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

, it is one of the westernmost settlements in Austria. 77.9 % of the municipality are forested, the rest of the land are made up of valleys or barren land. Waidmannsfeld has a school located on Schulstraße, and a small square (platz

Platz

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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 used to be part 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....

. It lies in the Lower Austrian heartland divided the place in 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...

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Other

There are 51 companies, of which 34 are agriculturally or forestry related. 790 persons are employed. The activity rate was 45.04% in 2001.

External links

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