Kaltenleutgeben

Kaltenleutgeben
Coat of arms
Kaltenleutgeben Location within Austria
Coordinates: 48°7′N 16°11′E / 48.117°N 16.183°ECoordinates: 48°7′N 16°11′E / 48.117°N 16.183°E
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Mödling
Government
• Mayor	Josef Graf
Area
• Total	17.5 km^2 (6.8 sq mi)
Elevation	356 m (1,168 ft)
Population (1 January 2014)[1]
• Total	3,309
• Density	190/km^2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	2391
Area code	02238
Website	www.kaltenleutgeben.gv.at

Kaltenleutgeben is a town with a population of 3302 in the district of Mödling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Geography

Kaltenleutgeben is located in the southern Vienna Woods near the industrial district in Lower Austria. More than 73 percent of the area is forested and the town encompasses 17.5 square kilometers. The community borders on the extreme southwest of the city of Vienna and is a popular recreation area for the Viennese population.

History

The parish church of St. James in Kaltenleutgeben was built in 1728-1729 and is a major work of the baroque architect Jakob Oeckhl. He built and financed the building after the death of his second wife because of a vow he made with the birth of his son.

In the 1800s, during the height of the popular Water Cure or Hydropathy (now called hydrotherapy) movement, Kaltenleutgeben was the location of a well-known hydropathic establishment, operated by Wilhelm Winternitz.^[2]

Mark Twain lived in Kaltenleutgeben for a half year in 1898. He stayed at the Villa Sonnhof.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1971	2,520	—
1981	2,552	+1.3%
1991	2,699	+5.8%
2001	2,998	+11.1%
2011	3,357	+12.0%

References

1. Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2014-01-01.
2. Price, Robin (July 1981), "Hydropathy in England 1840-70", Medical History 25 (3): 269–280, doi:10.1017/s002572730003458x, PMC 1139039, PMID 7022064