Raabs an der Thaya

Raabs an der Thaya
Fountain in town centre
Coat of arms
Raabs an der Thaya Location within Austria
Coordinates: 48°50′53″N 15°29′35″E
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Waidhofen an der Thaya
Government
• Mayor	Rudolf Mayer (ÖVP)
Area
• Total	134.67 km2 (52.00 sq mi)
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01)
• Total	2,651
• Density	20/km2 (51/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	3820
Area code	02846
Vehicle registration	WT
Website	www.raabs-thaya.gv.at

Raabs an der Thaya is a municipality with 3,114 inhabitants in Waidhofen an der Thaya (district) in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria, near the Austrian border with the Czech Republic. About 27.6 percent of the municipality is forested.

The German Thaya and the Moravian Thaya unite to form the Thaya at Raabs. Raabs Castle, built in the last half of the 11th century, has been exonymically called Rakous (formerly Rakús) by neighbouring Czechs, which is the origin in the Czech, in Old Polish Rakusy and Slovak name for Austria as a whole, Rakousko/Rakúsko.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1869	5,908	—
1880	5,980	+1.2%
1890	5,796	−3.1%
1900	6,039	+4.2%
1910	5,729	−5.1%
1923	5,913	+3.2%
1934	5,845	−1.2%
1939	5,531	−5.4%
1951	5,386	−2.6%
1961	4,576	−15.0%
1971	4,194	−8.3%
1981	3,748	−10.6%
1991	3,295	−12.1%
2001	3,114	−5.5%
2011	2,778	−10.8%
2021	2,644	−4.8%