Engerwitzdorf

The originally purely rural community around Gallneukirchen has no actual core town, it is made up of 30 scattered settlements . Only a small part of the residents live in the eponymous town. Due to its proximity to Linz and its attractive location, Engerwitzdorf is one of the fastest growing communities in Austria. In Schweinbach and Mittertreffling, two cores with more dense buildings and corresponding infrastructure (schools, shopping centers, etc.) have formed, otherwise single-family houses and traditional rural villages predominate. Large parts of the municipal area are still determined by agriculture and forestry.

geography

Engerwitzdorf is 333 m above sea level in the lower Mühlviertel . The extension is 7.5 km from north to south and 11.0 km from west to east. The total area is 41 km².

Area distribution

Cadastral parish

From west to east: KG Niederkulm (45632), KG Holzwiesen (45626), KG Klendorf (45629), KG Engerwitzdorf (45623)

Districts

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

Aigen (54)
Amberg (107)
Au (62)
Aussertreffling (796) including the Aussertreffling settlement
Bach (337)
Edtsdorf (111)
Engerwitzberg (164)
Engerwitzdorf (726) including the Engerwitzdorf settlement
Gallusberg (337) including the Gallusberg settlement
Gratz (69)
Haid (482)
Hohenstein (45)
Wood meadows (138)
Innertreffling (590)
Klendorf (177)
Langwiesen (23)
Linzerberg (918) including the Linzerberg settlement and Martinstift
Mittertreffling (1273)
Niederkulm (73)
Niederreitern (82)
Niederthal (99)
Oberreichenbach (148)
Oberthal (113)
Schmiedgassen (112)
Schweinbach (1493)
Steinreith (89)
Unterreichenbach (32)
Vineyard (21)
Wolfing (50)
Pewter Casting (119)

Neighboring communities

Altenberg near Linz	Alberndorf in the Riedmark Gallneukirchen	Unterweitersdorf
Linz		Wartberg ob der Aist Katsdorf
Steyregg	Luftenberg on the Danube	St. Georgen an der Gusen

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 .

In 1125 the place was first mentioned as Engilboldistorf , the place name being derived from the personal name Engilpolt.

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.

Population development

year	Residents	change	percentage change
2018	8,790	+ 272	+ 3.2%
2011	8,518	+ 1.002	+ 13.3%
2001	7,516	+ 1,502	+ 25%
1991	6,014	+ 768	+ 14.6%
1981	5,246	+ 1,118	+ 27.1%
1971	4.128	+ 1,204	+ 41.2%
1961	2,924	+ 343	+ 13.3%
1951	2,581	+ 176	+ 7.3%
1939	2.405	- 152	- 5.9%
1934	2,557	+ 29	+ 1.1%
1923	2,528	- 84	- 3.2%
1910	2,612	+ 182	+ 7.5%
1900	2,430	- 9	- 0.4%
1890	2,439	+ 4	+ 0.2%
1880	2,435	+ 4	+ 0.2%
1869	2,431

Culture and sights

Parish church of Treffling
The Aegidikirchlein am Hohenstein was built in the 13th century on a high rock pulpit and was originally part of a castle that was destroyed in the 14th century.
In the village of Gratz there are the heavily sanded remains of a ring wall system from which the name of the place is derived (Slavic “grad” or “hradec” = castle).

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The municipality is divided by the A7 ( Mühlkreis Autobahn ). There are three entrances / exits in the municipality (Treffling, Gallneukirchen, Engerwitzdorf). The A7 is to be extended by the S10, the Mühlviertler Schnellstraße , to the Czech border in order to relieve the neighboring communities on the B125. The B125 ( Prager Straße ) also runs through the municipality.

Due to its proximity to Linz and the well-developed connection for private transport, the municipality of Engerwitzdorf can record an above-average influx.

The Regio-Tram planned for 2022, which is to connect Pregarten with Linz and thereby form the northern rail connection to the Linz tram network, also runs through the municipality of Engerwitzdorf. After Schweinbach (town center of Engerwitzdorf) was almost relieved, parts such as Engerwitzdorf itself as well as Treffling are massively burdened by the route. Partly (Engerwitzdorf), the route is to be guided through the flood area on a newly constructed dam.

