Spital am Pyhrn

Spital am Pyhrn
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Church Village
License plate :	AI
Surface:	108.86 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 40 '  N , 14 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '55 "  N , 14 ° 20' 27"  E
Height :	640  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,251 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4582
Area code :	07563
Community code :	4 09 18
Address of the municipal administration:	Stiftsplatz 7 4582 Spital am Pyhrn
Website:	www.spital-pyhrn.at
politics
Mayor :	Aegidius Exenberger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	13 7th 5 13 7th 5  A total of 25 seats SPÖ : 13 ÖVP : 7 FPÖ : 5
Location of Spital am Pyhrn in the Kirchdorf district
View of Spital am Pyhrn
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Spital am Pyhrn is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district in the Traunviertel , Austria , with 2,251 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Spital am Pyhrn is located at an altitude of 640 m in the Traunviertel. The extension is 16 km from north to south and 12.3 km from west to east. The total area is 108.9 km². 47.6% of the area is forested and 19.3% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following five localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Fahrberg (25)
• Gleinkerau (288)
• Oberweng (234)
• Seebach (237)
• Spital am Pyhrn (1467)

The community consists of the cadastral communities of Fahrenberg, Gleinkerau and Spital am Pyhrn.

Spital am Pyhrn is part of the Pyhrn-Priel tourist region .

history

Emperor Heinrich II donated the land on the Pyhrn to the diocese of Bamberg . The place has been part of the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century.

Bishop Otto II of Bamberg handed over the Spital am Pyhrn to a lay brotherhood in 1190. The hospital was converted into a collegiate monastery in 1418 . The Spital am Pyhrn Abbey gained some wealth in the following centuries. The collegiate monastery was raised to a provost by Pope Paul V in 1605. From 1714 to 1730 the church was designed in baroque style by Johann Michael Prunner with frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte and stucco work by Domenico Antonio Carlone . She then received four excellent altarpieces from Kremserschmid and two from Michelangel Unterberger .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

The Benedictine monks of the monastery of St. Blasien in the Black Forest , which was abolished in 1806 , initially moved to Spital am Pyhrn with the entire inventory of the monastery and the coffins of the early Habsburgs. Since the collegiate monastery was too small for them and the climate too harsh, the convent moved to St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal as early as 1809 . The collegiate monastery was not allowed to be rebuilt and the collegiate church became a parish church. On the night of October 25th to 26th, 1841, a fire damaged the village and the monastery buildings.

The place belonged to the crown land of Austria ob der Enns, which in 1918 became the federal state of Upper Austria.

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau .

In March 1943, a "foreign national children's home" for children of foreign civil workers was opened by the National Socialist regime. By 1945, 38 of 97 children interned there had died of poor nutrition and care; the fate of six other children is unknown. In May 2014, two memorial plaques in memory of these victims of the Nazi regime were unveiled at the cemetery in Spital.

At the beginning of 1945 , the entire gold reserve of the Hungarian National Bank (33,000 kg) was stored in the crypt under the presbytery of the collegiate church . After 1945 (end of the Second World War ), Upper Austria was restored and the monastery buildings came into the possession of the Austrian Federal Forests , which they sold to the municipality of Spital am Pyhrn in 2009. The exterior of the monastery was restored in 1964–1967. From 1989 to 1997 the Spital / Pyhrn forest enterprise was located in the monastery. Since 2015, the Museum Between Heaven and Earth - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and the World of the 8000s "is located on 400 m ² in baroque vaulted rooms on the ground floor of the monastery.

Spital belonged to the Windischgarsten judicial district until 2012 and has been part of the Kirchdorf an der Krems judicial district since January 1, 2013 .

Population development

In 1991, according to the census, the community had 2,197 inhabitants, increased to 2,275 by 2001, only to decrease to 2,238 by 2018. The decline in population is based on a negative balance of migration , which can not be offset by the positive birth balance.

politics

The municipal council with 25 members.

