Röhrenbach

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Röhrenbach is a municipality with 575 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Horn in Lower Austria.

  • 4.1 Demographics
  • 8.1 Regional Cooperation
  • 8.2 traffic

Geography

The line Röhrenbach village located on the western edge of the basin Horner in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 25.11 km ². 16.74 % of the area is forested.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

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

  • Feinfeld (86 )
  • Germann ( 19)
  • Gobelsdorf (36 )
  • Greillenstein (15 )
  • New construction (53 )
  • Röhrenbach (170 )
  • Tautendorf (59 )
  • Winkl (134 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Feinfeld, Germann, Gobelsdorf, Greillenstein, new construction, Röhrenbach and Winkl.

Postal code

In the community Röhrenbach find several zip codes use. Germann has the zip code 3593rd The main town Röhrenbach and all other districts have the zip code 3592nd

Coat of arms and flag

By decision of the Government of Lower Austria on 11 March 1997, the municipality Röhrenbach was awarded a coat of arms. His Blazon: "With a silver wave beams right diagonally divided, below in blue two growing from the lower right plate edge golden bulrushes with four leaves, above in green growing from the plate division, two-storey silver Rennaissanceschloß with black windows, powerful, six-storey, of a onion bell roof with corner towers crowned gate tower with open gate " The municipality colors are blue -yellow-green.

Population

Demographics

History

In the municipality Neolithic remains have been found. The cadastral Feinfeld was first mentioned in 1180 and was from 1414 owned by the Kuefsteiner. The first mention of Germanns dated to 1139, those of new construction on 1285th Since the 14th century, the history of the town is closely associated with the development of the original fortress of the gender of Greillen, the 1534 in the possession of Baron Johann Lorenz von Kuefstein and which was rebuilt in the last third of the 16th century as Greillenstein Castle in the Renaissance style.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Gernot Hainzl, office manager Karl Krippel. The council has 15 seats. Since the local elections on March 14, 2010, the following distribution of seats shall:

Culture and sights

From 1570 to 1590 it is a unique built in the Waldviertel Renaissance building. Before the four-bladed system lies an extensive landscape garden. The castle was home to famous Austrian artists such as the painter Anton Romako or the writer Franz Grillparzer. The castle remained of Swedish, French, Prussian and Russian troops spared from total destruction. Since 1959, it houses permanent exhibitions open to the public.

The church is Romanesque in the nucleus and was remodeled in the Gothic and Baroque. In the Counts Kuefsteinschen crypt chapel, frescoes by Paul Troger.

Northeast of Feinfeld there is a deserted in the 16th century castle ruins.

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural workplaces, there were 17 in 2001, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 86 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census 250 The employment rate in 2001 was 44.32 percent.

Regional Cooperation

The community Röhrenbach is a member of the small region Kamp- Taffatal.

Traffic

Röhrenbach is served by a municipal road to the Bohemian Forest Road ( B38 ). The bus company PostBus moves to Röhrenbach and its districts on several stops of the line in 1308 ( Horn Zwettl ). The nearest railway station is the ÖBB Horn northeast at the Kamp Valley Railway. The 115.6 km long Kamp Valley Bike Trail with its starting point in Altenwörth and its target point in Zwettl performs Röhrenbach.

Significant acts in Röhrenbach people

  • Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian writer, summer vacations spent at Castle Greillenstein.
  • Johann Paul Hocher (1616-1683), an Austrian lawyer and court chancellor, is buried in the family vault in Kuefsteinischen Röhrenbach.
  • Johann Ludwig von Kuefstein (1587-1656), owner of the castle and dominion Greillenstein.
  • Anton Romako (1832-1889), Austrian painter, summer vacations spent at Castle Greillenstein.
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