Pernitz

• ÖVP: 10
• SPÖ: 6
• LWP template: Select Diagram / Maintenance / Name: 3
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• GREEN: 1

Pernitz is a market town with 2526 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Lower Austria in Austria.

Geography

The municipality is located in Pernitz Piestingtal in Lower Austria.

Community structure

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

• Feichtenbach (116 )
• Pernitz ( 2413 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Feichtenbach and Pernitz.

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 today Pernitz then lay in the province of Pannonia.

The name comes from perenica what a brook, where are using hot coals is meant. This name comes from the Slavic. Before the Slavs Celts were already at that location.

1165 place in Falkensteiner Codex is first mentioned. The site was bought in 1632 by Count Hoyos, making it went up with the place. However, setbacks were the plague in 1679, and soon after the second Turkish siege in 1683.

1828, the road was built across the neck into Triestingtal, 1877 Gutensteiner train or Piestingtalbahn. This meant a further step forward, as is the construction of a high source of water supply in 1904, the Electrification in 1908.

At the end of the valley of Feichtenbach is the former Sanatorium Wienerwald founded in 1904, originally a tuberculosis sanatorium, which was used in the Third Reich as a Lebensborn home. After a reconstruction by Franz Mörth the building from 1952 until the 1980s the OGB - home " Charles Maisel of the metal workers and miners ", later a convalescent home health insurance and finally the " Hotel Feichtenbach ". This architecturally interesting building since 2002 without use.

For Pernitz market in 1961 was charged.

Policy

The market was council ( "We Pernitzer " list) became a quorum due to stoppages mandate of ÖVP and LWP. In the preferred for this reason council election in April 2006 the SPÖ lost for the first time in the history of the Second Republic its absolute majority in Pernitz. The former SPÖ Mayor Silvia Rupprecht was taken up with its own list and managed four seats, the Social Democrats lost five seats (now seven). The ÖVP remained at seven, the LWP also gained a third term.

In the municipal elections of 14 March 2010, 21 seats are allocated to the following parties: List ÖVP 10, SPÖ 6, LWP 3, SBR 1, List 1 GREEN

Demographics

Religion

According to the data of the 2001 census, 64.4 % of the population Roman Catholic, 4.2% are Protestant. 9.2% are Muslim, 1.4% are members of Orthodox Churches. 18.4 % of the population have no religious affiliation.

Culture and sights

• The Roman Catholic parish church of Pernitz is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. The hexagonal component with the main room was built from 1969 to 1970 after plans by the architect Georg Lippert. He is connected to a side chapel, which consists of the Gothic choir of the previous building.

Economy

The economy of Pernitz is dominated by an agricultural and small -scale structure, but also by the resident in the district Ortmann paper mill ( formerly owned by the Bunzl Group, today the SCA ), regional industrial importance.

Through the diversity of leisure and cultural offer Pernitz is also a popular tourist destination.

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

• Bruno Ertler (1889-1927), Austrian writer
• Hermann Reichert (* 1944 ), Austrian philologist, Skandinavist and German studies
• Herbert Zeman ( born 1940 ), Austrian literature and linguist, former head of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna
• Christine Pellikan (* 1957), Austrian visual artist

Historical Maps

• Pernitz and its surroundings in 1872 (recording sheets of the country's Recording)

West of Pernitz with Muggendorf, good stone and the Myrafällen

In the north of the stone wall trench is direction Triestingtal