History of Regau
The history of the Upper Austrian market town of Regau did not just begin when it was first mentioned in a document, which can be dated to around the year 801 AD. But up to this point in time the historical development of Regau differs only marginally from the history of its neighboring communities.
The oldest evidence of human habitation in the area date back to the regexp Würm . According to the Celts , who started around 400 BC. Controlled all of Austria, the region was from 15 BC. Occupied by the Romans and after 45 AD integrated into the province of Noricum .
After Regau and its surroundings had been settled by the Bavarians, Repagove was first mentioned in a deed of donation to the Mondsee Monastery . In the 12th century, the Counts of Rebgau ruled over what is now the municipality and its surroundings. After the early extinction of the counts around the year 1185, rule over the region changed several times until the office of the Regauische Aigen developed, which existed until the middle of the 19th century. In 1850 there was a restructuring of the Austrian administrative system, during which Regau became the most populous municipality in the newly created Vöcklabruck district .
The First World War claimed 131 victims among the Regau population, the Second World War led, along with a further 190 victims, to decisive territorial losses in favor of the neighboring community of Vöcklabruck. In 2000 the local parish of Regau was named a market parish.
Prehistory and early history
In prehistoric times, mammoths were at home in the Regau area , as a finding of a mammoth tusk from the Quaternary (Worm Ice Age) proves. The ice age changed the nature of the terrain around Regau significantly: the retreating glaciers of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago created a multitude of lakes, moors and ponds through moraines and extensive terraces. At that time, this landscape was an ideal habitat for humans and many animals.
It cannot be precisely proven when humans first appeared in this area - the oldest known finds, however, suggest an early human settlement. In 1946, for example, a Nordic perforated ax made of serpentine was found in a field in the Hattenberg district , which, like the other prehistoric finds, is located in the Vöcklabruck home. A perforated ax made of amphibolite that was found near Hinterbuch is kept in the Rutzenmoos elementary school . In the same place, three stone jewelry rings, each two centimeters in size, were found. Another serpentine ax comes from Oberregau; A stone ax came to light in a gravel pit near Preising .
Around 400 BC BC Indo-European tribes like the Celts settled the entire area of what is now Austria from the west.
Roman times
The Roman emperor Augustus took the invasion of Celtic tribes from the Alpine region in Istria around 15 BC. As an occasion to incorporate the previously Celtic kingdom of Noricum into the Roman Empire . It can be assumed that this process took place peacefully, as the Celts had also benefited from the brisk trade with the Romans for a long time. The Romans kept the new-found area for half a century occupied until it finally at 45 n. Chr. In the newly created Roman province rose Noricum.
The cities and towns were connected by the Romans by a dense network of so-called consular and vicinal roads. These streets mostly ran along older, prehistoric traffic routes, as evidenced by a medieval parchment copy called Tabula Peutingeriana .
The consular road from Ovilava ( Wels ) to Iuvavum ( Salzburg ) had the highest traffic frequency of the Roman roads in Upper Austria after its expansion. Coming from Ovilava, it led in a south-westerly direction to Breitenschützing , where it turned south and passed Schwanenstadt south to Niederstrasse near Attnang and divided. In the area around Regau, three branches of this traffic route are known today: the main line bypassed today's Vöcklabruck in the north, another street may have led through Unterregau and Schalchham to Vöcklabruck, and a third branch should run along the left bank of the Ager over Wagrain and back into the Be merged into the main line.
A branch of these roads is likely to have crossed the Ager in the Regau district of Dornet and then, according to local tradition, led via Preising to Himmelreich, where it branched. One road led over the Aurach drought to Gmunden , another to Schörfling and a third towards Oberregau. The dense road network in and around the Regau area indicates that the Tergolape road station of the Tabula Peutingeriana is to be found there, which served as a link to the Salzkammergut and the exact location of which has not been clarified.
Finds from Roman times
In Preising, a layer of around 20 centimeters of gravel was found under a layer of humus mixed with gravel, and a thicker layer of gravel underneath. These are not natural deposits, but most likely parts of a basic road structure from that time.
In Oberregau, Roman coins , shards of crockery made of red-fired clay and various broken bricks came to light ; these finds seem to indicate a Roman estate. A very special find from Regau is the approximately 12 centimeter high Roman bronze bell , which is kept in the Linz Castle Museum because of its uniqueness . A Roman milestone with the name of Emperor Septimius Severus and a fragment of another came to light near Schöndorf .
