Dorfbeuern

Dorfbeuern is a municipality with 1571 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the north of the state of Salzburg in the Salzburg-Umgebung district . The Benedictine monastery in the village of Michaelbeuern is well known and important.

geography

Dorfbeuern from Haunsberg seen

The municipality is located in the northeast of the Salzburg-Umgebung (Flachgau) district 24 km north of the city of Salzburg on the border with Upper Austria and is part of the judicial district of Oberndorf .

Community structure

The municipality area is 14.5 km² and is identical to the only cadastral municipality of the same name. Dorfbeuern is divided into the localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Au (22)
Breitenlohe (173)
Buchach (37) including Poschenau
Dorfbeuern (309)
Michaelbeuern (345)
Reitsberg (49) including Grub, Immelsberg and Schlipfing
Scherhaslach (8)
Schönberg (203) including Lielon, Oberlielon and Unterlielon
Thalhausen (55)
Vorau (249)
Wagnerfeld (103)
Wagnergraben (18)

The villages of Dorfbeuern, Michaelbeuern and Vorau are considered to be the main towns.

history

The political community of Dorfbeuern came into being on January 1st, 1850. The community is divided into the three places Michaelbeuern, Dorfbeuern and Vorau as well as several hamlets. The economic and cultural center of the community is the Benedictine Abbey Michaelbeuern , which was founded around the year 730 AD.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is: "Red split before blue, inside each side an inward-facing silver wing, the right with a red, the left with a blue ball and between the two wings at the gap a silver ball."

politics

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The community council has a total of 17 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 1999, the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 FPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, and 4 SPÖ.