Aichkirchen

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Aichkirchen
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Aichkirchen coat of arms
Aichkirchen (Austria)
Aichkirchen
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Catfish Land
License plate : WL
Surface: 6.49 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 7 '  N , 13 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '36 "  N , 13 ° 47' 45"  E
Height : 448  m above sea level A.
Residents : 600 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 92 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4671
Area code : 07735
Community code : 4 18 01
Address of the
municipal administration:
Aichkirchen 26
4671 Aichkirchen
Website: www.aichkirchen.at
politics
Mayor : Franz Haider ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(13 members)
10
3
10 
A total of 13 seats
Location of Aichkirchen in the Wels-Land district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Aichkirchen is a municipality with 600 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria in the Wels-Land district in the Hausruckviertel .

geography

Aichkirchen is 448 m above sea level in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 3.9 km from north to south and 2.8 km from west to east. The total area is 6.6 km². 10.6% of the area is forested, 77.3% of the area is used for agriculture.

Aichkirchen was part of the Lambach judicial district until 2012 and has been part of the Wels judicial district since January 1, 2013 .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Aichkirchen (150)
  • Brunngasse (20)
  • Ice ring (44)
  • Getzing (101)
  • Ingerendt (8)
  • Nopping (36)
  • Pisdorf (51)
  • Pitting (43)
  • Puch (9)
  • Rabenberg (19)
  • Roitfeld (5)
  • Stötten (12)
  • Voglhub (102)

The community consists of the cadastral community of Aichkirchen.

coat of arms

AUT Aichkirchen COA.jpg

Blazon : In gold over a green oak branch with two outwardly inclined leaves and two upright acorns, a black, three-armed pontifical staff with clover leaf ends.

The community colors are black-yellow-green.

The papal cross staff in the coat of arms awarded in 1984 refers to the parish patronage Peter and Paul , together with the oak leaves it symbolizes the place name.

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. It was first mentioned in a document around 1136 as "Eicha" in the tradition code of St. Peter Abbey in Salzburg. In 1449 the name Aichkirchen appears for the first time. Since 1490 the place has been part of the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . During the time of the Reformation , many residents converted to Protestantism. Aichkirchen was not re-Catholicized again until the Counter Reformation.

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

Since 1918 the place belongs to 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 . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

politics

In the last municipal council election in 2015, the ÖVP got 71.8 percent or 10 seats, the FPÖ got 28.1 percent or three seats.

mayor
  • 1988–2014 Georg Haider (ÖVP)
  • since 2014 Franz Haider (ÖVP)

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 480 inhabitants according to the census, then 497 inhabitants in 2001 and 519 inhabitants in 2008. In 2019, the population was 594. This represents a growth of 23.75 percent since 1991.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Aichkirchen

Personalities

  • Kollomann (Josef) Fellner (1750–1818), born in Pisdorf, Benedictine, draftsman and engraver (founder of the Lambach collection)

Web links

Commons : Aichkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
  2. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. ^ State of Upper Austria municipal council elections in Aichkirchen from 1973
  4. ^ Change of mayor in Aichkirchen Trachtenmusikkapelle Neukirchen bei Lambach, April 28, 2014