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 valley ...

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 Gerichtsberg Pass (el. 581 m) is a low mountain pass near to Hainfeld in the Austrian Alps in the '' Bundesland'' of Lower Austria. It connects the Triesting river valley and the Gölsen river valley. It forms the watershed of the Viennese Ba ...

(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

In ancient times the area of Hainfeld was part of the

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

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

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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, Duke of Austria and Styria, as a daughter house of Heiligenkreuz Abbey. ...

. 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 c ...

united some

Austro-Hungarian Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

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 The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...

. 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 tradition ...

. 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 opposin ...

Hainfeld was the second most destroyed Austrian city behind Wiener Neustadt and part of the Soviet occupation zone in

Allied-occupied Austria The Allied occupation of Austria started on 8 May 1945 with the fall of Nazi Germany and ended with the Austrian State Treaty on 27 July 1955. After the in 1938, Austria had generally been recognized as part of Nazi Germany. In 1943, however, ...

. 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 * 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 hous ...

(1893–1984),

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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 librett ...

singer

Sister Cities

Hainfeld is twinned with Issenheim since 1974.

References

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