Eferding
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Borough Eferding
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Upper Austria | |
| Political District : | Eferding | |
| License plate : | EF | |
| Surface: | 2.81 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 19 ' N , 14 ° 2' E | |
| Height : | 271 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 4,259 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 1516 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 4070 | |
| Area code : | 07272 | |
| Community code : | 4 05 03 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Stadtplatz 31 4070 Eferding |
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| Mayor : | Severin Mair ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members) |
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| Location of Eferding in the Eferding district | ||
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 View from the south of Eferding |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Eferding is a municipality in the Hausruckviertel in Upper Austria with 4259 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) and the seat of the Eferding District Court . In 2016, the Eferding district administration relocated to Grieskirchen after establishing an administrative association . It is the third oldest city in Austria (city charter since 1222).
geography
Eferding is located at an altitude of 271 m in the Eferdinger Basin in the Hausruckviertel , approx. 2 km from the Danube . The extension is 2.2 km from north to south and 3 km from west to east. The total area is 2.8 km². There are no other cadastral communities in Eferding.
history
The history of Eferding goes back to Roman times, at that time Eferding was a road junction on the Danube Limes , which was presumably secured by a riding fort . The Danube branched out widely in the Eferding Basin and reached as far as the city.
When the Bavarians immigrated to the country in the 6th century, a Bavarian nobleman named Efrito is said to have given the city its name. It seems more likely, however, to derive it from the Low German Evers (= river, ship), which would mean a place where ships land.
The mention of Eferding in the Nibelungenlied by Bishop Pilgrim of Passau (971-991) indicates the paramount importance of the place and a church. 1145 is the first written mention of a Rantvicus plebanus de Efridinge, in 1202 that of a Leutoldus plebanus de Efridinge.
Eferding received town charter in 1222 and is one of the oldest towns in Austria .
In 1367 the Schaunbergers bought the town and castle . In 1559, after the Schaunbergers died out, the Starhembergers were inherited as the new territorial lords. The castle, in which - as the Nibelungenlied tells - Kriemhild stayed overnight on her bridal trip to the Hunnenland, is still owned by the Starhemberg family today.
Population development
politics
The municipal council has 25 members and since 2015 the following distribution: ÖVP 9, SPÖ 8, FPÖ 4, GRÜNE 3, OLE 1.
- mayor
- until 2015 Johann Stadelmayer (SPÖ)
- since 2015 Severin Mair (ÖVP) youngest mayor of Austria
Town twinning
Culture and sights
- Parish church Eferding ('Eferdinger Dom'): built between 1451 and 1505, late Gothic; three-aisled hall church, also known as Eferdinger Dom due to its thickness, high baroque and neo-Gothic altars, late gothic sculptures, grave monuments from late gothic, renaissance and baroque, remarkable rare double-armed spiral staircase as the entrance to the choir, magnificent, richly designed double portal with stone figures on the south side of the cathedral ( Entrance portal)
- Evangelical parish church Eferding : built 1830–1833, one of the few unchanged Protestant prayer houses of the Tolerance period ; three-storey building with a rectangular, shallow barrel vaulted, late classicist hall and today again without a tower.
- Starhemberg Castle : Starhemberg Castle dates back to the 13th century (before that in 1167 a castle was mentioned here). Design of the garden front in 1784. Initially owned by the Schaunberger, from 1559 the Starhemberger, it is still the seat of the head of the Starhemberger today. The castle is located in the center on the north side of the town square between the parish church and the old town moat (now the Mittlerer Graben). There are two museums in the castle, the Princely Starhemberg Family Museum and the City Museum.
- Princely Starhemberg Family Museum and City Museum : Among other things, the museum shows a table from Mozart's Vienna apartment, on which he composed the ' Magic Flute '. It is located in Starhemberg Castle.
- Schifer'sches Erbstift and Hospital Church : The hospital church was built in 1325, Gothic core, high altar from 1623, remarkable facade tower with eight-sided pyramid helmet, frescoes from around 1430 and ribbed vaults in the Magdalen Chapel from high Gothic. The Spitalkirche is part of the hospital founded by Rudolf the Schifer (in which both the sick and the needy were taken in) and is located on Schiferplatz.
- Town square with the Trinity column : The town square with the Trinity column and the town houses is one of the most beautiful places in Upper Austria. The town houses, almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, consist of a preserved late Gothic core with baroque and classicist facades.
- Lebzelterhaus Vogl : The Lebzelterhaus Vogl is located on the town square no. 27; A family-run wax maker and gingerbread house since 1683, today a café-confectionery with its own production; Originally consisting of two Gothic houses, the facades have been redesigned over time to form a single baroque front
- Eferdinger G'schichtnweg : 16 stations lead through Eferding and tell stories about the city
- Kulturzentrum Bräuhaus : historical building, first mentioned in 1597/98; formerly part of Starhemberg Castle. Today, after extensive renovation, a cultural center.
Protestant church
Eferding town square
Trinity Column on the town square
Hospital church on Schiferplatz
Hospital Church: High Gothic Magdalen Chapel with medieval frescoes
Kulturzentrum Bräuhaus
Franziszeischer Cadastre city map
freetime and sports
- Danube Cycle Path : the International Danube Cycle Path, which leads from the source of the Danube in Germany to its mouth in the Black Sea , leads past Eferding
- Swimming ponds : In the vicinity of the city towards the Danube there are several gravel ponds that can be used for swimming in summer (free entry)
- Erlebnisbad Eferding : outdoor swimming pool, near the town square
- Ski jumping hill : The Energie AG ski jumping arena ( Aigner-Schanze ) is located in the municipality of Hinzenbach and is a normal hill of category K 85.
- Tennis facility
- horse riding
Special events
- In 1999 the Upper Austrian townscape fair took place in Eferding .
- In 2022, Eferding will be the third oldest city in Austria to celebrate its 800th anniversary as a city census.
- In 2024, Eferding and Peuerbach will organize the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition on the subject of “From microcosm to macrocosm”.
coat of arms
Official description of the municipal coat of arms : split by silver and red; A continuous crenellated wall with two loopholes, a round arched gate with a raised portcullis and a crenellated tower with two semicircular window openings in alternating colors. The community colors are blue-red.
The well-fortified gate building in the Schaunberger colors of white and red marks Eferding as a formerly fortified city, which had a bourgeois character as early as 1167 under the episcopal Passau manor. Blue and red are the colors of the Starhemberg family .
In some images, such as the former town hall of Eferding on the town square, a “wild man” holds the town's coat of arms.
This is due to an old legend that is said to have happened as follows:
The saga of the wild man
Long ago robbers besieged Eferding. Greedy for prey, they did everything in their power to get the city into their hands. Whatever the Eferdingen citizens did, they did not succeed in driving away the rabble. Ultimately, the city council had to bow to the inevitable. With a heavy heart it was decided to open the gates and surrender the city to the enemy.
A tailor did not want to accept that. He asked the city council for a day's notice. He used this to build a huge straw man with his assistants. Clad in furs, arms raised, with long claws on the fingers, powerful horns on the head, and a wide open mouth - so this enormous monster frightened even those who had built it. "The Wild Man" was moved to the Schaunberger Tor in the evening with ropes and pulleys. Everything in the city was on its feet. At the tailor's command, pipes were blown, pans hit, tin cans rattled, pots drummed, trumpets sounded. In addition, everyone roared, screamed and screamed as loud as they could.
Even the besiegers outside the city became aware of the noise. They came to the city wall to see what was going on. Slowly the people from Eferding got the hideous straw man up. When his wide open grimace appeared behind the city wall in the twilight, the besiegers were seized by horror. Horrified, they stormed off.
The Eferdinger, however, celebrated their "hero". The wild man can still be seen today as the bearer of the city's coat of arms.
education
- Elementary school north (north)
- Primary school south (south)
- New Middle School (North)
- Sports Middle School (South)
- Federal Trade Academy
- Community College
- Music school: it is located in the brewery
traffic
Street:
- Eferdinger Straße : Landstraße B 129 from Linz to Eferding
- Nibelungen Strasse : Landstrasse B 130 leads along the Danube from Eferding to Passau , the state border to Germany .
Train:
- Linz Local Railway (LILO) (private railway): Linz-Eferding-Neumarkt / Kallham-Peuerbach-Waizenkirchen
- Aschacher Bahn : Wels-Eferding-Aschach
Bus:
- Bus 2002/06 Linz-Eferding-Passau (Linz-Eferding-Haibach-St.Agatha-St.Ägidi-Passau)
- Bus 2014 Linz-Eferding-Peuerbach-Enzenkirchen
- Bus 660 Wels- (Bad Schallerbach) -Eferding-Aschach
- Bus 664 Wels-Scharten-Eferding
- Bus 662 Eferding-St.Marienkirchen-Prambachkirchen
- Bus 8031 Eferding-Stroheim-Reith
- Bus 8177 Leonding / Meixnerkreuzung-Pasching-Kirchberg-Eferding-Bad Mühllacken
Ship:
- In Brandstatt near Eferding (2 km away) there is a Danube ship landing stage
Air:
- Eferding Airport (ICAO code LOLE) is located in the municipality of Pupping and has a grass runway.
Bicycle:
- Danube Cycle Path : Eferding is on the international Danube Cycle Path. The long-distance cycle path leads 2850 km along the Danube, from its source to its mouth in the Black Sea ( Romania ).
Personalities
Sons and daughters:
- Susanne Reuttinger (1595–1635), the daughter of a citizen of Eferding, married the astronomer Johannes Kepler on October 28, 1613 .
- Honorius Aigner (1651–1704), Abbot of Kremsmünster from 1703 to 1704
- Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977), Austrian composer
- Ernst Rüdiger Prince Starhemberg (1899–1956), Austrian politician and home guard leader
- Josef Zeininger (1916–1995), Episcopal Vicar of the Archdiocese of Vienna and founder and federal chaplain of the Catholic Youth Workers in Austria
- Karl Leitl (1924–1982), industrialist
- Erich Holzinger (1930–2019), politician (ÖVP) and mill builder
- Herrmann Jungraithmayr (* 1931), Africanist
- Alfred Jungraithmayr (1933–2016), Austrian journalist
- Fridolin Dallinger (* 1933), Austrian composer and music teacher
- Karl Kriechbaum (1933–2015), consultant, city and district music director, (dialect) poet, honorary ring bearer
- Horst Haitzinger (* 1939), Austrian-German cartoonist
- Florian Meindl (* 1985), Austrian music producer and DJ
- Leyya , trip-hop band
People related to the city:
- Aloys Zötl (1803–1887), Austrian master dyer and painter of a bestiary , lived in Eferding
- Hubert Taferner (* 1925), Austrian architect and draftsman, has lived in the city of Eferding for decades
- Karin Peschka (* 1967), Austrian author, grew up in Eferding
- Maria Katharina Moser (* 1974), theologian, director of the Diakonie , grew up in Eferding
literature
- Otto Wutzel : Eferding. Face of an old city. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 2, Issue 4, Linz 1948, pp. 289–309, online (PDF; 1.3 MB) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum.
- Roland Forster: The medieval and early modern town house in Upper Austria. A typological and historical study using the example of the city of Eferding. Dissertation, Vienna University of Technology 2005 ( full text ).
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Eferding
- 40503 - Eferding. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- More information about the municipality of Eferding on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
- Kulturzentrum Bräuhaus Eferding
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mayor of Eferding at the age of 22. In: www.nachrichten.at. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Youngest Mayor: "Common Seidl prevents conflicts" , article on DerStandard.at from July 18, 2016.
- ↑ Hubert Taferner: Remembrance, warning, reconciliation: the Evangelical Church of Tolerance Eferding. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2010, pp. 54–62, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
- ↑ Location picture fair 1999 in Eferding ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b The legend of the Wild Man of Eferding in Upper Austria from November 11, 2011, accessed on November 11, 2011.
- ^ Official website of the Eferding Nord elementary school
- ^ Official website of the Eferding Süd elementary school
- ^ Official website of the New Middle School Eferding Nord
- ↑ official website of the sports school Eferding Süd
- ↑ official website of HAK HAS Eferding
- ↑ official website of the Eferding Music School
- ↑ Johannes Kepler Forum OoeGeschichte.at.