Change of rule due to the great migration
At the beginning of the 5th century, the Vandals broke into Upper Austria, where they destroyed the Lauriacum legionary camp . Rome was forced to move its line of defense back significantly. Under Attila , the Huns managed to advance to the Noricum border.
In the year 488 the upper class consisting of Roman officials and merchants left this region, leaving behind the partially Romanized native population. However, there is no evidence of the events of this time in and around Regau. In terms of Roman or pre-Roman names in the municipality of Regau, only the originally Celtic name of the river Ager is considered certain. The place name Schalchham is derived from "Zinspreigener Romane", * skalka ; thus Schalchham could have been the home of a Romanesque Schalken , the place name suggests Roman remains of the population.
The Romans that remained in the region were probably the only inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Bavarians, the exact ownership conditions at the time of Theodoric are unclear.
Bavarian conquest
In the course of the 6th century the first Bavarian tribes settled in the areas deserted by the Roman upper class. The region around Regau, like the entire area of today's Upper Austria, was part of the core area of the Bavarian conquest, which probably took place in several different waves. The immigrant tribes knew how to bring together the various ethnic groups of the Germanic and Romanians and to let them grow together to form the Bavarian people.
It can be assumed that there was a lot of fruit and wine growing in the region. This assumption is particularly important for Regau, as the name of today's market town can be traced back to Rebengau and is closely linked to the history of viticulture in the region.
The area populated by the Bavarians can be reconstructed based on the tradition of place names . Bavarian localities were already documented in the 8th and 9th centuries, although not all settlements were mentioned.
The oldest Bavarian place names include those ending in -ing , -ham and -heim , although the -ing names in this region are likely to have expired as early as the 9th century. They were replaced by the names ending in -dorf , -reut , -roit and -schlag , which had their origins primarily in the reclamation of settlement land. In addition to Pilling, Pürstling, Preising, Ritzing, Weiding and Zaißing, both the villages of Schalchham and Wankham and the names Dorf, Reith and Roith can be traced back to Bavarian settlement areas. The last two places mentioned can also be seen as so-called clearing names from the 11th and 12th centuries, which indicate frequent clearing, especially east of the Ager and south of the Regau plain. The place names ending in -heim can be seen as a dialect derivative of the Germanic word home and mean something like place of residence and home.
Outside of today's Regau municipality, the Slavic and Romance population groups also contributed to the development of place names.
First documentary mention
The oldest document in which the name Regaus is mentioned at the time comes from the Mondsee Tradition Code , which is a collection of important documents and manuscripts on the history of Eastern Bavaria, Salzburg and Upper Austria. These documents comprise around 135 copies of documents and go back to the middle of the 8th century AD. When the Mondsee Monastery was closed in 1791 , all archive items were handed over to the registry of the Land ob der Enns in Linz, where they were forgotten in the years that followed.
In February 1853 the registry reported that the entire codex had been stolen in autumn 1852 and sold together with other documents at the price of parchment. A chance inspection revealed that the documents were missing. Finally, the theft was cleared up with the help of the police and the documents were recovered a little later. According to these events, the files were handed over to Vienna in March 1853 , where they are now kept in the house, court and state archives.
One of the documents from this collection contains the donations of lands by a monk named Rudolf and his brother and lawyer, whose name is not known, to the Mondsee Monastery and is therefore the oldest written mention of Regau.
“It is known to all believers that with perishable things they can earn eternal rewards that never run out. Therefore, I hand over to the unworthy monk by the name of Rudolf, together with my brother, who is my lawyer, to St. Archangel Michael everything that has come to me on the part of the father and on the mother's side through the inheritance law at the place called Rebegau, the house with the Courtyard, the lands, the meadows, forests, pastures, ponds and running waters, the movable and immovable goods, the cultivated and uncultivated, the property rights, whatever that means and can be called, but on the condition that, as long as I I live, I have free power of disposal and after my death it may fall to Saint Michael with all advantages. And many ear-witnesses have been called in. This contract was drawn up in Mondsee in the Basilica of St. Michael on June 11th, Friday. "
The authors of the certificate, which was written in Latin, did not give a year, which means that the exact time of the first mention of Regau in a certificate has not yet been clearly established. However, there have been several attempts to reconstruct the year based on June 11, Friday .
The first historian and chronicler who dealt more closely with the local history of Regau was the Regau pastor Alois Obermüller (term of office 1882 to 1898). Obermüller dates the first mention of the place on May 29, 800, with the year being overwritten. The other chroniclers rely on this first statement, although there were always slight deviations in both the date and the year.
In the document itself, the constitution date is indicated as “ III id. June, feria VI. ”-“ tertia idus Iunii, feria sexta ”(German:“ On the third day before the Ides of June, Friday ”) - stated. This date would correspond to June 11th according to the Roman calendar . In the relevant period around the year 800, the two statements “11. June "and" Friday "only match in the years 779, 784, 790, 801, 807, 812 and 818 AD.
A more precise dating is not possible, but on the occasion of the forthcoming 1200th anniversary of the congregation, it was decided to take up the year 800 used in the chronicles and to use the most appropriate, namely 801, after the above mentioned years. Regau therefore celebrated its 1200th anniversary in June 2001 and is one of the earliest attested communities in the Vöcklabruck district.
Counts of Rebgau
General
After the Bavarian Duchy had been incorporated into the Frankish Empire , the influence and importance of the dioceses and monasteries increased from the year 1000, especially in the region around Regau . In the region of today's Vöcklabruck district , the diocese of Bamberg and the archbishopric of Salzburg owned large estates. Other forms of ownership at this time were aristocratic estates and farms of smaller people, which in all probability went back to the Bavarian conquest. These noble houses gained great importance especially after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire.
One of these noble families were the Counts of Rebgau, who particularly influenced the events in and around Regau in the 12th century. There is no unequivocal clarity about the ancestry of this count family - their roots most likely lay with an aristocratic dynasty in the Waldviertel , where they had their headquarters in the so-called Poigen Empire . This thesis is based on the names of the noble family, which are also common as "Counts of Rebgau-Poigen" and "von Poigen-Rebgau". Or those descended from the Rebgauer, possibly as a branch of the Counts of Burghausen , Schala and Plain from the Salzburggau area .
Possessions
The Counts of Rebgau owned the areas of today's Regau, Vöcklabruck and Aurach, the region south of the Ager, parts of the eastern bank of the Traunsee and the area around Viechtwang in the east . In addition, they owned a chapel near Vöcklabruck, which at that time was patronized by St. Michael and is now known as Oberregauer Vituskircherl . In addition, it can be assumed that the counts also had servants in Schöndorf, Loch, Wankham, Raschbach and Traunstein in addition to court offices, which suggests other lands. A little south of Unterregau the area around the Viertberg belonged to the catchment area of the counts until Count Gebhard later handed it over to the Asbach monastery , which was a Bamberg monastery. In addition to these lands in and around Regau, the two brothers Adalbert and Gebhard inherited their uncle Wolfker von Poigen-Stein and thereby also received rich property in Lower Austria south of the Danube . After the actual extinction of the Counts of Poigen around 1156, the two brothers already owned goods in the Horner Basin and so they called themselves Gebhard von Hohenegg and Albert von Stein (probably a small festival near Altenburg ).
When the family of the Counts of Rebgau died out around 1188, all of their possessions were probably passed on to Prince Leopold V , whom they appointed as heir. The Babenbergs , who the Regau counts even referred to as Progenitores (ancestors), are notarized as successors in possession of Regau . The Babenbergs passed on most of their Regau legacy, with the local gentlemen probably the biggest buyers of these lands.
Count Adalbert II of Rebgau
Count Adalbert II probably received the lands around Regau when the inheritance was divided with his brother Gebhard. Very little is known about his life, but what is certain is that between 1122 and 1160 he often appeared as a witness and undersigned for documents. The sale of the Vöcklabrücke by Adalbert II to the Noble Pilgrim von Weng on August 29, 1134 is documented in a document from the Archbishopric of Salzburg , which is the first mention of the city of Vöcklabruck .
At the request of Abbot Ulrich II. Von Kremsmünster , Count Adalbert II. Von Rebgau left six hubs between the upper and lower Thissenbach near Viechtwang to the Kremsmünster monastery. Subsequently, he also gave the monastery two hubs in Viechtwang, but only on the condition that a church be built there. The construction of this church took place a little later and it was consecrated on December 27, 1159. The Count's sons did not want to accept these donations and tried to bring them back by force. The brothers only gave up their request when they received compensation in the amount of five talents of silver.
There is a sign at Scharnstein Castle , which describes the Counts of Rebgau as the builders of the castle, which is probably related to the donations mentioned above.
Subsequently, Adalbert II and his brothers testified to a donation from the margrave to Aldersbach in 1135 and appeared a year later as a witness in the foundation letter from Klosterneuburg. He also made the deed of foundation of his sister-in-law Hildburg, who founded the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht in Altenburg in the Waldviertel together with her son Hermann in 1144 after the death of her husband Gebhard .
