Großweikersdorf

Großweikersdorf is a market town in the district of Tulln in Lower Austria, Austria with 3065 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Großweikersdorf located in the southern wine district at the output of the Valley of Schmida in the field Tulln in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 43.32 square kilometers. 8.54 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipal area covers seven villages (in brackets population as at 31 October 2011):

  • Ameistal (146)
  • Baumgarten am Wagram ( 193)
  • Großweikersdorf ( 1667)
  • Großwiesendorf (270 )
  • Kleinwiesenhart village (183 )
  • Ruppersthal (430 )
  • Tiefthal (156 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Ameisthal, Baumgarten am Wagram, Großweikersdorf, Großwiesendorf, Small Wiesdorf Ruppersthal and deep valley.

Policy

  • Mayor of the municipality is Leopold Auer game, chief officer Ferdinand Huber.
  • In the market there are a total of 21 council seats after the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, the following distribution of seats: 11 ÖVP, FPÖ 6, SPÖ 4, no other seats.

Population Development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 2786 inhabitants. In 1991, the market town of 2653 inhabitants, 1981 and 2555 in 1971, 2627 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

  • Fischer von Erlach church: The parish church Großweikersdorf was built according to plans by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach from 1733 to 1740 in the style of early classicism under the leadership of the Austrian architect Johann Baptist Martinelli. Thus, this church is ( in addition to the continued construction of the Church of St. Charles and the parish church of Safov in South Moravia) one of the three sacred buildings of the famous architect " Fischer von Erlach the Younger ". The parish church of St. George Großweikersdorfer has the third highest church tower in Lower Austria, which was due to lack of money, however, only around 100 years later, completed in neo- baroque style according to plans by Leopold Ernst, who was also architect of the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna. Even the ornate late baroque Tabernakelaufbau was made to a design by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach. The high altarpiece martyrdom and glorification of Saint George originated by Martino Altomonte, the right side altar bridge fall of the Holy Nepomuk by Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt ( 1749) and the left altarpiece Saint Ivo of Chartres comes from Carl Aigen from the school of Paul Troger (1740 ). Against this left altarpiece is a replica of the miraculous image of the Madonna Brno (1730 ), which was the financier of the Church, Adrian Wenzel Graf Enckevoirt ( 1660-1738 ), donated. Before the church there is a created by Johann Adam Kuehn, artfully executed wrought iron gate of 1740.
  • The holy theater showing the Deposition of Christ with holy women and St. John in a rock grotto, was created by a member of the family of artists Galli da Bibbiena, for a time of Maria Theresa known scene painter family. From this kind of saint theater, there are only a few in Austria.
  • The late Baroque pulpit with Baldachinbekrönung comes from Jacob computing countries ( 1758).
  • The baptismal font from 1725 native was created by the sculptor Johann Georg Eggenburger polluters marble.
  • A stone plaque showing the relief of the born on 16 February 1908 in Großweikersdorf and executed in Vienna on March 22, 1945 Roman Catholic priest, educator, philosopher and resistance fighter Henry Maier.

Economy

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001, 92 agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 167 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 1315. The employment rate in 2001 was 49.21 percent.

Traffic

The main town Großweikersdorf is due both to the Horner Road B4, about 18 kilometers from the Danube embankment motorway A22 to Vienna and the Stockerauer expressway S5 can be reached to Krems, and at the Franz- Josef -Bahn.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Franz Leopold Graff (1719-1779), composer
  • Ignaz Josef Pleyel (1757-1831), composer and piano manufacturer
  • Heinrich Maier (1908-1945), priest and resistance fighter
  • Erni Mangold ( * 1927), actress and director
  • Karel Hromádka (1887-1956), Czech chess player
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