Japons

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  • SPÖ: 2

Japons is a market town with 743 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Horn in Lower Austria.

  • 4.1 Demographics
  • 8.1 Thumeritzer marble
  • 8.2 traffic
  • 8.3 Regional Cooperation

Geography

Japons located in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 29.37 square kilometers. 16.33 percent of the area is forested.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

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Goslarn (2.25 km ²) Japons ( 3.01 km ²) Oberthumeritz (1.89 km ²) Sabatenreith ( 4.34 km ²), Schweinburg ( 5.73 km ²) Unterthumeritz ( 5.24 km ²) Wenjapons (3.97 km ²) Zettenreith (2.93 km ²)

Goslarn (D) Japons (M) Oberthumeritz (D) Sabatenreith (D) Schweinburg (D) Unterthumeritz

Wenjapons (D) Zettenreith (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 -

Postal code

In Japons and the other places of the municipality is the postcode 3763 use. Parts of Schweinburg have the postcode 3814th

Coat of arms and flag

By decision of the Government of Lower Austria on 18 July 1978, the community received Japons awarded a coat of arms. His Blazon: "Divided and split up, up right in black a golden fire-breathing from the shields division growing upright Panther, top left in gold, two black erect scythes, geschacht down three times from green to red. " The church colors are green - yellow-black.

Population

Demographics

1,356

History

In the cadastral Oberthumeritz and Unterthumeritz finds from the Neolithic period have been made.

Japons was mentioned in a document in 1336 as Chinjapons ( Kirchjapons ). In the same year they were first written reference to the cadastral Zettenreith. In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place told the eventful history of Austria. In Unterthumeritz a castle was mentioned in 1386. Around 1620 Japons was hard hit by the Thirty Years War affected.

In several quarries south of Unterthumeritz the Thumeritzer marble was won in the 19th and budding 20th century.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Karl Braun Steiner, head of department Beatrix Dworak. In the market there are local council after the local elections in 2010 with a total of 15 seats following distribution of seats:

Culture and sights

The parish church of the holy Laurenz Japons located in an elevated position. It is a simple baroque building with original Gothic elements. In the church there are oil paintings by Johann Jakob Zeiller. The local chapels of Oberthumeritz, Unterthumeritz, Wenjapons and Zettenreith date from the second half of the 18th century.

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001 19, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 90 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census 342 The employment rate in 2001 was 44.23 percent.

Thumeritzer marble

In the quarries south of Unterthumeritz the Thumeritzer marble was mined.

Traffic

The bus company PostBus moves to Japons and its districts on several stops of the line in 1312 ( Horn Schweinburg ). The nearest railway ÖBB is Irnfritz at the Franz - Josef -Bahn.

Regional Cooperation

The market town Japons is a member of the small region Taffa -Thaya- game.

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