Amaliendorf-Aalfang

  • SPÖ: 12
  • ÖVP: 7

Amaliendorf - eel is a market town with 1114 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Gmünd in Lower Austria.

Amaliendorf - eel is a member municipality of the small region Waldviertel city land.

  • 3.1 Population development

Geography

Amaliendorf - eel is located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 8.03 square kilometers. 41.38 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

  • Eel ( 353)
  • Amaliendorf ( 736 )
  • Falkendorf (42 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral eel, Amaliendorf and Falkendorf.

Neighboring communities

Natural space

Amaliendorf - eel is a scattered settlement with an extensive network of trails. The settlement is surrounded by forest in the northwestern Waldviertel. Crucial to the habitat is embedded in the granite zone of the " Bohemian Massif ". It is a former mountain, which was created during the Variscan orogeny in front of around 350 million years ago and was later demolished to a hull landscape. Granite impressed in many ways the natural and cultural landscape of Amaliendorf - eel. Economically, the Aalfanger granite is mined in two quarries. By Wollsackverwitterung huge granite blocks come in many places to light and form bizarre rock formations, such as the famous rocking stone of Amaliendorf or the so-called mountain, this means Rocky hill, the small scale occur in the middle of open fields and form mostly passed, dry edaphic sites with birches and pines. Granite disintegrates grusig and tends at high rainfall in the formation of acid brown soils to the agriculturally unusable podzols. The late colonization of this area is related to the critical.

History

The community consists of three parts with different ages:

  • Set in the valley of Braunau and Romaubaches eel, which was established according to the sources at the latest in 1600
  • Which is situated on the slopes of the mountain district Macho Falkendorf, which was created in 1730 from the dominion Falkenhayn in Schrems and
  • 1699 by the Count STRASSOLDO, the owner of the domain Schwarzenau, founded Amaliendorf.

1627 " weirs of Alennfang " were first mentioned. They were built after the confluence of Braunau and Romau as damming and served then the catch of eels, which the same were advancing up to here. Even into the 19th century, the spelling Eilfang and Ailfang were common for eel fishing.

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria was the name of the saint in 1799 by Count Vincent de STRASSOLDO, their Colonel - Hofmeister, founded local Amaliendorf.

On September 6, 1967, the decision was taken to church merger between Amaliendorf and eel. On 28 January 1999, the municipality was elevated to a market town.

Population Development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1158 inhabitants. In 1991, the market town of 1146 inhabitants, 1201 and 1981 in 1971, 1371 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

At the thoroughfare in Amaliendorf is the built in 1818 local chapel of the Assumption of Our Lady. In the district Wielandsberg is a wayside chapel from the year 1857. The Rocking Stone in Schrems Forest is a three -meter-high stone circle surrounded by a granite block with a bulge on the surface.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Karl Prohaska, chief officer Gerald Schindl.

In the market there are a total of 19 council seats after the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, the following distribution of seats: 7 ÖVP, SPÖ 12

Economy and infrastructure

In 2001, there were 40 non-agricultural workplaces and 15 agricultural and forestry holdings after the survey in 1999. There were 481 workers at place of residence according to the 2001 census., The activity rate in 2001 was 41.88 percent.

In eel is a station of the Waldviertel narrow gauge railways.

Sports

The football club SC Amaliendorf Established in 1932, played after relegation in the 2006/2007 season of the National Football League Lower Austria again in the second division West. The tennis club Amaliendorf - eel was founded in autumn 1998. Since 1999 he successfully takes in the championship of the Lower Austrian Tennis Federation in part (District Northwest).

Personalities

  • Ernest Gabmann (* 1949), politician ( ÖVP)
  • Robert Rada (* 1949), Landesschulinspektor and politician ( SPÖ)
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