Tulln an der Donau is a municipality in Austria with 16,230
inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) and the district capital of the
district of the same name in the federal state of Lower Austria.
Lying in the middle of market gardens and with numerous
discounts across the city, Tulln is also known as the garden city.
The municipality of Tulln is located in the Tullnerfeld, which
is bordered by the Vienna Woods in the south and the Wagram in the
north. The municipal area has an area of 72 km² and spreads on
both sides of the Danube, which flows through the area over a length
of around five kilometers. The built-up part of the city is mainly
south of the Danube. The city is bordered by two streams. The Große
Tulln flows into the west and the Kleine Tulln into the east into
two branches of the Danube. The city is 180 m above sea level. The
area around the city, like the entire Tullnerfeld, is completely
flat terrain, which is only slightly undulating where the arms of
the Danube once pushed into the country. Tulln is about 40
kilometers from the federal capital Vienna.
By plane
The military airport "Fliegerhorst Brumowski" (LOXT) is
located in the municipality of Tulln south of the town of Langenlebarn.
However, it is closed to civilian use.
The nearest airport with
scheduled flights is Vienna-Schwechat, about 60 km south-east. From
there Tulln can be reached by car via the A4-A23-A22-S5-B19, by public
transport S-Bahn S7 to Wien-Mitte (Landstraße), then by subway U4 to
Spittelau or Heiligenstadt and then by S-Bahn S40 to Tulln.
By
train
The Tulln an der Donau train station and the Tulln-Stadt train
station are on the Tullnerfeld Bahn, which leads to St. Pölten. The
Franz-Josefs-Bahn also runs from Vienna (Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof,
Spittelau, Heiligenstadt) via Klosterneuburg to Tulln and continues into
the Waldviertel to Gmünd and Budweis.
During the day, the S40
S-Bahn line runs every half hour between Vienna (Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof,
Spittelau, Heiligenstadt) via Klosterneuburg to Tulln. Furthermore,
regional and regional express trains to the Waldviertel, which start at
Vienna's Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, also stop in Tulln (terminus station:
České Velenice).
Worth mentioning is the Tullnerfeld train
station on the newly developed Westbahn route (in the municipality of
Langenrohr about 12km southwest of Tulln), where many express trains
running between Vienna (Hauptbahnhof and Westbahnhof) and Linz stop;
Driving time from Vienna-Meidling approx. 15 minutes. From there you can
reach Tulln with regional buses.
By bus
Traveling by
long-distance bus is possible via the Vienna International Busterminal
in Vienna-Erdberg and the Vienna Busterminal in Vienna-Leopoldstadt,
from where you can take the underground, express or regional trains to
Tulln.
Lines:
Bus 406: Klosterneuburg - St. Andrä/Wördern -
Langenlebarn - Tulln
Bus 441: Tulln - Tulbing - Königstetten -
Zeiselmauer
Bus 445: Vienna Neuwaldegg/Silbergasse - Unterkirchbach -
Tulln
Bus 449: Mauerbach - Koenigstetten - Tulln
Bus 861: Tulln -
Kirchberg am Wagram - Großriedenthal
In the street
North of
Tulln, on the left side of the Danube, runs the S5 autobahn (Stockerauer
Schnellstraße), which is part of the autobahn ring around Vienna. The
city is well connected to the national road network via the Tulln
junction (10).
South of the Danube, the city is the hub of
numerous federal roads:
The Klosterneuburger Straße B14 leads from
Tulln via Klosterneuburg to Vienna (Döbling)
The Tullner Straße B19
leads from Tulln via Altlengbach to the A1 motorway (junctions 35
"Altlengbach" and 41 "St. Christophen, the latter only half a junction
from/to the west).
Tulln is well connected to the northern bank of
the Danube via the Rosenbrücke (B19) and the Tullner Donaubrücke (B19a),
giving access to the S5, the B4 (Stockerau-Horn-Gmünd-Budweis) and the
S3 (Stockerau-Hollabrunn-Znaim-Iglau).
Arrival from Vienna: From
the federal capital there are several equivalent routes to Tulln, which
should be chosen depending on the start in the city area.
From
the northwest via the B14 and Klosterneuburg
From the northeast via
the A22 to the Stockerau junction and then via the S5, Tulln exit. The
city can be reached via one of the two Danube bridges.
From the west
via the B1 (Purkersdorf, Riederberg), turn onto the B213 at Ried am
Riederberg, you can reach Tulln from the south.
From the south and
southwest of Vienna, you can also take the A21 to Steinhäusl, continue
on the A1 to Altlengbach and then take the B19.
Arrival from
other directions:
Coming from the west (Salzburg, Linz) via the A1 to
the St. Pölten junction, continue via the S33, the Traismaur Danube
bridge and the S5 to the Tulln exit, then via one of the Danube bridges
into the city.
Coming from the south (Graz, Eisenstadt) via the A2 to
the Vösendorf junction, continue via the A21 to the Steinhäusl junction,
continue via the A1 to the Altlengbach exit and then via the B19.
Coming from the east (Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna Airport) on the A4 to
Vienna (Prater junction), continue on the A23 to the Kaisermühlen
junction, continue on the A22 to the Stockerau junction and continue on
the S5 to the Tulln exit.
Coming from Gänserndorf or Brünn: Via the
S1 to the Korneuburg junction and then via the A22 and S5.
Coming
from Prague/Hollabrunn: Take the S3 to the Göllersdorf exit and continue
on the B19
Coming from the Waldviertel via the B4 to Niederrussbach
and further on the B19.
By boat
In Tulln there is a shipping
pier, where mainly yachts, excursion boats and Danube cruise ships stop.
By bicycle
The Danube Cycle Path (Passau-Vienna) leads through
Tulln. You can cycle to Tulln as a day trip from both Vienna and Krems,
with a return journey on the same day.
The center of Tulln is easy to explore on foot. Under the main square is an underground car park, here you can park for half an hour for free.
Tulln south of the Danube
Aubad, natural lake on the banks of the
Danube, which is used as a bathing lake
Comagena is an area in Tulln,
a cavalry camp during the Roman Empire
The ship Regentag by
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Birthplace of the expressionist painter
Egon Schiele at Tulln main station
Egon Schiele Museum
Garden
Tulln, a permanent institution, emerged from the state garden show in
2008 of the federal state of Lower Austria in Tulln on the Danube and
the adjacent water park Tulln, a floodplain landscape criss-crossed by
disabled paths and navigable waterways
Main square with a length of
190 * 55 meters, with old town houses from the Gothic, Renaissance and
Baroque periods, as well as the late historic office building of the
district administration from 1891, which was built according to plans by
Ferdinand Nebesky, modeled on a palace on the Ringstrasse in Vienna.
Minorite Church
Minorite Monastery
Nibelungenbrunnen: The
Nibelungenbrunnen is a design of the scene "Meet of Kriemhild, the
Burgundian queen, and the Hun Etzel in Tulln" in the form of a bronze
sculpture documentation, created by the sculptor Michail Nogin. The
fountain sculptor Hans Muhr complemented the work of art with an
integrative and aesthetic light-water-being composition
Lower
Austrian Fire Brigade Museum
Parish Church of St. Stephen, dating
back to the 11th century on Romanesque foundations; three-aisled pillar
basilica with Gothic extensions from the 12th century. Baroque redesign
after the town fire in 1752
Parish church Tulln-St. Severin
Roman
Museum Tulln
Roman Tower: from the 4th century, later used as an
armory and salt tower (currently used by student associations)
Rosenarcade is a shopping center that was created in March 2008 on
Tulln's main square
Tulln takes part in various national and
international flower decoration competitions. The city won the silver
medal in 1994 and the gold medal in 2001 at the Entente Florale Europe
competition. Also in 2008, the year in which the Lower Austrian state
horticultural exhibition took place, it received a gold medal in the
city category.
Tullner Karner, late Romanesque.
Tulln north of
the Danube
Neuaigen Castle
Catholic parish church Neuaigen Mariae
Himmelfahrt
The international horticultural fair in Tulln takes place every year in August.
Rose arcade. Shopping center located right on the main square.
Tulln is one of the oldest cities in Austria. The place name is
said to come from Celtic, but this theory cannot be confirmed.
