Abstract (eng)
A considerable expansion of vineyards in the north-eastern part of Lower Austria, called at that time the Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg, today's Weinviertel, was noticed by the authorities from the second half of the 17th century onwards, which can be explained by the increasing demand for cheap consumer wine in the rapidly growing city of Vienna. In the middle of the 18th century, the highest authorities ordered to investigate this expansion of the wine-growing area, which was actually prohibited by several ordinances, but was nonetheless continually ongoing - and to address the underlying fear of an excessive reduction in the arable land that was so important for bread grain. These surveys for the Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg were carried out by the local authorities in 1767 and 1768, the data obtained was entered into complex tables according to precise specifications and this data, which is available in the Nieder-Österreichischen Landesarchiv in St. Pölten, forms the main source material for this work. After a detailed description of the available and actually recorded data and the information structured by means of various auxiliary tables, a phase-by-phase evaluation of this available and structured data is carried out, initially as an overview of the entire area under investigation. Furthermore, detailed evaluations for five previously defined dominions (Ortsherrschaften) - Grafenegg, Guntersdorf, Kadolz, Matzen and Rabensburg - are described in detail, but also the special features of the Wechselweingärten are analyzed both for the entire Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg and for the dominions listed above. The results of the analyses are summarized, evaluated and clearly presented, but also documented with complete tables in the appendix.