Eckartsau
Eckartsau is a market town with 1186 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district Gaenserndorf in Lower Austria.
- 3.1 Population development
Geography
Eckartsau located in the southern March Field in Lower Austria, on the edge of the National Park Donau-Auen in the wine district. The area of the municipality covers 48.97 square kilometers. 24.53 percent of the area is forested.
Community structure
Eckartsau ( 19.81 km ²) Kopfstetten ( 5.64 km ²) Pframa (5.49 km ²) Wagram an der Donau (5.70 km ²) Witzelsdorf ( 12.34 km ²)
Eckartsau (M) Kopfstetten (D) Pframa (D) Wagram an der Donau (D) Witzelsdorf (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 town 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 - List of Lower Austria (PDF)
Neighboring communities
History
Already in 1180 the place is called as Ekkartsovve. Today's large community Eckartsau was formed in 1971 from the two market towns Eckartsau and Witzelsdorf and the three village communities Kopfstetten, Pframa and Wagram an der Donau. Wagram an der Donau, formerly Croatian -Wagram, was created by Croats settlement after the Turkish invasion of 1529th The Sanctuary Kopfstetten was first documented in 1233 mentioned as Chopstetten. Pframa dokumentlich was called for the first time as Fruhmanaha already in 1025 and is one of the oldest towns in the March field. Witzelsdorf was probably known as early as 1083 Wizilinesdorf.
From the Marchegger Eastern Railway, now as once part of one of the rail connections Vienna - Bratislava, branched long time when Untersiebenbrunn - Leopold village station from a wing rail to Engelhartstetten who had a station in Kopfstetten. From this latter traveled Emperor Charles I of Eckartsau Coming in March 1919 with the kk Court train into exile in Switzerland from.
Policy
In the market there are a total of 19 council seats after the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, the following distribution of seats: 14 ÖVP, SPÖ 5, no other seats.
Mayor of the municipality is Rudolf Makoschitz currently is no office manager operates.
Population Development
According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 1179 inhabitants. In 1991, the market town of 1140 inhabitants, 1981 and 1046 in 1971, 1093 inhabitants.
Economy and infrastructure
Non-agricultural workplaces, there were 36 in 2001, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 93 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census 514 The employment rate in 2001 was 45.46 percent.
Culture and sights
- Eckartsau: originally a castle, converted into a hunting lodge; the Imperial hunting lodge Eckartsau was the last domestic residence of Emperor Charles I after his renunciation of any share in the affairs of state of 11 November 1918. Located near the Danube wetlands in Eckartsau.
Personalities
Freeman
- Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), in 2008, Otto von Habsburg was the honorary citizenship bestowed again, after they had been in 1934 once bestowed on him, but this was revoked after the Anschluss in 1938 by the Nazis.
Sports
In the 2006/2007 season the first team of the SCG Eckartsau champion in the 2nd class field was March.