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Country
  
Austria

District
  
Bruck an der Leitha

Area code
  
01

Elevation
  
162 m

Local time
  
Friday 5:22 PM

State
  
Lower Austria

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Vehicle registration
  
SW

Population
  
16,370 (1 Apr 2009)

Postal code
  
2320

Schwechat wwwhotelroomsearchnetimcityschwechataustria

Weather
  
11°C, Wind NW at 18 km/h, 63% Humidity

Schwechat ( [ˈʃvɛçaːt]) is a town southeast of Vienna known for the Vienna International Airport and Schwechater beer. The city is home to the refineries of the Austrian national oil company OMV.

Contents

Map of Schwechat, Austria

Geography

Schwechat is named after the river Schwechat, which flows through the centre of town. The city subdivisions called Katastralgemeinde (Cadastre) are Kledering, Mannswörth, Rannersdorf and Schwechat.

History

Home to the settlement Ala Nova of the Roman Empire, the city was first mentioned in a document in 1334. The meeting at Schwechat of Emperor Leopold I with Jan Sobieski in 1683, after the liberation of Vienna, is commemorated by an obelisk. The imperial troops defeated the Hungarian insurgents in a battle fought here in October 1848.

In 1724, a textile factory was established in Schwechat. Schwechat profited massively from the Austrian industrialisation wave of the 19th century, many of the companies established then still existing today (like the famous Dreher Brewery, founded in 1796 by Franz Anton Dreher the Younger). Schwechat became a city in 1924 and was incorporated into Vienna in 1938. The city's oil refinery was a bombing target of the Allied Oil Campaign of World War II, with the southern aviation plant complex of the Heinkel firm also targeted in late 1943 and lasting through the spring of 1944.

Schwechat became an independent city in 1954. Since 2017 it belongs to Bruck an der Leitha District because Wien-Umgebung was dissolved at the end of 2016.

Economy

Vienna International Airport, the headquarters of Austrian Airlines, and the headquarters of Niki are in the city of Schwechat. When Lauda Air was an independent airline, it had its corporate headquarters in Schwechat.

Notable people

  • Christopher Dibon (born 1990), footballer, ÖFB national team
  • Anton Dreher senior (1810–1863), brewer, inventor of Schwechater Lagerbier
  • Joseph von Eybler (1765–1846), composer and Hofkapellmeister
  • Rudolf Hausleithner (1840–1918), painter
  • Alfred Horn (1898–1959), mayor and freeman of Schwechat
  • Viktor Klima (born 1947), politician (SPÖ), Austrian chancellor 1997 till 2000
  • Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862–1931), jurist, k.k.minister president 1917/18
  • Max Stotz (1912–1943), military pilot
  • Karl Trabitsch (1929–2003), politician and merchant
  • Rudolf Viertl (1902-1981), football player
  • Rudolf Vytlačil (1912-1977), football player
  • Leopold Weinhofer (1879–1947), politician and mayor

    • Schwechat (as Megacity Schwechat) plays an important role in the Austrian sci-fi movie Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl.

    References

    Schwechat Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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