In 1159, Adalbert II. Von Rebgau appeared for the last time as a witness when Bishop Konrad von Passau handed over the churches of St. Aegid and Schöndorf to St. Florian Monastery. The count presumably died around 1160.
Count Adalbert II and his wife Gertrud had two sons, Adalbert III. and Gebhard II. The two sons were not satisfied with the donations from their parents, since they tried in 1160 to reverse the donations in Viechtwang. There is evidence of a pilgrimage by Adalbert III. to St. Gilles in France around 1169, but he should have died relatively soon, in 1173, without children. His brother Gebhard II appeared in 1180 when the Viertberg was donated in Regau, but he too remained childless.
It can therefore be assumed that the Counts of Rebgau died out around 1185, because in that year Count Konrad von Rachiz, who was attested as heir to Gebhard, handed over his inherited property in fiefdom in Laa to the Klosterneuburg monastery in the presence of Duke Leopold. The Counts of Rebgau died out before 1189, because on January 4th the Babenberg Duke Leopold of Austria described himself as the heir of Counts Adalbert and Gebhard von Rebgau and their father Adalbert.
coat of arms
The story about the coat of arms of the Counts of Rebgau-Poigen and, above all, their influence on the Austrian national flag have not yet been clearly clarified. One theory is that the Babenbergs had adopted the coat of arms of the red-white-red shield from the Rebgau- Poigen family as the state coat of arms for Austria.
Castle
The existence of a castle in Regau and its exact location cannot be exactly proven, but it is very likely that there was a castle in Regau at the time of the County of Rebgau. One possible location could have been the small town of Burgstall near Oberregau, because not only the name of the town, but also a possible underground passage from the castle to the church provide clues.
Most likely, however, is the assumption that the castle had risen around today's Vitus Church in Oberregau, as its consecration was still called the Hofkirchweihe in 1492 and the remains of the old castle walls that were not yet registered were discovered during renovation work at the turn of the millennium.
Underground passages and grave finds
There are several legends of underground passages in the municipality. One of these corridors is said to have led from the Oberregau church via the Rebgau castle to Burgstall, another from the church to Schalchham. Further corridors and underground caves are believed to be in Unterriech, Hinterbuch, Schacha and Himmelreich. There is no evidence of their actual existence. In addition to these underground passages, which originated in popular fantasy, a brick shaft with human skeletons was uncovered in 1931 and 1932 in the course of the relocation of the Schalchhamerberg. Around 1922, two unearthed body graves came to light and in the 1950s two more graves in Schalchham and other uncredited body graves in Wankham.
Regauische Aigen and Hofmark Regau
After the Counts of Rebgau died out, the Regau district was owned by the sovereign, who most likely lent these possessions on to the rulers of Ort bei Gmunden . Later, the Lords of Wallsee took over the ownership of Ort from 1344 to 1483 and thus Regau as well.
When the Wallsee estates were divided on August 20, 1456, Wolfgang V. von Walsee was given the office of Regauisch-Aigen (also own ). In addition, the Mattsee documents show that in the years 1362, 1375 and 1380 there were also free Regauische-Aigen goods in the towns of Bierbaum, Aierzelten and Mösendorf. The Regauische Aigen correspond to the knights' fiefdoms of the Rebgauer counts, which remained in the hands of the fiefs when the property of the count family was destroyed after its transfer to the sovereign, and were divided into the three offices of Galtenbrunn (near Vöcklabruck), Ramtesberg ( Ungenach ) and Oberregau.
These Regauische Aigen were administered with high probability by the Landschreiberamt zu Enns. From 1498 a separate vice cathedral office existed, to which the office of the Regauische Aigen was subordinate. Land records from the early 16th century only list peasant owners ( bag leaseholds ). In 1598 the office of the bailiff was in Vöcklabruck.
Basically criminals after the Ehaft Thätung ( mhd .: "Legally valid court hearing") were not dealt with by the regional court, but by the respective bailiff and were subsequently transferred to the imperial vice cathedral office in Linz for legal execution. The court assembly was held annually on the first Wednesday after Aegidius at the Vituskircherl in Oberregau. The office of the Regauische Aigen remained in existence until 1850 and was a regional court that was directly subordinate to the sovereign until that time.
In the course of an order from Empress Maria Theresia to sell or lease all vice domicile properties, the Regau office was given to Count Reinhold von Andlern, who was also president of the k. & k. Representation was purchased. The lands later fell to the city judge of Vöcklabruck, Georg Hörlesberger, and in 1767 to Ludwig von Frey.
