Theresienfeld

• SPÖ: 14
• ÖVP: 5
• FPÖ: 2

Wiener Neustadt is a market town with 2977 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Wiener Neustadt- Land in Lower Austria.

• 4.1 Coat of Arms

Geography

Wiener Neustadt is located in the industrial area in Lower Austria. The area of ​​the municipality covers 11.42 km ² and is almost square. Only 0.94 percent of the area is forested.

There are no other villages and cadastral except Theresienwiese field.

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, which was the capital of the entire north-eastern Noricum.

Later, under the Romans today's Theresienwiese field then lay in the province of Pannonia.

In the core Austrian state of Lower Austria lying the place told the eventful history of Austria.

Empress Maria Theresa founded the town in 1763 when colonists village to feed the Wiener Neustadt Heath intensive use. The long wide street village in the settlement level of the enemy Steinfeld is the only town founded by Maria Theresa in the area of ​​today's Austria and was named after her. However, the area could be fed due to lack of water, limited agricultural use. Almost half of the first settlers came from Tyrol. This is still visible today on the farm name and the artificial irrigation system Tyrolean Bach.

After the abolition of serfdom in consequence of the revolution of 1848/1849 Wiener Neustadt 1850 was a separate municipality.

Population

Demographics

Religion

According to the data of the 2001 census, 61.4 % of the population Roman Catholic, 6.2% are Protestant. 4.9% are Muslim, 4.7% are members of Orthodox Churches and 0.1 % are Israelite. 18.2 % of the population have no religious affiliation.

Policy

Mayor of the municipality is Theodor Schilcher, office manager Walter Wöhrer. In the market there are a total of 21 council seats following distribution of seats after the municipal elections of 14 March 2010: 14 SPÖ, ÖVP list 5, 2 FP, no other seats.

Coat of arms

Blazon: A golden shield, in which a black, golden nimbierter and also reinforced rotbezungter double eagle soars, carrying in its claws right sword and scepter and the orb left. On his chest lies a inflated by the golden imperial crown gevierteter central shield with a red, a silver cross beams crisscrossed heart shield. The upper right box of the middle plate is split and right seven divided transversely of red and silver; in his left red half is on the golden crowned means top of a green hill Three a double silver Tatzenkreuz. The upper left panel of the middle plate of red color has a golden, crowned and armed men, double-tailed, silver lion. The lower right box with red edging is five times right diagonally divided blue and gold. In the lower left box of blue color float two on two, and one, five golden eagles.

The current market coat of arms, which was awarded in 1924 as a local arms of the municipality, since 1850 appears on the seal of the municipality. It was used until that date as the seal representation of the imperial domain administration. The ceremony took place as a market coat of arms in 1963.

Culture and sights

Economy and infrastructure

Non-agricultural work places there were in 2001 100, agricultural and forestry holdings according to the 1999 survey 21 The number of persons employed at the residence was according to the 2001 census, 1189. The employment rate in 2001 was 49.03 percent.

In the urban area is the in June 2005 finally redeveloped Fischer landfill.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Francis of Uchatius (1811-1881), weapons technicians
• Richard Nitsch (1866-1945), portrait painter of people from the peasant milieu