Kaltenleutgeben

Kaltenleutgeben is a market town in the district of Mödling in Lower Austria with 3330 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

  • 2.1 Population development

Geography

Kaltenleutgeben located in the industrial district, in Lower Austria, in the southern Vienna Woods. 73.41 percent of the area is forested, the area of the municipality comprises 17.5 square kilometers. The community borders on the extreme southwest of the city of Vienna and is a popular recreation area of ​​the Viennese population.

The development Kaltenleutgebens is located in the Valley of droughts Liesing that flows to Perchtoldsdorf (east). The very narrow and up to 80 meters deep valley has a partially significant slope. The Kaltenleutgebener valley is due to its orography of the area south of Vienna as a fresh air corridor.

There are no other cadastral except Kaltenleutgeben.

The area of Kaltenleutgeben has been extensively studied due to its complicated geological structure in a number of geological publications.

Neighboring communities

History

In ancient times, the area was part of the province of Pannonia. In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place told the eventful history of Austria. In the course of the stream were a number of mills, whose name ( Forest Mill, Neumühlestrasse, upholsterers mill) to point out.

After Austria in 1938 connecting the city to Great Vienna was incorporated into the 25th district.

In 1954 the city became independent again and was returned to Lower Austria. As part of the On the My Dung, the municipal boundaries were redefined. Thus came a part of the Kuhheide to Gießhübl, and the rotting Wassergspreng at that neighboring community Weissenbach.

Demographics

Source: Population Development of Statistics Austria

At the beginning of 2012 Kaltenleutgeben exchanged with Perchtoldsdorf a small part of its municipal area in the size of 58 acres, which the municipal boundaries shifted somewhat. Some plots Perchtoldsdorfer Tirolerhofsiedlung were until then Kaltenleutgebener area, although residents took advantage of all the facilities of Perchtoldsdorf and not their home town. Kaltenleutgeben could not be reached on a direct path for them. Perchtoldsdorf stepped in return an equally large area from the land of the former Perlmooser AG Kaltenleutgeben.

Attractions

The parish church of St. James, 1728-29 planned and executed from 1729 to 1732, is the main work of the Baroque architect Jakob Oeckhl. He established and funded the construction after the death of his second wife as a votive offering to the birth of his son. The high altarpiece comes from the Holy Cross School to Martino Altomonte, carved from linden wood Trinity Group is Giovanni Giuliani attributed.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Josef Graf ( SPÖ). Chief officer and first deputy mayor is Peter Fuchs ( SPÖ). In the market there are a total of 21 council seats following distribution of seats: 11 SPÖ, ÖVP list 9, Green 1

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001 124, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 11 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 1403. The employment rate in 2001 was 48.93 percent.

The main operation in Kaltenleutgeben was for decades the cement factory Perlmooser that belongs to the group Lafarge, for which the picturesque village of Kaltenleutgeben and east of it as a raw material for the present there limestone ( Jurahornsteinkalk, Schrambach - Neokomaptychenschichten ) was dismantled. The operation only consists of warehouses, the core of the plant was demolished in 2012/13. For the plant and the widespread before its creation, the lime Kaltenleutgebener railway was built to the south runway after Liesing. The public operation of this line is also set, it is used only for hobby rides. Two mines coal east of the mouth of the Flösselgrabens and at the confluence of the Vienna trench of the 20th century, since the beginning set.

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

  • Joe Berger (1939-1991), poet, playwright, short story writer, journalist, actor and campaigner, member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung

Persons with respect to the site:

  • Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer, author of books about the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, lived for two years ( 1898) at the Villa Sonnhof Kaltenleutgeben
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), Polish writer, stayed from 1885 to several times as a spa guest in Kaltenleutgeben.
  • Michael Pewny ( b. 1963 ), pianist, musician, composer and economist, played between 1995 and 2000 in Kaltenleutgebener yard.
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