Settled in pre-Roman times, it became the Roman cavalry fort
Comagena or Comagenis in the first half of the first century AD, and
was also the base of the Roman Danube flotilla. In the last years of
Roman rule there are reports of a visit by St. Severin and the
miraculous rescue of the city from the barbarians.
After the
Nibelungenlied, the Hun king Etzel received Siegfried's widow
Kriemhilde in Tulln, an event to which a memorial in the form of a
fountain was dedicated in 2005. Tulln was already mentioned as a
city (Comagenis civitas) at the end of the 8th century. After the
final conquest of the Avar Empire by the Frankish Emperor
Charlemagne in 803, the former Roman cavalry fort was secured and
settled. The resulting place was now in the area of the Bavarian
East Country. Tulln was first mentioned in a document in 859 under
the name Tullina. In the Carolingian period, the place of
jurisdiction and seat of Count Ratpot, Tulln gained great importance
as a residence and Danube trading center during the time of the
Babenberg Margraves, so that it was called the capital of the
country. Out of gratitude for his victory over the Bohemian King
Ottokar and the salvation from danger of death, in which his son
Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg had taken part, Rudolf I of
Habsburg founded the Dominican convent in Tulln on August 31, 1280,
which is no longer preserved today. It remained his only monastery
foundation. On November 11, 1301, the Schenkenberg gift (compare
Schenkenberg castle ruins, Canton Aargau, Switzerland) gave the
convent a farm and accessories in Tulln for the salvation of her
deceased husband Wilhelm, her daughter Agnes and granddaughter
Gertrud. Tulln lost its primacy as a result of Vienna's boom and a
series of heavy burdens (encroachment of the Danube, relocation of
trade routes, major fires, military tribulations, Turkish invasions,
Thirty Years' War, French invasion). In 1683, Tulln served as a
gathering place for the relief army of the Holy Roman Empire before
the Battle of Kahlenberg during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna.
The city walls were demolished from 1861. Tulln became the seat
of the district administration in 1892.
A new boom began in
the 19th century (Danube bridge, construction of the
Franz-Josefs-Bahn, district authority) and in the 20th century
(schools: first high school in 1931, industry: sugar factory in
1936). In 1986, Tulln applied to be the state capital, but St.
Pölten was chosen.
The municipality is located in the Tullnerfeld, which is bordered by the Vienna Woods in the south and Wagram in the north. The municipality has an area of 72 km² and spreads out on both sides of the Danube, which flows through the area for a length of around five kilometers. The built-up part of the city is mainly south of the Danube. The city is bordered by two streams. In the west, the Great Tulln flows into one branch of the Danube, in the east, the Small Tulln. The city is 180 m above sea level. The city's surroundings, like the entire Tullnerfeld, are completely flat terrain, which is only slightly undulating where the arms of the Danube once pushed their way into the country. Tulln is about 40 kilometers from the federal capital Vienna.
The municipal area includes the following nine localities (number of
inhabitants in brackets as of January 1, 2023):
Frauenhofen (104)
Langenlebarn-Oberaigen (1431) including the municipality of Au and
Rafelswörth
Langenlebarn-Unteraigen (1055) including mill and willow
heaps
Mollersdorf (169)
Neuaigen (553) including the forest lake
Nitzing (392) including a bathing lake
Staasdorf (239)
Trübensee
(127)
Tulln an der Donau (12,862) including the Praskac tree nursery,
picture oak and In der A
The community consists of the cadastral
communities of Frauenhofen, Langenlebarn-Oberaigen,
Langenlebarn-Unteraigen, Mollersdorf, Neuaigen, Nitzing, Staasdorf,
Trübensee and Tulln.
FC Tulln was founded in November 1918 as a sports club in Tulln. At
that time there were still sections for football, tennis, swimming,
boxing and athletics. The club played in the Regionalliga Ost from 1965
to 1974. In the 2012/13 season, they did not get past last place in the
2nd Lower Austrian state league. As a result, FC Tulln had to be
relegated to the regional league, where it is still active today.
UHC
Tulln played handball in Austria's highest league, the Handball Liga
Austria, and has won the Austrian Cup three times (in the 1997/98,
2003/04 and 2006/07 seasons).
TTV Tulln plays table tennis in the 1st
women's national league and in the 1st men's national league.
