Burgau am Attersee

Burgau [am Attersee] ( Rotte )
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Salzburg area (SL), Salzburg
Judicial district	Thalgau
Pole. local community	Sankt Gilgen ( KG Unterburgau )
Locality	Substructure
Coordinates	47 ° 47 '45 " N , 13 ° 30' 56" E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '45 " N , 13 ° 30' 56" E
height	472 m above sea level A.
Building status	17 (addresses 2017 )
Post Code	4866 Weissenbach
	Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Unterburgau - Oberburgau (50 330 002)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; SAGIS

Burgau am Attersee is a small town in the Attersee region in the Salzburger Salzkammergut and belongs to the municipality of Sankt Gilgen in the Salzburg area .

geography

The place is located 35 kilometers east of the city of Salzburg , 12 kilometers east of St. Gilgen . It is located on the south bank of the Attersee in the Unterburgau , a traffic exclave of the municipality and the whole of Salzburg, between the Upper Austrian towns of Unterach and Weißenbach . The B152 Seeleiten Straße , the Attersee-Ostufer-Straße from Seewalchen , runs through the village .

Burgau is located directly on the lake ( 469 m above sea level ) on the alluvial fan of the Burgau stream . This comes from the south from the area between the St.-Wolfganger Moosalm and around the Breitenberg ( 1412 m above sea level ), in the Schwarzensee mountain gap of the Schafberg group between Schafberg and Leonsberg / Zimnitz . Above the village, the slopes of Auberg ( 907 m above sea level ) and Sechserkogel ( 872 m above sea level ) suddenly fall into the lake.

The place only has 20 addresses. Above is the Lasseralm on the Lasseralmbach , the Loidlalm on the Loidlbach and the Meisterebenalm on the Breitenberg , all of which are no longer open.

**Neighboring places:**
	Attersee ^∗
Burgbachau		Weißenbach am Attersee (Gem. Steinbach a. A. , District Vöcklabruck , Upper Austria )
	^∗∗

^∗Opposite the lakeside towns of Unterach and Buchenort on the west bank and Steinbach on the east bank

^∗∗To the south are the Wolfgangthaler places in the Wolfgang- / Ischltal, St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee is southwest.

View from Schoberstein in the Höllengebirge westwards to Unterach and Schafberg:

In the middle the Unterburgau , with the two peninsulas of Burgbachau and Burgau (in front); above the demolition of the Schafberg group via Sechserkogel, Auberg, Ackerschneid to Kienbergwand and Drachenwand on Mondsee (back); between the Sechserkogel and Auberg the Burgaubach gorge.

History, infrastructure and sights

Burgau is also the name of all the parts of St. Gilgen on Mond - and Attersee, i.e. Oberburgau and Unterburgau . These were disputed from time immemorial between the Mondsee Monastery , the Attergau - both later Habsburg Austria - and the diocese, later the sovereign archbishopric of Salzburg . The name probably refers to the castle Hüttenstein on the Scharflinger Höhe, to whose rule the places belonged, a castle in Burgau is not proven, although there was perhaps a fortification at the moat : The old place name of the place is Appenau (Abtenau) .

A noble farm already existed here at the turn of the century . The first recorded family in Burgau are the Vischmaister from Unterach, their name probably refers to the administration of old Salzburg fishing rights on the Attersee. In 1375 a Heinrich Vischmaister sat here, then Ulrich, Benediekt and finally Margarethe, married relatives. Since then the property has been called Ferdl-, Ferschtl- , then forstergütl in writing. As early as the 14th century, when the Attergau became Habsburg, the Vischmaister submitted to the Salzburg archbishopric. Only with a state treaty in 1689 was membership of Salzburg finally regulated. The place itself was formerly called Loidl , like Bach and Alm above, after the family who owned larger estates here.

