Hainfeld is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of

Lilienfeld Lilienfeld () is a city in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Austria, south of St. Pölten, noted as the site of Lilienfeld Abbey. It is also the site of a regional hospital Landesklinikum Voralpen Lilienfeld. The city is located in the valle ...

in the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n state of

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

Geography

Hainfeld is situated on the Gölsen River in the Southeast Lower Austria. It's the biggest city in Gölsen Valley (''Gölsental''). The Gölsen River begins in Hainfeld with the merging of ''Fliedersbach'' and ''Ramsaubach'' (also called ''Innere Gölsen''). Through the city runs the street B18 (also called ''Hainfelder Straße''). Highest mountain in the municipality is the ''Kirchenberg'' (Church Mountain) (924 m, 3,031 ft).

Municipality of Hainfeld

Following settlements are part of the municipality of Hainfeld (in parentheses population size as of January 1, 2017): * Bernau (161) * Gegend Egg (93) * Gerichtsberg (68) * Gerstbach (56) * Gölsen (761) * Gstettl (153) * Hainfeld (1.968) * Heugraben (14) * Kasberg (48) * Kaufmannberg (19) * Landstal (28) * Ob der Kirche (317) * Vollberg (69)

Cadastral communities

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: Gegend Egg, Gölsen, Hainfeld, Heugraben, Kasberg, Landsthal, Ob der Kirche, Saugraben, Vollberg

History

ancient Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cov ...

times the area of Hainfeld was part of the

Roman province The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was rule ...

Noricum Noricum () is the Latin name for the Celtic kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube to the north, ...

''. In 1280 Hainfeld was mentioned as a ''forum'' (market) which indicates a certain importance for the local region. During the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

the market was part of the

manorialism Manorialism, also known as the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages. Its defining features included a large, sometimes forti ...

Lilienfeld Abbey Lilienfeld Abbey (german: Stift Lilienfeld) is a Cistercian monastery in Lilienfeld in Lower Austria, south of Sankt Pölten. History It was founded in 1202 by Leopold VI of Austria, Leopold VI, Duke of Austria and Styria, as a daughter house of ...

. On 30 December 1888 the Austrian politician

Victor Adler __NOTOC__ Victor Adler (24 June 1852 – 11 November 1918) was an Austrian politician, a leader of the labour movement and founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP). Life Adler was born in Prague, the son of a Jewish merchant, who ...

united some Austro-Hungarian socialist and worker's movements and associations to the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (German: ''Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ'') at the party congress in Hainfeld. This was the beginning of the modern Austrian party Social Democratic Party of Austria. On 26 September 1928 the Lower Austrian State Government endowed Hainfeld with

town privileges Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditio ...

. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

Hainfeld was the second most destroyed Austrian city behind

Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...

and part of the Soviet occupation zone in Allied-occupied Austria. Ferdinand Benischke became to the first

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after the war from 1945 to 1962.

Population

Notable people

* Chrysostomus Wieser (1664–1747), abbot of

* Otto Kemptner (1890–1944),

augustinian canon Canons regular are priests who live in community under a rule ( and canon in greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a ...

* Arnold Röhrling (1893–1974), composer *

Marianne Zoff Marianne Josephine Zoff (30 June 1893 – 22 November 1984) was an Austrian actress and opera singer ( mezzo-soprano). Zoff was born in Hainfeld, Lower Austria. Starting in 1919 at the Staatstheater Augsburg, she sang at several German opera h ...

(1893–1984),

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

singer

Sister Cities

Hainfeld is twinned with Issenheim since 1974.

References

Cities and towns in Lilienfeld District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub