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Stockerau
Stockerau () is a town in the district of Korneuburg (district), Korneuburg in Lower Austria, Austria. Stockerau has 16,974 inhabitants, which makes it the largest town in the Weinviertel. Stockerau is also called "Lenaustadt" (Lenau Town) because the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau often spent time with his grandparents here. Population Amenities Leisure facilities are various: wellness centre, sports centre with three gyms, judo and table tennis gym, skittle alley and football stadium. In addition there are indoor and outdoor tennis facilities. Stockerau offers a range of exhibitions, concerts, readings and singing evenings in the cultural centre "Belvedereschlößl". In the cellar of this castle, built in 16th century and revitalised by the town community in the year 1984, you will find the district museum. Between Stockerau and the Danube there is a large forest called the "Au". Coloman of Stockerau, Saint Coloman was martyred here in 1012, and is known as ''St. Coloman of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coloman Of Stockerau
Coloman of Stockerau (; ; died 18 October 1012) was an Irish saint. While on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he was mistaken for a spy and hanged near Vienna. Life Originally known as Colmán (variously rendered Koloman, Kálmán, Colman, and Colomannus), he was an Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land and was mistaken for a spy because of his strange appearance. He was tortured and hanged at Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria, on 16 July 1012. Later tradition has it that he was "a son of Máel-Sechnaill (d. 1022), high king of Ireland." (Breen, 2009) At the time of his death, there were continual skirmishes among Austria, Moravia, and Bohemia. Coloman spoke no German, so he could not give an understandable account of himself. He was hanged alongside several robbers. According to Aidan Breen, "He was made a saint by the local people, possibly out of remorse for the deed and because of his endurance under torture and the many miracles reported from where his body was buried." (B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Zinsberger
Manuela Zinsberger (; born 19 October 1995) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Austria national team. She previously played for Bayern Munich. Life Zinsberger grew up in the village of Niederhollabrunn in Lower Austria. She was first trained at the LAZ Stockerau and from 2009 at the AKA St. Pölten. From the 2011/12 school year she moved to the newly established ''National Center for Women's Football'' in St. Pölten. In 2017 she was named Austrian of the Year by ''Die Presse'' in the international success category. In December 2020 at age 25, she was named Austria's Footballer of the Year by the Austria Press Agency, being the first goalkeeper to win Footballer of the Year. Club career Youth clubs In her youth, Zinsberger played for ''USV Leitzersdorf'' and SV Stockerau. USVG Großrußbach In the winter transition period 2009–10, Zinsberger switched for the first time to adult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner (; born 1975 in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer. Grenzfurthner is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of ''monochrom'', an international art and theory group and film production company. Most of his artworks are labeled ''monochrom''. Grenzfurthner is an outspoken researcher in subversive and underground culture, for example the field of sexuality and technology, and one of the founders of "techno-hedonism". Boing Boing magazine referred to Grenzfurthner as ''leitnerd'', a wordplay with the German term Leitkultur that ironically hints at Grenzfurthner's role in nerd/hacker/art culture. Career In the early 1990s, Grenzfurthner was a member of several Bulletin Board System, BBS message boards. Grenzfurther used his online connections to create ''monochrom'', a zine or alternative magazine that dealt with art, technology and subversive cultures. His motivation was to react ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna S-Bahn
The Vienna S-Bahn is a suburban commuter rail network in Vienna, Austria. As opposed to the city-run urban metro network, the Vienna U-Bahn, it extends beyond the borders of the city, is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways, ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways), and consists of many branch lines. ''S-Bahn'' is short for ''Schnellbahn'', which can be translated as "rapid railway". Network The Vienna S-Bahn consists of a multitude of branch lines extending beyond the city boundary, most of which converge at a central route segment called the ''Stammstrecke'' ("trunk line"). While many of the individual lines run at half-hourly or hourly intervals, they are able to offer combined frequencies of only a few minutes or less along the ''Stammstrecke''. Only line S45 operates entirely within Vienna's boundaries. Unlike many S-Bahn networks in Germany, the Vienna S-Bahn is not a separate rail network. It is integrated with, and part of, the national railway system. As such, S-Bahn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Pröll
Josef Pröll (; born 14 September 1968, in Stockerau, Austria) is an Austrian former politician who was the chairman of the Austrian People's Party from 2008 until 2011. He was Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance. Previously, he was the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water Management. He was also in charge of rethinking the party's positions and developing a more liberal socio-economic stance. On 28 November 2008, he was elected as the new federal party chairman by 89.6% of delegates at a party conference in Wels. After two thromboses he suffered a pulmonary embolism in March 2011. A few weeks later, on 13 April, he resigned from all political functions. His successor was the Foreign Minister, Michael Spindelegger Michael Spindelegger (; born 21 December 1959) is an Austrian politician. He served in the cabinet of Chancellor Werner Faymann as Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, foreign minister of Austria from 2008 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Katzian
