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Hello, friends from other
countries! You will have a look to a small community, a
village near Austrias capitol town Vienna.
But first - if you are from very
far - where is Austria, where is Vienna/Wien and where to
hell is "Hennersdorf near Vienna"?
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Let us start with Europe. You
see a part on the left side with Austria in its colors
red-white-red. The borders: South is Slovenia, former
Yugoslavia, and Italy. West is Switzerland and Germany.
North is Czech Republik, east is Slovakia and southeast
Hungaria.
You see: It is a small country
with only 8,000.000 inhabitants but a lot of neighbours with
nearly no troubles. At the beginning of this century Austria
was much larger, an Emperor ruled about Austria, Hungary,
Czech, parts of Italy and Yugoslavia. After 1918 we got as
small as we are.
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That's AUSTRIA (Österreich), a
democratic republic with 9 districts, WIEN, what means
VIENNA, is also is a local district with its own local
government as the others but is also the seat of parliament
and state government. VIENNA is placed in "Lower Austria"
(Niederösterreich), ond on the southern border to
Vienna in Lower Austria is "Hennersdorf bei Wien / near
Vienna" as shown.
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The very old roman church of
Hennersdorf, established 1150, and a fine iron-window at the
church-yard.
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SUMMARY OF
HENNERSDORFs HISTORY
1st:
The church
shows 1150 on the front door, but historicans say,
Hennersdorf ("dorf" means village) has first time been
officially called this way in 1050.
This village always
were and is a onestreet-village, that means, all houses are
left and right one street as you can see on
the
Events-Page.
Only a former and still small farmers-road goes to Achau in
the neighborhoud, the really "mainroad" called
"Hauptstraße" is the only real traffic way, from
Vösendorf to Leopoldsdorf. We have no direkt road to
Vienna, we must go to a point of these two villages to go to
Vienna.
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2nd:
The green boarder between Vienna and Hennersdorf is only 1
mile away, by car you reach the Viennese boarder after 2
(over Vösendorf) or 5 (over Lepoldsdorf) miles, a
trainstation in Hennersdorf itself brings you to or from
Vienna every hour in only 20 minutes.
Hennersdorf
historically had big troubles when the turks come to fight
Vienna and burned the village and killed the people in 1683.
It was here in Vienna where the last battle between north
and south, Asia and Europe, took place, and the Viennese
stopped the turks from getting whole Europe.
1861 a second time
Hennersdorf nearly burned out and Emperor Franz Joseph (his
son married famous "Sissy") personally helped the
population.
In Hennersdorf is the
main factory of Austrian "Wienerberger"-trust.
At the end of 19th century it became famous because of the
cruel social life here. The brickworkers, starting at the
age of nine and often died young, got no money, only cupons
they could give to the company shops and pubs and so could
not leave the manufactury without real money. It helped
starting the first Socialist Party in Austria. Nearly 20.000
poor people of Bohemia, now Czech, lived, starved and died
here.
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3rd:
Now we still have the largest brickmanufactory of the
world, but nearly full automatic with only two handfull of
workers. The company now is seated on Wienerberg Tower in
Vienna and brings sometimes again troubles to the
Hennersdorfer people, but only very few money.
The picture shows
"Villa Müller", which has been the house of one of the
owners of a brickmanufactory, it still exists on the
village-center near church.
In the beginning of
our century the poor life of the workers was in better
conditions, but then the first world war took place when a
serbian terrorist killed the Emperors son in
Sarajewo.
Hennersdorf got an
Aviation-Place, beneath "Aviatik"-airplanes also Austrian
planes where tested, but it was too late, the war was over,
the other had better technical equipment than the Austrians,
and the big Empire of Austria, including Hungary, Czech,
parts of Italy and Yugoslavia and a short time ruled Mexiko
(!), sized down as it is today.
The Emperor wanted to
make Hennersdorf Austrias first airport, but his end stopped
the plan and now the Airport is in nearby
Schwechat.
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4th:
After Austria was occupied by German Nazis and nevermore was
called Austria, but Ostmark (=Germans "Eastmark"), they
wanted to giantize our capitol town as they did in Germany
and Hennersdorf became a part of "Großwien-Bigvienna"
as its 24th district. From october 1938 until september 1951
Hennersdorf was a Viennese district, but came back to
Lower-Austria, Niederösterreich (in Nazitime
"Niederdonau - DownsideDanube").
On may 24th in 1944 at
10 o clock 108 bombs has fallen to this small village, most
of them targeted the school, as you can see on the picture
on
this
page.
Now Hennersdorf mainly
is a farmers village with fields and some animals,
some
small
companies
and the big automated bricksmanufactory. Most of the about
1.700 people living here are working in near Vienna or
Mödling, which is now the provincial leader. We are
interested in getting companies and work to our town, we
have still free places and like to get quiet,
environment-friendly companies. Newsmakers like
WCM,
a computer-magazin established here, are getting special
press-conditions.
Hennersdorf has a
landside restaurant "Maria Theresien Hof" and a fine
Heurigen, a Viennese speciality with very good vine and
other drinks and food, "Heuriger Schrank", which opens six
times a year as regulated by Heurigen-law.
Even Vienna has woods
and the alps are only half an hour away, the
Hennersdorf-area is flat like Netherland, so its a well
known target for byciclers, horse riders (clubs situated in
our village) and also has a tennis-place. What you can do
and how to get there you find on the
Events-Page
with a map and airview and on the Page
with important adresses.
Hennersdorf politic is
done by a socialist mayor, 10 left-winged socialist
local-politics, 5 liberal christian-social-politics, 2
members of "green initiatives", 1 member of Haiders FP and
me, an independent Hennersdorf lover with my own list
"Living in Hennersdorf" short "LiH" with a friendly, but
ready-to-fight beaver
as our symbol.
I hope you enjoyed
this short summary and excuse my bad English, I hope, my
informations were helpfully. And if you stay in Vienna or
nearby south of Vienna, maybe you make a short visit to our
village.
If you come by car,
look at Signs "Großgrünmarkt" and "Laxenburg",
only 1,5 miles after the Viennese border there is a
traffic-cross, 500 feet to the left you are in Hennersdorf.
If coming by train, use "Südbahnhof" (southern railway)
and the "Pottendorfer Line", going every hour, Hennersdorf
is the 4th station. Leaving the train, you see the
settlement "Wohnpark" where I am living.
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English
summary: The location and history of our Village!