TC
Tulln plays tennis.
Tulln is the starting and ending point of the
Großer Tullnerfelder Rundwanderweg.
A significant industry since 1937 is the Agrana sugar factory with
the second largest sugar silo in Europe (capacity around 70,000 tons of
sugar).
Many nurseries and plant breeding companies are located
on the outskirts.
Tulln is also an important business town,
especially for clothing.
The city is well-known throughout
Austria for its national exhibition center.
International
Horticultural Fair
You & the animal Tulln
Healthy & Wellness Tulln
Tulln flea market
HausBau & EnergieSparen Tulln
Austro Vin Tulln
Austrian Boat Show
Pool + Garden Tulln
Culinary Tulln
Classic
car fair in Tulln
bike - austria Tulln
Austro Agrar Tulln
Furthermore, the city is home to some very well-known companies, which
are not only located in the field of agriculture, but also in service
and production.
Agrana with the Tulln sugar factory and the
Agrana Research & Innovation Center, the research center of the Agrana
Group
Dlouhy vehicle construction
Schmidberger electrical
installations
Breitwieser stonemason
Praskac plant land
Tulln is an important transport hub in Lower Austria. Tulln has two
Danube bridges (Tullner Donaubrücke and Rosenbrücke), federal roads, a
train station on the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and another, which is in the city
center on the Tullnerfelder Bahn (Tulln Stadt), a shipping pier, a
marina and the military airfield "Fliegerhorst Brumowski" in the
neighboring town of Langenlebarn. Langenlebarn also has a train station
on the Vienna – Gmünd railway line mentioned above.
The Tullner
Straße B 19 is a busy route between the Westautobahn and the Stockerauer
Schnellstraße in addition to the Kremser Schnellstraße. Only the newly
built Rosenbrücke brought relief to the city of Tulln. Despite the many
roundabouts, seven traffic lights have been preserved. Two further
roundabouts are planned or under construction.
In addition to the Tulln volunteer fire brigade, the municipality of
Tulln maintains four other fire brigades in the surrounding villages.
These include the volunteer fire brigades in Langenlebarn, Neuaigen,
Staasdorf and Nitzing. Measured by the number of emergency vehicles and
number of operations (488 operations in 2017), the Tulln volunteer fire
brigade is the largest fire brigade in the community. Due to their
sometimes specialized equipment, they are also called to support fire
brigades outside of the actual area of operation. The city fire brigade
is also responsible for parts of the Stockerauer expressway (S5
expressway), which runs north of the Danube. A Ford pre-equipment
vehicle VRF (Ford F350 XL CrewCab) put into service in 2015 was
specially equipped by Rosenbauer for rescuing people in traffic
accidents and is primarily used for such operations on the many higher
priority roads in the area. This vehicle is equipped with a hydraulic
rescue kit and a poly extinguishing system in the event of a vehicle
fire.
In addition to the five voluntary fire brigades of the
municipality of Tulln, there are three company fire brigades in the city
area. The company fire brigade at the University Hospital in Tulln and
the company fire brigade in Agrana Tulln are responsible for fire
protection in both companies and represent the local fire brigade in the
associated buildings.
The district office of the Tulln Red Cross is located in the southern part of the city, as well as the headquarters and a base of the Tulln section of the Austrian water rescue service in the recreation area on the Danube lände.
As an administrative center, numerous institutions are located in
Tulln for civil protection for Lower Austria:
State fire brigade
command with state fire brigade association
Lower Austrian Fire
Service and Safety Center (Formerly: Fire Service School)
National
Red Cross Association
Lower Austrian provincial government department
for civil protection
Air Base Brumowski of the Federal Army in the
cadastral district of Langenlebarn.
The city is supplied with district heating from biomass by EVN Wärme.
The district heating network was set up in 2004 and now supplies 25,000
MWh per year of environmentally friendly district heating. The biomass
heating plant is located in the east operating area next to the road
maintenance depot.
South-west of Tulln is an EVN substation built
in 2014, which ensures the supply of 35,000 residents in the Tulln
economic area.
Tulln serves as a regional school center that has several secondary
schools and colleges.
