Hollabrunn

Hollabrunn is the district capital of the district of Hollabrunn in western wine district in Lower Austria with 11,616 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The name of the city ( " Holerbrunen " ) is derived from Holler ( Elderberry ) and wells.

• 3.1 Demographics

• 5.1 Public bodies 5.1.1 offices and authorities
• 5.1.2 schools
• 5.1.3 Health
• 5.1.4 safety

• 6.1 Structures

• 8.1 freeman
• 8.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The city is located immediately west of Hollabrunn Ernstbrunner forest in the valley of the brook Goeller in the wine district in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality comprises 152.3 square kilometers. 32.07 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 22 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

Altenmarkt im Thale ( 133) Aspersdorf ( 395) Breitenwaida ( 778 ), Dieter village (174) Eggendorf im Thale ( 147) Grossenzersdorf im Thale (206) Large ( 112) Hollabrunn ( 6797 ), Clover Village (85 ), Kleinkadolz (124 ), Small Stelzendorf (87) Kleinstetteldorf (132) Magersdorf ( 445 ) Mariathal (103) Oberfellabrunn (287 ), Puch (97 ), Raschala ( 319) Sun mountain ( 598), Suttenbrunn (190 ), Weyer castle (111) Wieselsfeld (106) Wolf Brunn (63 )

History

The city and its surrounding areas have already been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The first written mention of Hollabrunn carried out in a deed of the year 1135 in the Marquis Diepoldsberg III. Vohburg of a Bavarian monastery a donation of " seven basic Holden and three vineyards " made ​​. This document also includes a Wilvolvisdorf at Hollabrunn is mentioned. It is believed that this is a settlement in the area Hofmühle and Lothringerplatz that has united later with Hollabrunn ( settlement in the area Wiener Straße ).

As of 1288 the village name Oberhollabrunn ( Hollabrunn superior) was used to distinguish Niederhollabrunn. The rule at that time were those of the men of Sun Mountain, the parish Hollabrunn founded in 1220 and awarded to the place before 1377 the market rights. Because of the Bohemian King John 1336 Hollabrunn devastated, the parish church had to be rebuilt.

When the Sonnberger impoverished in the 14th century, the gentlemen exchanged in the aftermath very often until it passed the mid-16th century to the gender of Gilleis. From about 1530, the place was a staging post on the route Vienna - Prague. Under George of Gilleis got Hollabrunn 1565 the market crest still used today, in 1574 the market privilege was renewed.

During the Reformation, the population was predominantly Lutheran. 1662 took over the Dietrichsteiner dominion over the place and promoted the Counter-Reformation. 1667 Capuchin monastery was built by Joseph II abolished 1783. In 1683 the King of Poland Jan Sobieski and his troops by Hollabrunn.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was in 1805 the scene of a battle. Hollabrunn is therefore also mentioned on the inscription at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Even in 1809 it came near the village to fighting between Austrians and the French.

On May 31, 1824 Savings Bank was founded, which is one of the oldest in Austria. After the revolution of 1848, district authorities were built for the 1872 opened South-North German railway was built connecting a railway station in Hollabrunn. 1875 was the site of a hospital.

1908, the market has been charged with " its regulated community structures and its significant upturn " to the city and in 1928 finally renamed from Oberhollabrunn in Hollabrunn.

From 1902 to 1938 there was a Jewish community Hollabrunn.

Population

Demographics

Policy

Mayor of Erwin Bernreiter, office manager Franz Stockinger. In the council there after the municipal elections in 2010 for a total of 37 seats following distribution of seats: 23 ÖVP, SPÖ 9, FPÖ 4, Green 1

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001 555, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 294 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 4868. A large proportion of the urban population commutes regularly to Vienna. The employment rate in 2001 was 47.14 percent.

Among the biggest companies in Hollabrunn the potato processors Frisch & Frost belongs foods GmbH.

Public institutions

Agencies and public authorities

• District Commission
• Tax Office
• District court
• Survey Office
• Northeast agricultural authority (branch )
• Employment Service
• District Office Chamber of Commerce
• District Office of Labour
• Bezirksbauernkammer

Train

Today Hollabrunn is primarily a college town. The roots of this tradition were placed by the founding of the school in 1865 and the Archbishop's Seminary in 1881. There are also several university courses and college degree programs ( in cooperation with the Hamburger Fern -Hochschule ).

