Aurach am Hongar

Aurach am Hongar
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	24.78 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 57 '  N , 13 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '1 "  N , 13 ° 40' 2"  E
Height :	488  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,720 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4861
Area code :	07662
Community code :	4 17 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Aurach aH 2 4861 Aurach am Hongar
Website:	www.aurach.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Gabeder ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	7th 6th 6th 7th 6th 6th  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 7 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 6
Location of Aurach am Hongar in the Vöcklabruck district
The town center from the west
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Aurach am Hongar is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 1720 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The responsible judicial district is Vöcklabruck.

geography

Aurach am Hongar lies at an altitude of 488 m in the Salzkammergut. The extension is 8.1 km from north to south and 5.4 km from west to east. The total area is 24.8 km². 52.8% of the area is forested, 40.3% of the area is used for agriculture. The municipality is traversed from south to north by the Dürren Aurach , which gave the place its name.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 11 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Aurach am Hongar (428)
• Count Book (28)
• Hainbach (231)
• Half moss (84)
• Illingbuch (72)
• Now (94)
• Box (249)
• Looh (272)
• Pranzing (146)
• Raschbach (92)
• Vistula tree (24)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Aurach and Hainbach.

Neighboring communities

Timelkam		Regau
Lenzing , Schörfling am Attersee
Weyregg am Attersee	Altmünster	Pinsdorf

history

In the Neolithic Age, hunters made their forays into the dense beech forests north of the Hongar.

There is documentary evidence of a Bavarian settlement around 800 with the -ing -names Wörtzing and Jetzing, which were common for that time . The place name Aurach indicates a settlement at a river crossing.

In the High Middle Ages (around 1200) a part of the Aurach am Hongar area belonged to the Asbach / Rott monastery near Passau, and another part to Count Gebhard von Regau.

In 1458 Bishop Sigismund von Passau consecrated a chapel - patronage of St. Evangelist Matthew and St. Alexius the Confessor (hermit / hermit). As a result, the pastor of Schörfling am Attersee was obliged to read a mass every Thursday in Aurach. In the course of the Josephine church reform , Aurach received its own pastor in 1784, but did not become an independent parish until 1876. After the old parish church burned down in 1888, the new building that still exists today was inaugurated in 1893.

It is interesting that a schoolmaster in Aurach is mentioned in a church bill as early as 1594. In this context, reference must also be made to the hermitage near the St. Alexi chapel , the construction of which was approved by the Passau prince-bishop Josef Dominicus at the request of Count Khevenhüller in 1726. The hermit, brother Josef Würth, former chamber clerk of Count Khevenhüller , was given the task of teaching the youth to read and write.

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1,368 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,585 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Aurach am Hongar

• Parish church Aurach am Hongar
• Troadkasten: A small local history museum from 1986 with farm equipment.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 19 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 6 FPÖ and 6 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2010 Franz Fellinger (ÖVP)
• 2010 to 2015 Erwin Bichler (ÖVP)
• 2015 to 2020 Josef Staufer (ÖVP)
• since May 2020 Franz Gabeder (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold, a lowered, blue wavy bar , covered with two golden wavy bars ; above a black aurochs head in sight, below a green three-mountain . The community colors are black-yellow-blue.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1980. As a talking coat of arms , the aurochs head and the waves explain the place names ( ahd. Ur = aurochs and aha = flowing water). The wave bar also stands for the Aurach drought, the Dreiberg for the Hongar.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leopold Steinbichler (* 1959), politician ( ÖVP , Team Stronach )

Personalities associated with the community

• Daniela Emminger (* 1975), writer

Web links

Commons : Aurach am Hongar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41705 - Aurach am Hongar. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Aurach am Hongar can be found on the geographic information system of the state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 6th supplement (1980–1983), in Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Issue 3, 1984, p. 222 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at)