Gaspoltshofen

Gaspoltshofen is located at an altitude of 455 m in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 9.3 km from north to south and 7 km from west to east. The total area is 40.6 km². 18.5% of the area is forested, 71.2% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 54 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Aferhagen (17)
Altenhof am Hausruck (639)
Aspoltsberg (24)
Bachhäuseln (15)
Baumgarting (11)
Bernhartsdorf (43)
Buchleiten (18)
Bugram (23)
Edt am Stömerberg (13)
Eggerding (58)
Fading (73)
Felling (31)
Foching (40)
Gaspoltshofen (1332)
Gramberg (22)
Groeming (91)
Pit (14)
Hairedt (22)
Hinterleiten (9)
Hofing (18)
Höft (26)
Holzing (43)
Hörbach (119)
Hearing meeting (23)
Hub (32)
Kroissbach (10)
Kronleiten (18)
Leithen (31)
Lenglach (35)
Mairhof (32)
Moss (13)
Mosenedt (21)
Muhlbach (12)
Muhlberg (27)
Niederbauern (9)
Obeltsham (112)
Oberaffnang (73)
Oberbergham (38)
Oberepfenhofen (21)
Obergmain (22)
Obergrünbach (33)
Oberhöftberg (17)
Ear sound (19)
Salfing (20)
Seiring (12)
Solliberg (9)
Unteraffnang (47)
Unterbergham (25)
Unterepfenhofen (16)
Untergmain (24)
Untergrünbach (37)
Unterhöftberg (15)
Watzing (35)
Vineyard (56)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Affnang, Altenhof, Fading, Gaspoltshofen, Höft, Hörbach and Jeding.

history

The oldest known people in the area around Gaspoltshofen were the Illyrians, who lived from 800 BC. Until approx. 400 BC Colonized this land. Then they were driven out by the Celts (Kingdom of Norikum ). Peace became around 15 BC. The northern border of the Roman Empire moved and Gaspoltshofen became part of the Roman Empire. Some significant finds were made that point to Roman times (examples: the "Hercules of Watzing" or the "Venus of Watzing"). After the fall of the Roman Empire, the country was settled by Bavaria along the Roman roads.

The place has belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

→ Höft Castle

→ Affnang Castle

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After Austria was "annexed" to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the "Upper Danube Gau". After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place. On April 27, 1993 Gaspoltshofen was raised to the rank of a market, on this occasion a municipality book was published.

The community has been part of the judicial district of Grieskirchen since January 1, 2003, previously it belonged to the judicial district of Haag am Hausruck .

World wars

First World War: At the beginning of the First World War , 350 men were called up from Gaspoltshofen. In 1918 1,000 men were at war, 91 of whom were killed. War memorials were erected for them in Altenhof and Gaspoltshofen.

Second World War: After the annexation of Austria , the elected community days were dissolved and replaced by National Socialist ones. The Second World War began when German troops marched into Poland on September 1, 1939 . The soldiers from Gaspoltshofen were assigned to the 45th Infantry Division. On September 3, the Gaspoltshofen municipality suffered the first war casualty. On May 4, 1945, one of the last military battles in Upper Austria took place in Hörbach, in the municipality of Gaspoltshofen. On May 3rd, Ried im Innkreis was captured by American troops of the 71st Infantry Division after only brief fighting. The defeated German troops either surrendered or fled as civilians, leaving their weapons behind. The Americans therefore decided to advance quickly east to Wels the following day. Altenhof and Gaspoltshofen were occupied without a fight. A hard core of around 200 members of the Wehrmacht and SS, however, set up a final defensive position at the level crossing near Hörbach and forbade the civilian population to raise white flags. When the Americans approached, the Germans opened fire. After fierce fighting, the Germans surrendered, with 28 casualties to complain about. After the "Battle of Hörbach", the Americans no longer encountered organized resistance and were able to take Wels on the same day, Linz on May 5th. 21 of the dead from Hörbach were buried by the Americans in the US military cemetery in Nuremberg, 7 dead in Gaspoltshofen.

Population development

year	Population numbers
1869	3,361
1880	3,282
1890	3,300
1900	3,377
1910	3,437
1923	3,344
1934	3,297
1939	3.159

year	Population numbers
1951	3,450
1961	3.131
1971	3,167
1981	3,292
1991	3,499
2001	3,597
2011	3,486
2016	3,563

Culture and sights

Gaspoltshofen parish church

Fisherman's pulpit

Gröming Castle

Parish church Gaspoltshofen , which was built by the builder Jakob Pawanger in 1735 under Pastor Sepp von Seppenburg . The church consecrated to St. Lawrence is also called Der Dom vom Landl in the region . It is one of the few churches in Upper Austria that has a ship's pulpit . The church is built in the baroque style and has been renovated several times.

