Gloggnitz

Gloggnitz is a city of 5944 inhabitants in Neunkirchen district in southern Lower Austria. The municipality is placed at 442 m above sea stage. A. Within the Gloggnitzer bay in the southwestern corner of the Vienna Basin. Because of its region on the foot of the Semmering and surrounded through a wreath of darkish green mountains Gloggnitz consists of the nickname Gloggnitz, town inside the mountains.

The settlement of the vicinity round Gloggnitz must have been achieved within the Paleolithic, as some unearths of the area endorse. The call Gloggnitz can close because of its ending with itz on Slavic starting place. The meaning of the name Gloggnitz will be assumed with Glocniza. Documented Gloggnitz is first mentioned in 1094 in a deed of Count Ekbert I von Formbach. From the founding of the monastery Gloggnitz to the abolition of the monastery inside the path of secularization in 1803, this marks the records of Gloggnitz. During this time, the call Markt Gloggnitz appears for the first time in a document in 1556; the name Markt can simplest be proved with a deed of 1622.