Heidenreichstein

Heidenreichstein is a municipality with 3942 population within the district Gmund inside the northwestern Waldviertel in Lower Austria. Heidenreichstein owes its name to one of the first burgraves, called Heidenreich. The privately owned and nonetheless inhabited Heidenreichstein Castle is a moated castle and is considered a landmark of Heidenreichstein. The marketplace, like the fort, changed into likely constructed inside the remaining a long time of the 12th century.

In 1369, the location became known as a marketplace with its personal seal. From the second half of of the 19th century, Heidenreichstein became the area of several agencies, specifically the textile, wood, leather and metalworking industries, which within the twentieth century, interrupted through the conflict and interwar years, created jobs within the area. After the give up of the profession in 1955, each the private small and medium-sized establishments as well as the massive banks belonging industrial establishments increased.