is dated 8 September 903, when two bishops (of the then Roman Catholic church) exchanged lands. However, in 907 the settlement seems to have been destroyed again. After the Battle of Lechfeld settlement in the area of today's Mödling started again. After this, for some time Mödling housed a relative of the then ruling House of Babenberg. In 1177, Henry the Elder, son of Henry II Jasomirgott, became landlord in an area reaching from Liesing to Piesting and Bruck an der Leitha. You can read this in old documents kept in the nearby monastery of Heiligenkreuz. In Henry's days arts and culture dominated in the castle of Mödling; the famous minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide stayed there more than once. The Spitalkirche and today's St. Othmar were built in the 15th century, the Karner (charnel house) in the 12th. Even in these times, Mödling grew grapes; after Langenlois, it was the largest grape-growing community in Lower Austria. In 1343, Duke Albrecht II granted the rights of a market town to Mödling. In 1529, the Ottomans devastated Mödling for the first time during their first siege of Vienna. In 1679, many citizens died of the Black Death. When the Ottomans came again in 1683, almost all the citizens of Mödling were killed. The second epidemic of the Black Death only brought death to 22 inhabitants, hence the survivors built the monument of the Holy Trinity (Dreifaltigkeits- or Pestsäule) at the Freiheitsplatz. In the early 19th century, Ludwig van Beethoven often visited his favorite pub, the Three Ravens, in Mödling. Arnold Schönberg lived in Mödling between 1918 and 1925, and invented his twelve-tone technique of composition there. On 18 November 1875, Mödling was designated a city. From 1883 to 1932, Mödling was the starting point of the Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram, Austria's first electric railway and world's first long-lasting tram with overhead lines. In 1938, after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, Mödling was incorporated into the newly formed 24th District of Vienna. In 1954, it became once again a part of Lower Austria. Population Politics 1 2020 as NEOS, formerly LIF 2 Wir für Mödling – Eva Maier 3 Bürgerliste Michael Kanyka 4 Wir für Mödling, formerly Liste Pepi Wagner 5 Mödling 2000 6 The size of regional council is 41. 7 The size of city government could vary between 9 and 14. Traffic Mödling functions as a traffic hub for its