Purkersdorf

The municipality Purkersdorf with 9317 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013 ) located in the Vienna Woods, close to the city limits of Vienna on 248 m above sea level. A..

  • 2.1 Early History and Medieval
  • 2.2 Habsburg period
  • 2.3 20th century
  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 4.1 Mayors since 1849
  • 4.2 Town twinning
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Health care

Geography

Neighboring communities

History

Early History and Medieval

Since the 8th century BC, the area Purkersdorf been continually inhabited by the Illyrians of the Hallstatt and La Tène Celts then. Also finds from the Roman period are available.

Established the place Purkersdorf was as forest settlement around the year 1000. Purchartesdorf the name, when its owner Albero de Purchartesdorf in 1133 was mentioned Proven appearing as a witness and donors in various writings of Klosterneuburg. Even at this time was probably built the castle. The Babenberg explained the largest part of the Vienna Woods, with Purkersdorf the middle of it, to forest reserve, reserved for hunting only for those. Since the mid-12th century, the castle ( castrum Purchartsdorf ), then a massive Wasserburg, detectable. Place and castle changed hands several times until they were sold by Reinprecht of Wallsee 1333 the Habsburgs. Duke Albert the Wise resided 1348/49 in Purchartzdorf because it was completely spared from the plague.

Habsburg period

The sovereign's forest area was developed by 1500 bis 1848/49 managed by the Imperial Forest Office, which ruled the place as a representative of the landlords. The forest department had its headquarters to 1788 in Purkersdorfer castle. It was not only professional administrative body, but also magistrate sovereign's supervisory authority, which had jurisdiction over. 1284 acquired the German Order here extensive forest holdings ( German forest district ). It was not until 1766 this Burckersdorffer groves were sold to the forest office. 1452 attracted the Hungarians through the town. During the siege of Vienna in 1529 and 1683 by the Turks Purkersdorf was devastated as the entire area surrounding Vienna.

Destined for the place was its location to the state road that followed the historic Roman road over the Riederberg. From 1558 Burkherdorffer post office has been proven, but it is certainly much older. She was the first and therefore very profitable service station on the route Vienna -Linz. 1796/97, the post office, was rebuilt in the early classical style. The relief- decorated facade is still visible. At the time of the Reformation, the Roman Catholic parish was closed in 1570 and only established by Emperor Maximilian II again.

In 1713 the town was ravaged by the plague, which had been introduced from Vienna. Almost half the 250 residents fell victim to her. 1805 were of Napoleon prisoner, allegedly 3,000 men locked up in the local church, the verheizten the entire inventory because of the cold.

In a walking guide from the Biedermeier, the work " Vienna 's environments to twenty hours in the perimeters " of Adolf Schmidl from 1835, which tells about the then so-called Burkersdorf:

In August 1842, it came to the great fire, which spread due to drought and strong winds from the post office building on church, castle and school and another 13 houses to ashes. In the fight against Viennese revolutionaries occupied loyalist Croatian associations of Ban Jelacic Joseph in October 1848 place.

It was not until 1849 Purkersdorf became an independent local church. 1856-1858 here was a part of the k.k. privileged Empress Elisabeth Railway, built the present-day Western Railway and Purkersdorf so connected to the modern transport network. The Countess Furstenberg however had a modified route - with a station one kilometer from the town center - enforced. 1873 Volunteer Fire Purkersdorf was founded. 1905 was the opening of the sanatorium Purkersdorf, designed by Josef Hoffmann as a spa and hydrotherapy institute.

Purkersdorf and the surrounding area with the yellow mountain, the German forest, etc. ( below) to 1873 (Record Journal of the land survey )

20th century

In the interwar period, the town was in 1929 raised to the market town. A short time later, after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, the town was incorporated on 15 October 1938 as part of the newly created 14th district Penzing case- Vienna.

On April 5, 1945, the invasion of the Red Army, without major combat operations from Wienerwaldsee carried forth. About sixty residents, including many convinced National Socialists committed suicide. On April 12, 1945 local government was used by the Soviet occupation. The crew in place in 1947, deducted the Ortskommandantur 1949. Purkersdorf was born on September 1, 1954 through the separation of Vienna independent again. In 1966 ( enactment, official celebration in 1967 ), the market town finally elevated to municipality.

In 1973, the twinned with Bad Säckingen was received on the Upper Rhine. Other sister cities are Sanary -sur -Mer in France and Gostling an der Ybbs in Lower Austria. Although there have been major floods when the Vienna stepped out of their banks, most recently in 1940, 1997 and 2002. In 2002, the Austrian Federal Forests based its new headquarters in a multi-storey timber construction in the park.

Population

Demographics

For the year 1572 already 961 inhabitants are mentioned in chronicles for Purkersdorf 120 and for the year 1830.