The lower Burgau localities were largely isolated, the main traffic artery was shipping. Burgau itself was primarily easy to reach from Weißenbach, where the Salinenamt received "a good roadway [...] to Ischel " as early as the 18th century in order to use the timber harvest on the Attersee. To Hüttenstein Castle , to whose rule Burgau belonged, the high path over the Lasseralmbach - Eisenau and behind the Kienberg was probably used because the Kienbergwand on the Mondsee was previously completely impassable. As a pilgrimage route for the important pilgrimage to St. Wolfgang , in addition to the Burgau - Schwarzensee route, the “inner Austrian” route from Weißenbach via the Fachbergsattel and the Haleswies was used due to the ownership structure . The road to Unterach was only made mobile in 1891.

The Waldschlössl , around 1960

At the beginning of the 19th century there were only two farms here, the Forstergütl (HNr. Unterburgau 5) and the Neuhäusl (HNr. 4), as well as the Forsthäusl (HNr. 6). Only with the beginning of the summer in the Salzkammergut did the development of the area begin . The Attersee liner shipping began in 1869. In 1905 the Hotel Burgau opened at Förstergütl. It experienced its heyday in the 1930s when it was the best address on the Attersee. The Waldschlössl (HNr. 18, Villa Nemetschke , today Abramowitsch ) was built around the turn of the century . In 1964 the ship line operation was stopped, and later Burgau was no longer served by the excursion boats. The Villa Kraemer was also built here (HNr. 27/29, Campeau rebuilt in 1980 , today Andlinger ). The Hotel Burgau was closed in 1995. The hotel building and the Förstergütl had to make way for the new construction of the federal highway in 2008, which defused the accident-prone curve. Burgau also had a campsite that was also closed.

Burgau is a valley location for a number of tours in the easy hiking area of the Schafberg Group. Via the Lasseralm you reach the Moosalm - Schwarzensee area, and from there St. Wolfgang, the Eisenaualm with the Buchberghütte , and from there continue the Himmelspfort-Steig to the Schafberg or to the Kienberg, or the Burggrabenklamm from above (Valerie-Weg) with the way back over the Burgbachau. The Burgau - Lasseralmbach route is part of the Voralpenweg (Austrian long-distance hiking trail 04), which comes from the Höllengebirge over the Schafberg to St.Gilgen- Winkl and continues towards Salzburg. Via the Loidlalm you can reach the Fachbergsattel and the remote Haleswiessee , a geological feature (Karst-Polje), via the Elsenschneid the Leonsberg (Zimnitz) , or the mountain hut Meisterebenalm .

proof

50330 - Sankt Gilgen. Community data, Statistics Austria .

^ Alfred Mück: Unterach am Attersee. History of a Salzkammergut summer retreat. In: Yearbook of the municipal museum in Wels 1936, Wels 1936. Chapter Die Salzburgische Burgau , pp. 56–60 (full article, pp. 29–155; first part, p. 31 ff. (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Therefore, the historical names are also unclear: S. Schütz, F. Müller ( Mappa von dem Land ob der Enns. Reduced and engraved in 1781 by CS Schütz and written by F. Müller in 1787), for example, gave for the today Burgau unt [ ere ] Burgau , whether [ ere ] Burgau for today Burgbachau; the Franziszäischer cadastral (second land survey, Urmappe ) was lower Burgau at today's Berghof in Unterach (Fersthof) and here the three individual houses Neuhausl, Forstergütl and forestry Häusl ; the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme (3rd Landesaufnahme) gave again Unt. Burgau (subject of first regional surveys . Online at DORIS, or Franziszäischer cadastre at SAGIS).

^ Mück: Unterach. 1936, p. 57 (in PDF p. 32).

↑ ^a ^b ^c Mück 1936, p. 58 (PDF p. 33).

↑ According to Burgau. In: Atter Wiki .

↑ Josephinisches Lagebuch 1788.

↑ Information on streets in Attergau. In: Atter Wiki .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Information from Hotel Burgau. In: Atter Wiki .

↑ The richest Russian wants a castle on the Attersee: Waldschlössel for Roman Abramowitsch. In: news.at, December 15, 2006.

↑ cf. Villa Campeau. In: Atter Wiki .