Bad Fischau-Brunn Explained

Bad Fischau-Brunn
Pushpin Map:Austria
Pushpin Mapsize:270
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Austria
Coordinates:47.8333°N 16.1667°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Austria
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Lower Austria
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Wiener Neustadt-Land
Parts Style:para
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Reinhard Knobloch
Elevation M:288
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Registration Plate:WB
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:2721
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:02639
Website:www.bad-fischau-brunn.at

The market town of Bad Fischau-Brunn is an Austrian municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in Lower Austria. It is situated some 50 km south of Vienna at the edge of Viennese Basin.

Bad Fischau-Brunn is divided into two Katastralgemeinden:[1]

History

The oldest traces of settlement in the area of the municipality date back to the Hallstatt culture (8th-6th century BC). A Roman road passed through the area, and the sources of Fischau were already used in the Roman era. The name Fischau was first mentioned in the 9th century. It was mentioned as a market town in 1166, and was site of the mint, too. However, it lost its importance after Wiener Neustadt, founded at the end of the 12th century, became the site of the mint.[2]

Exploitation of the mineral springs of Fischau took a rise in 1872, when the spa resort (Kristalltherme) was opened. It was rebuilt and expanded to its current state in 1900. The prefix "Bad" (spa town) has been added to the name in 1929.[2] The current market town was formed in 1969 by merging the municipalities of Brunn an der Schneebergbahn and Bad-Fischau.

Culture and sites of interest

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090814194741/http://www.statistik.at/dynamic/wcmsprod/idcplg?IdcService=GET_NATIVE_FILE&dID=44933&dDocName=007110 Ortsverzeichnis 2001
  2. http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/index.asp?contenturl=http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/orte/ortedetail.asp___id=17369 Landesmuseum Niederösterreich