Esternberg

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Esternberg
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Esternberg coat of arms
Esternberg (Austria)
Esternberg
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Schärding
License plate : SD
Surface: 40.27 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 33 '  N , 13 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '0 "  N , 13 ° 34' 0"  E
Height : 510  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,866 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density : 71 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4092
Area code : 07714
Community code : 4 14 09
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 33
4092 Esternberg
Website: www.esternberg.at
politics
Mayor : Rudolf Haas ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)
11
10
3
1
11 10 
A total of 25 seats
Location of Esternberg in the Schärding district
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The Esternberg municipal office
The Esternberg municipal office
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Esternberg is a municipality in the district of Schärding in the Innviertel in Upper Austria with 2866 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Schärding .

geography

Esternberg lies at an altitude of 510 m in the Innviertel. The extension is 8.2 km from north to south and 7.4 km from west to east. The total area is 40.3 km². This makes it the largest municipality in the Schärding district. 43.4% of the area is forested, 46.9% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 23 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Achleiten (182) including Oberachleiten and Unterachleiten
  • Aug (50)
  • Dietzendorf (149) including Hötzmannsdorf
  • Esternberg (682)
  • Gersdorf (22)
  • Hütt (106) including the Hütt settlement
  • Kiesling (138) including upper and lower gravel
  • Koesslarn (58)
  • Lanzendorf (30)
  • Pfarrhof (145) including Enzendorf, Jetzendorf and Moos
  • Pyrawang (131) including Wörth
  • Reisdorf (62) including Buchet, Seebach and Vollmannsdorf
  • Riedlbach (91)
  • Ringwood (37)
  • Schacher (31) including Rauhegg
  • Schörgeneck (293)
  • Silbering (94) including Schwabengrub
  • Unteresternberg (124) including Mitteresternberg
  • Urschendorf (94) including Ruhmansedt
  • Weeg (71) including Oberharmansedt and Untergrub
  • Wetzendorf (96)
  • Winterhof (54) including Oberbamberg
  • Zeilberg (126) including Oberzeilberg and Unterzeilberg

The community consists of the cadastral communities Kiesdorf, Pyrawang, Urschendorf and Wetzendorf.

history

Since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen with the Innviertel (then 'Innbaiern'). Briefly Bavarian again during the Napoleonic Wars , since 1814 it has finally belonged to Upper Austria.

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

coat of arms

Blazon : A silver goat growing under a golden shield head with three red leaf crowns in blue from a golden three-mountain. The community colors are red-white-blue.

Explanation: The main motif is reminiscent of the legend of the tailor from Krempelstein Castle (Schneiderschlössl). The three crowns are a reference to the Ostlandfahrt described in the Nibelungenlied by the Burgundian kings Gunther, Gernot and Giselher, which, after crossing the Inn, led south of Passau on the land route through today's municipality. The red color of the crowns means the bloody end of this company. The Dreiberg speaks for the place name.

politics

Since 2015, 11 of the 25 seats in the municipal council have been in the ÖVP, 10 in the FPÖ, 3 in the Greens and one in the SPÖ.

mayor

  • 2005-2015: Irmgard Wirth (first mayor in Esternberg and in the district of Schärding) (ÖVP)
  • since 2015: Rudolf Haas (ÖVP)

Population development

In 1991 the community had 2,694 inhabitants, in 2001 it had 2,816 inhabitants. The increase was due to the positive birth balance despite a negative migration balance . From 2001 to 2011 the birth balance was negative (–26), but this was offset by immigration, so that the population rose to 2,902 in 2011.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Gothic wall painting in Pyrawang
See also:  List of listed objects in Esternberg
  • Parish church Esternberg : The church has a 47 meter high steeple with a floor plan of 8 × 8 m, the parish patron, St. Consecrated to Bartholomew; in the middle of the neo-Gothic high altar is a representation of St. Bartholomew
  • Pyrawang branch church : The church is a Petruskirche and indicates an early construction period. In 1982, during the interior restoration, remains of Gothic wall paintings from the 14th century were found. exposed
  • Krempelstein Castle : The castle is also called the Schneiderschlössl due to a legend . It consists of an old residential tower and an attached palace. The former curtain wall is still partially preserved.
  • Theater: since 2000 there has been a theater company that regularly offers theater performances every spring.
  • Culture: The "Kulturverein Voll abgefahrn!" Has existed since 2016, organizing trips to cultural events and regular concert evenings.

Sports

Public facilities

  • Austrian Red Cross: The RK Ortstelle Esternberg was founded in 1995.
  • District elderly and nursing home Esternberg: was built by the Schärding social welfare association as the client and has been open since April 1, 2008
  • In 2013 a new waste material collection center was built by the district waste association Schärding.

education

There is also a branch of the Münzkirchen Music School in Esternberg. This branch was established in the former post office building.

Sons and daughters of Esternberg

  • Vinzenz Müller (1875–1958), politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Community Esternberg, politics, mayor. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Eternberg, population development. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .