Erla (municipality of St. Pantaleon-Erla)

Erla ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral municipality Erla
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Amstetten (AM), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Amstetten
Pole. local community	St. Pantaleon-Erla
Coordinates	48 ° 11 '57 " N , 14 ° 34' 17" E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '57 " N , 14 ° 34' 17" E
height	291 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	830 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	242 (2001)
Area d. KG	13.76 km²
	Statistical identification
Locality code	03282
Cadastral parish number	03110
Counting district / district	Erla (30529 001)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

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Erla is the name of a historical place in the far west of Lower Austria . Today it is part of the parish of St. Pantaleon-Erla .

The Erla is also a 40 km long brook which - coming from the south - turns to the Danube .

The historical place

Today Erla has about 1000 inhabitants, with Klein-Erla a little more.

Erla is around 240 m above sea level at the transition from the hilly Nibelungenstrasse (here Wiener Strasse B 1) to the Donauauen .

Within a radius of two kilometers there is a vantage point from Nibelungenstrasse over long stretches of the Danube Valley, as well as the neighboring town of St. Pantaleon and the airfield of the cities of Sankt Valentin and Enns .

The Enns Canal branches off from the Danube northwest of Erla . The longest round timber bridge in Central Europe had been there from September 2003 until it was demolished in 2017 . It spanned the canal with 88 meters on four bridge piers and was built by the Timber Force company and the army . This new type of bridge construction with round timber is unique in terms of technology and environmental protection.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Erla Hll. Peter and Paul: The “Erlakloster” Benedictine monastery , founded in Erla around 1045 or 1130 by the nobleman Otto von Machland and endowed with donations, was the oldest in Lower Austria. The first abbess was Gisela, the sister of the founder. It was merged with the Vienna Poor Clare Monastery in 1583 and abolished in 1782 under Josef II . The former collegiate church and now the parish church is a 3-aisled late Gothic staggered church . The choir (1438–48) has a star rib vault and many historical grave monuments.

Erla Castle : The former monastery with four wings enclosing a cloister is now a castle .

Erla (river)

The Erla rises about 20 km south in the fertile hills of the Lower Austrian Mostviertel , not far from the city of Steyr (Kürnberg). In the municipality of Erla it turns to the southeast and flows around 10 km parallel to the Danube through its floodplains before it joins the river near the Danube power station Wallsee . The river is only 2 km away and floods the flat, fertile strip of land at regular intervals - which is called Machland on the Upper Austrian bank opposite .

Personalities

Wolfger von Erla (1140–1218), born in Erla, appointed Bishop of Passau in 1191. Influential man, worked u. a. helped to resolve the conflict with Richard I Lionheart , sponsor of the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide
Elisabeth von Eitzing (1397–1466)
Joseph Redlhamer (1713–1761), Jesuit, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and university professor, born in Erlakloster
Josef Leeb (1921–2005), born in Erla, Austrian Kapellmeister , founder of the Lower Austrian Brass Music Association (NÖBV) and the Austrian Brass Music Association (ÖBV). 1st President of the ÖBV.

Wolfger von Erla

The best-known personality in the region is Wolfger von Erla (1140–1218), who was also known as Bishop Wolfger von Passau.

Wolfger lived in Erla until the death of his wife, then became a priest and from Zell am See he was appointed Bishop of Passau in 1191. He was an influential, legally trained man in the field of tension between the Hohenstaufen kings and the young Austrian duchy .

When Richard I the Lionheart - returning from the crusade - was captured as a hostage on the Danube, Wolfger helped resolve the conflict in 1195. After taking part in the crusade in 1197/98, he obtained papal approval for the Teutonic Order, founded by merchants in 1190 . The bill for a fur coat that Wolfger gave to the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide is the only non-literary evidence of the artist.

Walther was one of the bishop's literary circle , along with other Bavarian and Austrian minstrels . The historical surroundings of Erla - the Ostarrichi memorial from 996 is about 20 km away - could have played a role in the last version of the Nibelungenlied .

The energetic Wolfger von Erla became patriarch of Aquileia in 1204 , from where he regained Istria and Carniola . After the IV Lateran Council in 1215 , he resigned from the post of imperial legate in Italy under Otto IV .

Web links

Commons : St. Pantaleon-Erla - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ St. Pantaleon-Erla round timber bridge over Ennskanal is history , at www.noen.at, accessed on June 24, 2018

[1] St. Pantaleon-Erla round timber bridge over Ennskanal is history , at www.noen.at, accessed on June 24, 2018