• With the municipal council elections in 2003, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 11 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in 2009, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 (+0) SPÖ, 10 (–1) ÖVP and 2 (+1) FPÖ.
• With the 2015 municipal council elections, the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 (+0) SPÖ, 7 (–3) ÖVP and 5 (+3) FPÖ.

mayor

• since 2003 Aegidius Exenberger (SPÖ)

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided; above in gold a black, growing lion, below in blue a golden, fallen crescent moon, covered with a gold cross. The community colors are blue-yellow-blue.

The lion is the "reduced" heraldic animal of the bishopric of Bamberg , whose bishop Otto II from the house of Andechs-Meranien founded a hostel for pilgrims on the north side of the Pyhrn Pass. The besteckte with the cross, crescent moon was swept down the coat of arms from the 1418 Hospice emerged, in 1807 repealed collegiate secular canons .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Spital am Pyhrn

• Collegiate Church : (Parish Church) 1199 Dedication of the church. In contrast to almost all medieval churches, the church is not faced , but rather the apse and age are noticeably oriented towards the west. Magnificent expansion and refinement from 1714–1730 by the baroque architect Johann Michael Prunner , frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte , stucco work by Domenico Antonio Carlone , four altarpieces by Martin Johann Schmidt , known as Kremser Schmidt, and two altarpieces by Michael Angel Unterberger , and a wrought-iron grille in the Andreas Ferdinand Lindemayr's collegiate church, which is one of the most beautiful ironwork in Austria. The monastery to which the church belonged has been closed and is now used as a hotel and exhibition building.
• Museum “Between Heaven and Earth - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and the World of the 8000s”: A multimedia museum opened in 2015 in the former monastery, in which the mountains of the Himalayas are shown. A multimedia room lets visitors experience the weather on an eight-thousander and demonstrates the dangers of high-altitude mountaineering . In front of the entrance there is a model of the K2 as a climbing tower that can be climbed on various short routes. In front of the Kaltenbrunner Museum, the monastery premises were home to the rock painting museum founded by Ernst Burgstaller, which no longer exists.
• Rock paintings in the "Höll": Below the path over the Teichlboden to the Wurzeralm there are around 500 rock carvings in a ravine, which Ernst Burgstaller was the first to examine. Contrary to his assumption, the incisions cannot be prehistoric due to the rate of weathering of the lime, but date from the Middle Ages at the earliest. The years 1714, 1764, 1900, 1935 were engraved.

Worth seeing

View from the Pacherkogel

Exterior facade of the collegiate church in winter

In the collegiate church

Rock image in hell

Former Hofschmiede mansion

railway station

North portal of the Bosruck tunnel

Ochsenwald Chapel

Arling saddle

Brunnsteinersee

Schmiedalm

freetime and sports

• Dr. Vogelgesang Gorge : opened in 1906; it is the largest rock gorge in Upper Austria and a popular hiking destination. Numerous paths and stairs made of wood allow you to hike through the gorge.
• Panorama indoor pool: opened in 1971, rebuilt in 1991
• Pyhrn-Priel golf course: 18-hole golf course with an attached golf school opened in 2006
• The funicular (opened in 1978) up to the Wurzeralm opens up a summer hiking and winter ski area that has been expanded to include a MTB trail.

Personalities

Memorial plaque for Alois Rohrauer, Friends of Nature 1963

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Adam Scheibl (1710–1773), organist and church composer
• Christoph Conrad Weinmeister (1810–1871), scythe manufacturer and industrialist, holder of the Civil Merit Cross .
• Ernst Krackowizer (1821–1875, Ossining near New York City , NY ), Austrian revolutionary from 1848 and well-known surgeon in the USA.
• Michael Leisgen (* 1944), photographer
• Alois Rohrauer (February 28, 1843 - 1923), first chairman of the Friends of Nature Austria .
• Wolfgang Schürrer (* 1946), innkeeper, member of the state parliament (1991 to 2009) and mayor of Spital am Pyhrn (1985 to 2003)

People related to the community

• Bruno Sulzbacher (* 1936), composer
• Roland Girtler (* 1941), sociologist and cultural anthropologist , grew up in Spital am Pyhrn, attended elementary school there from 1947–1951; Girtler is regularly in town.

Honorary citizen

• 2011: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (* 1970 in Kirchdorf an der Krems ), extreme mountaineer, grew up in Spital am Pyhrn.

economy

Dana-Türindustrie GmbH, the largest door manufacturer in Austria with 520 employees (as of 2013), went from Stift Admont to the Danish door manufacturer Vest-Wood A / S at the beginning of 2005 . Vest-Wood, in turn part of Door Holding A / S since 2002, went to Jeld-Wen from Oregon , USA, as the largest European door manufacturer in 2006 .

The company producing in the hospital is now called Jeld-Wen Doors GmbH - as part of the international Jeld-Wen group. The DANA brand is maintained, it originated as a company name in the founding in 1973 of the Dan ibius wood panel works (veneer and plywood plants) and the pin A dmont which participated as a wood-providing forest owners. In 1975 the first industrial prefabricated door production in Austria started in Spital-Gleinkerau with 70 employees.

The Mark Metallwarenfabrik company is located in the district of Gleinkerau near the municipal boundary to Windischgarsten , founded in 1920 by Rudolf Mark senior. founded as a shoe eyelet factory. In 1962, Mark invented the ski boot buckle. Since 1980 the company has been supplying automotive groups with fine mechanical precision parts for transmissions, brake systems, airbags, injection systems, car lamps, hose couplings and for engine management. Mark components are used in medical devices, navigation systems and furniture construction, among other things. Today (as of 2011) the range of products has expanded: Mark Hydraulik GmbH produces light hydraulic components for aviation, Mark Save A Live GmbH produces safety equipment.

literature

• Hans Krawarik: Village in the Mountains. Spital am Pyhrn 1190–1990 . Linz, 1990.
• Roland Girtler : Ash liquor. The old culture of the farmers . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-78858-4 .

Web links

Commons : Spital am Pyhrn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 40918 - Spital am Pyhrn. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Spital am Pyhrn can be found on the geographic information system of the state of Upper Austria .
• Side of the community
• Museum " Between Heaven and Earth - Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and the World of the 8000s "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Gabriella Hauch, Ostarbeiterinnen - Forgotten women and their children, in: Fritz Mayrhofer and Walter Schuster (eds.), National Socialism in Linz (Volume 2), Linz 2001, p. 1292 ff.
3. ↑ Kirchen Zeitung: The forgotten children of Spital , May 14, 2014.
4. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Spital am Pyhrn, population development. Retrieved March 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ "Much more has to go on with us" meinviertel.at, August 18, 2015.
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria, coat of arms of the municipality of Spital am Pyhrn. Retrieved March 14, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Reinhard Ebner: Mysterious home: The rock art in hell. Retrieved November 10, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Cable car broken: 800 hikers were stuck orf.at, September 22, 2019, accessed September 22, 2019.
9. ↑ Alois Rohrauer , in: Regiowiki.at website
10. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vest-Wood A / S acquires 100% of the shares in the largest door manufacturer in Austria, DANA-Türindustrie, as part of a targeted expansion in Europe. Polarisequity.dk of January 11, 2005, accessed on September 10, 2013, no longer available on December 26, 2017. 
11. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. JELD-WEN to acquire Vest-Wood. Polarisequity.dk of November 30, 2005, accessed on September 10, 2013, no longer available on December 26, 2017. 
12. ↑ http://www.jeld-wen.com/about/company/history History, Jeld-Wen, accessed on September 10, 2013.
13. ↑ Our story dana.at, accessed December 26, 2017.
14. ↑ Our story. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .