Eggenburg

  • ÖVP: 16
  • SPÖ: 6
  • FPÖ: 1

Eggenberg castle is a town with 3513 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Horn in Lower Austria.

  • 3.1 Demographics

Geography

Eggenberg castle is located on the eastern edge of the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 23.52 square kilometers. 11.59 percent of the area is forested.

Eggenberg castle and its districts have the postcode 3730th

Neighboring communities

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following four localities ( in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Eggenberg Castle ( 3023 )
  • Angel Village (107 )
  • Gauderndorf (100 )
  • Stoitzendorf (262 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Eggenburg, angel village, Gauderndorf, Stoitzendorf and Stoitzendorf Heath.

History

Even in prehistoric times was the granite plateau above the Schmida on which Eggenburg founded inhabited from the Neolithic Age. The birth of the city is to be recognized in the Babenberg ( 976-1246 ). After the turn of the millennium Lower Austria was up to the north woods - today's Waldviertel - populated. To secure this area the fortified border town harrows castle was built around 1160/70 already with market function. The first documented mentions of Eginpurch are from the 12th century. In strife Premysl Ottokar with Rudolf von Habsburg is Eggenburg struck the side of the Habsburg, whereupon this on August 13, 1277 the city renewed the city rights.

A disastrous fire in 1808 has led to a decline of the city. The construction of the Franz Josef Railway 1870 Eggenburg was reached from Vienna in two hours. The population increased again, and with the initiative of the garden city of the merchant Franz Gamerith was a city extension.

Population

Demographics

Policy

Mayor of is Willibald Jordan, chief officer Gerhard cedar.

The council has 23 seats. Since the municipal elections on March 14, 2010 are the following distribution of seats: 16 ÖVP, SPÖ and FPÖ 6 1

Attractions

  • Church of St. Stephan: Romanesque towers, gothic ship
  • Karner: Ossuary, already mentioned in 1299, the superstructure was demolished in 1792, was found by excavation
  • Redemptoristenkloster
  • Martin Chapel with Civil Hospital: with grave stone collection
  • City wall The city wall has almost completely and partially accessible
  • Main course: Generous main square and pentagonal Grätzel with Gothic gabled, pillory, Martin Fountain, St. Mary's Column, Baroque plague column
  • Sgraffitohaus: Sgraffitomalereien from 1547
  • John of Nepomuk Statue
  • Krahuletz Museum: existing since 1902 museum with geological, prehistoric and ethnographic collections
  • Rollipop Museum: the Rollipop Museum exhibits some unusual small cars from the past
  • Vogelsang mill: a baroque manor

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Economy

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001 189, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 60 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 1608. The employment rate in 2001 was 45.13 percent.

Regional cooperation: The municipality Eggenburg is a member of the small region Manhart mountain.

Traffic

The Retzer road ( B35 ) leads from Krems by Eggenburg to over Retz addition to the Czech border and crosses the city in a north-south direction. Another regionally important road link is the Waldviertel road (B2 ), which connects Eggenburg with horn and Hollabrunn. The city is the starting point and destination of the various local bus operator ÖBB -Postbus.

Also, the Franz Josef Railway runs through Eggenburg. The ÖBB operate the same station Eggenburg, the. Commuters, particularly with target Tulln on the Danube and Vienna, an essential node is

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

  • Ines Anger- Koch ( born 1971 ), Austrian politician (ÖVP ) and member of the Vienna City Council
  • Hannes Bauer ( born 1941 ), Austrian politician ( SPÖ) and the National
  • Friedl Fürnberg (1902-1978), General Secretary of the Communist Party
  • Reichardt Fux (1654-1699), Austrian master stonemason and judges in the imperial quarry at Leithaberg
  • Walter Gamerith (1903-1949), Austrian painter
  • Adam Haresleben (1627-1683), architect of the Cathedral in 1654 at St. Stephen's in Vienna, 1656 and 1677 chief board of the Vienna Bauhütte, born in Kühnring at Eggenburg
  • Hans Georg Haresleben (1671-1716), stonemason in the Imperial quarry, born in Kühnring at Eggenburg
  • Born Thomas Haresleben (1673-1733), architect of the Cathedral at St. Stephen's in Vienna, chief of the Wiener Bauhütte in Kühnring at Eggenburg
  • Franz was born (1641-1675), Austrian master stonemason, in Eggenburg
  • Stefan Higatzberger (* 1965 ), Austrian handball player and sports managers
  • Georg Andreas Högl (1714-1780), stonemason and sculptor, chief of the Wiener Bauhütte
  • Johann Caspar Högl (1701-1776), stonemason and sculptor
  • Elisabeth Kerschbaum (* 1966), Austrian politician of the Green Party and Federal Councillor
  • Matthias Knox (1645-1688), architect of the Cathedral in 1683 at St. Stephen's at Vienna, 1674/1686 chief board of the Vienna Bauhütte, born in Kühnring at Eggenburg
  • Johann Krahuletz (1848-1928), Austrian researchers primeval
  • Charles Borromeo Landsteiner (1835-1909), an Austrian Catholic theologian, was born in the district Stoitzendorf.
  • Johann Marihart ( born 1950 ), manager and CEO of AGRANA
  • Barbara Neuwirth (born 1958 ), Austrian writer
  • Karl Petrikovics ( born May 20, 1954), former CEO of IMMOFINANZ
  • Tobias Schopf (* 1985), Austrian handball player
  • Norbert Silberbauer (1959-2008), Austrian writer
  • Burkhard Stangl (* 1960 ), Austrian musician
  • Andreas Steinböck (1665-1740), Mayor, stonemason and sculptor
  • Veith Steinböck (1656-1713), architect of the Cathedral in 1695 at St. Stephen's at Vienna, 1683/1684 chief board of the Vienna Bauhütte
  • Wolfgang Steinböck (1650-1708), Mayor, stonemason and sculptor
  • Johann Michael Strickner (1720-1782), stonemason and judges in the imperial quarry
  • Maria Teschler - Nicola ( born 1950 ), Austrian anthropologist and human biologist
  • Johann Zelebor (1819-1869), Austrian naturalist, zoologist and illustrator
  • Gunter Ziegler ( b. 1949 ), Austrian actor

People with relationship to the city:

  • Eggenburger Brotherhood, from 1629 independent guild Association of stonemasons and sculptors
  • Degasperi Ernst (1927-2011), Austrian artist, created the Art House - House of Peace in Eggenburg
  • Johann Högl Gallus (1664-1719), Austrian master stonemason, lived and died in Eggenburg
  • Eduard Kranner (1893-1977), Austrian writer and Nazi mayor of Eggenburg
  • Josef Naderer (1906-1965), Austrian politician (ÖVP ) and wine wholesaler, from 1934 to 1938 Vice- Mayor of Eggenburg
  • Arnulf Neuwirth (1912-2012), Austrian artist who lived in Eggenburg
  • Reinhart Heinrich (* 1927), Austrian physician and local historian, lives in Eggenburg
  • Fritz F. Steininger ( b. 1939 ), Austrian geologist and paleontologist, chairman of the Krahuletz Society
  • Angela Stifft - Gottlieb (1881-1941), Austrian Prähistorikerin, led the Krahuletzmuseum
  • Johann Baptist Stoeger (1810-1883), a lay brother and Seliger of the Roman Catholic Church, buried in Eggenburg
  • Werner Vasicek ( b. 1939 ), Austrian local historian and paleontologist, former curator of the Museum Krahuletz
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