Eidenberg

The place Eidenberg is at an altitude of 685 m above sea level. A. (municipality area 450 - 927 m above sea level ) in the upper Mühlviertel and has 2107 inhabitants. The extension of the municipality is 7.8 km from north to south and 6.1 km from west to east. The total area is 29.3 km².

Area distribution

Districts

Eidenberg consists of 10 localities (population figures as of January 1, 2020):

Aschlberg (133)
Berndorf (171)
Edt (136)
Eidenberg (912)
Felsleiten (37)
Chamber punch (167)
Obergeng (203)
Schiefegg (51)
Dust Lane (77)
Untergeng (241)

Incorporations

March 1, 1875: Geng

Neighboring communities

Herzogsdorf	Oberneukirchen	Zwettl on the Rodl
		Kirchschlag near Linz
Gramastetten	Lichtenberg

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold over a green three-mountain, in it a silver wavy bar, a black horseshoe with ten nail holes, raised by two red, floating, unequal paw crosses in the upper corners. The community colors are black-yellow-red.

The three green hills, the Dreiberg, symbolize the beautiful landscape, the well-tended meadows and the extensive forests. The silver wavy band stands for the large Rodl that runs through the community. The two red crosses symbolize the two churches in Eidenberg and Untergeng. The horseshoe refers to the rural customs of the Leonhardiritte, which has been carried out in Eidenberg since 1956 - Saint Leonhard is the patron saint of the Eidenberg church. The ten nail holes mean the ten localities of the municipality (Aschlberg, Berndorf, Edt, Eidenberg, Felsleiten, Kammerschlag, Obergeng, Schiefegg, Staubgasse, Untergeng).

The coat of arms in its current form and the municipal colors black, yellow and red were decided in the municipal council on March 25, 1981 and approved by the Upper Austrian provincial government on May 11, 1981.

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place has belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century and to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns since 1490 .

The first documentary mentions of the place come from the years 1206 ("ibenberge"), 1209 ("ibenberc") and 1215 ("Ulricus de Ibenperge"), whereby the basic word Berg is either the Old High German personal name Iwo or the Middle High German word iwe (yew) was added, which would then designate the mountain where the yew trees grow.

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times and has since returned to Upper Austria.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, Upper Austria became the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

Culture and sights

Eidenberg Church

Untergeng Church

New castle with branch church Divine Savior
Marienkirche Untergeng (built according to plans by Hans Foschum )
Dr. Alexander Brenner House on the Gis, Brennerweg
Eidenberger Alm (excursion inn with an original Tyrolean alpine hut)
Wolfgang chapel and headache stone

Population development

The increase in the population over the past few decades is primarily due to a positive birth balance . The migration balance has also been positive since 2001 .

parish

Eidenberg is a parish exposition from Gramastetten . The two pastors are the abbot of Wilhering Abbey , Reinhold Dessl and Paulus Nimmervoll.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 25 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 18 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.

mayor

1991–2009 Friedrich Koll (ÖVP)
since 2009 Adolf Hinterhölzl (ÖVP)

Personalities

Bernhard Burgstaller (1886–1941), Dept.
Karl Wedenig (1921–1986), politician
Thomas Kerbl (* 1965), pianist and university professor
Alexander Koll (* 1982), ski racer

Web links

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

41604 - Eidenberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Further information about the municipality of Eidenberg 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 )
A thousand years of Eidenberg
Parish Eidenberg
Literature on Eidenberg in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
↑ Karl Hohensinner and Peter Wiesinger : Place Name Book of the Province of Upper Austria 10. The place names of the political district Urfahr-Umgebung (Middle Mühlviertel). Vienna 2006.

↑ Wladimir Obergottsberger: The two Wolfgang shrines in the parish of Eidenberg. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 24, Issue 3/4, Linz 1970, pp. 31–32, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
Elisabeth Schiffkorn: On the thesis of the hiking legend in small monument research. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 67, Linz 2013, Issue 1/2, pp. 49–51, entire article pp. 32–52 on landessagen.at.

^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Eidenberg, population development. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .

^ Parish Eidenberg, pastoral care team. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .

↑ ^a ^b Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed on May 3, 2019 .