Kalksburg () is a former

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that is now a part of the 23rd Viennese district

Liesing Liesing () is the 23rd district of Vienna. It is on the southwest edge of Vienna, Austria. It was formed after Austria's ''Anschluss'' with Germany, when Vienna expanded from 21 districts to 26. Fifteen Lower Austrian districts, especially the ...

. Today, the cadastral commune Atzgersdorf has got an area of 375,7 hectare.

Etymology

The name ''Kalksburg'' stems from the surname of the noble house ''Chalbsperger'' – at times, the village also used to be called ''Kalbsberg'', ''Kalksdorf'' and ''Kadoltsperg''.

Geography

Geologically speaking, the wooden and meadow area in the northwest of Kalksburg belong to the ''flysch zone'' while the one in the northeast belong to the

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. The area in between is counted among the geological era of Holocene.

History

*In 1188 the family of the „Chalbsberger“ was mentioned for the first time in a document. *In 1463 the castle of Kalksburg was destroyed by viennese citizens who were attacking it. *Between 1609 and 1773, the

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owned the dominion. During the

Battle of Vienna The Battle of Vienna; pl, odsiecz wiedeńska, lit=Relief of Vienna or ''bitwa pod Wiedniem''; ota, Beç Ḳalʿası Muḥāṣarası, lit=siege of Beç; tr, İkinci Viyana Kuşatması, lit=second siege of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mou ...

in 1683, the village was badly damaged.

Culture

People

* Kaspar Benedict Hagleitner (d.1836), chaplain and founder of the

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* Emil Hochreiter (1872–1938), composer (de)

References

Bibliography

* Ferdinand Opll: ''Liesing: Geschichte des 23. Wiener Gemeindebezirks und seiner alten Orte''. Jugend und Volk, Wien 1982,

External links

wien.at - Kalksburg
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Kalksburg in ''Allgemeines über die Orte des Bezirkes Liesing'', 1911
(PDF) Liesing Katastralgemeinde of Vienna {{Austria-hist-stub