Dürnkrut, Austria

Dürnkrut is a market town with 2254 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district Gaenserndorf in Lower Austria.

The place is best known for a historic battle in the summer of 1278 between the Bohemian King Ottokar and Rudolf I Habsburg, and by an earlier large sugar factory, which now serves the production of other commodities.

  • 2.1 Dürnkrut
  • 2.2 Waidendorf
  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 7.1 railway
  • 7.2 road connections

Geography

Dürnkrut is located on the eastern edge of the wine district, in March and thus on the border with Slovakia. The area of ​​the municipality covers 30.4 km ². 5.55 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

  • Dürnkrut ( 1772)
  • Waidendorf ( 503)

The municipality comprises the cadastral Dürnkrut and Waidendorf.

Neighboring communities

Dürnkrut has six Austrian neighboring communities, as well as one that is in Slovakia:

  • Municipality Zistersdorf (11 miles)
  • Market town of Angern an der March (8 km)
  • Market town Jedenspeigen (3 km)
  • Market town Ebenthal (5 km)
  • Market town Drösing (12 miles)
  • Market town Velm - Götzdorf (6 km)
  • Gajary (Slovakia ) ( ~ 6 km )

History

Dürnkrut

1045 Dürnkrut was created with its castle as a frontier settlement. In a property list of Freising Monastery from 1160 Dürnkrut is first mentioned. The Battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen on August 26, 1278 between the Bohemian King Ottokar II Przemysl and the Habsburg Rudolph I apply after the Battle of Hastings as the second largest battle of knights in history. It ended with the victory of Habsburg, Otakar II was killed trying to escape. In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place told the eventful history of Austria.

Although Dürnkrut is known due to the battle, there are already finds from the Stone Age. These tools are manufactured from Homo erectus and about 800 000 years old, and are in the museum in Dürnkrut issued.

In April 2006, broke out in the wake of the Thaya-March 2006 flood, a dam, then also the place was flooded and originated catastrophic damage.

Waidendorf

Waidendorf is about 2 km south of Dürnkrut along the country roads 11 and 17 Waidendorf heard since 1970, the commune Dürnkrut at which time it was decided by voting. 1952, the present-day street names were introduced. Waidendorf lies at the eastern exit of the Sulzbach valley and has an area of 10.67 km ². The history of the place is very similar to Dürnkrut because the two villages are close together. The town was founded at the time of the German conquest in the years 1040-1050.

The plant Waidendorfs as street village can also include, in addition to a medieval foundation. The first time it was mentioned in documents in 1250. In 1369 Waidendorf reached by Alber of Ottenstein in the possession of Otto von Zelking, in 1376 by ​​Otto von Zelking to his cousin Henry of Zelking, who sold it in 1385 to Henry Pott village. In 1423 Georg von Dachberg Waidendorf handed over to the dominion of the owner of Wolkersdorf.

In 1583 Waidendorf came into the possession of Baron Sigmund von Landau, who held the reigns Dürnkrut, Süssenbrunn, Ebenthal, Rodaun and Höflein. Although the family Landau had to give up in 1621 as a Protestant all her possessions to the Imperial Court Chamber, Waidendorf remained the property of the respective Dürnkruter rule.

Under Emperor Joseph II Waidendorf became an independent parish in 1783. According to the government decree, the two places in the church today Velm - Götzdorf were assigned to the parish Waidendorf.

When a cholera epidemic in the years 1842 and 1855, 60 people including 11 children died. On November 24, 1878 a new school was opened which now serves as a nursery and is situated on the Waidendorferhauptstrasse. In 1886, the volunteer fire department Waidendorf was founded, which still has its firehouse at Sulzbach.

The census of 1934 showed 823 residents, who also carried out livestock census yielded 93 horses, 417 cattle, 480 pigs and 230 goats. At the last census in 2001 Waidendorf had only 532 inhabitants.

Population

Demographics

Source: Population Development of Statistics Austria, the largest number of inhabitants had Dürnkrut 1951 with 2,802 inhabitants.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Herbert belly, Deputy Mayor Rudolf Kaiser, office manager Horst Tatzber.

In the market there are a total of 21 council seats after the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, the following distribution of seats: 12 SPÖ, ÖVP 8, FPÖ 1

Culture and sights

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001, 71 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 46 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census 978 The employment rate in 2001 was 45.17 percent.

Until about 1980 there was a large sugar factory, which was closed a few years after the merger with 2 other Lower Austrian factories. Thus, the number of jobs declined markedly; the plants were only partially put to a new use.

Today, among the larger companies:

  • The Instantina food factory
  • The Raiffeisen Warehouse
  • The large mill Leopold Hoffmann KG
  • The plumbing and roofing Poell
  • The trading companies Billa and AWI
  • Erste Bank and Raiffeisen Bank
  • Each two construction companies, electrical and transport companies
  • In the village there are also four doctors and a pharmacy.

The closest

Train

Dürnkrut is located on the northern runway and thus has a good connection to Vienna. Almost hourly direct train ÖBB between Břeclav or Bernhardsthal and Vienna, and vice versa.

Road connections

  • Amber Road B49 of Angern - Hohenau
  • Mistletoe Straße B40 of Zistersdorf
  • Country road 11 or 17 after Waidendorf

With buses there is a connection between Bach and mistletoe Dürnkrut and between Gaenserndorf and Dürnkrut.

Educational institutions

  • Kindergarten
  • Elementary school
  • New middle school and new Music School

Historical Maps

  • Dürnkrut in the land survey in 1873

The Marc Hebene east of Dürnkrut was directly accessible from the bridge to Gayring

To the west of Dürnkrut are forest village and the community Velm - Götzdorf

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