Altheim (Upper Austria)

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Altheim
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Altheim (Upper Austria) (Austria)
Altheim (Upper Austria)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Braunau am Inn
License plate : BR
Main town : Altheim
Surface: 22.66 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 15 '  N , 13 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '0 "  N , 13 ° 14' 0"  E
Height : 363  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,989 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 220 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4950
Area code : 07723
Community code : 4 04 01
Address of the
municipal administration:
Braunauer Strasse 7
4950 Altheim
Website: www.altheim.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Franz Weinberger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(31 members)
12
12
7th
12 12 7th 
A total of 31 seats

Location of Altheim in the Braunau am Inn district
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Altheim is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel with 4989 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Altheim is about 360  m above sea level. A. Höhe in the Inn Valley on the edge of the Innviertel hill country , in the valley of the Mühlheimer Ache (Ach) .

The extension of the municipality is from north to south 6.9 km, from west to east 5.9 km; the total area is 22.6 km². The municipality extends from the Altbach estuary and the Burgstall 5½ km south-east along the Ache to shortly before Polling and a little further up the St. Veiter Bach, north to the Innviertel Railway , north-east to the Geinberger Wald, and south-west to the Altbach up to deep in the Gaugsham forest .

11.1% of the area is forested, 74.3% of the area is used for agriculture.

Main town of the municipality: City of Altheim

Altheim ( city )
locality ( capital of the municipality )
cadastral municipality Altheim
Basic data
Pole. District , state Braunau am Innf8 , Upper Austria
Pole. local community Altheim
Coordinates 48 ° 14 '59 "  N , 13 ° 13' 59"  E
height 367  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 4360 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 1300 (2001)
Area  d. KG 44.38 hectares
Post Code 4950 Altheim
Statistical identification
Locality code 07112
Cadastral parish number 40201
Counting district / district Altheim-Zentrum, Altheim-Peripherie-N, Altheim-Umgebung, Altheim-Peripherie-S (40401 X [000,001,002,003])
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS
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The municipality's capital is the city ​​of Altheim . It is located in the middle of the municipality on the Mühlheimer Ache .

The core of the city is the cadastral community Altheim , the original community Altheim until 1938. It has 44.38  hectares . It stretches to the right and left of the Ache and a bit downstream for a good kilometer. The two other cadastral communities, Stern and Weirading, include Altheim completely.

Community structure

The cadastral communities are Altheim , Stern and Weirading .
The 15  localities are:

Altheim (main town)
Diepolding
Englwertsham
Gallenberg
Gaugsham
Kling
Fiefdom
Lüfteneck
Mauernberg
Schwaig
star
Wagham
Weidenthal
Weirading
Wolfegg

Incorporation:

  • In 1939 the parishes of Altheim and Sankt Laurenz merged to form the parish of Altheim .

Neighboring communities

Mühlheim am Inn ( District Ried iI )
Geinberg ( District Ried iI )

Neighboring communities



Rossbach

The village of Altheim still includes the largely ingrown places today, i.e. the village of Sankt Laurenz , the Muckenau and Oberach settlements on the left of the Ache, as well as Sankt Ulrich on the right, and Danglfing , some more remote houses that are located northwest of the municipality boundary near Stötting ( Mühlheim stop the Innviertelbahn ). Together the village has 1,300 buildings with around 4,200 inhabitants. These locations are recorded as Altheim periphery , some peripheral locations (60 buildings, 200 inhabitants) are included in the Altheim area , so that the actual city with around 4000 inhabitants can be specified, that is a good 45 of the community population.

Neighboring locations, places, towns and cadastral communities

Stötting  (O, Gem.  Mühlheim aI )
Niederach  (O, Gem.  Mühlheim aI )
Gallenberg  (O)
Weidenthal  (O)
Ortisei

Pirath (Gem. Altheim u. O, Gem.  Weng iI )

Neighboring communities
Weirading
(O and KG)

Mauernberg  (O)
Muckenau

Diepolding  (O)
Saint Laurence

Fiefdom  (O)

Star  (KG)
Oberach
Kling  (O)

The responsible judicial district is the judicial district Braunau am Inn .

Population development


history

Panoramic picture of the Altheim market after a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The Romans settled the province of Noricum for around 500 years . The Innviertel and especially the area around Altheim with its flat primeval landscapes were already considered to be the granary of the Roman Empire in this province because of its pronounced agriculture . From here the food for the legions stationed along the Limes was produced.

In the year 903 the place is mentioned for the first time. For centuries Altheim, like the whole of the Innviertel, belonged to Bavaria . On July 6, 1581, Altheim was raised to market by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria .

During the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) the area was briefly occupied by the Habsburgs, but during the peasant and popular uprising in 1705/1706 ( Sendlinger Murder Christmas ) it became Bavarian again. Only after the War of the Bavarian Succession did the area of ​​today's Innviertel, then known as Innbaiern and thus Altheim, become part of Austria through the Treaty of Teschen in 1779 .

After the creation of the local communities in 1848/49 , the tax communities Stern and Weirading were merged to form the community of Sankt Laurenz (as of January 1, 1851). In 1938, when large parishes were formed all over Austria after the Anschluss , the parishes of Altheim and St. Laurenz merged into one parish (as of January 1, 1939). The community was elevated to a city in 2003.

Culture and sights

Roman Museum (Ochzethaus)

In the city:

In the surrounding areas:

Natural monument

Weinlechner oak
  • Weinlechner oak : planted in 1899, stands at the Dr. Weinlechner Platz, named after the surgeon of the same name

freetime and sports

  • Alpine Club Altheim
  • SK Altheim
  • Altheim TCA tennis club
  • Gymnastics Club Altheim TVA
  • URC bike world

Cycle path

Altheim is one of the stops along the Roman Cycle Path and invites you to visit a reconstructed Roman bathhouse in the historic district of Weirading for a stopover.

economy

Geothermal energy has been used in Altheim since 2001 to generate heat and electricity.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 31 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 12 FPÖ and 7 SPÖ.

Counting areas are Altheim-Zentrum  (000), Altheim-Peripherie-N  (001) and Altheim-Peripherie-S  (003) for the city itself, and Altheim-Umgebung  (002) for the rest of the municipality. The corresponding counting district Altheim-Zentrum comprises over 300 buildings with around 1000 residents.

mayor

coat of arms

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Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

Divided diagonally by blue and red by a golden wave bar , inside a black-gray eel ; above a silver antiqua uppercase letter  A, elevated by a star of the same kind ; below two silver stakes .

The municipality colors are blue-yellow-red .

The coat of arms was awarded to Altheim in 1581 on the occasion of the market survey by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria . The lower field originally showed the sliver-blue Bavarian diamonds , which were replaced by the silver-red Upper Austrian posts after Austria had acquired the Innviertel . In 1784 the right to coat of arms and seals was confirmed by Emperor Joseph II .

The eel symbolizes the place name as a talking coat of arms in folk etymological interpretation, which, however, is derived from "old". The A marked with a star was already used in trade seals before the coat of arms was awarded. The silver-red poles indicate that it belongs to Upper Austria.

Personalities

Born in Altheim
People related to the city
  • Johann Georg Meindl (1682–1767), freedom fighter, rifleman in the Bavarian popular uprising in 1705/06
  • Josef Weinlechner (1829–1906), pediatric surgeon, "pioneer of pediatric surgery"

literature

  • Lothar Bodingbauer, Ingeborg Staufer: Altheimer Heimatbuch. 1975.
  • Harald Pfleger (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the Altheim community . Final report; Series of natural space mapping Upper Austria , on behalf of the Province of Upper Austria, nature conservation department - natural space mapping Upper Austria. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Web links

Commons : Altheim  - 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. ^ Province of Upper Austria - Geographical data of the town of Altheim .
  3. www.ochzethaus.at
  4. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Coat of arms of the Altheim community