Altmünster

This article deals with the market town of Altmünster on Lake Traunsee in Austria. For other places of the same name see Altmünster (disambiguation) .

market community Altmünster
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Gmunden
License plate :	GM
Surface:	78.77 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 54 '  N , 13 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '5 "  N , 13 ° 45' 5"  E
Height :	442  m above sea level A.
Residents :	9,856 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	4813/4814
Area code :	07612/07618
Community code :	4 07 01
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 21 4813/4814 Altmünster
Website:	www.altmuenster.at
politics
Mayoress :	Elisabeth Feichtinger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (37 members)	15th 12 7th 3 15th 12 7th 3  A total of 37 seats ÖVP : 15 SPÖ : 12 FPÖ : 7 GREEN : 3
Location of Altmünster in the Gmunden district
Altmünster from Traunstein seen from
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Altmünster , also unofficial Altmünster am Traunsee , is a market town in the federal state of Upper Austria in the district of Gmunden am Traunsee with 9856 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Gmunden .

geography

Altmünster is located at 442 m altitude (place) in the northern Salzkammergut and traditionally belongs to the Traunviertel . It extends from the western summit region of the Höllengebirge (Hochlecken and Brunnkogel, 1708  m ) to the Gmundner Strandbad (422 m above sea level). The western part of the municipality has the character of a low mountain range and borders the eastern municipalities of the Attersee . The main town of Altmünster is located directly on the Traunsee . The two largest towns, Neukirchen and Reindlmühl, are located in the Aurach Valley , above the Traunsee an extensive meadow landscape extends to the wooded elevations in the hinterland ( Gmundnerberg , Grasberg, Richtberg). The extension is 14.2 km from north to south and 11.5 km from west to east. The total area is 79 km². 48.1% of the area is forested, 35.4% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

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

• Altmunster (4542)
• Even (214)
• Two-two (113)
• Corner (654)
• Gmundnerberg (236)
• Grasberg (689)
• Muhlbach (214)
• Aftersee (543)
• Neukirchen (2579)
• Reindlmuehl (72)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Altmünster, Eben, Ebenzweier, Gmundnerberg, Grasberg, Mühlbach, Aftersee, Neukirchen , Ort-Altmünster and Reindlmühl.

Neighboring communities

Aurach am Hongar	Pinsdorf	Gmunden (center)
Weyregg am Attersee		Traunsee (border to Gmunden)
Steinbach am Attersee	Ebensee	Traunkirchen

coat of arms

Blazon : Split and Half Split; on the right in black the upper part of a golden church tower extending from the base of the shield with a square basement and an octagonal upper storey, the windows open in black, the octagonal pointed roof crowned by a knob with a weathercock; on the left divided by a blue, narrow bar, above in gold on a green hill a green, black-stemmed conifer, below divided three times by silver and red.

The coat of arms was awarded in 1952 at the same time as the market survey. It shows the striking tower of the parish church, which also symbolizes the place name. The tree refers to the forestry and wood industry in the community, the blue bar to the location on the Traunsee. The white and red posts are taken from the state coat of arms .

history

It is historically certain that the Altmünster area has been continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age. This is proven by various finds in the Brennbühel area (gravel terrace at the foot of the Gmundnerberg, the remains of pile dwellings in the area of ​​the Gmundner Strandbad and a Roman gravestone that can be seen in the parish church.)

According to ethnicity, it was probably Illyrians first , but then Celts and Romans. The Bavarian conquest (beginning of the 8th century) is secured by the documentary mention of the Trunseo Abbey (deed of donation from the year 909 AD), by the tower of the parish church, a Romanesque baptismal font in the parish church itself and by some old house names.

Altmünster is first mentioned in 909 as the site of a monastery called " Trunseio ". Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Middle Ages and modern times up to the year 1849 are characterized by the manors . Munster - as the old name was - was politically oriented largely towards the rule of town and ecclesiastically towards the parish of Altmünster . Since time immemorial, this has encompassed the entire area of ​​today's Altmünster without Neukirchen, Pinsdorf and almost all of today's Gmunden except for the actual city ​​within the walls . The latter only came to the Gmund parish in 1774 .

Altmünster has been an independent municipality since the creation of the local parishes after 1848/49 , which then had 4,000 inhabitants. Already in 1861 the independent communities Neukirchen (only this cadastral community) and Ort [h] were dissolved, from the second came the cadastral communities Ort and Gmundnerberg zu Altmünster. The municipality has belonged to the federal state of Upper Austria since 1918.

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1939 the cadastral community of Ort was divided, the remaining part has since been called Ort-Altmünster, Ort-Gmunden (with the place called Ort and Schloss Ort , today's Bahnhofsviertel and Traunleiten including Theresienthal ) came to the town of Gmunden. After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

On July 9, 1952, the survey to market town took place.

politics

Municipality and registry office of Altmünster

Mayor is Elisabeth Feichtinger from the SPÖ, in the mayoral election in 2015 she received 60% of the votes. Hugo Scheuba (ÖVP) was the longest serving mayor of Altmünster at the age of 28 (1961–1989).

traffic

Street

Altmünster is on the federal highway 145 ( Salzkammergut Straße ), which connects Altmünster with Gmunden, Vöcklabruck and Bad Ischl. On a country road that runs through the municipality of Altmünster, Steinbach am Attersee can be reached via the Taferl-Klause and the Taferlhöhe .

Bus connections: Several Postbus routes operate in Altmünster, which means that the closest cities of Gmunden and Bad Ischl can be reached from Altmünster. Furthermore, there is a bus connection through the ÖBB in the direction of Bad Ischl as well as in the direction of Attnang-Puchheim .

railroad

Altmünster station

The Altmünster station on the Traunsee is a through station on the Salzkammergut Railway . Regional trains and regional express trains on the Attnang-Puchheim - Stainach-Irdning route stop in Altmünster. There are direct connections to Linz and a through coach connection to Wien Westbahnhof.

When the Salzkammergutbahn opened, there was only one stopping and loading point called “Ebenzweier”. In 1897, the operating site was upgraded to a train station and renamed "Ebenzweier-Altmünster". In 1947 this station got its current name.

The station building, which is still in use today, was built in 1902. The building houses a waiting hall, a manned ticket office and the signal box. The track system consists of a through track, siding, a loading track connected on one side and a siding to a sawmill directly at the station. There is a side platform (house platform) on the through-lane, the crossing lane is accessed with a low central platform.

Population development

Population development from 1869 to 2001
year	population	year	population
1869	4,778	1939	6.328
1880	4,683	1951	7,383
1890	4,742	1961	7,348
1900	4,951	1971	7,921
1910	5,244	1981	8,556
1923	5,329	1991	9,067
1934	5,917	2001	9,445

In 1991 the community had 9,067 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 9,445 inhabitants. In 2019, 9,782 inhabitants were determined. This corresponds to a population growth of 7.89 percent between 1991 and 2019.

Town twinning

• Düren - Niederau ( Germany ) since December 23, 1971
• Hoegaarden ( Belgium )

Culture and sights

Parish church Altmünster

Reindlmühl church

See also:  List of listed objects in Altmünster

Parish Church Altmünster : The oldest parish in the area of ​​the current deanery Gmunden is Altmünster, formerly simply called Münster. At the beginning of the 8th century, the Agilolfing dukes probably built a monastery on the banks of the Traunsee to promote spiritual and material culture and consecrated the church to the holy monastery, Benedict. However, the abbey did not last long, as it was destroyed by the approaching Magyars in 920. After the battle on the Lechfeld in 955, the fugitive inhabitants returned to their localities, and Münster was also reassembled, no longer as an abbey but as a parish. Münster was a large parish and, as a mother parish, included the area of ​​its later daughter parishes Traunkirchen, Goisern, Hallstatt, Gmunden with Ohlsdorf and Laakirchen, as well as Schörfling and St. Georgen im Attergau. In an old document from 1236 Münster is called "antiquissima parochia monasterialis" (old parish of Münster). But as early as the 12th century, the independent parishes of Traunkirchen, Ohlsdorf, Schörfling and St. Georgen im Attergau were formed from the old ministerial parish of Münster. Only Pinsdorf remained as a branch at Altmünster.

The fiefdom of Altmünster was initially held by the Styrian margraves , then it passed to the local lords . Albert von Veldsperg and his wife Gisela von Ort, the last of their tribe, founded the Imbach nunnery (abolished in 1782) in Lower Austria in 1269 and incorporated the Altmünster parish into this monastery, so that the Imbach nuns had the right to patronize and present Münster.

In 1764 Leopold Ernst Graf von Firmian , the Prince-Bishop of Passau, acquired these rights for 6000  fl . The St. The late Gothic hall church consecrated to Benedict was built around 1470/80. The center of the high altar is the painting “The Death of St. Benedikt ”by Joachim von Sandrart . In the All Saints Chapel there is the All Saints Sandstone Altar from 1518. The altar shows a multi-figure relief group of saints in a Renaissance frame.

Reindlmühl branch church : The church was built in 1955/56 according to plans by Gottfried Nobl . It is dedicated to St. Joseph . Gottfried Nobl was a master builder in Linz from 1959 to 2005. In 1977 a chapel was built behind the church as a mortuary.

→ Traunsee Castle

→ Ebenzweier Castle

Old-timer museum “All about cycling”: This museum shows more than 200 years of history of the bikes and steel horses. Numerous historical themed areas, a high-cycling simulator, the unicycle motorcycle and many other curiosities are shown here. You can take a seat on some vehicles and have yourself photographed in nostalgic clothing.

Road from Gmundnerberg towards Grasberg. In the background the sleeping Greek

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Cölestin Wolfsgruber (1848–1924), Benedictine, church historian, last imperial court preacher to St. Stephan in Vienna
• Thomas Leitner (1876–1948), painter
• Franz Stangl (1908–1971), National Socialist, member of the SS and senior civil servant in the NS killing center Hartheim and the NS killing center Bernburg as well as camp commandant of the NS extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka
• Maria Singer (1914–2003), Bavarian-Austrian folk actress

Thomas Bernhard's house "Krucka" on Grasberg

• Valentin Schwarz (* 1989), director

People related to the place

• Adam Graf von Herberstorff (1585–1629), buried in the parish church of Altmünster
• Franz Graf Folliot von Crenneville-Poutet (1815–1888), buried at Altmünster cemetery
• Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este (1782–1863), buried at Altmünster cemetery
• Erich Trinks (1890–1958), OÖLA director from 1951 to 1955, buried at Altmünster cemetery
• Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), writer, bought the house Grasberg 98, known as the "Krucka", in 1971 and lived and worked there for a time
• Klothilde Rauch (1903–1990), sculptor, lived and worked in Altmünster
• Elisabeth Lanz (born 1971), actress, grew by Hans Heinz Reinprecht founded SOS Children's Village on

Web links

Commons : Altmünster  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Further information about the municipality of Altmünster can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

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. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Coat of arms of the Altmünster community
4. ^ Johann Ev Lamprecht: The parishes of the Deanery Gmunden in Upper Austria: historically and statistically illuminated, as an attempt and forerunner of the real schematism of the Diocese of Linz. Publishing house Buchdr. of the cath. Preßvereins, 1874, p. 8 ( digitized version, Google, complete view ).
5. ^ Z. 1 decree of the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy of November 18, 1861, which announces changes in the organization of some local congregations. Z 22203, LGBl. 8/1861; 2nd department / 2. Half-year, p. 14, ( eViewer , ALEX).
6. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 172 , accessed on February 15, 2019 . 
7. ↑ BM2015. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
8. ↑ The former mayor of Altmünster has died. City of Düren , January 5, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2019 (press release). 
9. ↑ Salzkammergutbahn online ( Memento from August 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Altmünster municipality data (Statistics Austria) (PDF; 35 kB).
11. ↑ Oldtimermuseum Altmünster ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )