Petronell-Carnuntum is situated about 40 km east of Vienna, in the district of Bruck/Leitha. The village has about 1.210 inhabitants. The community area is about 26 km2 large and covers the area from the river Leitha over the river Danube to the Marchfeld.

The territory of Petronell-Carnuntum has historical importance, since Carnuntum was a Roman legion town. The ancient city of Carnuntum covered an area of about 10km² in today’s municipalities of Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. Situated at the crossroads of the Amber Road and the Limes Road, about 50,000 people lived in the Colonia Septimia Aurelia Antoniniana Carnuntum in its heyday in the 3rd century AD. Carnuntum, the capital of the Roman province Upper Pannonia, extended over the present-day areas of Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. The impressive witnesses of the former civilian city and military camp can be seen today in the Archaeological Park Carnuntum.

A stone with insigne was found in Petronell-Carnuntum in 1869 during the renovation of the castle Petronell where you can read „Julius Vales and Flavius Adauctus”, Chiefs of the Fire Department built the monument”.

Our current volunteer fire-brigade consists of 90 members. We are a section of the fire-brigade of Hainburg/D. and part of the district commander staff of Bruck/Leitha (there are 21 in the federal country of Lower Austria).
We own four fire engine vehicles, a commander car, a personnel carrier car, a small fire engine car and a pumping truck with the amount of 2000l water.

After the model of the city Hainburg/D., the volunteer fire-brigade was created on July 8^th 1877. The statutes which were prepared by the teacher Josef Schwarz were approved on 22 August 1877 of the “K.K. NÖ Stadthalterei”.
The first fire-brigade captain was Josef Schauer. On September 18^th, 1877 the first hand-pump could be bought in Vienna.

After founding the fire-brigade in the year 1877 the technology in the fire-brigade progressed rapidly. This was a necessary fact, because due to the building method of the houses at that time, the fires meant a large danger. In the summer of 1889 many fire outbreaks created fear. Some fires had done large damage, which was due to the design of the houses at that time. 

The syringe mentioned first worked with the fire in corroding well, but it was replaced by a fire-engine in the year 1919. In the year 1908 the fire-brigade Petronell got its own flag, which is used until today with solemn disengaging.

During the first world war (1914-1918) the crew numbers got smaller, since the majority of young men had so serve for their country. Nowadays the members of the brigade are alarmed by means of pagers or siren. In former times this happened by means of a bugle call or by ring the fire bells one called. With the steadily increasing numbers of automobiles the spectrum of technical employments had to be extended. Despite war-economical bottlenecks the fire-brigade of Petronell got a force syringe new portable engine. Carpentry Weber had its own air foam syringe for their security.

After the war the fire-brigade was again built up and some acquisitions were transacted. A high point was surely a new light pump vehicle, the mark OPEL lightning, affectionately called Crisu. This vehicle was in the year 1977 the only vehicle of the fire-brigade Petronell.

In 1977 there was formed the fire-brigade group of young people in our fire-brigade. At the age of ten boys and girls can become members of the Fire Department. At the moment in our fire brigade there are 15 young fire fighters.