Schwechat () is a town southeast of

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known for the

Vienna International Airport Vienna International Airport (german: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat; ) is the international airport of Vienna, the capital of Austria, located in Schwechat, southeast of central Vienna and west of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the ...

and Schwechater

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. The city is home to the refineries of the Austrian national oil company

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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.

Population

History

Home to the settlement Ala Nova of the

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, 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 exist (i.e. the 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 (Germany-based at

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-Schmarl as ''Heinkel-Nord'', the Schwechat offices/facility was called ''Heinkel-Süd'') 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 Bezirk Bruck an der Leitha ( bar, label= Central Bavarian, Bruck aun da Leitha) is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. Municipalities Towns () are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburb ...

because Wien-Umgebung was dissolved at the end of 2016.

Economy

and the headquarters of

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are in the city of Schwechat. When

Lauda Air Lauda Air Luftfahrt GmbH, branded as Lauda Air, was an Austrian airline headquartered at Vienna International Airport in Schwechat. It was owned by Niki Lauda (1949–2019) during much of its existence, later becoming a charter airline subsidi ...

was an independent airline, it had its corporate headquarters in Schwechat. Niki was also based in Schwechat.

Education

Schools include:Schule
." Schwechat. Retrieved on September 4, 2017. Primary schools: *Volksschule I & II *Volksschule Mannswörth *Volksschule Rannersdorf Secondary: *Allgemeine Sonderschule Schwechat *Bundesgymnasium & Bundesrealgymnasium Schwechat *Neue Mittelschule Schwechat Frauenfeld *Neue Sport- & Sprach-Mittelschule Schwechat - Schmidgasse

Notable people

* Christopher Dibon (born 1990), footballer, ÖFB national team *

Anton Dreher Anton Dreher (7 May 1810 in Schwechat near Vienna – 27 December 1863 in Schwechat) was an Austrian brewer, business magnate, philanthropist of Danube Swabian ancestry, the founder of the Dreher Breweries who was an important figure in the deve ...

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),

Social Democrat Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soc ...

politician,

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1997—2000 * Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1862–1931), jurist, Minister-President of Cisleithania 1917/18 * Max Stotz (1912–1943), military pilot * Karl Trabitsch (1929–2003), politician and merchant *

Rudolf Viertl Rudolf Viertl (12 November 1902 – 9 December 1981) was an Austrian football forward who played for Austria in the 1934 FIFA World Cup.Rudolf Vytlačil (1912—1977), football player * Leopold Weinhofer (1879–1947), politician and mayor

Popular culture

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

References

External links

Website of Schwechat
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