Parish church Altenhof am Hausruck

In his play Der Theatermacher (1984; first performed by Claus Peymann at the Salzburg Festival in 1985) , the writer Thomas Bernhard , who stopped by the Klinger restaurant occasionally, set a bizarre literary monument in Gaspoltshofen . This play takes place in the fictional town of Utzbach and marks a low point for the main character, the actor, playwright and director Bruscon and his family, on a tour during which Bruscon's life's work, “The Wheel of History”, is performed in various provincial inns. In his tirades of ranting, Bruscon repeatedly remembers his grandiose success that he achieved in Gaspoltshofen, and stylized Gaspoltshofen, which is mentioned around 40 times, as the ideal place for the theater. But everything else was also better there than in the current event hall of the “Schwarzer Hirsch” inn in Utzbach, the fried potato soup and the tablecloths.

The cultural initiative spielraum has existed since 1988 (until 1994 as Junge Kultur gaspoltshofen ) and emerged from the theater group junges theater gaspoltshofen . Since 1994 the cultural initiative Spielraum has been running the "Spielraum" - the former cinema in Gaspoltshofen. More than 80 events take place here every year. The regionally oriented program offers literature, music from classical to jazz and rock, cabaret and arthouse cinema.

The kinOptikum is a cinema museum in which the visitor gets an insight into the history and technology of the cinema. It is an initiative of the cultural initiative Spielraum and has been open since May 2006.

societies

Musikverein Altenhof am Hausruck
Union Gaspoltshofen section football
JVP Gaspoltshofen
Cultural initiative Spielraum Gaspoltshofen
Music Association Gaspoltshofen

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Gaspoltshofen has a train station on the Lambach – Haag local railway at Hausruck . On December 13, 2009, rail traffic on the route was discontinued and the train connections were replaced by buses.

politics

Wolfgang Klinger, mayor since 2003

The municipal council has a total of 25 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 FPÖ, 8 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 3 GRÜNE.

mayor

since 2003 Wolfgang Klinger (FPÖ)

coat of arms

As early as 1967 Gaspoltshofen tried to get its own municipal coat of arms.

Blazon : a golden pole in green; on both sides a silver church with a golden onion helmet and roof, black clock disk and two similar round arched windows starting from the edge of the shield. The community colors are green-yellow-green. The churches symbolize the two parishes in the municipality (Gaspoltshofen and Altenhof) as a characteristic of this rural municipality.

Parish partnership

An official partnership with the Lower Bavarian community of Niederwinkling has existed since May 23, 1977, preceded by a long-standing friendship between the two communities. The partnership has been intensified again since 2006 by the Gaspoltshofen and Niederwinkling fire departments and strengthened by numerous mutual invitations and visits, both official and private.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Josef Voraberger (1938–2019), Mayor of Gaspoltshofen 1989–2003

Sons and daughters of the church

Franz Bachinger (1892–1938), farmer and politician (Federal Minister for Public Security)
Edmund Aigner (1900–1968), trade unionist and politician, 1962–1968 mayor of Linz
Maria Gruber (* 1946), painter
Anton Rebhan (* 1960), Professor of Theoretical Physics at the TU Wien and corr. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Web links

Commons : Gaspoltshofen - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Community website
Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
Further information about the municipality of Gaspoltshofen can be found on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
Helmuth Moser: Community chronicle. Gaspoldshofen municipality, accessed on February 15, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 173 , accessed on February 15, 2019 .
↑ Market survey celebration. Gaspoldshofen municipality, accessed on February 15, 2019 .
↑ Alois Doppelbauer: 1945–1955, end of the war and a new beginning , Gaspoltshofen secondary school, 1985
^ Provincial councilor Wolfgang Klinger remains mayor for the time being . Article dated May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019.
↑ https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/nachrechte/ein-geradliniger-und-engagierter-bauer;art86198,3140499 , accessed on September 13, 2019.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 173 , accessed on February 15, 2019 .

[3] Market survey celebration. Gaspoldshofen municipality, accessed on February 15, 2019 .

[4] Alois Doppelbauer: 1945–1955, end of the war and a new beginning , Gaspoltshofen secondary school, 1985

[5] Provincial councilor Wolfgang Klinger remains mayor for the time being . Article dated May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019.

[6] ttps://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/nachrechte/ein-geradliniger-und-engagierter-bauer;art86198,3140499 , accessed on September 13, 2019.