Altenschlag

Altenschlag ( Rotte ) village
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Rohrbach  (RO), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Rohrbach
Pole. local community	Helfenberg   ( KG  Helfenberg )
Coordinates	48 ° 32 '11 "  N , 14 ° 9' 55"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '11 "  N , 14 ° 9' 55"  E
height	760  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	112 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	35 (2001)
Post Code	4184 Helfenberg
Statistical identification
Locality code	10913
Counting district / district	Helfenberg (41345 000)
Districts also in the community of Vorderweissenbach Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Old school is a place in Mühlviertel Upper Austria as well as the village of the municipality Helfenberg in Rohrbach District and community Vorderweißenbach in District Urfahr environment .

geography

Altenschlag ( scattered houses ) village
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Urfahr-Umgebung  (UU), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Rohrbach
Pole. local community	Vorder Weißenbach   ( KG  Bernhardschlag )
Coordinates (K)	48 ° 32 '5 "  N , 14 ° 10' 30"  E
height	800  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	19 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	9 (2001)
prefix	+ 43/4184 ( Helfenberg )
Statistical identification
Locality code	12335
Counting district / district	Bernhardschlag (41 625 000)
Main part of the place in the municipality of Helfenberg Source: STAT : Place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS ; (K) Coordinate not official

The place is located about 30 kilometers northwest of Linz , 24 kilometers west of Freistadt , between Rohrbach and Bad Leonfelden , 12 kilometers from the first and 8 kilometers from the second.

The Rotte Altenschlag is located in the southern Bohemian Forest foothills in the valley of the Altenschläger Bach at around 760  m above sea level. A. Height. The stream flows from the Traberg pass landscape near Ahorn northwards to the Weißenbach, the valley of which then turns eastwards towards Bad Leonfelden, and only there goes south to the Danube. The place Helfenberg is 2½ km northwest, Vorderweißbach 3½ km northeast, Ahorn 1½ km south.

The place with its scattered locations has almost 50 addresses with about 140 inhabitants. The Helfenberg village of Altenschlag , which stretches along the stream, includes the majority (approx. 40 buildings, 110 inhabitants). A few houses are scattered eastwards up the slope to the Höchlwald , and form a separate village of Vorderweissenbach. The latter already belongs to the Urfahr-Umgebung district, but to the Rohrbach judicial district . A remote farm 2 km to the north, still behind Geierschlag , on the northern slope of the Asberg (addresses Altenschlag  24, 42) also belongs to the village of Vorderweissenbach .

Neighboring towns and cities:

	Mühlholz  (O, Gem. Helfenberg, District Rohrbach and  Vorderweißbach , District Urfahr-Umgebung)	Geierschlag ∗  (O, Gem. Vorderweissenbach, Bez. Urfahr-Umg.)
Thurnerschlag  (O, Gem. Helfenberg, District Rohrbach)		Oberbrunnwald  (O, Gem. Helfenberg, District Rohrbach) ∗∗
	Maple  (O, Gem. Helfenberg, District Rohrbach)

^∗and a remote location of Piberschlag , Gem. Vorderweissenbach, and behind that the remote location of Altenschlag

^∗∗Larger parts of Oberbrunnwald further south also belong to Oberneukirchen and Vorderweißbach, both districts of Urfahr-Umgebung; the Helfenberg part is remote in this regard; to the east behind it again Vulture loft

history

The place is mentioned as early as 1455, and at that time it belonged to the parish of Helfenberg . The name suggests that it is one of the early clearings in the area ( clearing name auf -schlag ).

proof

• 41345 - Helfenberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• 41625 - Vorderweissenbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ Julius Strnadt : Attempting a history of the Passau rule in the upper Mühlviertl, namely the regional court of Velden until the end of the Middle Ages. In: Report on the Museum Francisco-Carolinum , Volume 20, Linz 1860, p. 276 (full article p. 79 ff; Volume 19–22: Google eBook, complete view ; also archive.org , reference in the reader )
2. ^ Karl Hohensinner, Peter Wiesinger: The place names of the political district Urfahr-Umgebung (Middle Mühlviertel). Volume 10 of the Place Name Book of the Province of Upper Austria . Verlag VÖAW, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7001-3676-7 , entry 10.2.6.1 Altenschlag / Gem. Afiesl and Helfenberg , p. 91.