Stadt Krems

What Stadt Krems does

Stadt Krems an der Donau is a statutory city (Statutarstadt) and municipal government in the State of Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), serving approximately 25,000 residents within a historic city center on the Danube. Founded circa 995 AD, it is one of only 15 statutory cities in Austria with full administrative autonomy. The city administration (Magistrat der Stadt Krems) operates over 40 specialized municipal offices covering registration (Meldewesen), permits, social services, urban planning, waste and water management, public transportation (Stadtbus and AST demand-responsive taxi), education, culture, and sports. Revenue is generated through statutory municipal taxes (Kommunalsteuer, Grundsteuer), administrative fees, cultural-services income (museum admissions, venue rentals), and intergovernmental grants from the State of Lower Austria and the federal government.

The city's service delivery combines physical citizen service centers (Bürgerservicestelle) with a unified digital portal at krems.at integrating online forms, the Digitale Amtstafel (digital notice board), Schau auf Krems (citizen feedback platform), an interactive Stadtplan, an Offener Haushalt open-budget platform, a Müllkalender waste schedule, and an event calendar (events.krems.at). The underlying technology is standard municipal infrastructure — TYPO3 CMS, Matomo analytics with IP anonymization, Google Maps, and reCAPTCHA. The city operates eight sub-brands spanning its service portfolio: Mirador (leisure pool), museumkrems, galeriekrems, Stadtbücherei (library), Musikschule Krems (music school), Kunstmeile Krems (arts corridor of 8 partner institutions), Krems bildet (education initiative), and Weingut Stadt Krems (municipal winery). Cultural partnerships with Ernst-Krenek-Institut, Ludwig-Ritter-von-Köchel-Gesellschaft, and NÖ Festival und Kino GmbH underpin the arts-tourism identity, anchored by the UNESCO World Heritage Wachau Valley designation.

Stadt Krems pursues a hybrid citizen/tourist customer model with no enterprise accounts. Marketing and citizen engagement run through Facebook, Instagram, newsletters, the monthly Stadtjournal publication, press releases, the dedicated Stadtmarketing Krems city-marketing organization, and event listings syndicated with Niederösterreich Werbung GmbH. Multi-decade strategic plans (Krems 2030 / 2040) guide urban development and economic positioning; recent operational moves include the July 2025 glass-collection system restructuring and the July 2026 constitution of a new Gestaltungsbeirat design advisory board.

Name

Stadt Krems

Legal name

Stadt Krems an der Donau

Website

https://krems.at

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Stadt Krems an der Donau is an Austrian statutory city (Statutarstadt) and municipal government serving ~25,000 residents in the UNESCO Wachau Valley, delivering tax-funded administrative, cultural, educational, and tourism services through a Magistrat of 40+ offices and a unified krems.at digital portal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Krems an der Donau

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Municipal Tax Revenue: Revenue from local taxes including municipal tax (Kommunalsteuer), property tax (Grundsteuer), and other local levies as a statutory city in Austria.
2. Citizen Service Fees: Fees collected for various administrative services including registration (Meldewesen), permits, and official certificates.
3. Cultural Services Revenue: Revenue from museums (museumkrems), event venues, and cultural facilities including ticket sales and venue rentals.
4. State and Federal Grants: Funding allocations from the State of Lower Austria (Land Niederösterreich) and Federal Government for municipal services and infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Stadt Krems an der Donau is a statutory city (Statutarstadt) providing comprehensive municipal administration and public services to approximately 25,000 residents in Lower Austria. Core services include citizen registration (Meldewesen), permits, social services, waste management, water supply, public transportation (Stadtbus and AST), cultural institutions (museumkrems, Musikschule, Kunstmeile with 8 cultural venues), educational services (Krems bildet), and recreational facilities (Mirador leisure pool).

Product overview

Stadt Krems an der Donau operates a comprehensive digital citizen services portal (www.krems.at) that serves as the primary gateway to municipal government services. The portal integrates multiple service modules including citizen services (Bürgerservice), registration services (Meldewesen), cultural institutions (museumkrems, Musikschule, Kunstmeile with 8 cultural venues), educational services (Krems bildet), public facilities (Mirador leisure center), transportation (Stadtbus & AST), and various information services including event calendar, waste collection calendar, city map, and citizen feedback platform (Schau auf Krems). The offering functions as a unified platform with interconnected modules providing citizen access to administrative, cultural, educational, and recreational municipal services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mirador: Public swimming pool and leisure facility operated by the city
• museumkrems
• galeriekrems
• Stadtbücherei Krems
• Musikschule Krems
• Kunstmeile Krems
• Krems bildet
• Weingut Stadt Krems

Products and services

• museumkrems (City Museum)

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Kunstmeile Krems InstitutionscoreOthersThe Kunstmeile Krems is a cultural corridor with 8 partner institutions: Dominikanerkirche, Karikaturmuseum Krems, Kunsthalle Krems, Klangraum Minoritenkirche, Landesgalerie NÖ, Artothek NÖ, Forum Frohner, and museumkrems. These institutions collaborate on shared programming, the annual Kulturprogramm, and cross-promotional activities under the unified arts corridor brand.
• Stadtmarketing KremscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerSeparate city marketing organization (stadtmarketing-krems.at) responsible for tourism promotion, place branding, and economic development marketing. Collaborates with the municipality on joint initiatives.
• Niederösterreich Werbung GmbHminorGTM or Marketing PartnerState tourism marketing organization for Lower Austria. The events calendar processes event data from veranstaltungen.niederoesterreich.at for regional tourism promotion.
• Kremser WirtschaftsbeiratminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEconomic advisory board for the city (kremserwirtschaftsbeirat.at) providing business community input on economic development policies and initiatives.
• NÖ Festival und Kino GmbHminorOthersFestival and cinema operating company for Lower Austria. Manages Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche and operates the event calendar platform for the city.
• Ernst-Krenek-InstitutminorOthersInstitute dedicated to composer Ernst Krenek, collaborating on music and cultural programming in Krems.
• Ludwig-Ritter-von-Köchel-GesellschaftminorOthersMusic society founded in 1995 during Krems' 1000-year anniversary celebration, dedicated to promoting musical activities and Mozart heritage (Köchel catalog).

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Stadt Linz: Upper Austrian statutory city of ~200,000 residents and capital of the Bundesland. Larger-scale incumbent operating comparable municipal service portfolio including museums, music school, and public transit; useful for service scaling comparison.
• Stadt Salzburg: UNESCO-listed Austrian statutory city with ~155,000 residents, mature cultural tourism economy (Salzburg Festival, Mozart heritage). Comparable UNESCO-tourism-city dynamics; relevant for understanding how cultural brand compounds at scale.

Direct peers

• Stadt Steyr: Austrian Statutarstadt with ~38,000 residents in Upper Austria, similar historic-industrial profile. Provides the same package of municipal administration, museums, music school, and tourism services as Krems, making it a structural peer for budgeting and service-quality benchmarking.
• Stadt Baden bei Wien: Lower Austrian statutory city with ~26,000 residents operating in the same Bundesland as Krems. Closest scale peer within Niederösterreich, useful for benchmarking tax revenue per capita and tourism yields in the Vienna orbit.
• Stadt Klagenfurt am Wörthersee: Carinthian statutory city with ~105,000 residents strongly anchored in tourism and culture. Comparable governance model and cultural-tourism revenue mix, though larger scale; useful for understanding how municipal culture-portfolio scale translates to revenue.
• Stadt Wels: Austrian Statutarstadt with ~63,000 residents in Upper Austria operating full municipal services including waste, water, public transit, and cultural institutions. Directly comparable as a statutory city in a secondary Austrian urban market with similar statutory-fee and tax revenue structure.
• Stadt Villach: Austrian Statutarstadt with ~65,000 residents in Carinthia. Comparable as a non-Vienna/non-state-capital statutory city relying on tourism, cultural institutions, and industrial-commercial tax base. Useful peer for evaluating per-capita revenue and tourism economics.

Regional players

• Stadt Melk: Smaller Lower Austrian municipality also located in the Wachau UNESCO region (Stift Melk). Regional peer for tourism, heritage, and wine-sector economic dynamics even though not a Statutarstadt.

Others

• Stadtmarketing Krems GmbH: Quasi-subsidiary city marketing organization responsible for tourism promotion and place branding. Adjacent entity operating in the same geography as Stadt Krems for tourism GTM.
• Niederösterreich Werbung GmbH: State tourism marketing organization for Lower Austria. Upstream ecosystem partner that aggregates and disseminates Krems tourism inventory via the veranstaltungen.niederoesterreich.at platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/stadtkrems
• Instagraminstagram.com/krems_stadt
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stadt-krems

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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