Seibersdorf is an
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n
market town
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rura ...
with 1,283 residents in the District of Baden in
Lower Austria
Lower Austria ( , , abbreviated LA or NÖ) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Major cities are Amstetten, Lower Austria, Amstetten, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which ...
.
Geography
Seibersdorf lies in the industrial belt of Lower Austria. The municipality has an area of 20.2 km
2, 9.36 percent of which is forested.
Seibersdorf contains the following districts: Deutsch-Brodersdorf, Seibersdorf.
History
In antiquity, the area was part of the
Roman province
The Roman provinces (, pl. ) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as Roman g ...
of
Pannonia
Pannonia (, ) was a Roman province, province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, on the west by Noricum and upper Roman Italy, Italy, and on the southward by Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia and upper Moesia. It ...
. Located in the Austrian heartland, Lower Austria played a key part in much of
Austrian history.
Population
Infrastructure
Seibersdorf is best known as the site of Austrian Research Centers, now called the
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). The
International Atomic Energy Agency
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology, nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. It was ...
also operates laboratories within the same premises.
See also
*
Leithaprodersdorf
References
* The information in this article is based on or translated from its German equivalent.
Cities and towns in Baden District, Austria
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