Eschenau im Pinzgau

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Eschenau is a place and a cadastral municipality that belongs to the market town of Taxenbach in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

geography

The cadastral community has an area of ​​11.73 km². The place itself is just a bunch . The place is located on the Eschenau high plateau , at an altitude of 863  m above sea level. A. Geographically, the area belongs to the Pinzgauer Grasberge.

Personalities

The place became known in German-speaking countries through the writer OP Zier , who from 1976 lived in a mountain farmhouse several hundred years old. Under the title "Rural idyll - an illusion?" In 1983 he created a documentary about the village of Eschenau for ORF , after having previously let people from Eschenau have their say in the original sound in radio features for ORF. In the social satire "Himmelfahrt" (Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1998), which was awarded the renowned Buch.Prize 2000, Zier also made his second home, Eschenau, the setting for his literature. In an article for the journal Literatur und Critique , Zier also remembered one of his neighbors in Eschenau, the composer Heimo Erbse , a student of Boris Blacher , who moved here from Berlin in the 1950s . (Heimo Erbse had to give up his house after a skiing accident and moved to Baden near Vienna . The pianist Rainer Keuschnig currently has his second residence in the Erbse-Haus in Eschenau ).

In his film , radio works and newspaper reports, OP Zier referred very early to the Tauern Lamb Cooperative , which is based in Eschenau.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '  N , 13 ° 1'  E