Geinberg

Geinberg
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Ried im Innkreis
License plate :	RI
Surface:	14.03 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 16 '  N , 13 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '52 "  N , 13 ° 17' 41"  E
Height :	403  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,408 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4943
Area code :	07723
Community code :	4 12 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 9 4943 Geinberg
Website:	www.geinberg.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Ludwig Reitinger ( FPÖ )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2015) (19 members)	9 6th 4th 9 6th 4th  A total of 19 seats FPÖ : 9 ÖVP : 6 SPÖ : 4
Location of Geinberg in the Ried im Innkreis district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Geinberg is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Innviertel with 1408 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Ried im Innkreis .

geography

Geinberg is 403 m above sea level in the Innviertel. The extension is 5.2 km from north to south and 5.5 km from west to east. The total area is 14 km². 17.9% of the area is forested, 71.4% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

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

• Durchham (57)
• Ellreching (13)
• Geinberg (674)
• Hard (49)
• Haudering (26)
• Kager (28)
• Moosham (219)
• Neuhaus (129)
• Nonsbach (48)
• Oberaichet (57) including the Oberaichet settlement
• Winter (108)

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'). Geinberg was a patronage church of the Counts Aham , who had their seat at Neuhaus Castle in the municipality of Geinberg. Joseph Matthias Franz Xaver Benedict Count von Aham and Neuhaus (1820–1881) died here as the last of the family and was buried in the Reichersberg Abbey.

During the Napoleonic Wars briefly Bavarian again, it has been part of Upper Austria since 1816.

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.

History of the Geinberg thermal baths

Shortly after 1945 there were initial ideas in Geinberg to establish the place as a thermal, spa or bathing resort. However, it took more than 50 years for the vision to become a reality. Due to its broad impact and importance for the region, the Geinberg thermal baths have the character of a lead project.

1974 : The RAG (Rohöl- Auffindungsgesellschaft der OMV) drills for crude oil and comes across hot water. The borehole will be closed again because RAG is neither entitled to use the hot water supply nor interested in it in the long term.

1980 : With the support of the Province of Upper Austria, a local interest group finances a new test drilling - this time with the aim of tapping the hot water deposit discovered in 1974. The drilling is successful. You come across one of the richest and hottest healing springs in Central Europe.

1991 : The VAMED group begins project development.

1996 : The project development by the VAMED group is completed, the financing secured by a financing consortium headed by the Raiffeisen-Landesbank Oberösterreich .

07/1996 : The groundbreaking ceremony for the Geinberg thermal baths takes place. With an investment volume of 54.5 million euros on an area of ​​102,000 m² in the municipality of Geinberg, the thermal center was the largest construction site in Upper Austria until it opened. In the record time of only 20 months, this project was completed on schedule.

1998 : May 4th, 1998: Official opening of the thermal center with a ceremony.

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms : Split; on the right in silver a red, upright leopard turned to the left, on the left in blue a silver bundle of sheaves of five stylized ears of corn. The community colors are blue-white-red-white.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1966 by the Upper Austrian provincial government. The leopard is taken from the ancestral coat of arms of the Aham family , who owned Neuhaus Castle for almost 600 years. The wheat bundle stands for the importance of agriculture and the high productivity of the farming cooperatives operating in the municipality, whose production volume was third in Upper Austria in 1966. The colors of the coat of arms and the flag (white-blue and white-red) are reminiscent of the former affiliation of the place to Bavaria and today to Upper Austria.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 19 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 FPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.

mayor

• 1991-2020 Bernhard Schöppl (FPÖ)
• since 2020 Franz Ludwig Reitinger (FPÖ)

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 1,271 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,317 inhabitants. Since the birth balance and the migration balance remained positive until 2011, the population rose to 1,385 in 2011.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Geinberg

societies

A total of 25 associations and two voluntary fire brigades (corporation under public law) are based in the community of Geinberg .

Attractions

• Geinberg parish church
• Neuhaus Castle

education

In Geinberg there is a school center with two schools and a kindergarten:

• kindergarten
• Elementary school
• New middle school

Personalities

• Michael Huber (1866–1949), priest, member of the Reichsrat and Landtag

Web links

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

• 41207 - Geinberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the community of Geinberg can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Province of Upper Austria - Geographical data of the community of Geinberg .
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (2nd supplement) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 1/2, 1970, pp. 53–54, online (PDF; 1.6 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
4. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Geinberg, population development. Retrieved April 9, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Manuel Mann, Schöppl Bernhard: Geinberg. Retrieved July 2, 2020 (Austrian German). 
6. ↑ Geinberg community, community office, school and education. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .