Atzesberg

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Atzesberg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Main town :	Ohnerstorf
Surface:	12.68 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 32 '  N , 13 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '26 "  N , 13 ° 52' 17"  E
Height :	610  m above sea level A.
Residents :	437 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4152
Area code :	0 72 83
Community code :	4 13 06
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 2 4152 Sarleinsbach
Website:	www.sarleinsbach.at/atzesberg/
politics
Mayor :	Josef Scharinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	11 2 11 2  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 2
Location of Atzesberg in the Rohrbach district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Atzesberg is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel with 437 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The responsible judicial district is Rohrbach in Upper Austria .

geography

Atzesberg lies at an altitude of 610  m in the Upper Mühlviertel . The extension is from north to south 5.3 km, from west to east 4.2 km. The total area is 12.68 km², making the municipality the thirteen smallest of the 44 municipalities in the district. The community area extends over a height between around 600 meters and the 941 meter high Ameisberg and is 37.8 percent forested (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent). A further 57.5 percent (Upper Austria: 49.3 percent) are used as agricultural land, the remaining areas are mainly divided into gardens and construction areas. Neighboring communities are Oberkappel in the northwest, Sarleinsbach in the northeast and east, Hörbich in the southeast, Putzleinsdorf in the south and Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis in the west.

Geology and soils

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan mountain formation in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ). After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary, the crystalline basement was abolished by several 100 meters, causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods . The dominant rocks in the municipality are older, coarse-grained granites of the Weinsberg granite type . It is one of the first masses of magma to solidify during the folding of the mountains, has a typical coarseness and causes a restless landscape character with rapid alternation of peaks and valleys. In the municipality, soils of the brown earth - Podzol series of crystalline predominate, with the dominant soil type being the silicate brown earth, which forms on granites and gneiss. The light to very light soils are generally poor in nutrients and their use depends on the depth and the water supply. The soil type is generally loamy sand or sandy loam, with the dominant form of humus in dry locations being mild , otherwise mull . In addition, in the valley area of ​​the Daglesbach and the Reiterbach Podsol occur.

Landscape and vegetation

The municipality can be roughly divided into two parts. In the north of the municipality there is a wooded hilltop landscape which, in terms of nature conservation, is part of the southern Bohemian Forest foothills . The sub-area of ​​the municipality is characterized by a high proportion of forest, with predominantly coniferous forest used for forestry. In addition, there are small-scale deciduous and mixed forests. The agriculturally used areas in this area are intensively cultivated as grassland and for arable farming. Structural elements exist only to a limited extent, with orchards and rows of fruit trees, small forest areas, individual trees, hedges and embankments occurring. The rest of the municipality is called the southern residual structural landscape, with this section belonging to the Central Mühlviertel highlands and characterized by intensive agricultural use and residual structural elements. Similar to the northern landscape, the forest areas in the south are also mostly coniferous, but there are also small deciduous and mixed forests. However, the agricultural areas predominate here, although most of them are intensively cultivated. Structural elements are also only present here to a limited extent, with hedges, rows of trees, orchards and rows as well as small forest areas and individual trees occurring above all.

Waters

The community is drained to the northeast or southwest. The longest creek in the municipality is the Daglesbach, which rises below the Ameisberg and runs along the municipal boundary to Putzleinsdorf to the southwest. The stream is surrounded by forest in the north, after which it represents a very remote body of water with only locally available riparian wood. The Reiterbachl runs on the northern municipality border to the east, where it meanders close to nature and along the edges of the forest. The Reiterbach runs south of the Reiterbachl largely in the forest. The Reiterbach flows into the Reiterbachl at Zellhäusl. In the south of the municipality there is also the Neuwiesbachl, which partially forms a section of the southern municipality boundary and has been straightened in sections.

