Wolkersdorf

Wolkersdorf is a town inside the district of Mistelbach in the Austrian kingdom of Lower Austria. It is situated inside the Weinviertel, approximately 15 km north of Vienna, on the principle street from Vienna to Brno. The municipality consists of the subdivisions Wolkersdorf, Riedenthal, Pfosing, Obersdorf and Munichsthal. It changed into increased to city fame in 1969. Wolkersdorf is hooked up by street with Vienna to the south and Gaweinstal and the Czech Republic to the north. Nordautobahn A5 turned into completed in December 2009.

The Wolkersdorf railway station is hooked up to the Vienna S-Bahn suburban railway community, and is also served with the aid of regional trains to Vienna, Mistelbach and Laa an der Thaya. A agreement at a ford across the Thaya existed already in the twelfth century, earlier than the estates had been obtained with the aid of the Babenberg dukes of Austria about 1190. Duke Leopold VI of Austria about 1230 had the walled town of Laa laid out as a strategic outpost on the border with the Kingdom of Bohemia inside the north.