Gaissau

This article deals with the municipality in Vorarlberg. The town and ski area of ​​the same name in the state of Salzburg belongs to the municipality of Krispl and can be found under Gaißau (municipality of Krispl) .

Gaissau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bregenz
License plate :	B.
Surface:	5.79 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 28 '  N , 9 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '58 "  N , 9 ° 35' 51"  E
Height :	400  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,843 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	318 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6974
Area code :	05578
Community code :	8 02 14
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchstrasse 3 6974 Gaißau
Website:	www.gaissau.at
politics
Mayor :	Reinhold Eberle ( ÖVP )
Local council : (2015) (18 members)	12 3 3 12 3 3  A total of 18 seats ÖVP : 12 FPÖ : 3 SPÖ : 3
Location of Gaißau in the Bregenz district
The townscape from the northeast
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Kirchdorf with parish church Gaißau

Gaißau is a municipality with 1843 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the northwest of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .

geography

Gaißau extends between Lake Constance and the meandering Old Rhine up to its confluence in the Rheinholz directly on the border with Switzerland . The municipal area is 400 m above sea level. in the center and 396 m above sea level. A. on the shores of Lake Constance. Of the total area of ​​579 ha, 20.4% are bodies of water, 7.7% are forested.

There are no other cadastral communities in Gaißau.

Neighboring communities

Due to its location in the far west of the Rhine delta , the municipality of Gaißau borders on three Swiss and one Austrian municipality as well as on Lake Constance. To the east, Gaißau borders the municipality of Höchst , which is also in the Bregenz district , and to the west to the municipalities of Thal , Rheineck and St. Margrethen in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen .

history

Early history

The first documentary mention of Gaißau took place around 900 AD in a description of the municipality " Mark der Höchst ".

More precise names for "Gaysowe" only begin in the 14th century, when the Au between Rheineck (today in Switzerland ), St. Margrethen and Höchst belonging to the "Mark Höchst", came to Austria via the Counts of Feldkirch. According to the latest historical research it has been proven that "Gaißow bi Rinegg" was a double courtyard.

The name Gaißau was created around 1400 and has since stood for today's municipality.

Changing ownership and affiliation

From 1405 to 1408 the area from the mouth of the Rhine to Fußach was part of Feldkirch in the federal government ob the lake under St.Gallen and Appenzell rule. The owners were subsequently the Lords of Rheineck , later ownership passed to the St. Gallen monastery . Even after the Treaty of Basel in 1499, the St. Gallen monastery retained most of the rights until it was dissolved in 1798. In the monastery archive you can read: "Gaißawer belonged to Höchst in the parish churches, to Bregentz in war, toe Rorschach in Gricht, zue Gaißaw in Kirchhoff, to Veldtkich an Galgen. "

From 1500 Gaißau is independent. In 1755, the abbot of St. Gallen confirmed the municipal code, but had the final say on municipal resolutions. By 1783 at the latest, the area probably belonged to the County of Hohenems, which fell to the Habsburgs in 1765 . In 1798 Gaißau finally moved under the full sovereignty of Austria .

Recent changes

If before 1934 the community was headed by an ammann, captain or chief, from 1934 this was a mayor.

Until December 31, 1929, Gaißau was assigned to the Feldkirch district administration and the Dornbirn district court, but on January 1, 1930, due to traffic-related reasons, changed to the jurisdiction of the district administration and the district court of Bregenz . From 1938 to 1946 Gaißau was merged with the neighboring communities of Fußach and Höchst in the community of Rheinau.

Population development

Gaißau is the municipality with the fastest growing population in Vorarlberg. The proportion of foreigners was 12.1 percent at the beginning of 2019.

politics

The municipal council of Gaißau consists of 18 members. After the municipal council elections in 2015 , the ÖVP had 12 seats and the FPÖ and SPÖ & Parteifreie 3 seats each. Reinhold Eberle was re-elected as mayor of the community by the People's Party with an approval rate of 84.06% in the direct mayor election.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gaißau / Rheineck border crossing on the Austrian side of the Old Rhine

In 2017 there were 86 companies or 99 workplaces with 701 employees in Gaißau. The employment rate (15 to 64 year olds) was 76.2%, the out-commuter rate 80.4%.

Agriculture plays an important role. In 2010 there were 14 agricultural and forestry operations in Gaißau with a total area of ​​184 ha or 31.8% of the area of ​​the municipality.

Gaißau, Parish Hall and St. Othmar Church

Landesstraße 19, Gaißauer Straße , leads through Gaißau, which branches off from L202 Schweizer Straße in Höchst and leads to the border crossing. The Gaißau / Rheineck border crossing for road traffic across the Old Rhine is a smaller border crossing between Austria and Switzerland. It is the northernmost possibility of crossing the border on the state border between Vorarlberg and Switzerland by land.

In Gaißau there is an elementary school with 83 students (as of September 2017) and a kindergarten.

In 1904 the first Austrian branch of the Congregation Franciscan Missionary Sisters was established by Maria Hilf in Gaissau . In the Mission House St. Josef the sisters were prepared for their work in the mission, in 1980 the order built the old people's and nursing home.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Gaißau

Sons and daughters of the church

• Bruno Oberhammer (* 1946), composer, organist and music teacher
• Ivo Brunner (* 1952), school pedagogue, English studies, teacher trainer and university professor

Web links

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

• 80214 - Gaissau. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volaucnik: Alle woltent Appenzeller sin. (PDF) In: Feldkirch Aktuell /6.2005, p. 46 ff. (PDF). City of Feldkirch, June 2005, accessed October 8, 2018 . 
2. ^ Map of Vorarlberg (from 1783) In: Wikimedia Commons.
3. ^ Gaißau - Municipal Representation - Excerpts from the minutes of the meetings - May 10, 2017. Accessed on October 2, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Population statistics - population on 1.1.2019 by nationality or country of birth and municipalities. In: http://www.statistik.at/ . Statistics Austria, May 21, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Gaißau municipal council. Municipal council Gaißau. In: gaißau.at. Gaißau community, accessed on February 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Municipal council election 2015. Official election result. In: vorarlberg.at. State of Vorarlberg, accessed on August 14, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Coordinated employment statistics 2017, workplace census 2017, with the reference date October 31, 2017. Territory status 2019. In: http://www.statistik.at/ . Statistics Austria, June 28, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2019 . 
8. ↑ A look at the community of Gaißau - 7.1 Agricultural and forestry operations and areas by type of acquisition. (PDF) In: http://statistik.at/ . Statistics Austria, 2010, accessed on October 8, 2018 . 
9. ↑ http://kulturgueter.kath-orden.at/franziskaner-missionsschwestern-von-maria-hilf-provinz-europa