Community structure

Population of the districts

District	2001	2011
Atzesberg	068	055
Fuchsberg	0	014th
Hohenschlag	029	026th
Kramsreith	033	029
Krien	014th	009
Midstroke	119	090
Obernreith	047	035
Ohnerstorf	143	117
Wögerstorf	033	033
Wollerdorf	035	045

The municipality of Atzesberg is congruent with the cadastral municipality of Atzesberg, with nine to ten districts being distinguished in the municipality. The main town of the municipality is the district of Ohnerstorf, in which a total of 143 people lived in 2001. In addition to Ohnerstorf, only the Mitternschlag district had more than 100 inhabitants. The Ohnerstorf district includes the village of Ohnerstorf ( 610  m above sea level ) as well as the Ohnerstorfersiedlung and the Bachhäusl farm. The district in the east of the municipality in 2001 comprised 44 buildings. South of Ohnerstorf is the Rotte Wollerdorf ( 596  m above sea level ), to the west is the village of Atzesberg ( 671  m above sea level ) with the wasteland of Fuchsberg, whereby Fuchsberg was designated as a separate district in 2011. In 2001 Wollerdorf had a total of 12 buildings, Atzesberg with Fuchsberg 19 buildings. The scattered settlement of Obernreith ( 600  m above sea level ) is also located northwest of Ohnerstorf , with the individual farms Halmstein, Reisingergut and Waldbauer also belonging to Obernreith. In 2001 Obernreith comprised a total of 13 buildings. In the north of the community is the Rotte Mitternschlag ( 800  m above sea level ), the second largest district of the community. In 2001, Mitternschlag had 46 buildings. West of Mitterschlag is the Ameisbergwarte, which, however, belongs to the Hohenschlag district to the south ( 780  m above sea level ). In 2001 the Rotte Hohenschlag had 14 buildings.

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

• Atzesberg (55)
• Fuchsberg (8)
• Hohenschlag (33)
• Kramsreith (25)
• Krien (9)
• Midriff (92)
• Obernreith (29)
• Ohnerstorf (118)
• Wögerstorf (28)
• Wollerdorf (40)

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the region has belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century . In 1231 Atzesberg was first mentioned in a document as Atzelinsberg (settlement of Atzelin). The place belonged to the diocese of Passau, mainly to the Passauian rule Sprinzenstein, since 1490 it has been part of the principality of Austria ob der Enns .

Since 1918 the village has belonged to the federal state of Upper Austria. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place was incorporated into the Sarleinsbach market and, like it, belonged to the Upper Danube Gau . After the restoration of Upper Austria, he became independent again with the municipal council election in 1949.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council as the highest body of the municipality has 13 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The community board consists of three members, with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) having been represented on the community board with the mayor and the vice mayor since 2009 and the ÖVP also providing the third member.

The strongest parliamentary group in the Atzesberg municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which between 1973 and 2009 was always able to achieve an absolute majority of votes and mandates and usually a two-thirds majority. In 1973 the ÖVP was still the only candidate party, it was not until 1979 that it faced competition from the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), with the SPÖ only able to unite 7.7 percent and the FPÖ in this election 1.4 percent failed to join the municipal council. 1985 did not join the FPÖ, with the ÖVP achieving 85.9 percent and the SPÖ 14.1 percent. The renewed membership of the FPÖ in 1991 led to a noticeable decline in ÖVP votes. The ÖVP came to 70.9 percent, the SPÖ to 15.3 percent and the FPÖ to 13.8 percent. In the following elections, the ÖVP achieved between 63.3 and 69.5 percent, the SPÖ, with 14.4 to 16.0 percent, fell behind the FPÖ, which achieved results between 16.0 and 20.8 percent. In the last municipal council election in 2009, the ÖVP won 69.5 percent or nine seats. The FPÖ achieved 16.2 percent and two mandates, the SPÖ 14.4 percent and also two mandates.

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . In the first direct mayor election, the ÖVP candidate was able to prevail against the SPÖ candidate with 73.8 percent. Since then, there has only ever been one ÖVP candidate running in the elections, who could achieve around 95 percent in each case. Mayor is currently Josef Scharinger, the vice-mayor is also provided by the ÖVP.

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 declined noticeably since the 1970s. Nevertheless, the ÖVP has always been able to become the party with the strongest vote since 1973, and on several occasions it even achieved a two-thirds majority. The ÖVP achieved its best result in this period in 1973 with 93.8 percent, and since then it has lost almost successive votes. The ÖVP recorded its worst result in 2003 with 63.3 percent. The second strongest party in state elections was always the SPÖ, which achieved election results between 6.2 percent and 16.8 percent. The SPÖ had its best result in 2003, its worst in 1973. In 1991, the SPÖ was replaced by the SPÖ as the second strongest party for the first time, and the FPÖ was subsequently able to position itself in front of the SPÖ in two out of three elections. The FPÖ only achieved 0 to 2.2 percent between 1973 and 1985, but since then results between 14.0 and 17.2 percent. The fourth strongest party in 2009 was the Greens with 6.8 percent, with the Greens achieving their best result so far in Atzesberg.

coat of arms

Blazon :

In blue on a silver hill , inside three green fir trees, one by two, of which the top of the top protrudes over the hill, the golden east facade of the Ameisbergwarte .

The community colors are yellow-green.

population

Population structure

In 2013, 456 people lived in the community of Atzesberg, making Atzesberg the third smallest community in the Rohrbach district. In terms of population density, Atzesberg had the third lowest population density in the district with 36 inhabitants / km². At the end of 2001, 94.6 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the value rose to 98.0 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent) Percent) hardly. A total of only nine foreigners were counted in the municipality in 2013, 26 were born in another country. In 2001 Germany played a role almost exclusively as the country of origin or the country of birth. In 2001, 94.2 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent), 2.5 percent were without confession, 2.3 percent were Protestants.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was slightly above the national average. 22.1 percent of the residents of Atzesberg were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8 percent), 56.8 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 21.1 percent, above the national average of 20.2 percent. As a result, the average age of the population of Atzesberg changed in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell significantly to 14.0 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between 15 and 59 years of age increased significantly to 71.7 percent. The proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 14.3 percent. According to their marital status, 47.8 percent of Atzesberg's residents were single, 44.5 percent married, 4.6 percent widowed and 3.1 percent divorced in 2001.

Population development

The community of Atzesberg has not shown a continuous population development since the beginning of the regular records. The population fell continuously between 1869 and 1910, before increasing again in the interwar period. However, as early as 1934 the population began to decline again, with the decline continuing until 1951. In the 1950s, the community again experienced short-term growth, but in 1961 the population began to shrink again. Since then, with the exception of the 1980s, the municipality has recorded a gradual loss of population, with the municipality having lost a total of 26 percent of its population since 1869. Compared to the district area, the municipality shows a below-average population development, compared with the province of Upper Austria the development is even well below average. The population losses in the municipality result in particular from emigration. The balance of migration has been strongly negative since the 1970s, while the birth surplus, with the exception of the 1980s, could not compensate for emigration.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leopold Eisschiel , Judo European Cup winner 1982 (team)
• Franz Leitenbauer (1925–2016), member of the Upper Austrian state parliament
• Sr. Maria Liboria (Josefa) Past (1871–1936), novice master and provincial superior (1925–1934) of the Sisters of the Cross in Linz; During her tenure as Provincial Superior, the St. Angelus School Center of the Sisters of the Cross was built in Linz

literature

• Atzesberg community (ed.): Ameisberg community - Atzesberg . [Atzesberg] 2000, ISBN 3-900847-87-8 .
• Vitus & Josefa Ecker: Ameisberg - 90 years Ameisbergwarte 1902 - 1992 . Self-published by the municipality of Atzesberg, [Atzesberg] 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Atzesberg landscape survey. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2007
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 in Atzesberg
4. ^ Province of Upper Austria election results in mayoral elections
5. ^ Province of Upper Austria state election results
6. ↑ ^{a b} State of Upper Austria ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Population levels in Upper Austria in comparison by citizenship
7. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
8. ^ ^{A b} Statistics Austria community data from Atzesberg
9. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Resident population in Upper Austria compared by age group
10. ^ Congregation d. barely. Sisters of St. Cross, Province of Central Europe, Provincial Archive Branch Archive Linz, 1936 Sr. Liboria Past, 01.5.723

Web links

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

• 41306 - Atzesberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• More information about the municipality of Atzesberg on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .