Breitenfurt bei Wien

Breitenfort in Vienna is a town with 5810 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) southwest of Vienna in District Mödling in Lower Austria.

• 3.1 Demographics
• 3.2 Religion

Geography

Geographical location

Breitenfort is right on the border of the city of Vienna, the Vienna woods in the valley of the rich Liesing. The community is geographically one of the largest in the district and therefore has only a population density of 197/km ². The place has great elevation changes and is 260-592 meters above sea level.

Community structure

The community is divided politically into two cadastral Breitenfort and Hochroterd. Structurally, the community is divided into three parts with width Wade Ostend directly to Vienna Kalksburg bordering, Breitenfort East and Breitenfort -West, from where it passes over the Semmering to Little Wolf ditch.

Breitenfort ( 23.3 km ²) Hochroterd ( 3.69 km ²)

Neighboring communities

In addition to the border to Vienna a district boundary between the districts of Mödling and Vienna-surrounding areas on the northwestern boundary of the municipality to municipality Wolf trench runs. Additionally, it has Breitenfort common municipal boundaries with the municipalities of rennet in the forest, Wienerwald and Kaltenleutgeben within the district Mödling.

History

Breitenfort was founded relatively late and appeared in documents for the first time in 1622 as a populated area, whereas previously Breitenfort was only as field name in use. Up to the Turks in 1683 storm was located on the present-day municipality an imperial hunting lodge, which still adorns the coat of arms of the town in ruins. After the Turkish siege stood in width ford or 20 houses. The area was soon populated with settlers from Salzburg, Bavaria and Styria. The inhabitants were mainly woodworkers who already lived in 42 houses in 1721. Another 32 houses were in other parts of town the church today. In the years 1714-1732 the accountant and Ministerial let Banko deputation Gregor Wilhelm Kirchner build a Baroque castle in the village, which was almost completely demolished in 1796 and testifies to the today only the Parish Church (former chapel ).

1848 Breitenfort independent municipality in 1850 and elected the first mayor. As a result, the town became a popular destination for the nearby town of Vienna's population, so that, inter alia, the hospitality industry flourished. Among other things connected with it, was 1898, the plan to erect Liesing about Kalksburg after Breitenfort an electric train. After initial enthusiasm of affected and interested communities in particular is likely to have thwarted the project the further question of cost.

With the growing population around the turn of the century opened, more and more traders shops in the village, who got 1930, awarded market rights. 1938, the place like many places in Lower Austria was incorporated into the City of Vienna and was part of the 25th district of Vienna wholesale. Only 1954 Breitenfort became independent again and fell back to Lower Austria.

Population

Demographics

The inhabitants numbers rise higher percentage than the national population since the beginning of population surveys. After growing by more than 30 % in the periods 1971-1981 and 1981-1991 was recorded in the period 1991-2001, an increase of 11.4%.

Religion

According to the data of the 2001 census, 65.7 % of the population Roman Catholic, 5.3% are Protestant. 1.1% are Muslim, 0.9% are members of Orthodox Churches. 21.8 % of the population have no religious affiliation.

Culture and sights

Sons and daughters width Furts

• Georg Sigl (1811-1887), engineer and entrepreneur
• Gerda Maurus (1903-1968), actress
• Gerhard Zadrobilek ( b. 1961 ), former professional cyclist
• Adele Sansone ( born 1953 ), children 's and teen book author, illustrator
• Mario Hochgerner (* 1984), Radio Presenter