Deutsch-Wagram (literally "German Wagram", ), often shortened to Wagram, is a village in the

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, in the

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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 ...

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. It is in the

Marchfeld The Marchfeld ('' Morava Field'') is the north area of the Vienna Basin which is a sedimentary basin between the Eastern Alps and the Western Carpathians. History and location This historical region is known from the Battle on the Marchfeld. It i ...

Basin, close to the

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city limits, about 15 km (9 mi) northeast of the city centre.

History

The settlement was probably established in the Bavarian

March of Austria The Margraviate of Austria (german: Markgrafschaft Österreich) was a medieval frontier march, centered along the river Danube, between the river Enns and the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), within the territory of modern Austrian provinces of U ...

by colonists in the course of the . Wagram was first mentioned in a 1258

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Ottokar II of Bohemia Ottokar II ( cs, Přemysl Otakar II.; , in Městec Králové, Bohemia – 26 August 1278, in Dürnkrut, Lower Austria), the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his dea ...

ruled over the Austrian duchy. It was named after a now silted up meander of the

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river, where the waves (german: Wogen) crashed against the shore (). In 1560 it received the prefix to differ it from (today part of ), a village founded by

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settlers in the course of the 1529 Ottoman Siege of Vienna. In 1580 the population turned

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but was forcefully converted in the Counter-Reformation under the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II shortly afterwards. Deutsch-Wagram was the location of the 1809

Battle of Wagram The Battle of Wagram (; 5–6 July 1809) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a costly but decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles ...

fought between invading French troops under

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and an

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army led by

Archduke Charles Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen (german: link=no, Erzherzog Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen; 5 September 177130 April 1847) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third s ...

. The population rose after the area was connected with the Austrian capital by the opening of the

Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (german: Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn; cs, Severní dráha císaře Ferdinanda; pl, Kolej Północna Cesarza Ferdynanda) was the name of a former railway company during the time of the Austrian Empire. Its m ...

(the present-day Austrian North Railway) in 1837. The former village was elevated to the status of a

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in 1929 and received

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in 1984. The firearm company

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was founded here in 1963.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') as of 2015 elections: * Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 17 * Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 7 * wir4dw ( independents): 4 *

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: 3 *

Freedom Party of Austria The Freedom Party of Austria (german: Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Austria. It was led by Norbert Hofer from September 2019 to 1 June 2021.Staff (1 June 2021"Aus ...

(FPÖ): 2

Twin towns

Deutsch-Wagram is twinned with: * Calheta de São Miguel, Cape Verde * Gbely, Slovakia

Notable people

* Johann Sahulka (1857–1927), electrical engineer * Thomas Forstner (born 1969), singer

History

Politics

Twin towns

Notable people

Residents

See also

References

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