Bramberg am Wildkogel

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Salzburg

Political District :

Zell am See

License plate :

ZE

Surface:

117.27 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 16 ' N , 12 ° 21' E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '22 " N , 12 ° 20' 53" E

Height :

819 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,935 (January 1, 2020)

Postcodes :

5733, 5741

Area code :

06566

Community code :

5 06 01

NUTS region

AT322

Address of the
municipal administration:

Dorfstrasse 100
5733 Bramberg am Wildkogel

Website:

bramberg.salzburg.at

politics

Mayor :

Hannes Enzinger ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2019)
(21 members)

10

6th

5

10 6th 5

A total of 21 seats

ÖVP : 10
SPÖ : 6
BBL : 5

Location of Bramberg am Wildkogel in the Zell am See district

Bramberg and the Salzach Valley (1965)

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Bramberg is an Austrian municipality in the Zell am See (Pinzgau) district in the Salzburg region with 3935 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). It is located in the Oberpinzgau region , about 10.5 kilometers from its capital Mittersill and 38 kilometers from the district capital Zell am See , and is one of the communities in the Hohe Tauern National Park .

origin of the name

According to Lahnsteiner, the place name developed from “Prentenperige” (1160) via “Brennenberch” (1244) and “Praemberch” (1314) to Bramberg and is due to the fact that the sunny side, the Sonnberg, suffers particularly from sunburn.

geography

The center of Bramberg is at an altitude of 819 meters at the southern foot of the Wildkogel , 2224 m high , on the left - northern, sunny - bank of the Salzach . The most important tributaries of the Salzach are from the north, coming from the Kitzbühel Alps , the Mühlbach , from the south, originating in the Hohe Tauern, the Schönbach , the Habach , the Steinbach and the Wennsbach .

Community structure

The municipal area comprised 14 localities by 2020: Bicheln, Bramberg am Wildkogel including Bramberg and Weichseldorf, village including Dorf-Passthurn and Kronau, Habach including wastelands, Habachtal and Steinach, Hohenbramberg, Leiten including Erlach, Mühlbach , Mühlberg, Schönbach including house, Schweingg, Sonnberg, Steinach, Wenns and Weyer including the Weyerhof. As of 2020, the community will only consist of one village.

The community consists of four cadastral communities (area as of December 31, 2019):

Bramberg (1,080.96 ha)
Habach (5,746.19 ha)
Mühlbach (1,143.65 ha)
Mühlberg (3,748.72 ha)

The municipality of Bramberg has a registry office and maintains the citizenship record for the entire municipality.

Bramberg was part of the Mittersill judicial district until 2002 and has been part of the Zell am See judicial district since 2003 . Together with eight other Oberpinzgau communities, Bramberg forms the Oberpinzgau regional association.

The municipality is, together with the other Oberpinzgau municipalities between Krimml and Hollersbach , part of the Oberpinzgau West cleanliness association, which is responsible for the infrastructure regarding sewerage and the proper disposal of waste water from the region.

In elections to the Austrian National Council (Austria), the five electoral districts of the municipality of Bramberg am Wildkogel belong to the regional constituency of Lungau / Pinzgau / Pongau (5c) and the regional constituency of Salzburg . In the Salzburg state elections for the Zell am See electoral district (6).

Neighboring communities

	Kirchberg in Tirol and Jochberg ( Kitzbühel District , Tyrol )	Mittersill ^∗
Neukirchen am Großvenediger		Hollersbach in Pinzgau
	Matrei in Osttirol ( Lienz district , Tyrol )

^∗ Short border in the mountains, the place Mittersill is exactly east behind Hollersbach

history

The Leitengut belonging to the community was mentioned in a document in 925. Bramberg is the oldest parish in the upper Salzach Valley and was first mentioned in 1160 as Prentenperige .

In ancient times the area around Bramberg was a copper ore mining center. Ore mining was resumed in 1829 and finally abandoned in 1863. Attempts to resume mining in the 20th century failed.

Famous was the emerald mining in Habachtal , next to Norway and Italy the only Emerald -Fundort in Europe.

As the pastor of his home parish Dorfgastein , Andreas Rieser criticized the Hitler regime and its protagonists early on, and was therefore imprisoned and tortured in concentration camps , but ultimately survived and later worked as a village pastor in Bramberg. His history was documented and in 2013 the church square was renamed "Rieser-Platz" in his memory and as a warning.

Since prices of around 600 euros per square meter of building land are already being paid in the village, the municipal council has decided to require applicants to give 40% of the area to the municipality in order to be able to build inexpensively for the locals.

Population development

Culture and sights

Site, 1965
Gasthof Kaserer, 1965

Parish church Bramberg am Wildkogel
Chapel of the dead northwest of the parish church
Vicarage, built in 1799
Local history museum, former Wilhelmgut
Weyer ruins
Gasthof Senningerbräu, former Zehenthof with a medieval core
Hans Panzl memorial

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

A push-pull train set of the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn at Bramberg station, 2010

For car traffic, the east-west connection is opened up by federal highway 165. As part of the Salzburg transport network, both the narrow-gauge Pinzgauer Lokalbahn , which connects to the Austrian main railway network in Zell am See , and the postbuses in the direction of Krimml and Zell am See operate in the context of the Salzburg transport network .

education

The community of Bramberg operates a community kindergarten and has a primary and secondary school.
Tourismusschule (TS) Bramberg of the Tourismusschulen Salzburg

sport and freetime

Football club TSU Bramberg
Wildkogel ski area on the Wildkogel
Cable car to the Wildkogel, called the Smaragdbahn, since December 2010
illuminated toboggan run, 14 km long
illuminated cross-country and skating trails
Swimming pool with a large children's playground
Flying school for paragliding and hang gliding

politics

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The community council has a total of 21 members.

After the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution:
- 11 SPÖ
- 9 ÖVP
- 1 BBL - Bramberger Citizens List
After the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution:
- 10 ÖVP
- 9 SPÖ
- 2 BBL
After the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution:
- 11 ÖVP
- 7 SPÖ
- 3 BBL
After the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution:
- 10 ÖVP
- 6 SPÖ
- 5 BBL

mayor

1936–1945 Matthias Blaikner
1945-1945 Jakob Scheuerer
1945–1954 Ferdinand Nindl (ÖVP)
1954–1972 Matthias Blaikner (ÖVP)
1972–2003 Karl Nindl (ÖVP)
2003–2004 Günter Steiner (ÖVP)
2004–2014 Walter Freiberger (SPÖ)
since 2014 Hannes Enzinger (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows according to the coat of arms description :

“Two towering silver battlements in blue , the left one higher and touching the edge of the shield . A golden horse growing from the right side of the higher pinnacle . "

The silver battlements are taken from the coat of arms of the Lords of Wenns, who lived in the municipality in the Middle Ages. The horse indicates Bramberg as a center of the famous Pinzgau horse breeding. It is a representation of the old warhorse Fjuri of the knight Bart vom Küniglberg. After a night of drinking with the knight, the horse rode into the Wildkogel area in 1376 and, by a miracle, came back gilded after several days and thus became one of the most productive gold mines in the Hohe Tauern. Ritter Bart, however, was never seen again.

Personalities

Karl Nindl ( 1943-2010 ), Austrian politician of the ÖVP

Andreas Rieser (* July 7, 1908 in Dorfgastein; † March 3, 1966 in Bramberg am Wildkogel), Catholic pastor and persecuted under the National Socialist regime, survived seven years of concentration camps, pastor in Bramberg from 1948, honorary citizen, in 2013 the church square was named after him