Lanzenkirchen

  • ÖVP: 11
  • SPÖ: 11
  • FPÖ: 1

Lanz churches is a market town with 3861 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013 ) in the industrial district of Lower Austria, Wiener Neustadt-Land in the district.

  • 2.1 Origin of Place Names
  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 3.2 Religion

Geography

Lanz churches lies at the interface of the Regions Steinfeld, thermal region and hunchback world, at the foot of the Rosalia Mountains. By Lanz churches flowing the Leitha, which arises at the Leitha - origin by the confluence of Pitten and Schwarza in the district Haderswörth, and the channel Mühlbach.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following five villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Frohsdorf ( 1120)
  • Haderswörth (914 )
  • Kleinwolkersdorf (802 )
  • Lanz Churches ( 762 )
  • Ofenbach (216 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Frohsdorf, Haderswörth, Kleinwolkersdorf, Lanz churches and Ofenbach. f1 map with all coordinates: OSM, Google and Bing

Frohsdorf ( 8.96 km2) Haderswörth ( 3.22 km2) Kleinwolkersdorf (4.49 km2) Lanzenkirchen ( 3.69 km2) Ofenbach ( 9.44 km2)

Frohsdorf (D)

Haderswörth (D)

Kleinwolkersdorf (D)   Lanz churches (M)   Ofenbach (D)

History

Before Christ's birth, the area was part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the area of the Celtic hillfort castle on the Schwarzenbacher Castle Hill.

Later, under the Romans, the churches today Lanz was then in the province of Pannonia.

In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying, the place told the eventful history of Austria.

The Lords of Lanz churches took their name from their ancestral home, the celebrations Lanz churches.

Origin of Place Names

For the place names the following declarations find:

  • Lanz churches:
  • Frohsdorf:
  • Haderswörth:
  • Kleinwolkersdorf:
  • Ofenbach:
  • Föhrenau:

Population

Demographics

Religion

According to the data of the 2001 census, 81.1 % of the population Roman Catholic, 3.9% are Protestant. 3.4% are Muslim, 0.9% are members of Orthodox Churches. 9.5% of the population has no religious affiliation.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Bernhard Karnthaler, Deputy Mayor Heather Lamberg and Office Manager Otto Haindl.

In the council there after the elections on 14 March 2010, where a total of 23 seats following distribution of seats: People's Party team Lanzenkirchen 11, Social Democratic Party 11, and the FPÖ 1

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church of St. Nicholas with cemetery and parsonage
  • Marian column, later expanded in the base as a war memorial, on the main square
  • Farmers' Museum with thatched granary on Main Street 5
  • Filialkirche Föhrenau
  • Castle Frohsdorf
  • Fire Museum, next to the castle
  • Local chapel, built in 1900
  • Oven Bacher Mountain Church
  • Reisinger Chapel

Others

In Lanzenkirchen the case of a meteorite was observed on August 28, 1925 two pieces of this stone meteorites are in the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

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