Desselbrunn

Desselbrunn
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	17.37 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 1 '  N , 13 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '20 "  N , 13 ° 46' 21"  E
Height :	421  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,857 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	107 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4693
Area code :	07673
Community code :	4 17 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Desselbrunn 37 4693 Desselbrunn
Website:	www.desselbrunn.at
politics
Mayoress :	Ulrike Hille ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	8th 7th 4th 8th 7th 4th  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 8 SPÖ : 7 FPÖ : 4
Location of Desselbrunn in the Vöcklabruck district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Desselbrunn is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 1857 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

Desselbrunn is located at an altitude of 421 m in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 5.8 km from north to south and 6.2 km from west to east. The total area is 17.4 km². 21.8% of the area is forested, 66.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 17 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Mountain (16)
• Brauching (25)
• Boy Country (120)
• Desselbrunn (393)
• Deutham (81)
• Edt (17)
• Fall Wood (230)
• Feldham (27)
• House (19)
• Hofstatten (13)
• Hub (33)
• Oberhaidach (11)
• Sicking (198)
• Traunwang (78)
• Unterhaidach (30)
• Critters (299)
• Windern (267)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Desselbrunn and Windern.

history

According to legend, Desselbrunn was founded by Duke Tassilo when he got lost on a hunt in the woods between Ager and Traun, found a spring exhausted and donated a church in thanks. Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Around 1210 it is mentioned in the traditions of the Reichersberg Abbey as "Tesselbrun" (= fountain of Tassilo). Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

The community was part of the Schwanenstadt judicial district until the end of 2004 and became part of the Vöcklabruck judicial district on January 1, 2005.

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1581 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1532 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Desselbrunn

The parish church in Desselbrunn

• Parish church Desselbrunn : The old parish church is a late Gothic sacral building with a mighty tower, the onion roof of which was put on in the Baroque period. The two-storey high altar was built in 1802 by the Lambach sculptor Joachim Ertl.
• Windern Castle : A high wall reinforced with two round towers surrounds the four-tower castle with a beautiful columned portal. The property of the Grienthaler , Moser and Polheimer, which was established in the 16th and 17th centuries - briefly in the hands of Adam Graf von Herberstorff - was renewed after a fire in 1817. The castle chapel dedicated to St. Nepomuk painting by Bartolomeo Altomonte , 1769, has three rococo altars and furnishings from the time it was built. Since 1888 Windern was kept in good condition by the Barons von Gagern .
• Traunfall

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: 8 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 4 FPÖ.

mayor

• 1996 to 2008 Anton Stiegler (ÖVP)
• since 2008 Ulrike Hille (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Blazon : Between two flanks in green, each split three times from the inside outwards from silver and blue, above outwardly curved flanks in green above a silver, square and blue-filled fountain a golden horseshoe. The municipality colors are blue-yellow-green

The fountain in the municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1985, stands for the place name and the founding legend, the horseshoe refers to the Leonhardiritt , which has been held annually in November since 1946 in honor of the parish patron . The two silver-blue flanks symbolize the location of the municipality between Ager and Traun .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leopold Schaschko (1880–1952), politician ( DNSAP , NSDAP ) and federal railway official

Web links

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

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41707 - Desselbrunn. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Desselbrunn can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population development ( PDF )
3. ↑ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 7th supplement (1984-1987) , in Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, No. 4, 1988, p. 224 f. ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at)