Hainburg an der Donau

Hainburg an der Donau
Hainburg around 1900
Coat of arms
Hainburg an der Donau Location within Austria
Coordinates: 48°8′45″N 16°56′46″E / 48.14583°N 16.94611°E / 48.14583; 16.94611Coordinates: 48°8′45″N 16°56′46″E / 48.14583°N 16.94611°E / 48.14583; 16.94611
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Bruck an der Leitha
Government
• Mayor	Karl Kindl
Area
• Total	25.05 km2 (9.67 sq mi)
Elevation	161 m (528 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)[1]
• Total	6,376
• Density	250/km2 (660/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	2410
Area code	02165
Website	www.hainburg.at

Hainburg an der Donau is a town in the Bruck an der Leitha district, Lower Austria, Austria.

Geography

Hainburg is located on the right bank of the Danube river, 4 km southwest of Devín (Slovakia), 12 km west of the Slovak capital Bratislava and 43 km east of the Austrian capital Vienna. It is part of the Industrial Quarter Industrieviertel in Lower Austria.

45.87% of the land is forested, 54.13% is used for agriculture and urban areas.

Population

History

Hainburg an der Donau - um 1916

• The first settlers in the area were the Illyrians and the Celtic people, who lived on the Braunsberg hill. In the Roman era the area was under the influence of the nearby town of Carnuntum, the capital of the province of Pannonia Superior, where Marcus Aurelius once resided.
• Emperor Henry III ordered a castle built here in 1050.
• The town had 2 gates, 15 towers, and a 2.5 km wall in the 13th century.
• The castle in 1108 belonged to the Babenbergers.
• In the second half of the 12th century, the ransom received from Richard the Lionheart built the castle along with the Viennese gate around 1220 to 1225. The lower part wasn't built until 1267 to 1268 by Ottokar II of Bohemia.
• On February 11, 1252, Ottokar II, later the King of Bohemia, married the last Babenberger Margaret of Austria.
• In Battle of Dürnkrut in 1278 Ottokar II lost the castle to the Habsburgs.
• In 1482 after a several months siege the castle was occupied by Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus and his Black Army.
• In 1629, the castle belonged to the city.
• On July 11, 1683, the Second Ottoman Campaign destroyed the city along with the castle.
• In 1709, Count Löwenberg rebuilt the castle.
• Here Joseph Haydn the composer came as a six-year-old child to learn the rudiments of music from his relative Josef Mathias Franck, and to sing as a choirboy from 1737–1740. There is a Haydn Fountain on the Hauptplatz in the town.
• Hainburg gained a garrison in the 19th century.
• Since the end of the First World War, Hainburg has been the easternmost town in Austria.
• In 1984, protesters against plans to put a power station in the Hainburger Au of the Danube forced the government of Austria to withdraw.

The church in Hainburg

• Today, it is part of the Danube-Auen National Park.

Sites of interest

• Castle hill
• Danube-Auen National Park, floodplain forest
• Braunsberg, hill with Celtic fortress
• Wienertor (Vienna Gate): built in the 13th century, largest still existing medieval gate in Europe. Today it contains the city museum.
• The Philippus-und-Jakobus-Kirche, a catholic church, was built in 1263 and rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1683
• Protestant Church, opened in April 2011, newly built by the Austrian architect group Coop Himmelb(l)au

Economics and infrastructure

In 2001, there were 242 businesses and 29 agricultural and forestry businesses. There were 2,512 employed persons. The productivity rate was 45.07%. There were 70 unemployed persons.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hainburg an der Donau.

• Official site of the village Hainburg (German)
• 'Donauauen' (English/German)
• 'Wienertor' (German)
• "20 years of Occupation of Hainburger Au" (German)