Schwarzenbach is a town in the Wiener Neustadt-Land district, 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...

. 48.22 percent of the municipality

Municipality

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 is forested, the rest being made up of agricultural and barren land.

Subdivisions

The area is divided into two districts: Schwarzenbach and Schwarzenbach (Zerstreut).

History

In Roman times

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

, the area was part of the Roman Province

Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...

 of Pannonia

Pannonia

Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....

. Lower Austria is located in the heartland of the nation, and played a key part of the History of Austria

History of Austria

The history of Austria covers the history of the current country of Austria and predecessor states, from the Iron Age, through to a sovereign state, annexation by the German Third Reich, partition after the Second World War and later developments until the present day...

. Since 1992, archaeological discovery of an old Celtic settlement dating back to the 1st and the 2nd centuries has been excavated. The findings there show that the community was of great social and political importance.

Other

There are 33 companies. 463 persons are employed. The productivity rate in 2001 was 41.34%.

External links

• Map and aerial photos
  • Street map from Mapquest
  • Aerial photograph from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps