Arnreit

Arnreit
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Surface:	20.32 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 32 '  N , 14 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '33 "  N , 13 ° 59' 45"  E
Height :	604  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,136 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4122
Area code :	07282
Community code :	4 13 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Arnreit 13 4122 Arnreit
Website:	www.arnreit.at
politics
Mayor :	Heinz Gerald Kobler ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	17th 2 17th 2  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 17 SPÖ : 2
Location of Arnreit in the Rohrbach district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Arnreit is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel with 1136 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach .

geography

Arnreit lies at an altitude of 604  m above sea level. A. in the central area of ​​the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel . In terms of the nature conservation spatial structure, the entire municipality belongs to the Central Mühlviertel highlands . The extension is from north to south 4.3 km, from west to east 7.3 km, the total area is 20.32 km². Arnreit is thus in the middle of the municipalities in the district. With 57 inhabitants per km², the municipality was again in the lower middle field of the municipalities in the district in 2013. The municipal area extends over a height of 450 meters in the valley of the Kleine Mühl to over 660 meters in the area of ​​the Schaubhof and the Höglinger Gupfs. In 2001, 22.1 percent of the municipal area was forested, 70.6 percent of the area was used for agriculture. Compared with the federal state of Upper Austria, Arnreit is significantly less forested than the regional average (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent) or there is significantly more agricultural land (Upper Austria: 49.3 percent). The share of other uses (construction areas, gardens, bodies of water and other) is 7.3 percent, well below the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. Neighboring communities are Rohrbach in Upper Austria and Berg bei Rohrbach in the north, Auberg in the east, Neufelden in the southeast, Altenfelden in the south, Hörbich in the southwest and Sarleinsbach in the west.

geology

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian mass . The landscape slopes from north to south from the Bohemian Forest to the Danube and is characterized by deeply cut streams. The Bohemian mass goes back to a very old mountain range that arose from the Variscan mountain formation in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ), with the formation of granites and gneiss . After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary, the Bohemian mass was abolished by several 100 meters, causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods . The subsoil of the municipality consists mainly of Weinsberger granite. In the south of the municipality, the Weinsberg granite is also coarse-grained gneiss and in places mixed with diorite. In a sub-area between Partenreit and Schaubhof, in particular around Katzenbach, the bedrock also protrudes massively at certain points on the surface, with land stones and granite rounds as a visible sign. The relief of the municipality is largely plate-like and cut through by the mill valleys, and hilly mountain peaks protrude in the area of ​​the protruding bedrock.

Community structure

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

• Arnreit (133)
• Daim (111)
• Eckersberg (36)
• Etzerreit (58)
• Getzing (23)
• Stallion loft (14)
• Högling (14)
• Helling (94)
• Humenberg (75)
• Iglbach (0)
• Katzenbach (29)
• Liebenstein (192)
• Moosham (38)
• Party Riding (90)
• Schoenberg (8)
• Schörsching (38)
• Stierberg (80)
• Untergahleiten (39)
• Rocking (64)

history

Finds (pottery shards, 17 cm long stone ax made of serpentine) indicate an early settlement. Around 1000 the region was first settled along the old trade route by the Griesbach family, who lived in the 13th century. is continued by servants of the Bishop of Passau. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1516, but the village of Partenreith was mentioned as early as 1256 as the court of the Bishop of Passau. Before 1851 Arnreith was a farming village with only 11 house numbers.

→ Liebenstein castle ruins (Arnreit)

On January 1, 1928, part of the Altenfelden community became the Arnreit community with the villages of Arnreith, Daim, Eckersberg, Getzing, Högling, Hölling, Humenberg, Katzenbach, Liebenstein, Partenreit, Schönberg, Schörsching and Stierberg.

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.

Originally, the community had been part of the Neufelden judicial district since 1850 , but after its dissolution it became part of the Rohrbach judicial district on January 1, 2003. In 1938, the then neighboring municipality of Frindorf was dissolved and the cadastral municipality of Untergahleiten was added to the municipality of Arnreit. In 1947 the villages Etzerreith, Hengstschlag, Moosham, Untergahleiten and Wippling were added from the now finally dissolved municipality of Frindorf.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council, as the highest body of the municipality, has 19 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections.

The strongest parliamentary group in the Arnreit municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which since 1945 has always obtained an absolute majority of votes and mandates or has always had a three-quarters majority. In 1955, the ÖVP was the only candidate party to win 100 percent of the vote; in 2003 it recorded its worst result with 77.4 percent. The second strongest party in the Arnreit municipal council since 1945 has always been the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), with one exception ; it competed in every election except 1955 and was able to achieve between 4.7 percent (1949) and 18.3 percent (1985) to reach. After 1985 she got results between 10.4 and 17.1 percent. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) was only represented in the Arnreit municipal council between 1997 and 2009, reaching 10.8 percent in 1997 and 7.0 percent in 2003. In 1997 it was just ahead of the SPÖ in second place. The 2015 election resulted in the following:

• ÖVP: 17 mandates
• SPÖ: 2 mandates

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . Mayor Alois Koblmüller (ÖVP), who has been in office since 1991, won the first direct election with 95.7 percent. His successor Johann Reiter, who took office for the first time in 2003, was elected with 96.8 percent in 2003 and confirmed in office with 94.8 percent in 2009. In the 2015 election, Heinz Gerald Kobler was elected mayor with 96.7 percent of the vote.

Mayor since 1928:

Term of office	Surname	Term of office	Surname
1928-1936	Franz Azesberger	1946-1954	Balthasar Gierlinger
1936-1938	Balthasar Gierlinger	1954-1967	Franz Koblmüller
1938	Ludwig Gierlinger	1967-1991	Augustin Gierlinger
1938-1942	Karl Meisinger	1991-2003	Alois Koblmüller
1942-1945	Josef Steininger	2003-2015	Johann Reiter
1945-1946	Johann Gahleitner	from 2015	Heinz Kobler

Other options

As in municipal council elections, the ÖVP also dominates regional elections in the municipality, although the dominance of the People's Party has decreased somewhat. Nevertheless, the ÖVP has always been able to become the party with the strongest vote since 1945, and before 1997 it even had a three-quarters majority. The ÖVP achieved its best result in 1949 with 89.9 percent, since then it has almost gradually lost its share of the votes, whereby in 2003 it achieved its lowest result to date with 68.3 percent. The second strongest party in state elections was, with one exception, the SPÖ, which achieved election results between 8.0 and 16.4 percent. The SPÖ had its best result in 2003, its worst in 1945. The third strongest party was predominantly the FPÖ, which until 1985 only achieved a maximum of 1.6 percent. As a result, however, the FPÖ was able to increase results between 7.9 and 11.0 percent. In 1997 the FPÖ was able to position itself ahead of the SPÖ with its best result to date. In the last state elections in 2009, the ÖVP came first with 70.1 percent and its second-worst result to date. The SPÖ only got 10.0 percent and thus had to give up around 6 percent of its share of the vote. The FPÖ achieved 9.3 percent, the Greens 7.6 percent.

coat of arms

The municipality of Arnreit was awarded the municipal coat of arms on March 20, 1978 by the Upper Austrian provincial government, the design being by Herbert Erich Baumert from Linz. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In green a golden bar covered with a red rust, accompanied by two above and below by a silver potato blossom with golden stamens. The symbols of the coat of arms represent the synthesis of economic and church life in the community, with the potato blossom referring to the importance of potato cultivation and the establishment of the "Saatbauverein Arnreit" in 1923. The Saatbauverein was the first cooperative association in Upper Austria to deal with the breeding and propagation of seeds. The grate in the middle of the coat of arms shows the attribute of St. Lawrence , to whom the patronage of the parish church is dedicated. The municipality colors are green-yellow-green, whereby the colors were determined by the municipality in October and also confirmed by the state government in March 1978.

population

Population structure

In 2013, 1,158 people lived in the municipality, placing Arnreit in the lower middle field of the municipalities in the district. At the end of 2001, 99.2 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the value had fallen insignificantly to 98.4 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96, 9 percent). In 2013, only 18 foreigners were counted in the municipality, 94 percent of whom came from Europe. 50 percent of the foreigners came from the former Yugoslavia (excluding Slovenia). A total of 35 residents were born abroad. In 2001, 97.8 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 88.6 percent), 1.2 percent were without confession, 0.5 percent were Islamic and 0.2 percent were Protestant.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was roughly the national average. 21.4 percent of the residents of Arnreit were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8 percent), 62.0 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 16.6 percent, below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Arnreit changed as a result, especially in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 19.3 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 increased significantly to 67.2 percent. The proportion of people over 59 years of age fell slightly to 13.5 percent. According to their marital status, in 2001 50.9 percent of Arnreit's residents were single, 43.6 percent married, 4.2 percent widowed and 1.4 percent divorced.

Population development

The population development in the area of ​​today's municipality of Arntreit between 1869 and 2013 was largely analogous to the population development of the Rohrbach district. Overall, however, the population increased slightly more than the district average, with the population in Arnreit increasing by 13 percent between 1869 and 2013. During this period, the population moved within a very narrow range between around 1,000 and 1,200 inhabitants, with the lowest population being recorded in 1971 with 982 inhabitants. The municipality had the highest number of inhabitants in 2013 with 1,158 people. The community's growth since 1971 has been driven by the birth surplus. In the last few decades this has always been higher than the emigration, which also decreased in the 1990s. This trend has continued since the turn of the millennium.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Arnreit is divided into two halves by Rohrbacher Straße (B 127), which runs from south to north. The Rohrbacher Straße is the most important traffic connection in the district and connects Arnreit with Altenfelden in the south and the district capital Rohrbach in the north. North of the main settlement of Arnreit, Iglmühl Bezirksstrasse (L 1526) branches off from Rohrbacher Strasse and connects Arnreit with the districts of Untergahleiten and Etzerreit. The L 1526 then crosses the Große Mühl at the Iglmühle and continues through the municipality of Auberg to St. Peter am Wimberg. Otherwise there are only local roads in the municipality.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Arnreit

In the municipality of Arnreit there is only one listed building, the Catholic parish church. The late historical church was built by Franz Schiefthaler at the end of the 19th century and is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The arched church has romanized details and a west tower built in the 1950s.

Personalities

• Balthasar Gierlinger (1886–1954), farmer and politician
• Ludwig Scharinger (1942–2019), bank manager
• Kurt Azesberger (1960–2020), Austrian tenor

Web links

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

• 41305 - Arnreit. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• More information about the municipality of Arnreit on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Landscape survey of the municipality of Arnreit. Final report. Vienna 2005
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Province of Upper Austria, municipal council elections percentages. Retrieved April 24, 2019 . 
4. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 24, 2019 . 
5. ^ Province of Upper Austria election results in mayoral elections
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 24, 2019 . 
7. ^ State of Upper Austria Mayor of the municipality of Arnreit since 1928
8. ↑ State of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State election results in Arnreit from 1945  
9. ^ State of Upper Austria coat of arms, municipality of Arnreit
10. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. Population levels in Upper Austria in comparison by citizenship  
11. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics Austria municipality data from Arnreit
13. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Resident population in Upper Austria compared by age group