Hirtenberg is a town of approx. 2,500 inhabitants near Baden bei Wien

Baden bei Wien

-Points of interest:The town offers several parks and a picturesque surrounding, of which the most frequented is the Helenental valley. Not far from Baden, the valley is crossed by a widespread aqueduct of the Vienna waterworks...

 in Lower Austria

Lower Austria

Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. The river Triesting

Triesting

The Triesting is a river in the southeastern part of the Vienna Woods. It discharges into the smaller Schwechat at Achau and is part of the catchment area of the River Danube. It has a length of 60 km....

 is located at the south border of the town. Coming from the Vienna Woods, the valley of Triesting joins the Vienna Basin

Vienna Basin

The Vienna Basin is a sedimentary basin between the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains...

 here.

Neighbourhoods

Starting in the east going clockwise the following towns are located next to Hirtenberg:

• Leobersdorf
  Leobersdorf
  Leobersdorf is a town in the Baden district of Lower Austria, Austria.-Early settlements:First indices of settlement in the area date back to 3000 BC....
  
  
• Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn
  Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn
  Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria.-External links:^...
  
  
• St. Veit an der Triesting (part of Berndorf
  Berndorf
  Berndorf can refer to any of the following places:* Berndorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany* Berndorf, part of Twistetal, Hesse, Germany* Berndorf, Lower Austria, Austria...
  
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The Leobersdorf railway connecting the Austrian Southern Railway

Austrian Southern Railway

The Austrian Southern Railway was an Austrian railway company established in 1841...

 at Leobersdorf with the Austrian Western Railway

Austrian Western Railway

The Empress Elisabeth Railway was the name of a former railway company during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Today, the term is still used to refer to the railway lines that were formerly operated by that company....

 at St. Pölten runs at the southern border of the town. The train-station of Hirtenberg is located on the area of Enzesfeld.
The main road in the town is the federal highway B18 Hainfelder Bundesstraße.

History

The name "Hirtenberg" is derived from the name of a small castle - the Feste Huotto - which was located on a hill overlooking the valley of the Triesting. At the end of the first Turkish war in 1532 the army of Kasim Bey was defeated in the area of Hirtenberg.
With the beginning of the 20th century some industrial companies were founded: a weaving company, the Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik

Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik

Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik was a Nazi Germany munitions company. The company's Hirtenberger Patronen Zündhutchen und Metallwarenfabrik near Wiener Neustadt used forced labor from a sub-camp of the World War II Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and produced...

 ammunition factory (with a KZ Mauthausen subcamp), and a steel producing company. Because of this fact the coat of arms of Hirtenberg contains an industrial building with three chimneys. The big companies are now far smaller and employ far fewer people than before and turned to produce different things like airbag ignitions, steel lockers or car rims.

Public buildings

• Federal prison
  Prison
  A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
  
  - The fifth biggest prison of Austria, 500 of the 2,300 inhabitants are in fact prisoners.