In the past, the Linz-Budweis horse-drawn railway also ran through the municipality of Engerwitzdorf. You can follow the old route along a hiking trail. The route led from Linz via Engerwitzdorf to Freistadt and then across the border to Budweis.

politics

Composition of the municipal council

Results of the last municipal council elections

Election year	2015			2009			2003			1997			1991
-	be right	percent	Mandates	be right	percent	Mandates	be right	percent	Mandates	be right	percent	Mandates	percent	Mandates
ÖVP	3,000 (−2)	52.4% (−3.1%)	20 (−1)	3.002 (+446)	55.5% (−0.4%)	21 (−1)	2,556 (+313)	55.9% (+ 0.4%)	22 (+1)	2,243	55.5% (−13.9%)	21 (−5)	69.4% (+ 8.4%)	26 (+3)
SPÖ	980 (−352)	17.13% (−7.5%)	6 (−3)	1,332 (−49)	24.62% (−5.6%)	9 (−2)	1,381 (+400)	30.2% (+ 5.9%)	11 (+2)	981	24.3% (+ 5.9%)	9 (+2)	18.4% (−16.7%)	7 (−6)
FPÖ	928 (+437)	16.22% (+ 7.07%)	6 (+3)	495 (+324)	9.15% (+ 5.41%)	3 (+2)	171 (−334)	3.7% (−8.8%)	1 (−3)	505	12.5% (+ 6.1%)	4 (+2)	6.4% (−2.5%)	2 (+1)
Green (*)	814 (+232)	14.23% (+ 3.5%)	5 (+1)	582 (+119)	10.76% (+ 0.7%)	4 (+1)	463 (+147)	10.1% (+ 2.3%)	3 (± 0)	316	7.8% (+ 2.0%)	3 (+1)	5.8% (+ 5.8%)	2 (+2)
Eligible to vote Valid votes	7.104 (+340) 5.722 (+311)	Turnout: 83.16% (+ 0.16%)		6,764 (+825) 5,411 (+840)	Turnout: 83.0% (+ 2.65%)		5,939 (+789) 5,117 (+1,072)	Turnout: 80.4% (−1.3%)		5,150 4,045	Turnout: 81.7% (−4.4%)		Turnout: 86.1% (−2.3%)

(*) The Greens entered the BfE citizens' list from 1991 to 2003

mayor

Data from the homepage of the Province of Upper Austria

Online services

The municipal administration offers citizens to issue certain forms directly at home in order to simplify the administrative procedures. Citizens can use the web form to submit, for example, requests to extend curfew or application forms directly from home via the Internet. The form solution is based on AFORMSSOLUTION from the Austrian IT company aforms2web .

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided by a silver oblique left bar, covered with a green bar; above in green a golden deer antler, below in red a golden, heraldic rose with silver sepals. The community colors are red-white-green.

The deer antlers refer to the long tradition of hunting in the community. Since 1900 there have been two independent hunting grounds with a total of over 4,000 hectares. - The heraldic rose is borrowed from the Engelpoldsdorf family coat of arms; the seat of this free sex was in the area of the local parish, but cannot be reliably located. - The Mühlkreisautobahn A 7 from the Linz junction (A 1) to Unterweitersdorf - in the coat of arms as a silver sloping bar with a green center bar - crosses the municipality over a length of 9.5 km and has two full connections (in Mittertreffling and Engerwitzdorf) and one half connection ( in Schweinbach).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Siegfried Hartwagner (1916–2000), art historian and state curator of Carinthia
Richard Pils (* 1946), publisher
Johannes Enzenhofer (* 1965), triathlete

Personalities associated with the community

Anatole Ak (* 1956), painter
Paul Tiedemann (1935-2014), German handball player and coach

Web links

Commons : Engerwitzdorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

41605 - Engerwitzdorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Further information about the municipality of Engerwitzdorf 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 )
official homepage of the community Engerwitzdorf
Literature on Engerwitzdorf in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Reginmar, Bishop of Passau, confirms the donations of Hermann von Chazilinistorf and Adalberos von Griezbach to the St. Florian monastery, of which the latter had sacrificed the parish church of Katsdorf, while the latter had sacrificed the parish church to St. Florian . In: Upper Austrian document book . Volume 2, No. CX, Passau, 1125, p. 164 (“Steuen de engilboldistorf” as a witness).
↑ ^a ^b Karl Hohensinner , 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, pp. 44–45.

↑ The Urfahr area. Landscape, history, population, economy, traffic, hiking, winter sports. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 17, Issue 3/4, Linz 1963, p. 70 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

↑ E-Government. In: englwitzdorf.at. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Reginmar, Bishop of Passau, confirms the donations of Hermann von Chazilinistorf and Adalberos von Griezbach to the St. Florian monastery, of which the latter had sacrificed the parish church of Katsdorf, while the latter had sacrificed the parish church to St. Florian . In: Upper Austrian document book . Volume 2, No. CX, Passau, 1125, p. 164 (“Steuen de engilboldistorf” as a witness).

[Ortsnamenbuch-3] Karl Hohensinner , 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, pp. 44–45.

[4] The Urfahr area. Landscape, history, population, economy, traffic, hiking, winter sports. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 17, Issue 3/4, Linz 1963, p. 70 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[5] E-Government. In: englwitzdorf.at. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .