Investment in the future Church, school, inn, and grocer's shop are what keep a community alive. Therefore, they usually form the core of every historically developed town. With a population today of almost 6000, Gloggnitz has had the status of a town since 26 October 1926. It is located about 80 km south of Vienna at the foot of the Semmering pass, in Lower Austria's industrial district. Several important businesses settled here, thanks to intelligent subsidy programmes it provided possible to keep the shops, inns, and cafes in the centre or to bring them back there. This prevented the heart of the town from dying. Gloggnitz is today a popular shopping town, the council knows the importance of education for the future and to ensure the town remains attractive for young adults and their families. In the centre Schulgasse is the first parallel street to the east of the Hauptstra?e (Main Street). In the north it leads into Richtergasse. From this junction a long 19th century building housing a music and new middle school, onto which the sports middle school was docked in the 1960s, extended southwards along Schulgasse. On the opposite side of the street the school for those with special education needs was housed in an old building crowned by a tower. None of these schools was able any longer to meet contemporary educational or energy standards. The community therefore decided to combine all the different school types in a new building. And to erect a modern, future-oriented school centre for a primary, special, middle, sports, music, and polytechnical school.
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