Allentsteig

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Allentsteig is a town with 1964 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district Zwettl in Lower Austria. The city is known by the same named Truppenübungsplatz Allentsteig.

  • 5.1 Demographics
  • 7.1 Regional Cooperation

Geography

Allentsteig located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 71.41 square kilometers; 35.04 % of the area is forested.

Location

Allentsteig is in the middle of the Waldviertel.

It lies at an elevation of 550 m and approximately 15 kilometers (direct distance) north-east of the district capital Zwettl, some 60 km (air line) north of the regional capital St. Pölten and 95 km ( straight line ) northwest of the capital, Vienna.

Structure

The town itself are still 14 cadastral municipalities: 4 places are still inhabited:

  • Bernschlag (Previously own municipality with Zwinzen )
  • Zwinzen
  • Thaua (Previously own municipality with Reinsbach and Wurmsbach )
  • Reinsbach

In the area of ​​military training area entsiedelt:

  • Wurmsbach
  • Dietreichs
  • Edelsbach
  • Great Poppen
  • Small Haselbach
  • Kleinkainraths (municipality Allentsteig )
  • Mannshalm
  • Out 's
  • Schlagles
  • Steinbach

History

The first witnesses there from the Middle Ages, as were settled the Great Franks under Charlemagne. The area around Allentsteig was paid by the Babenbergs to the Kuenringer. So here a castle was built around 1430 and the castle. The name came from the Illyrian Dujay ( for " rushing " ) and transformed over time through Tygia, Tigin and Thige to Stige. In 1212 the place was called Adeloldstige. In 1700, he was already Allentsteig.

In Allentsteig is also the origin of Hitler's ancestors. In order to keep its roots secret, was relocated a part of the village after the Anschluss and created a military training area.

Military cemetery

In 1981, in Allentsteig was created a large military cemetery ( on the edge of TÜPL ), on the 3,900 casualties of the German Wehrmacht were buried from countless local cemeteries of Lower Austria, who died in the battles of 1945.

Population

Demographics

Culture and sights

Economy

The most important employer is directly and indirectly the army with the military training area Allentsteig. This was built on Adolf Hitler's orders immediately after the annexation of Austria in the summer of 1938, in the course of which were Döllersheim and Strones, the home villages of his parents and grandparents entsiedelt.

Regional Cooperation

The municipality Allentsteig is a member of the small region ASTEG.

Born or acting here in Allentsteig personalities

  • Theodor Cerny (1898-1981), Austrian politician and the National Council, was born in Allentsteig.
  • Ernst Krenn (1897-1954), Austrian Skandinavist was born in Allentsteig.
  • Franz Liftl (1864-1932), Austrian musician and composer, was born in Allentsteig.
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