Mönichkirchen
Mönichkirchen is a market town in the district of Neunkirchen in the south of the Austrian state of Lower Austria with a population of 607 inhabitants (1.1.2013).
Geography
Mönichkirchen is situated on the east side of the Wechsel mountain (1,743 m) in the south-east Industrieviertel near the border with Styria. The size of the village is 16.27 km². 68.34% of the area is forested.
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1869 | 479 | — |
1880 | 546 | +14.0% |
1890 | 540 | −1.1% |
1900 | 526 | −2.6% |
1910 | 615 | +16.9% |
1923 | 579 | −5.9% |
1934 | 662 | +14.3% |
1939 | 646 | −2.4% |
1951 | 669 | +3.6% |
1961 | 752 | +12.4% |
1971 | 782 | +4.0% |
1981 | 741 | −5.2% |
1991 | 721 | −2.7% |
2001 | 623 | −13.6% |
2011 | 597 | −4.2% |
Sports
There are two sports clubs in Mönichkirchen:
- Winter sports club Mönichkirchen
- Soccer club FC Mönichkirchen
Around the village of Mönichkirchen there is a skiing resort that is joined by several lifts to the adjacent skiing resort of Mariensee (village of Aspangberg-Sankt Peter). The total length of ski-slopes of both resorts is about 13 km. Both villages operate three chair lifts and one drag lift.
During summer the region is commonly used for hiking and climbing.
References
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- Altendorf
- Aspang-Markt
- Aspangberg-Sankt Peter
- Breitenau
- Breitenstein
- Buchbach
- Bürg-Vöstenhof
- Edlitz
- Enzenreith
- Feistritz am Wechsel
- Gloggnitz
- Grafenbach-Sankt Valentin
- Grimmenstein
- Grünbach am Schneeberg
- Höflein an der Hohen Wand
- Kirchberg am Wechsel
- Mönichkirchen
- Natschbach-Loipersbach
- Neunkirchen
- Otterthal
- Payerbach
- Pitten
- Prigglitz
- Puchberg am Schneeberg
- Raach am Hochgebirge
- Reichenau an der Rax
- Scheiblingkirchen-Thernberg
- Schottwien
- Schrattenbach
- Schwarzau am Steinfeld
- Schwarzau im Gebirge
- Seebenstein
- Semmering
- Sankt Corona am Wechsel
- Sankt Egyden am Steinfeld
- Ternitz
- Thomasberg
- Trattenbach
- Warth
- Wartmannstetten
- Willendorf
- Wimpassing im Schwarzatale
- Würflach
- Zöbern
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