Policy

Mayor of Karl Schlögl, chief officer Burkhard Humpel.

In the council there since March 14, 2010 for a total of 33 seats following distribution of seats:

  • List SPÖ 22
  • List ÖVP 6
  • List Tree and Green 4
  • Purkersdorfer list ( PUL ) 1

Mayor since 1849

Monarchy:

  • Carl Hiessberger 1849-1855
  • Karl Kurz 1855-1864
  • Franz Unger 1864-1865
  • Georg Donauer 1865-1867
  • Wenzel Prager 1867-1870
  • Paul Winter 1870 Berger
  • Wenzel Prager 1870-1872
  • Karl Gruber 1872-1874
  • Georg Donauer 1874-1876
  • Wenzel Prager 1876-1881
  • Karl Kurz 1881-1891
  • Wenzel Prager 1891
  • Karl Pummer 1891-1903
  • Hugo Hild 1903-1918

1st Republic:

  • Konstantin roll 1918-1919
  • Johann gap in 1919
  • Johann Buchmüller 1919-1934
  • Johann Marterbauer 1934-1938

2nd Republic:

  • Joseph Zurek ( SPÖ) 1945-1946 ( mayor )
  • Franz Leitgeb ( KPO ) 1946-1947 ( mayor )
  • Joseph Zurek ( SPÖ) 1947-1955 ( until 1954 mayor )
  • Gustav Hein ( SPÖ) 1955-1970
  • Hans Jaunecker (ÖVP ) 1970-1982
  • Franz Matzka (ÖVP ) 1982-1989
  • Karl Schlögl ( SPÖ) 1989-1997
  • Edeltraud Eripek ( SPÖ) 1997-2000
  • Karl Schlögl ( SPÖ) since 2000

Twinning

  • Germany Bad Sackingen, Germany (1973 )
  • France Sanary -sur -Mer, France
  • Austria Gostling an der Ybbs, Austria

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Purkersdorf is located on the Western Railway and has at this four stops ( Purkersdorf Sanatorium, under Purkersdorf Purkersdorf - center and lower - Untertullnerbach ). Purkersdorf is served by the S -Bahn line S50 to the Vienna West Station, run further in the rush hour of the Unter Purkersdorf trains to and from the S15/S2b Mistelbach. In the stop Purkersdorf center hold additional hourly regional trains between Vienna and West -St. Pölten.

In Purkersdorf the West motorway A 1 starts (Vienna - border crossing Walser mountain near Salzburg ).

Health care

In Purkersdorf there are several general practitioners, specialists and two pharmacies. The next hospitals are located in St. Pölten, Tulln and Vienna. In the village there is a department of the Red Cross and the Workers' Samaritan Federation that are staffed around the clock and jointly operate an ambulance base. The use Red Cross vehicles to be scheduled on the city-wide and nationwide competent control center 144 Emergency Lower Austria.

Culture and sights

  • Purkersdorf Sanatorium; a masterpiece of Art Nouveau by Josef Hoffmann
  • Parish Church of St. Jacob; medieval origin, with the miraculous image of the nursing mother of God ( Madonna lactans ) and Peace Cross
  • Nature Park Purkersdorf sandstone Wienerwald
  • Purkersdorfer City Museum ( in the courtyard of the castle )
  • See also: List of the listed objects in Purkersdorf

Personalities

  • Karl Graf Welsperg - Raitenau (1779-1873), Austrian politician
  • Josef Bauer (1817-1886), an Austrian lawyer and politician
  • Manfred Bauer (1957-2012), Austrian journalist and writer
  • Francis of Gernerth (1821-1900), Austrian jurist, composer and writer on music
  • Ignaz von Schurda (1822-1879), Austrian officials and politicians
  • Adolf Konrad Hall Stone (1835-1892), German actor
  • Emil Steinbach (1846-1907), an Austrian lawyer, politician and Minister of Finance
  • Karl Maria Schuster (1871-1953), Austrian painter
  • Arnold Hartig (1878-1972), Sudeten German sculptor and medalist
  • Richard Plattensteiner (1878-1956), Austrian writer home
  • Camillo Fritz Discher (1884-1976), Austrian architect
  • Georg Kotek (1889-1977), an Austrian folksong researchers
  • Karl Dewanger (1897-1944), Austrian politician
  • Friedrich Winkelmüller (1898-1979), Austrian writer home
  • Georg Traar (1899-1980), Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian
  • Gottfried Haberler (1900-1995), Austrian economist
  • Else Rambausek (1907-1994), Austrian actress and singer
  • Hermann Michel ( mineralogist ) ( 1925-2011 ), Austrian mineralogist and gem specialist
  • Heinz Reincke (1925-2011), German actor and voice actor
  • Horst Ascherman (1932-2005), sculptor
  • Andreas Prochaska (* 1964 ), Austrian writer-director
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