Seitenstetten

Seitenstetten
Seitenstetten
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Seitenstetten Location within Austria
	Coordinates: 48°1′N 14°39′E / 48.017°N 14.650°E
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Amstetten
Government
• Mayor	Franz Deinhofer
Area
• Total	30.46 km2 (11.76 sq mi)
Elevation	349 m (1,145 ft)
Population (2018-01-01)
• Total	3,394
• Density	110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	3353
Area code	07477
Website	www.seitenstetten-gv.at

Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.

Geography

Seitenstetten lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 25.84 percent of the municipality is forested.

History

One Udalschalk or Udiskalk, first mentioned in 1109, founded a monastery there in 1112 and gave all of his properties in Seitenstetten, Grünbach, Heft and Stille (in today's Upper Austria). In 1114, Benedictine monks from Göttweig Abbey were installed there. In 1116, Bishop Ulrich I. von Passau, related to the Udalschalk family, consecrated the abbey's church and donated the large Aschbach parish. In 1142, parish Wolfsbach was added. Those two major parishes were, by the time, split up into the fourteen parishes of which the abbey is in charge up to now.

Around 1180, Wichmann von Seeburg, Archbishop of Magdeburg, donated large woods near the Ybbs river.