# Hainfeld

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This article is about the municipality in Austria. For the municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, see [Hainfeld, Germany](/source/Hainfeld,_Germany).

**Hainfeld** is a [municipality](/source/Municipality) in the district of [Lilienfeld](/source/Lilienfeld_(district)) in the [Austrian](/source/Austria) state of [Lower Austria](/source/Lower_Austria).

## Geography

Hainfeld is situated on the [Gölsen River](/source/G%C3%B6lsen) in the Southeast Lower Austria. It's the biggest city in Gölsen Valley (*Gölsental*). The Gölsen River begins in Hainfeld with the merging of *Fliedersbach* and *Ramsaubach* (also called *Innere Gölsen*). Through the city runs the street B18 (also called *Hainfelder Straße*). Highest mountain in the municipality is the *Kirchenberg* (Church Mountain) (924 m, 3,031 ft).

### Municipality of Hainfeld

Following settlements are part of the municipality of Hainfeld (in parentheses population size as of January 1, 2017[1]):

- Bernau (161)
- Gegend Egg (93)
- [Gerichtsberg](/source/Gerichtsberg) (68)
- Gerstbach (56)
- Gölsen (761)
- Gstettl (153)
- Hainfeld (1.968)
- Heugraben (14)
- Kasberg (48)
- Kaufmannberg (19)
- Landstal (28)
- Ob der Kirche (317)
- Vollberg (69)

### Cadastral communities

[Cadastral communities](/source/Cadastral_communities): Gegend Egg, Gölsen, Hainfeld, Heugraben, Kasberg, Landsthal, Ob der Kirche, Saugraben, Vollberg

## History

In [ancient](/source/Ancient_history) times the area of Hainfeld was part of the [Roman province](/source/Roman_province) *[Noricum](/source/Noricum)*. In 1280 Hainfeld was mentioned as a *forum* (market) which indicates a certain importance for the local region.

During the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages) the market was part of the [manorialism](/source/Manorialism) of [Lilienfeld Abbey](/source/Lilienfeld_Abbey).

On 30 December 1888 the Austrian politician [Victor Adler](/source/Victor_Adler) united some [Austro-Hungarian](/source/Austria-Hungary) socialist and worker's movements and associations to the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (German: *Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ*) at the party congress in Hainfeld. This was the beginning of the modern Austrian party [Social Democratic Party of Austria](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Austria).

On 26 September 1928 the Lower Austrian State Government endowed Hainfeld with [town privileges](/source/Town_privileges).

After [World War II](/source/World_War_II) Hainfeld was the second most destroyed Austrian city behind [Wiener Neustadt](/source/Wiener_Neustadt) and part of the Soviet occupation zone in [Allied-occupied Austria](/source/Allied-occupied_Austria).

Ferdinand Benischke became to the first mayor after the war from 1945 to 1962.

## Population

Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1869 2,337 — 1880 2,807 +20.1% 1890 3,201 +14.0% 1900 3,776 +18.0% 1910 4,199 +11.2% 1923 4,114 −2.0% 1934 3,904 −5.1% 1939 3,831 −1.9% 1951 3,687 −3.8% 1961 3,883 +5.3% 1971 3,962 +2.0% 1981 3,723 −6.0% 1991 3,677 −1.2% 2001 3,696 +0.5% 2011 3,715 +0.5% 2014 3,682 −0.9%

## Notable people

- Chrysostomus Wieser (1664–1747), abbot of [Lilienfeld Abbey](/source/Lilienfeld_Abbey)
- Otto Kemptner (1890–1944), [augustinian canon](/source/Canons_regular)
- Arnold Röhrling (1893–1974), composer
- [Marianne Zoff](/source/Marianne_Zoff) (1893–1984), [actress](/source/Actress) and [opera](/source/Opera) singer

## Sister Cities

Hainfeld is [twinned](/source/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities) with Issenheim since 1974.[2]

Town State/Region Country Issenheim Haut-Rhin France

## References

1. ["Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1.1.2017 nach Ortschaften"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194023/http://www.statistik.at/wcm/idc/idcplg?IdcService=GET_PDF_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=103419). Archived from [the original](http://www.statistik.at/wcm/idc/idcplg?IdcService=GET_PDF_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=103419) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-02-01.

1. ["Stadtgemeinde Hainfeld - Informationen auf einen Blick"](https://hainfeld.at/basisdaten-informationen-auf-einen-blick/). Stadtgemeinde Hainfeld. Retrieved February 1, 2018.

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