• 2 elementary schools ( church square: VS 1, Koliskoplatz: VS 2)
• Special Education Centre
• Euro - secondary school Hollabrunn
• Main School ( Special Education School )
• Polytechnic School
• Commercial trade schools for butchers, hairdressers, dressmakers
• Agricultural College
• Grammar school and high school building of the Archdiocese of Vienna (since 1974)
• Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium (since 1865)
• Federal College of Business Administration
• Technical college
• Higher Technical School of Food Technology
• Bundeshandelsakademie and Bundeshandelsschule
• School for general health and medical care at a hospital ö Hollabrunn
• Walter Lehner Music School ( since 1974)
• 5 Department of the College of Education for Lower Austria (since October 2007)
• University Centre Hollabrunn

Health

• Landesklinikum wine district Hollabrunn
• Nursing home
• Red Cross regional office Hollabrunn

Security

• District Fire Command Hollabrunn

Culture and sights

Structures

On the main square, a pillar was erected in 1681 with a statue of Mary, in 1713 it was four statues of saints (Sebastian, Roch, Francis Xavier, John of Nepomuk ) expanded. In addition, the built in 1862 Florianibrunnen is with a cast-iron statue of St. Florian.

The St. Ulrich parish church consecrated goes back to a Romanesque building which was built in 1160 and enlarged in the 13th century to the east. After the destruction ( 1336 ) it was rebuilt in Gothic style and Baroque style in the 17th century. 1823 Baroque high altar was removed, in 1880, the current neo-Gothic main altar was erected. To the parish church was a cemetery that was in 1784. Some grave plates were attached to the outer wall of the church.

The branch church in the garden city was built from 1970 to 1972, the glass window wall on the east side created Franz Deed, the mosaic on the exterior wall is from Hermann belly.

The Old Hofmühle was originally a manor house and was later used as a mill. In the courtyard, a Baroque shrine of the 17th century was erected in 1974. Today the Old Hofmühle serves as a museum as well as a venue.

Architects have Hollabrunn is known by the 1972 by Ottokar Uhl planned with participation of residents row houses on the river promenade.

A curiosity is the so-called Pinkel stone in the adjacent and belonging to the community Raschala. The name comes from a legend that says that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to be with one of his trips to Prague "business" work done on this stone. This stone is held every year the famous " Ring Around the Rosy on Pinkel stone " instead.

Twinning

Hollabrunn is twinned with the following cities:

• People's Republic of China Jinhua (China)
• Kyjov Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
• Holic Slovakia (Slovakia )

Personalities

Freeman

• Angerer, Eduard (1816-1898), Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Vienna
• Coachman Otto (1867-1952), Vice- Mayor of Hollabrunn
• Adolf Gal (1816-1884), district captain
• August Edler von Gschmeidler (1823-1906), council, savings bank head
• Eduard Adolf Freiherr -law of Hohenbruck (1862-1909), district captain
• Konrad Maria Eusebius of Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst of Ratibor and Corvey (1863-1918), Prime Minister
• Hans Kny (1851-1918), director of the high school
• Rudolf Kolisko (1859-1942), Mayor, Member of the Lower Austrian provincial parliament
• Rapf Anton (1833-1903), Savings Bank Director, Mayor
• Franz Reuckl (1844-1908), rector of the seminary, savings bank head
• Schirnböck Ferdinand (1859-1930), academic painter
• Josef Veigl (1806-1866), Militärgeograf
• Leopold Waber (1875-1945), Vice-Chancellor, interior, education and justice ministers
• Felix Ritter von Winiwarter (1852-1931), surgeon and primary at the Municipal Hospital

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ehrenreich Weismann (1641-1717), Protestant General Superintendent and author of Latin Dictionaries
• Jerome Übelbacher (1674-1740), provost of Dürnstein
• Felix Ritter von Luschan (1854-1924), ethnologist and prehistorians
• Schirnböck Ferdinand (1859-1930), academic painter
• Josef Bayer (1882-1931), archaeologist
• Mary Jordan (1893-1955), poet
• Erwin Ringel (1921-1994), Professor of Medical Psychology, founder of the " International Association for Suicide Prevention " ( IASP )
• Erich Benedini (1931-2005), composer of light music, arranger, music publisher, lyricist, and producer
• Rudolf Gehring (* 1948), politician of the CPOE
• Erich Wessner (* 1948), tenor at the Vienna Staatsoper ( State Opera Chorus )
• Margarete Aburumieh (* 1951), politician
• Brinek Gertrude (* 1952), politician
• Hermes Phettberg ( b. 1952 ), artist and talk show host
• Regina Fritsch (born 1964), actress at the Burgtheater in the movies and on TV
• Dominic Heinzl (born 1964 ), television presenter and entrepreneur
• Werner Auer (born 1965 ), Director of the rock Staatz, singer, musical author, comedian, presenter, songwriter, director
• Leopold Leeb SVD (* 1967) sinologist, Latinist and a professor at Renmin University in Beijing
• Peter Buchta (* 1971), actor
• Markus Suttner (* 1987), football player