Federal technical school for flight technology
Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Tulln: This general secondary
school consists of a lower and upper level. In the second class you can
choose between Gymnasium and Realgymnasium. The high school part
specializes in the humanities, primarily foreign languages such as
English, French, Latin, Russian and Spanish. The Realgymnasium focuses
on natural sciences such as biology, physics and chemistry and also
offers corresponding laboratory lessons in the upper grades. Until 1931
the grammar school was housed in what is now the elementary school in
Tulln. From 1938 the school was called the "State High School for Boys",
and from 1945 finally the Federal High School in Tulln. In 1954, the
company moved from Kirchengasse to Konradgasse, and in 1980 to
Donaulände, where it is today
Lower Austrian fire brigade and safety
center: Further training for the volunteer fire brigades and company
fire brigades in Lower Austria and other organizations that require
similar training.
FH Wiener Neustadt, Campus Tulln
These two
are located at the Technopol (TZT Tulln) - it serves as a facility at
the interface between business, research and training for the further
development of the location in the field of agricultural and
environmental biotechnology. A number of renowned research institutes
are also located here.
Commercial Academy and Commercial School Tulln
Higher business school and business school in Tulln
Inter-University
Research Institute for Agricultural Biotechnology: The Inter-University
Research Institute for Agricultural Biotechnology, IFA for short, was
opened in 1994. In the meantime, the University of Applied Sciences in
Wiener Neustadt and the IFA have developed a new course in Biotechnical
Processes, making Tulln a university location.
Agricultural College
Tulln (LFS Tulln, also at the Technopol)
School for general and
psychiatric health and nursing care at the University Hospital in Tulln
Adult education center (seminars, courses and adult education).
Kurt Appel (* 1968), philosopher of religion, Catholic theologian,
university lecturer
Peter Balazs (born 1970), mathematician
Romina
Bell (born 1993), soccer player
Michael Bernhard (born 1981), Member
of the National Council
Sabine Binder (born 1971), politician
Ludwig Buchinger (born 1965), member of the state parliament
Rudolf
Buchinger (1879–1950), Minister of Agriculture, Advocate General, State
Secretary
Nina Burger (born 1987), soccer player
Alfons Dirnberger
(1941–2022), soccer player
Nikola Dovedan (born 1994), soccer player
Walter Galla (1957–2020), musician, cabaret artist and author
Ferdinand Grossmann (1887–1970), choir director, singing teacher and
composer
Markus Hameter (born 1980), football referee
Roland Hönig
(born 1980), moderator, commentator and sports reporter
Voodoo
Jurgens (born 1983), musician
Jennifer Klein (born 1999), soccer
player
Richard Koch (born 1979), jazz trumpeter
Günter Kraft (*
1972), Member of Parliament
Gert Linke (born 1948), sculptor
Alex
Machacek (born 1972), jazz guitarist and composer
Maximilian Mayer
(born 1998), soccer player
Lucas Miedler (born 1996), tennis player
Luzia Nistler (born 1957), musical and opera actress
Christian
Plattner (born 1963), mathematician, IT manager and jazz musician
Oliver Ringelhahn (born 1969), opera, operetta, lied and oratorio singer
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Expressionist painter
Doris Schretzmayer
(born 1972), actress
Siegfried Seidl (1911–1947), commander in the
Theresienstadt ghetto, war criminal
Josef Steinböck (born 1967),
musician
Herwig Steiner (born 1956), artist
Thomas Sykora (born
1968), alpine skier
Viktoria Wolffhardt (born 1994), canoeist
Philip Zoubek (born 1978), pianist and composer
Johannes Zeinler
(born 1993), organist
Jakob Jake Eder (born 1999), composer, musician
and actor
Gabriel Zirngast (born 2002), soccer player
Leo Koll
(born 2003), basketball player
Humbert Dell'mour (1881-1948), poet and linguist (electric waves, old
German language teaching), local poet of Tulln
Josef Keiblinger
(1910–1968), mayor and member of the state parliament
Kurt Waldheim
(1918–2007), Federal President, Foreign Minister and UN
Secretary-General
Andreas Bors (* 1989), Member of State Parliament
and Municipal Council
Felix Stainach, Hofrat
Josef Scheicher (1842–1924), priest and
politician