Mauerbach

Wall Bach is a market town with 3664 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Wien-Umgebung in Lower Austria.

  • 2.1 Population development

Geography

Wall Bach is located in the Vienna Woods on the verge of an industrial district in Lower Austria, but is now the region " Lower Austria Center" counted. The area of ​​the municipality covers 20.31 square kilometers, 80.02 percent are forested.

Community structure

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

  • Hornbeam ( 19)
  • Wall Bach ( 3324 )
  • Steinbach (293 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral wall Bach.

History

In ancient times, the area was part of the province of Pannonia. After the "Anschluss " of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, the place was not initially Greater Vienna connected in contrast to the near Purkersdorf, but the district Sankt Pölten allocated.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Peter Buchner, chief officer Peter Mayer. In the market there are local council after the local elections on 14 March 2010 a total of 23 seats following distribution of seats: List ÖVP 7, list Jelinek 6, list SPÖ 6, list The Greens 2, WE 1, FPÖ, 1

Culture and sights

  • Charterhouse Wall Bach: The Early Baroque former Carthusian monastery is one of the most important monuments of its kind in Austria. In 1984, the sensitive restoration by the Federal Monuments Office, which has since housed there and restoration workshops.
  • The former church of the monastery gates next to the Kartausentor, since 1782 parish church of Mauerbach
  • The Kaiser- Franz -Josef I. Jubilee Elementary School. Built in 1908, designed by Josef Hofbauer

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001 140, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 11 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 1668. The employment rate in 2001 was 51.18 percent. Wall Bach belongs, based on the gross per capita income, one of the 10 richest places in Austria.

Education

  • Nursery Wall Bach 1
  • Nursery Wall Bach 2
  • Elementary school wall Bach
  • School of Music Wall Bach: since 1989 there has been in Mauerbach own music school. It will be taught by 10 teachers currently has 180 pupils.
  • Local museum wall Bach

Sports

The football club Union Wiesbauer wall Bach is in Mauerbach the largest sports club in Mauerbach. The association focuses on youth development. In seven junior teams play approximately 150 young people, 60 of brick Bach. This includes one women's team, which participates in the Germans Cup.

In Wall Bach, there are two tennis clubs: the SC wall Bach tennis and the MTC wall Bach. A variety of sports facilities also offers the Sport Union Wall Bach.

Personalities

  • Frederick the Fair (1289-1330), Duke of Austria founded the monastery at Mauerbach

Gallery

Land survey 1873: In the north wall of Bach (bottom center right) was in the buildings of the former Carthusian monastery Wiener supply house

Land survey 1873: the center with the southern area ( top center )

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