Wallern on the Trattnach

market community Wallern on the Trattnach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Grieskirchen
License plate :	GR
Surface:	14.56 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 14 '  N , 13 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '54 "  N , 13 ° 56' 55"  E
Height :	298  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,067 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	211 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4702
Area code :	07249
Community code :	4 08 32
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 1 4702 Wallern an der Trattnach
Website:	www.wallern.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Kieslinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	11 6th 5 3 11 6th 5 3  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 11 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 5 GREEN : 3
Location of Wallern an der Trattnach in the Grieskirchen district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wallern an der Trattnach (until 1951 only Wallern ) is a market town in Upper Austria in the Grieskirchen district in the Hausruckviertel with 3,067 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Grieskirchen .

geography

Wallern an der Trattnach is around 300  m above sea level. A. The extension is 6.2 km from north to south and 4.6 km from west to east. The total area is 14.7 km². 10.2% of the area is forested, 76.2% of the area is used for agriculture.

In terms of landscape, the area is part of the Inn- and Hausruckviertel hill country .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 18 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bergern (249)
• Wide meadows (234)
• Edlgassen (56)
• Furth (17)
• Pit (140)
• Hague (18)
• Hilling (54)
• Wooden (37)
• Wooden houses (40)
• Hungerberg (17)
• Kitzing (36)
• Wall (43)
• Mullerberg (3)
• Parzham (25)
• Uttenthal (34)
• Wallern an der Trattnach (2003)
• Weghof (38)
• Angles (23)

The community consists of the cadastral communities of Mauer, Uttenthal and Wallern. Counting districts are Wallern central area and Wallern area .

Neighboring communities

	St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz ( District Eferding )	Scharten ( district Eferding )
Bad Schallerbach		Buchkirchen ( District Wels-Land )
Pichl near Wels ( district Wels-Land )	Krenglbach ( District Wels-Land )

history

Wallern was first mentioned in a document in 815. This year the priest Engilger donated his Adwaldi church on the Dratihaha river to Bishop Hatto of Passau . The first "h" of Dratihaha in the handwriting is apparently a typo ; The correct name should be Dratinaha - pronounced "Dratin-acha", the 'Drat (i) n-bach'.

The parish has belonged to St. Florian Monastery since 1411 . In the Reformation of the 16th century, the Protestant faith was widespread and lived on after the Counter-Reformation . After the tolerance patent was issued in 1781, a prayer house was built. In the years 1851/52 the establishment of the Protestant church, which bears the name Dreieinigkeitskirche , took place.

The market survey took place on January 1, 1983.

Population development

In 1991 the community had 2,618 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 the number rose to 2,865 inhabitants. The reasons for this strong increase were a positive birth balance and a positive migration balance . From 2001 to 2011 the emigration almost canceled out with the positive birth balance (+53), so that the population remained almost constant, and then grew to 3,039 people by 2018.

politics

The municipal council has 25 members and has had the following distribution of seats since 2015: ÖVP (11), FPÖ (6), SPÖ (5), GRÜNE (3).

In 2016, the municipality decided to introduce a fee for swimming pool owners. Since the filling of the pools is concentrated on a few days (mid-April / early May) of the year, which means that water consumption quadruples during this time, the municipality has to buy water at five times the price instead of 1 € / m³ during this time. Owners of pools with over 7 m² swimming area should pay an additional annual fee per square meter. There is a reduced fee for swimming ponds, which are usually filled all year round.

mayor

• until 2008 Friedrich Schlager (ÖVP)
• since 2008 Franz Kieslinger (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Blazon :

Split ; on the right a golden oak leaf in green , on the left split by gold and red with an adjoining paw cross in alternating colors .

The community colors are red-yellow-green .

The paw cross , reproduced in alternating colors, represents the St. Florian monastery , which took over the church of Wallern, which was attested in 815, but can also be used as a symbol for the work of the Catholic and Protestant parishes in an ecumenical spirit. The oak leaf is supposed to symbolize the place name ("with the people in the forest").

Community partnerships

•  Pressig ( Bavaria , Germany), since 1984

•  Wallern in Burgenland , since 1996
•  Volary ( Bohemian Forest , Czech Republic), since 1996

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Wallern an der Trattnach

• Catholic parish church Wallern an der Trattnach
• The Engilger statue in front of the Catholic parish church commemorates the first mention of the place (donation).
• Evangelical parish church Wallern an der Trattnach
• Wallern local history museum: rural living culture and tools are the thematic focus of the museum. A copy of the document about the first mention of the place in 815 is issued.
• Ansitz Lindhof: From 2005 to 2008, in Wallern, designed by Ewald Decker and Otto Rau, Ansitz Lindhof emerged. It is owned by a large company and is associated with a stud farm and an agricultural business. The building with a courtyard and portico , an unusual example of contemporary neo-historicism in Austria , is based on the classicist late baroque style around 1780–1800.

• Trattnachtal educational trail: On the 2 km long Trattnachtal educational trail, ecological contexts are explained on 22 boards and the flora and fauna of the region are presented.

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  Engilger statue by Erwin Burgstaller (1990)

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  Lindhof

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  Trattnachtal educational trail

Infrastructure

• Wallern volunteer fire department
• Bad Schallerbach-Wallern station on the Wels – Passau railway line .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Jakob Ernst Koch (1797–1856), Protestant pastor, administrator of the Superintendentur AB Upper Austria
• Jakob Ernst Koch (1836–1907), Protestant pastor, superintendent of the diocese of the Crown Lands of Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol
• Josef Friedrich Koch (1838–1929), Protestant pastor, superintendent of the diocese of the Crown Lands of Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol
• August Georg Koch (1844–1928), clergyman, senior of the Unterländer Seniorat of the Evangelical Church
• Jakob Ernst Koch (1865–1947), Protestant pastor, superintendent of the Intendentur AB Upper Austria
• Johannes Dantine (1938–1999), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• Ernst Ottensamer (1955–2017), clarinetist, with the Vienna Philharmonic among others

Web links

Commons : Wallern an der Trattnach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• 40832 - Wallern on the Trattnach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry on Wallern an der Trattnach in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Further information about the municipality of Wallern an der Trattnach can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Community changes from 1945 (associations, divisions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 150, 173 , accessed on February 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Wallern, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2770977/ Wallern wants water fee for private pools, May 4, 2016, accessed May 4, 2016.
6. ↑ Marktgemeindeamt Wallern (Ed.): Water Fee Ordinance . Zl. 003 / 31-12-2019-Sti. Wallern an der Trattnach, Austria December 31, 2019, § 4 water usage fees, p. 4 , section (9) ( wallern.ooe.gv.at [PDF; 416 kB ; accessed on May 30, 2020]): “For swimming pools and / or swimming ponds with a surface area of ​​more than 7 m ² that are or will be filled with water from the local water supply of the market town of Wallern ([...]), a Surcharge for the water usage fee to be paid. [...] "
7. ^ Wallern municipality, politics, mayor. Retrieved May 30, 2020 . 
8. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
9. ^ Community Wallern, Our Wallern, community partnerships. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Heimatmuseum Wallern ( Memento of the original dated August 23, 2007 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. , ooemuseumsverbund.at 
11. ↑ Gestüt Lindhof website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Wallern Volunteer Fire Brigade