Flachau (Salzburg)

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Flachau
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Flachau (Salzburg) (Austria)
Flachau (Salzburg)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Salzburg
Political District : St. Johann im Pongau
License plate : JO
Main town : Flachau
Surface: 117.33 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 21 '  N , 13 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '37 "  N , 13 ° 23' 31"  E
Height : 920  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,876 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5542
Area code : 06457
Community code : 5 04 08
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Gemeindestraße 73
5542 Flachau
Website: www.flachau.salzburg.at
politics
Mayor : Thomas Oberreiter ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2019)
(19 members)
14th
3
2
14th 3 2 
A total of 19 seats
Location of Flachau in the St. Johann im Pongau district
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The Flachau, view from the valley entrance to the southeast. In the foreground Reitdorf, behind it Feuersang and in the far right Flachau Ort. Left in the background the Strimskogel, in the middle and dominating the picture the Lackenkogel (half left and further in the foreground its wooded secondary summit Koppen), right, in the far background, the main ridge of the Radstädter Tauern.
The Flachau , view from the valley entrance to the southeast. In the foreground Reitdorf , behind it Feuersang and in the far right Flachau Ort . Left in the background the Strimskogel , in the middle and dominating the picture the Lackenkogel (half left and further in the foreground its wooded secondary summit Koppen ), right, in the far background, the main ridge of the Radstädter Tauern .
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Flachau is a municipality with 2876 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Salzburger Land in the St. Johann (Pongau) district in Austria .

The place is located in the Ski amadé network , one of the largest ski areas in Austria.

geography

The community is located in the Ennspongau in the headwaters of the Enns . The core area of ​​the community is the wide trough valley of the uppermost Enns, the Ennsquelltal, commonly called the Flachau . In addition to this Flachauertal, also called Pleißlingtal in the upper section , the community area also includes the lower Litzlingtal (to Wagrainer Höhe ) and the mountains of the Mosermandl group and the Steinfeldspitzen group of the Radstädter Tauern up to the main ridge of the same on the Mosermandl  ( 2680  m above sea level. A. ), the highest point in the municipality, and to the Kleiner Pleißlingkeil  ( 2417  m above sea level ). In the north, the southeast flank of the Hochgründeck belongs to Flachau, the Aigenberg .

Community structure

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

The community consists of the cadastral communities Feuersang , Flachau , Höch and Reitdorf.

When Reitdorf and Höch still belonged to Altenmarkt, they were combined as the village of Aigenberg .

The community belonged to the Radstadt judicial district until 2004 and has been part of the Sankt Johann im Pongau judicial district since January 1, 2005 .

Neighboring communities

Huettau In Pongau Altenmarkt im Pongau
Wagrain Neighboring communities Untertauern
Kleinarl Zederhaus ( district Tamsweg / Lungau ) Tweng ( district Tamsweg / Lungau )

history

Flachau was a center of iron smelting in Pongau ( Eisenhütte Flachau ) until the 19th century . Today only place and house names indicate that the ruins of the hut have been removed.

Since the 20th century, especially since the construction of the Tauern motorway  (A10) and the Tauern tunnel in 1975, the municipality has primarily been a tourist municipality.

coat of arms

Coat of arms at Flachau.png

The description of the municipal coat of arms reads:

In silver on green ground , cut through by a narrow silver wave pole , a stylized black plow between two green spruce trees .

politics

The community council has a total of 19 members.

mayor
  • until 2008 Hans Weitgasser (ÖVP)
  • since 2008 Thomas Oberreiter (ÖVP)

Economy and tourism

View of Flachau and out of the valley over Feuersang and Radstädter Basin , behind the Dachstein massif and the Roßbrand
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The tourist development in Flachau began in the mid-1950s. A visit to the Flachau Rifle Club and the Flachau Trachtenmusikkapelle in Nuremberg and the Munich Oktoberfest aroused interest in Flachau among the German population. A German travel agency included the community in its summer program and organized vacation trips to Flachau. In 1955 the place had 170 guest beds, 1491 people spent their vacation in Flachau for around two to three weeks each. Infrastructure, restaurants and hotels relevant to tourism were built up step by step.

Today tourism is the municipality's most important economic pillar. Flachau now has almost 10,000 guest beds. In 2017, 1.2 million overnight stays with 245,000 arrivals were counted, with one third of the guests coming in the summer months and two thirds spending their winter holidays in Flachau.

Culture and sights

Flachau parish church next to the rectory

Personalities

Daughters and sons of the church
  • Kaspar Steger , captain (1780–1860), leader of the Radstadt riflemen in the defensive battle against the French - Bavarian troops in 1809
  • Karl Schnell (* 1954), politician (FPÖ)
  • Hermann Maier (* 1972), ski racer (double Olympic winner 1998, double world champion 1999, world champion 2005)
  • Claudia Riegler (* 1973), snowboarder ( world cup winner, world champion in parallel giant slalom 2015)
  • Alexander Maier (* 1974), snowboarder (World Cup winner, World Cup medalist in the SBX 2001)
  • Manuela Riegler (* 1974), snowboarder (world cup winner, world champion in parallel giant slalom 2005)
  • Manuel Kramer (* 1989), ski racer (junior world champion in Super-G )

literature

  • Rupert Weitgasser: Chronicle of the community Flachau. The farming community in structural change from iron and hammer mill to tourism. 1999.
  • Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Fifth part: the Salzburg district . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1839, 15 Radstadt Nursing Court: The Flachau ... , p. 454 f ( Google eBook - Faks. Druckhaus Nonntal, Salzburg 1983). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )

Web links

Commons : Flachau  - 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. ^ Lit. Pillwein: Archduchy Oesterreich ob der Enns . 5. Th. 1839, The Altenmarkt Parish ... , p. 450  ( Google ). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google )
  3. ↑ Thomas Oberreiter . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .