18-453: Sankt Pölten ( German pronunciation: [zaŋkt ˈpœltn̩] ; Central Bavarian : St. Pödn ), mostly abbreviated to the official name St. Pölten , is the capital and largest city of the State of Lower Austria in northeast Austria, with 55,538 inhabitants as of 1 January 2020. St. Pölten is a city with its own statute (or Statutarstadt ) and therefore it is both a municipality and
36-460: A tramline operated in St Pölten. Today, a network of eleven bus lines operates at regular intervals within the city. Every summer, a free tourist train in the city centre connects the ancient parts of the city with the government district. The oldest part of the city is built on the site of the ancient Roman city of Aelium Cetium that existed between the 2nd and the 4th century. In the year 799, it
54-888: A district in the Mostviertel . Due to its cultural status, it has recently enjoyed an increase of visitors passing through Sankt Pölten on their way to Vienna. The city lies on the Traisen river and is located north of the Alps and south of the Wachau . It is part of the Mostviertel , the southwest region of Lower Austria. St Pölten is divided into the following subdistricts: Altmannsdorf, Dörfl at Ochsenburg, Eggendorf, Ganzendorf, Hafing, Harland, Hart, Kreisberg, Matzersdorf, Mühlgang, Nadelbach, Oberradlberg, Oberwagram, Oberzwischenbrunn, Ochsenburg, Pengersdorf, Pottenbrunn, Pummersdorf, Ragelsdorf, Ratzersdorf at
72-636: A literary-cultural magazine; "City-Flyer", an online magazine describing the cultural offerings of the city, which is published on paper monthly; "Campus Radio", a radio station from the University of Applied Sciences; "HiT FM", a radio station broadcasting in Lower Austria; "LetHereBeRock", an online youth magazine about the alternative rock scene; NÖN , a Lower Austrian newspaper; the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation for Lower Austria; and
90-625: Is a regional weekly newspaper published in St. Pölten , Lower Austria . NÖN was started in 1965 following the merger of several local newspapers. The paper is published weekly and is part of the NÖN Niederösterreichische Nachrichten company. Its publisher is Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus. The paper is based in St. Pölten and provides mostly local news, serving Lower Austria. As of 2011 Walter Fahrnberger and Daniel Lohninger were
108-774: Is the City-Treff - Pueblo , the Lifeline , the Reebok and the Seepark . In addition, the city has: St Pölten hosts a primary base of the Lower Austrian state sports school. Every year in the third week of May the ATP tournament takes place in St Pölten. There are multiple local tennis stadiums, including the Arena im Aufeld, the tennis centre Allround, the tennis courts by the local ice sport association 1872,
126-611: The expulsions of the Germans , it was also spoken in Hungary and southern Bohemia and Moravia. It also influenced Austrian German . There are noticeable differences in the language within the group, but changes occur along a west-east dialect continuum on both sides of the historic border of the Bavarian stem duchy with the later Duchy of Austria . That means that the distinct languages of Vienna and Munich are very different from each other, but
144-809: The ÖBB and is also the terminus of the Leobersdorfer Railway, the Mariazellerbahn , the regional railway to Tulln and the regional railway to Krems . It is at the intersection of the Western Motorway A1 and the Kremser Speedway S33, and is traversed by the Vienna Road B1. St Pölten is a junction of the Wieselbus bus lines, which provides radial connections between the capital and the different regions of Lower Austria. Between 1911 and 1976,
162-729: The 19th century. A characteristic of Central Bavarian is the vocalization of l and r after e or i . E.g. the standard German viel becomes either vui (in Western Central Bavarian) or vüü (in Eastern Central Bavarian). The border between the western and eastern subgroups roughly coincides with the border between Bavaria and Austria . In all subgroups, hard consonants such as p, t, k are softened to become b, d, g . Nieder%C3%B6sterreichische Nachrichten Niederösterreichische Nachrichten (also known as Lower Austrian News and abbreviated as LAN )
180-556: The Traisen, Reitzersdorf, Schwadorf, Spratzern, St Georgen on the Steinfelde, St Pölten, Stattersdorf, Steinfeld, Teufelhof, Unterradlberg, Unterwagram, Unterzwischenbrunn, Viehofen, Völtendorf, Waitzendorf, Wasserburg, Weitern, Wetzersdorf, Windpassing, Witzendorf, Wolfenberg, Wörth and Zwerndorf. The city's main railway station, St. Pölten Hauptbahnhof , is located directly on the West railway of
198-407: The capital of Lower Austria with a resolution by the Lower Austrian parliament on 10 July 1986. The Lower Austrian government has been hosted in St Pölten since 1997. The name St Pölten is derived from Hippolytus of Rome . The city was renamed to Sankt Hippolyt, then St Polyt and finally St Pölten. The municipal council consists of 42 members and since the municipal elections in 2016 it consists of
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#1732852430370216-489: The city are red and yellow. The seal of the city contains its coat of arms surrounded by the text Landeshauptstadt St. Pölten . The administration's seal of the magistrate also contains the city's coat of arms with the text Magistrat der Stadt St. Pölten . As of 15 May 2001, 40,041 people worked in 2,711 companies in the city. 23 of those companies are large-scale enterprises with more than 200 employees each. Several media companies are based in St Pölten. These are "@cetera",
234-561: The courts in St. Georgen, the courts at the Ratzersdorfer Pond, the courts in the Lower Austrian state sports school and the courts of the leisure park Megafun. St Pölten is twinned with the following cities: Central Bavarian Central or Middle Bavarian form a subgroup of Bavarian dialects in large parts of Austria and the German state of Bavaria along the Danube river, on
252-453: The dialects of any two neighbouring towns in between will be quite similar. However, due to influences of the corresponding political centres, discontinuous change is nowadays noticeable along the national border between Austria and Germany . Generally, Viennese has some characteristics differentiating it from other Bavarian dialects due to the influence of languages spoken by people moving to Vienna from many areas of Austria-Hungary during
270-453: The following parties: The city's senate consists of 11 members: On 9 July 2004 the municipal council elected the former senator for culture Mag. Matthias Stadler ( SPÖ ) as the new mayor of St Pölten. The first vice mayor is Susanne Kysela (SPÖ); the second vice mayor is Johannes Sassmann (ÖVP). The arms ' blazon is silver and azure; on the right a fess gules, on the left a wolf rampant silver langued gules and armed Or. The colours of
288-444: The local television channel "P3tv". The largest companies based in St Pölten are the furniture producer Leiner, the paper manufacturer Salzer, and the family owned engineering conglomerate Voith . Swimming is available at Aquacity (indoor swimming pool ), the St. Pölten outdoor swimming pool and Ratzersdorf Lake (a bathing pond where a nudist beach, beach volleyball , and miniature golf are available). For fitness training there
306-635: The northern side of the Eastern Alps . They are spoken in the ' Old Bavarian ' regions of Upper Bavaria (with Munich (see Munich German)), Lower Bavaria and in the adjacent parts of the Upper Palatinate region around Regensburg , in Upper and Lower Austria , in Vienna (see Viennese German ), in the state of Salzburg , as well as in the northern and eastern parts of Styria and Burgenland . Before 1945 and
324-503: Was called Treisma . St Pölten did not become a town until 1050 and officially became a city in 1169. Until 1494 St Pölten was part of the diocese of Passau , and then became the property of the state. A Benedictine monastery was founded in 791. In 1081 it hosted the Augustinian Chorherren and in 1784 their Kollegiatsstift closed. Since 1785, this building has hosted the cathedral of St Pölten. The city replaced Vienna as
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