Schottwien is a town in the district of Neunkirchen, in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It lies in the eastern part of the country, within the federal province that surrounds Vienna.
Administratively, Schottwien belongs to the Neunkirchen district, one of the districts that make up Lower Austria. As a town within this district, it forms part of the broader industrial and Alpine foothill region of eastern Austria.
Beyond its status as a town in the Neunkirchen district of Lower Austria, few additional details are firmly established in the available source material. It is best known simply as one of the municipalities that constitute the district of Neunkirchen.