzer settlement area lay in the areas of the municipalities of St. Johann am Steinfeld, dark stone and Rohrbach am Steinfeld. 1923 takes place the merging of these three places to the community Ternitz. 1948 Ternitz is charged to the city. 1969 united the communities Flatz and Sieding with Ternitz and 1974 carried out the amalgamation of the municipalities Pottschach and Raglitz with the municipality Ternitz.

Population

Demographics

The city's population is distributed almost equally on men and women. While in the census of year 2001 7918 female population (52%) were counted, the male part of the population came to 7314 ( 48%). In the same census was raised that 92.3 % of residents have Austrian citizenship. For the Roman Catholic Church 62.6 % of Ternitzer (Lower Austria 79, 3 %) known, another 4.6 % were Protestant creed ( NE 3.3%) and 0.6 % belonged to an Orthodox Christian church. The second largest faith group found that of Islam dar. In 2001, 9.4 % of the population of Muslims Ternitz (Lower Austria 3.2%), only 5 citizens were Jewish. Without confession 20.5 % of the population ( NE 10.8%).

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 37 members and shall be composed since the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, mandates the following parties:

Mayor since 2004 Rupert Dworak, Deputy Mayor since January 28, 2013 Christian Samwald (both SPÖ).

List of mayors of Ternitz:

City ​​council

The Ternitzer City Council consists of 10 councilors (including the mayor and deputy mayor). These are, apart from the mayor, part-time politicians. After the municipal elections of 2010, the FPÖ won her right back to one representative on the City Council and the SPÖ lost one of its city council posts. Currently, eight members of the Social Democratic Party and one member of the ÖVP and the FPÖ in the City Council. Green and the list ALT are not represented in the City Council. The Social Democrats make it both the mayor and the deputy mayor.

Twinning

The city maintains Ternitz currently no partnerships with domestic or foreign communities or cities.

Culture and sights

Museums

Steel City Museum

At the site of the first post office of the Steel City Museum Ternitz Ternitz was opened on 28 September 2001. To aim to keep alive history, contribute to both the honorary members of the museum as well as numerous private collectors. Various special exhibitions show the historical Ternitz and its districts.

Structures

Castle Stixenstein

The partially publicly accessible castle is leased owned by the City of Vienna and the " Association of Friends of the Castle Stixenstein ". The building is used for theater performances, concerts and exhibitions and can be rented for private parties. The former large granary in the outer ward is used by the Forest Service of the City of Vienna to economic purposes.

Natural Monuments

Nature Park Sierningtal - Flatzer wall

The nature park Sierningtal - Flatzer wall is about half of its area in the European protected areas Northeastern edge Alps. By order of the Provincial Government northeast of the landscape protection areas from 31 January 2006, the Nature Park Sierningtal - Flatzer is reported as wall protection zone.

Film

Ternitz is the main setting of the movie Ternitz - Tennessee ( Austria in 2000, directed by Mirjam Unger Starring: Nina Proll, Sonja Romei and Gerald Votava ).

Regular events

Mailüfterl bubbles

In Ternitz the custom of Maiblasens is committed. On the night of May 1, the song " Mailüfterl " is offered by a brass group.

Peter Kirtag

Every year at the Peter and Paul on 29 June and the following Sunday will be held in dark stone at the Petersberg near St. Peter's Church, a parish fair. The Peter Kirtag has a centuries- long tradition. Already in 1632 should have given in honor of St. Peter the Dunkelsteiner parish fairs. Proven a cattle market was around 1751 held at the St. Peter's Church, which already state money was lifted. 1854 the scenery of Kirtages by a student of the Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Müller forest was held in a pencil sketch.

Economy

In 2001, there were 484 non-agricultural workplaces and 168 agricultural and forestry holdings after the survey in 1999. There were 6383 employed at the residence at the 2001 census., The activity rate in 2001 was 43.19 percent.

Traffic

Ternitz is well connected to major transport routes. Ternitz is located on the B17 Wiener Neustadt road, and also of the S6 Semmering highway exit Neunkirchen the community is easily accessible.

Ternitz is located on the southern railway and is served by the railway station and the bus stop Ternitz Pottschach to the movement of regional trains towards Miirzzuschlag and Vienna.

Education

Kindergartens:

• Northeast Landeskindergarten Ternitz City Centre
• Northeast Landeskindergarten Ternitz basic Ackergasse
• Northeast Landeskindergarten Ternitz - Raglitz
• Northeast Landeskindergarten Ternitz - Dark Stone
• Northeast Landeskindergarten Ternitz - Pottschach
• Northeast Landeskindergarten Ternitz - Sonnwendgasse
• Parish kindergarten Pottschach

Elementary schools:

• Elementary school Ternitz I ( Stapf alley )
• Elementary school Ternitz II ( Dark Stone )
• Elementary School St. Lorenzen
• Adolf Scharf elementary school Pottschach
• Elementary school Kreuzäcker alley

Secondary schools:

• Dr. Karl Renner- secondary school Ternitz
• New Middle School - HS Pottschach

General Fine High Schools:

• BORG Ternitz

Special schools:

• General special school / Special Education Centre Ternitz

Polytechnic schools:

• Polytechnic School Ternitz

Music schools:

• Regional Music School Ternitz with offices in the VS Stapf alley, Pottschach, St. Lorenzen, Earl Bach, in the Official House Sieding and the former VS Penk

Community colleges:

• Community College Education Center Ternitz

Personalities

Daughters and sons

• Johann Georg Hauer (1853-1905), Doctor of Philosophy, dialect local poet
• Ernst Winkler (1886-1974), known as Goldfüllfederkönig, impostor
• Marie skin man (1888-1967), Austrian politician ( SPÖ)
• Alois Scheibenreif (1906-1975), Austrian politician (ÖVP )
• Karl Spiehs (* 1931), Austrian film producer (film comedies, entertainment films, TV series )
• Ferry Graf ( born 1931 ), Finnish singer and representative of Austria Grand Prix 1959
• Josef Spiess ( born 1933), Austrian politician (ÖVP )
• Kurt Ingerl (1935-1999), Austrian sculptor ( " The laced woman " )
• Rudolf Taschner ( born 1953 ), Austrian mathematician
• Franz Pinkl (* 1956 ), Austrian Bank Manager
• Andreas Exner (* 1973 ), Austrian ecologist, journalist and trade unionist

People with relationship to the city

• Wolfgang Schmeltzl ( 1500/05-1564 ), composer and poet, 1554-1564 pastor in today's district of Sankt Lorenzen am Steinfeld
• Paul Kupelwieser (1843-1919), Director General of the iron and steel works
• Hans Czettel (1923-1980), Member of Parliament from 1953 to 1969, Minister of the Interior from 1964 to 1966 and Deputy Governor from 1969 to 1980
• Karl Waldbrunner (1906-1980), Chief Engineer at Schoeller -Bleckmann 1938-1945, Federal Minister for Transport and Nationalized enterprises 1949-1962
• Hannelore Reiterer (* 1941), Austrian politician ( SPÖ)
• Helmut A. Gansterer ( b. 1946 ), Austrian journalist, editor and author
• Joseph Trenk (* 1946), Austrian politician (FPÖ )
• Peter Marizzi ( * 1947 ), Austrian politician ( SPÖ)
• Herbert Hirschler (born 1965 ), author of lyrics

Freeman

• Robert Hammerstiel ( born 1933), Austrian painter and graphic artist