Wolfgang Katzian (born October 28, 1956, in Stockerau, Austria) is an Austrian politician and president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) since June 14, 2018, and president of European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) since May 26, 2023. Career After finishing primary and secondary school, Katzian initially enrolled in a commercial academy for a year. Following that, he embarked on an apprenticeship as a banker from 1971 to 1974, and subsequently worked in the foreign exchange department of the Länderbank from 1970 to 1977. His roles evolved over the years: starting as a youth secretary in 1977, then advancing to secretary to the management in 1986, central secretary for education, advertising, and member services in 1992, and finally central secretary for organization at the Union of Private Sector Employees (GPA) in 1994. By 2000, he ascended to the position of federal managing director of the GPA. Additionally, in 1990, he assumed the role of deputy secretary, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Herbeck
Ernst Herbeck (9 October 1920, Stockerau, Lower Austria – 11 September 1991) was an Austrian poet. In 1940, at the age of 20, Herbeck was committed to the national mental hospital in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) where he spent almost his entire life, writing thousands of poems, until his death on 11 September 1991. Life Herbeck grew up in Stockerau, Lower Austria, where at the age of 20 whilst working as an unskilled worker in a munitions factory, began displaying signs of schizophrenia. He was first committed in 1940, but at times his condition would improve momentarily. In October 1944 he was even called into military service only to be discharged in March 1945. A year after the end of the war Herbeck was committed indefinitely. After fifteen years in an institution Herbeck began writing poetry, often referred to as naive, his poetry is notable for its brevity and peculiar turn of phrase. The titles of many of his poems are the names of animals that were offered to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaus Lenau
Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet. Biography He was born at Csatád (Schadat), Kingdom of Hungary, now Lenauheim, Banat, then part of the Habsburg monarchy, now in Romania. His father, a Habsburg government official, died in 1807 in Budapest, leaving his children in the care of their mother, who remarried in 1811. In 1819 Nikolaus went to the University of Vienna; he subsequently studied Hungarian law at Pozsony (Bratislava) and then spent the next four years qualifying himself in medicine. Unable to settle down to any profession, he began writing verse. The disposition to sentimental melancholy inherited from his mother, stimulated by disappointments in love and by the prevailing fashion of the romantic school of poetry, descended into gloom after his mother's death in 1829. Soon afterwards, however, a legacy from his grandmother enabled him to devote himself wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korneuburg (district)
The political district Bezirk Korneuburg is located in Lower Austria and borders Vienna to the north. Communities * Bisamberg **Bisamberg **Klein-Engersdorf * Enzersfeld **Enzersfeld, Königsbrunn * Ernstbrunn **Au, Dörfles, Ernstbrunn, Gebmanns, Klement, Lachsfeld, Maisbirbaum, Merkersdorf, Naglern, Simonsfeld, Steinbach, Thomasl * Gerasdorf bei Wien **Gerasdorf, Föhrenhain, Kapellerfeld, Oberlisse, Seyring * Großmugl **Füllersdorf, Geitzendorf, Glaswein, Großmugl, Herzogbirbaum, Nursch, Ottendorf, Ringendorf, Roseldorf, Steinabrunn * Großrußbach **Großrußbach, Hipples, Karnabrunn, Kleinebersdorf, Weinsteig, Wetzleinsdorf * Hagenbrunn **Flandorf, Hagenbrunn * Harmannsdorf **Harmannsdorf, Hetzmannsdorf, Kleinrötz, Lerchenau, Mollmannsdorf, Obergänserndorf, Rückersdorf, Seebarn, Würnitz * Hausleiten **Gaisruck, Goldgeben, Hausleiten, Perzendorf, Pettendorf, Schmida, Seitzersdorf-Wolfpassing, Zaina, Zissersdorf * Korneuburg * Langenzersdorf * Leitzersdorf **Hatzenbach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann August Stöger
Johann August Stöger (20 June 1791 – 7 May 1861) was an Austrian operatic tenor and later a theatre manager, leasing theatres in Vienna and Prague. Life He was born in Stockerau, Lower Austria, son of Jacobus Althaler, a master mason. His parents sent him to be educated in Vienna, to prepare for the clergy. and as a boy he sang there in the choir of the Theater am Kärntnertor. He discontinued his theological studies, and taking the stage name Stöger, he sang in 1813 at the Theater in der Josefstadt, and in 1814 at the Theater an der Wien. He also appeared at theatres in Brno and Olomouc."Stöger, Familie" '' online''. Retrieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Kix
Daniela Kix (born 4 May 1983) is a former Austrian tennis player. Her career-high WTA rankings are 190 in singles, which she reached on 15 May 2006, and 341 in doubles, attained on 15 November 2004. In her career, she won a total of five titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Kix qualified for the 2006 Bangalore Open and lost in the first round. She lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in Moscow and Elena Baltacha Elena Sergeevna Baltacha (; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently ... in London. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) References * * * Living people Austrian female tennis players 1984 births Sportspeople from Stockerau Tennis players from Lower Austria 21st-century Austrian sportswomen {{Austria-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
