Fornach

Fornach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	17.74 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 1 '  N , 13 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '25 "  N , 13 ° 25' 53"  E
Height :	565  m above sea level A.
Residents :	973 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4892
Area code :	07682
Community code :	4 17 08
Address of the municipal administration:	Fornach 2 4892 Fornach
Website:	www.fornach.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Hubert Neuwirth ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	9 3 1 9 3 1  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 9 FPÖ : 3 SPÖ : 1
Location of Fornach in the Vöcklabruck district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Fornach is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 973 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

Fornach is located at an altitude of 565 m in the Hausruckviertel, northwest of Vöcklamarkt , in the southern Hausruck and Kobernaußerwald- Zug in the Fornacher Redl valley .

The extension of the municipality is from north to south 5.7 km, from west to east 6.3 km. The total area is 17.8 km², 56.7% of the area is forested, 37.6% of the area is used for agriculture.

The highest elevation is the Ries'n in the north with approx. 730 meters (on the municipal area, main summit Hobelsberg , 777 m, Gem. Frankenburg), in the west lies the Meisterholz (711 m, Gem. Pöndorf).

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 24 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Nobles (33)
• Double mill (38)
• Emming (80)
• Fachberg (8)
• Feichtenberg (26)
• Fornach (230)
• Gferreth (31)
• Gmeineck (35)
• Grilling (2)
• BBQ point (73)
• Grubleiten (43)
• Grubleiten Point (54)
• Pichl (18)
• Piereth (5)
• Ramsau (14)
• Roeth (6)
• Salach (50)
• Saxigen (107)
• Schnöllerberg (10)
• Schwandeck (8)
• Seppenröth (37)
• Unterholzing (7)
• Walligen (38)
• Zaißen (20)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Fornach and Walligen.

Neighboring municipalities

Lohnsburg ( Ried im Innkreis district )	Redleiten	Frankenburg am Hausruck
		Pfaffing
Pondorf	Frankenmarkt

The Redlbachtal is politically divided up, upstream from the confluence with the Vöckla municipality of Vöcklamarkt, Pfaffing, then Fornach, shortly on the right bank of Pöndorf, then on the left Redleiten, left bank of Frankenburg.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split between gold and green; right and left an upright fern leaf in alternating colors. ”The community colors are yellow-green.

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1975, is a talking coat of arms and explains the place name as "an area in which ferns grow".

history

The Bavarians immigrated to the Fornach area via the Redl Valley.

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

As a result of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II. 1780 to 1790, the Fornach parish was created in 1787, with 21 villages from the Pfaffingen parish to the new Fornach parish.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

mayor

• since 2015 Hubert Neuwirth (ÖVP)

Population development

In 1991 the community had 786 inhabitants according to the census, then 863 inhabitants in 2001, 908 on January 1, 2005.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Fornach

• Fornach parish church

Web links

Commons : Fornach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41708 - Fornach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Fornach on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (4th supplement 1973–1976). In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Issue 1/2, 1977, p. 11 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at)