Grafenwörth

Grafenwörth is a market town with 3016 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Tulln in Lower Austria.

Geography

Grafenwörth located west of Vienna at Tulln western field north of the Danube in Lower Austria. The place is located on a tributary of the Kamp into the Danube. In the north, the municipality share of Wagram.

The area of ​​the municipality covers 46.4 square kilometers. 19.06 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

  • Fire Brunn (568)
  • Grafenwörth ( 1248 )
  • Jettsdorf (341)
  • Seebarn am Wagram ( 328)
  • St. John (187 )
  • Wagram Wagram (349)

The municipality comprises the cadastral fire Brunn, Grafenwörth, Jettsdorf, Seebarn am Wagram, St. Johann and Wagram Wagram.

History

In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place informed the eventful history of Austria.

In 2002 Grafenwörth was hit by devastating floods in 2002 Danube. In the south of the Danube urged its banks and flooded from the north of the Kamp site.

Population Development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 2615 inhabitants. In 1991, the market town of 2404 inhabitants, 1981 and 2238 in 1971, 2280 inhabitants.

Twinning

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural workplaces, there were 84 in 2001, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 181 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 1242. The employment rate in 2001 was 48.64 percent.

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church of St. Andreas
  • See also List of the listed objects in Grafenwörth

Personalities

  • Conrad of the foot wells, sacred poet of the Middle Ages, first documented in 1182 occupied
  • Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt (1718-1801), outstanding Baroque painter ( late Baroque / Rococo )
  • Wilhelm Eder (1780-1866), abbot, politicians
  • Karl Pippich (1862-1932), genre, landscape and military painter
  • E. W. Emo (1898-1975), Film Director
  • Maria Grausenburger (1901-1973), farmer and war widow, lived in Grafenwörth and took the end of 1944 a Hungarian Jewish refugee family with him on; honored by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Righteous Among the Nations, in 2010 her a monument was erected in Grafenwörth.
  • Anton Fellner (1927-1997), journalist and Secretary-General of the Vienna Diocesan Synod
  • Alfred Riedl ( born 1952 ), politician, mayor of Grafenwörth (since 1990)
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