Kalksburg

The independent municipality until 1938 Kalksburg is now a part of the 23rd district of Vienna Liesing and one of the 89 Vienna Katastralgemeinden.

The name is derived from Chalbsperger, at times the town also Calf Mountain, Kalksdorf and Kadoltsperg was called.

Geography

Today's cadastral Kalksburg occupies an area of 375.7 hectares.

The village lies on the edge of the southern Vienna Woods, near the Natural Park Föhrenberge and the Lainzer Tiergarten. The Breitenfurterstraße ( by Kalksburg also part of the B 13) connects the Meidling, Liesing and width ford crosses the center, Kalksburg Church Square.

The forest and meadow area in the northwest part of the southern Kalksburgs flysch zone, the one in the northeast to Frankenfels ceiling of the Northern Limestone Alps. The area in between along the goodness of Bach as well as the built-up area of the village is expected to geological epoch of the Holocene.

History

In 1188 the family of " Chalbsberger " was first mentioned. The Viennese citizens Hospital - Forest south of Liesing between Kalksburg and Breitenfort was first mentioned in 1289 and was one of the economic foundations of the hospital. He is the first documented for the Vienna Bürgerspitalswald.

At the beginning of the 14th century possessed the Walseer the Drossendorf line over Kalksburg. The Kalksburg castle was destroyed in 1463 in an attack by Viennese citizens. In 1683 the city during the Second Siege of Vienna was severely affected.

The Jesuits, who had 1609 in possession of the manorial system in Kalksburg, they lost in 1773 because of religious annulment. Together with the rule of Wall Kalksburg the rule has now been withdrawn by the state administration, and in 1790 the kk Hofjuwelier Franz Mack sold. Mack, who had his residence in Kalksburg Let there a number of buildings, including the parish church " to St. Peter in Chains ," erect. Franz Mack is considered a benefactor of Kalksburg. 1805 Kalksburg was collected for independent parish.

Was Kalksburg so far been economically dependent on forestry, came in the 19th century, tourism added as the second economic factor. 1861 a community leader was elected to Kalksburg first time. In 1856, the Jesuits returned to Kalksburg and founded the College Kalksburg, a still existing private Catholic school.

In 1909, the trolley bus between Liesing and Kalksburg was opened. On October 15, 1938, the previously independent Lower Austrian community part of the newly formed district of Vienna Liesing. In 1951, at the last carried out in the formerly independent municipality census, the village had 1063 inhabitants. Today about 2,000 people live in Kalksburg (as of 2001).

Culture and sights

The present parish church Kalksburg is a 1801 finished, neo-classical building according to the plans of the Tyrolean architect Johann Baptist sable. The location Kalksburgs Wienerwald is local picture formative. From the center starting leads since the late Middle Ages the stretch of road in the Klausen through the forest towards the wall. Here are a probably built in the second half of the 18th century former coaching inn, many apartment buildings of the 19th century, and the former Mack'sche Foundation House, which was built in the late 18th century and is now used as a forester's house of Vienna.

On Kalksburger cemetery in the east part of the district centers include the graves of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Otto Edelmann and Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel.

Kalksburg completely belongs to the biosphere reserve Wienerwald, divided on its core areas, and development zone. The forest and meadow areas of Dorotheerwalds and Eichkogel - Zugberg Ridge are part of the Protected Landscape Area Liesing. Separately recognized as a natural monument, the sky meadow with its rare plants and animal species, geological rock outcrop above the Kalksburger cemetery and a wild pear tree at the Jägerweggasse.

Economy and infrastructure

With some six hectares of vines Kalksburg one of the Viennese wine regions. The place is also known for a reputable treatment center for alcohol or other narcotics addicts, the Anton Proksch Institute. Furthermore, located in Kalksburg a Hildegardis house of Caritas Socialis, which is housed in a castle -like building built around 1800.

Personalities

• Emil Hochreiter (1872-1938), composer and teacher at Jesuit High School