Aschach on the Danube
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market community Aschach on the Danube
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Upper Austria | |
| Political District : | Eferding | |
| License plate : | EF | |
| Surface: | 6 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 22 ' N , 14 ° 1' E | |
| Height : | 268 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 2,167 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 361 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 4082 | |
| Area code : | 07273 | |
| Community code : | 4 05 02 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Abelstrasse 44 4082 Aschach an der Donau |
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| Mayor : | Friedrich Knierzinger ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members) |
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| Location of Aschach an der Donau in the Eferding district | ||
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Aschach an der Donau is a market town in Upper Austria in the Eferding district in the Hausruckviertel with 2167 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Eferding .
geography
The market town of Aschach is nestled in the Danube Valley , on the edge of the Eferdinger Basin at an altitude of 268 m in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 4.1 km from north to south, 7.7 km from west to east. The total area is 6 km². 1.8% of the area is forested.
Community structure
The municipality includes the following three localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Aschach an der Donau (1906)
- Ruprechting (86)
- Sommerberg (175)
The community consists of the cadastral community of Aschach an der Donau.
coat of arms
Split by silver and red, covered by two natural-colored (yellow-brown), cross-wise doubly entwined vines with a hanging, blue grape in the front, a green grape in the back and a green leaf in each half. The community colors are red-white-green.
The motif refers to the viticulture practiced by the inhabitants of the Aschach basin due to the climatic advantages of the time, which is already mentioned in the letter for Kremsmünster from the year 777 and which can be found in the area around Aschach in some gardens until after Could hold in 1870. White and red are the colors of the coat of arms of the Schaunberg Counts, who were owned by the rulers and important toll station of Aschach until 1559.
history
Mentioned for the first time in 777 when the Kremsmünster Monastery was founded and originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria , the place has belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century . Aschach was assigned to the principality "Austria ob der Enns" from 1490 , and in 1512 received the market rights and coat of arms from Emperor Maximilian . During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After Austria was "annexed" to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the " Upper Danube Gau ". After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.
- Celts and Romans in Aschach
The Celtic name Joviacum first appears in the Itinerarium Antoninianum at the time of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, called Caracalla , who ruled from 211 to 217.
In 1838, extensive remains of the wall of a Roman fort were found during excavations in Schlögen . Until the middle of the 20th century, it was therefore of the opinion that Schlögen was the Joviacum mentioned in Roman lists of troops . After excavations between 1957 and 1959, Lothar Eckhart proved : Schlögen cannot be Joviacum . The liburnarians of the II. Italian Legion , a kind of marine infantry, who are attested for Joviacum , are based in Eckhart in Aschach, and the mounted troop units in " Ad Mauros ", which he equated with Eferding . In addition to strategic reasons, the St.Laurentius patronage of the cemetery church, evidence of a quadra- corridor (Roman corridor shape ) and the discovery of road stones with track tracks (Limesstraße?) In Abelstraße speak for Aschach = Joviacum .
Since Aschach is Joviacum , this brings us into close connection with one of the most amazing sources of the end of antiquity, with the "Life of St. Serverin " by Abbot Eugippius . The St. Severin came at a time in Noricum , went as Roman rule ended. As a "monk and miracle man" he opposed the Germanic princes who sat with their tribes on both sides of the Danube. In the deserted Roman settlements, he persuaded the poor Roman people, left unprotected to the Germans, to adopt a Christian way of life. If the situation had become untenable, he prophesied the imminent demise of their place and ordered the evacuation of the area. So also for Aschach ( Joviacum ). We read in the "Eugippii Vita Sancti Severini":
"... to the inhabitants of a city called Joviacum , which was more than 20 miles from Batavis , the servant of God sent the church singer Moderatus, who was to urge them to flee immediately from the endangered city. Here, too, the well-intentioned was not responded to Advice was heard, so that the saint once again sent a courier to at least persuade the church mayor Maximianus of Joviacum to leave the place. When this messenger also found no faith, he left the city as quickly as possible, whereupon the Heruli Joviacum attacked that same night . destroyed the settlement and led most of the inhabitants into slavery. But they hung the priest on a gallows. "
The details of the vita are considered reliable, earlier doubts are increasingly being dispelled by more recent research results. Thus, assuming the correctness of the assumption that Joviacum is Aschach, the late antique Aschach martyr MAXIMIANUS is attested.
(This text is based on an article by Werner Promintzer in the festival program "1200 Years Aschach 777-1977")
- Documented mention by Duke Tassilo 777
In the last third of the 7th century the sovereignty of the agilolfingian Bavaria reached its peak and conclusion at the same time. The Agilolfingers , of Burgundian or Franconian origin, often mixed with the southern neighboring people of the Longobards , were drawn into and corrupted by Franconian expansion. Tassilo III. , Son of Odilos , defeated the Slavic tribes of Carinthia in 772 , the same year in which Charlemagne , his brother-in-law and biological cousin, started the great Saxon War . Around 765 Tassilo had married the Lombard king's daughter Liutpirc. Her son Theodo was anointed like a king by the Pope . After the Slav victory, which started the inclusion of the Carantans in the Bavarian culture, he founded the San Candido Abbey in the Puster Valley and the Minster on the Krems on the border with the Alpine Slavic tribes . He provides both of them with plenty of goods for their tasks. When it was founded in 777, he donated vineyards in Aschach to the Kremsmünster monastery .
Population development
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Culture and sights
- Aschach has a historic town center with town houses from the Middle Ages, with facades and beautiful courtyards from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
- Parish church of Aschach an der Donau : Around 1490, the late Gothic successor building of a church originally first mentioned in 1371 took place. The high altar is crowned by the Danube Cross, which is venerated as medicinal . In 1693, when it was flooded, it was brought ashore by two shipmen. The ailing restorer of the cross was healed while he was working. In 1784, by a government decree of Emperor Josef II. Aschach was separated from the mother church of Hartkirchen and made an independent parish. In 1976 the church was renovated and expanded according to plans by Clemens Holzmeister .
- Old Town Hall
- Aschach Castle on the Danube : The castle is the former seat of the Counts of Harrach. The main wing of the castle from the 16th century is provided with archways on all three floors on the courtyard side. The east wing was built by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt in 1709, as well as the high altar of the palace chapel. The castle is privately owned.
- Aschach power plant : The power plant built between 1959–1964 was formerly the largest European run-of- river power plant .
- Schopper- und Fischereimuseum: The then so-called Schopper were responsible for using moss to seal the boats that were needed for shipping. In this museum you get to know the art of drinking and the flora and fauna of the Danube meadows.
The museum presents the history of the market in Aschach in connection with the Schopper and shipping tradition on the Upper Danube. The Schoppermuseum presents the historical craft of the Schopperei as well as the social and cultural environment of this craft guild. In addition, the last original Zehner Trauner is shown. The fishing museum shows the development of commercial and recreational fishing in the Upper Austria area with a special reference to the Upper Danube.
Personalities
- Leonhard Paminger (1495–1567 Passau), Austrian composer
- Josef Abel (1764–1818 Vienna), copperplate engraver, landscape and history painter, at the Upper Carpenter's House in Abelstrasse. 11 is the house where the artist was born
- Helmut Ortner (* 1927), actor
- Helga Schager (* 1955), artist and radio journalist
politics
The following parties are represented in the municipal council:
- SPÖ (5 seats)
- ÖVP (11 mandates)
- FPÖ (6 seats)
- The Greens (3 seats)
- Mayor since 1849
| Surname | from |
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| Georg Guglmayr | January 1, 1849 |
| Friedrich Heller | January 1, 1852 |
| Franz Krigner | January 1, 1855 |
| Theodor Kurzwernhart | March 1, 1861 |
| Stephan Schober | August 2, 1864 |
| Johann Georg Fischer | August 31, 1867 |
| Gottlieb Stampfl | July 29, 1870 |
| Theodor Kurzwernhart | January 29, 1873 |
| Johann Georg Fischer | January 1, 1886 |
| Emmerich Markl | January 1, 1887 |
| Adam Hager | February 4, 1889 |
| Leopold Haidenthaler | February 23, 1895 |
| Georg Madlsperger | January 1, 1908 |
| Ignaz Obgrasser | January 1, 1913 |
| Rudolf Parsche | August 29, 1919 |
| Josef Ettl | January 1, 1920 |
| Hans Dienstl | May 31, 1924 |
| Hans Osterkorn | January 1, 1928 |
| Karl Wagner | January 1, 1938 |
| Karl Spielberger | January 1, 1938 |
| Hans Reinhold | January 1, 1941 |
| Hans Heger | January 1, 1945 |
| Hans Dienstl | November 25, 1945 |
| Alois Astner | January 1, 1946 |
| Johann Hinterberger | October 9, 1949 |
| Karl Wagner | October 23, 1955 |
| Josef Fiala | January 1, 1964 |
| Johann Veicht | October 22, 1967 |
| Adolf Putz | January 1, 1984 |
| Rudolf Achleitner | October 12, 2003 |
| Friedrich Knierzinger (ÖVP) | October 11, 2009 |
Town twinning
traffic
In addition to the Danube, the most important transport route for thousands of years, Aschach was connected to the modern transport network through the Aschacher Bahn (Aschach - Eferding - Wels), which opened in 1886 .
While the power plant was being built, the line through Aschach to the power plant was extended (and then dismantled again).
The extension to Ottensheim to the Mühlkreisbahn, planned since the opening of the railway, did not materialize.
In 1962 the Danube ferry ("Fliegende Bruck") was replaced by the Aschach Danube Bridge, which was built further downstream, connecting the Mühlviertel and the central area.
Aschach is on the Danube Cycle Path , which only arrives on the right bank from above and is preferably used on the left bank below the road bridge. The Danube power plant Aschach slightly above the village does not form a transition for pedestrians or cyclists across the Danube, although from here on there is also a road with little traffic on the - almost unpopulated - left bank, which, however, turns into a hiking trail upstream.
education
- kindergarten
- Elementary school
- New middle school
literature
- Ernst Neweklowsky: Aschach and Danube shipping . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter 13 (195993) , pp. 207–242, digitized version (PDF; 4 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Web links
- Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
- Community website
- Guest and tourism information at aschach.at
- Schopper and fishing museum
- 40502 - Aschach on the Danube. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- More information about the municipality of Aschach an der Donau on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ Statistics Austria
