Sankt Veit an der Gölsen is a town 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 o ...

in the

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n federal state of

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Geography

Sankt Veit an der Gölsen is located in the

Mostviertel ''Mostviertel'' (; English: Most (wine), Most'' Quarter') is the southwestern quarter of the four quarters of Lower Austria (the northeast state of the 9 states in Austria). It is bordered on the north by the Danube and to the south and west ...

at the south-western edge of the

Vienna Woods The Vienna Woods (, ) are forested highlands that form the northeastern foothills of the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Lower Austria and Vienna. The and range of hills is heavily wooded and a popular recreation area with the Viennese ...

and at the beginning of the Lower Austrian Prealps. The river

Gölsen The Gölsen is a river in Lower Austria, in the Mostviertel. It is a right tributary of the Traisen. Its drainage basin is . The river begins in Hainfeld with the confluence of the Fliedersbach and the Ramsaubach (also called the ''Innere Gölse ...

flows through the municipal territory. The area of the town is 78.12 square kilometer, whereby 55.98% consists of woodland area. Parts of the town are Außer-Wiesenbach, Inner-Wiesenbach, Kerschenbach, Kropfsdorf, Maierhöfen, Obergegend, Pfenningbach, Rainfeld, Schwarzenbach an der Gölsen, St. Veit an der Gölsen, Steinwandleiten, Traisenort, Wiesenfeld and Wobach.

History

In the antiquity the territory was part of the province

Noricum Noricum () is the Latin name for the 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, R ...

. Located in the Austrian core country Lower Austria it took part in the changeful history of Austria.

Population

Politics

The Mayor of the town is Johann Gastegger. After the election in 2010 for the local government the

SPÖ The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( , SPÖ) is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (, SDAPÖ) and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria () from 1945 unt ...

has 15 mandates, the

ÖVP The Austrian People's Party ( , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since January 2025, the party has been led by Christian Stocker (as an acting leader). It is currently the second-largest p ...

has 7 mandates and the

FPÖ The Freedom Party of Austria (, FPÖ) is a political party in Austria, variously described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and Eurosceptic. It has been led by Herbert Kickl since 2021. It is the largest of five par ...

has one mandate.

Notable residents

*Clemens Lashofer (February 2, 1941 - July 6, 2009) - Abbot of Göttweig Abbey.

References

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