Leobendorf

Leoben village is a market town with 4782 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district Korneuburg in Lower Austria.

• 3.1 Demographics

• 7.1 traffic

Geography

Leoben village is situated in the wine district in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 29.96 square kilometers. 18.72 percent of the area is forested. Much of the forest is formed by the tube forest.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following four localities ( in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):

• Leoben village ( 2783 )
• Oberrohrbach ( 822)
• Tresdorf (721)
• Under Rohrbach ( 455 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral village Leoben, Oberrohrbach Tresdorf and sub- Rohrbach.

History

In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place informed the eventful history of Austria. The Cross Stone castle is located in the district of Leoben village. In Unterrohrbach finds were made from the Lower Palaeolithic, around 800,000 units year-old boulders of Homo erectus.

Since 2006 Leoben village is a member of the Regional Development Association 10 before Vienna.

Population

Demographics

Leoben village has 2,783, Tresdorf 721, 822 and Oberrohrbach Unterrohrbach 455 inhabitants (as at 31 October 2011).

Religions

In Oberrohrbach the foundation was laid for a new branch church and consecrated by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn on the name Church of Divine Mercy on October 21, 2007. The church was designed by the Austrian architect shear Mann & Stolfa and is currently (2012 ) the most recent church of the Archdiocese of Vienna.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Karl down. In the market there are local council after the local elections in 2010 with a total of 25 seats following distribution of seats: 14 ÖVP, SPÖ 7, Green 3, Freedom Party 1 seat

The final results of the municipal elections in Detail:

Attractions

• Castle Cross Stone: ' Kreuzenstein Castle ' was a medieval castle from the period 1100-1200. Today, in its place is a show castle of the same name, which was built in the years 1874-1906.

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural workplaces there were in 2001 144, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 60 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 2026. The employment rate in 2001 was 48.92 percent.

Traffic

Leoben village:

The municipal area of the village Leoben on January 31, 2010, approved for the transport Vienna outer ring expressway S1 runs. Furthermore Leoben village is a station of the North Western Railway Leoben village - Castle Cross Stone.

Tresdorf: Directly by the Cadastral Tresdorf leads the busy Laa road, take the average per working day over 10,000 vehicles.

Current traffic Debate: The traffic load increases in this region in the near Vienna area year after year strongly. For the year 2020, a traffic 14000-20000 vehicles per day is forecast.

On the part of the population of Tresdorf and the council of Leoben village hence the need for a bypass was loud. Were collected together with Harmannsdorf - Rückersdorf 1300 signatures for the bypass and handed over to the Governor Erwin Pröll.

Since 2004, a new bypass option for the villages Tresdorf and Harmannsdorf - Rückersdorf is planned. By -pass not only through traffic in these places, but after completion of the S1 should also traffic in Stetten and Seebarn be reduced. In May 2007, the provincial Governor Erwin Pröll gave the commitment to begin construction of the B6- bypass in 2010. According to latest information, the current construction is planned for 2012/13.

Personalities

• Alfons Gabriel (1894-1975), geographer and explorer, operating in Leoben village a doctor's office

Others

2010 came to an incident in a factory the company Kwizda to groundwater contamination.