Alberndorf

Alberndorf is a wine-growing community in the heart of the Pulkau Valley in the northern Weinviertel. Situated close to the Czech border, it is known far and wide not only for its excellent white and red wines, but above all for its hospitable and open-minded inhabitants. Alberndorf lies on historical ground.

The finds from the ridge to the south of the village point to the shore zone of a tertiary sea that was here 70 million years ago. Bone finds of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses etc. from the Ice Age are present. The oldest evidence of human culture can be found in an Upper Palaeolithic hunting station (approx. 28,000 years old). Many prehistoric finds indicate that our area was probably inhabited at least temporarily. The first mention of an estate called Adalberno-Villa is known from the year 1100 through a feudal grant to an Adeloloth who called himself Adelberndorfer. In the following period, the Pulkau Valley and thus Alberndorf repeatedly became the scene of border disputes between the Habsburgs and the Bohemians. When there was peace in between, other hardships befell us. Famines, swarms of locusts, floods, severe drought, plague and cholera and then again the war hordes of the Hussites, Turks, Swedes, French and Prussians. We were not spared by the First and Second World Wars. Despite everything - or perhaps because of it - our inhabitants are always open and respond to the concerns of their guests much more openly than elsewhere. We have simply learned to live life.