In the border description of December 17, 1581, the Cameroon Regional Court designated Regau as a Hofmark . The land register of the Puchheim rule also lists a "Hoffmarch Reeger", who is described as an "ancient, liberated Hoffmarch". In addition, after this land register , the Reegerers had the right to arrest criminals themselves, although the Puchheim authorities were consulted for the judgment of the maleficent persons concerned .
The Hofmark Reger is also mentioned in connection with the Polheimer dynasty , who in 1581 mentioned their three court brands Unterregau, Timelkam and Puchkirchen as enclaves in the district court of Kammer.
reformation
The time of the Reformation was an epoch of social unrest for Regau. The population of Regau at that time consisted to a large extent of farmers. They complained for a long time under the pressure of their landlord, in the 16th century they began to express their dissatisfaction publicly. In 1525, 500 farmers appeared in the town of Vöcklabruck to convince the townspeople of their intentions and to enter into an alliance against the nobility. The citizens, however, could not be convinced and the rebellious farmers were arrested. In the following years the complaints against the religion increased, whereupon there was an increasing number of people who converted to Luther's teachings .
In 1626 the peasant battle raged near Pinsdorf . More than 6,000 Protestant farmers fought for several hours against the troops of Count Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim . The peasants lost; the thousands of men killed were piled to a " peasant hill " in Pinsdorf. Most of the survivors were able to flee in the direction of Rutzenmoos and Vöcklabruck.
After the end of the Upper Austrian Peasants' War , secret Protestantism began, especially in the region around Rutzenmoos , and it lasted for over a hundred years. During the Thirty Years' War and after its end, the measures for the extermination of Protestantism were not applied too strictly and many Regauer adhered to the Lutheran faith.
Especially from the region around Regau it was known that there were more and more secret supporters of Protestantism and that they sometimes even took part in Lutheran services in the imperial county of Ortenburg near Passau . For this reason, Regau was accused by the Passau bishop , Count Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg , of not cracking down on the Protestants. In 1732 the bishop personally went to Regau for a visit, where he found that his lecture met with little interest.
In June 1752, followers of the Lutheran faith were relocated to Transylvania against their will . The number of these retired between 1752 and 1755 is estimated at around 50.
Origin and further history of the parishes
Evangelical Parish Rutzenmoos
When Emperor Joseph II issued the tolerance patent on October 13, 1781 , all members of the various denominations were granted equal rights. According to a circular in 1782 by the k. & k. The district main team should decide for themselves whether they wanted to join the prayer house in Goisern , Wels or Wallern . Since the size of the Protestant congregation around Regau was 536 people, the establishment of a Protestant congregation in the village of Pilling - located a little southeast of Rutzenmoos - was approved in August 1782. The first church service of the Pillingen evangelical congregation took place on December 1, 1782 in a carriage hut, the necessary financial resources for the construction of a prayer house and for the employment of a pastor were quickly collected thanks to the willingness of the faithful to donate. On August 3, 1783 the inauguration of the tolerance prayer house took place, in the same year the community officially adopted the name Rutzenmoos .
As early as 1782 the community received an evangelical private school . Johann Gottlieb Tritschler was hired as the first pastor of the Protestant community. Protestants from Attersee and Vöcklabruck, where no evangelical congregation could be founded, joined the Pillingen congregation, which in 1793 had 1510 inhabitants. Many residents now openly converted to Protestantism and did not allow themselves to be changed by a six-week course in the Catholic faith, which was introduced by the court decree.
Parish church Rutzenmoos : From 1864 the prayer house was converted into a church building with a bell tower. In addition to the establishment of the Vöcklabruck parish in 1870, numerous other parishes were founded in Rutzenmoos, including the parishes of Attersee, Gmunden, Braunau , Lenzing - Kammer , Schärding and Schwanenstadt .
In 1960 the Rutzenmoos Trombone Choir was founded, two years later the new community hall was inaugurated as a youth home, and in 1999 it was expanded as a community center. As a parish with great influence in its early years, Rutzenmoos finally received the Upper Austria Evangelical Museum , which was established in the old Rutzenmoos elementary school and opened on June 16, 2000. Today the parish of Rutzenmoos extends far beyond the parish boundaries of Regau and has a preaching position in Attnang-Puchheim .
Roman Catholic Parish
Although there was already talk of a “Regau parish” in 1390 and the “Niederregau parish” in 1413, the parish of Regau has always belonged to the parish of Schöndorf. After the Passau bishop had a local chaplaincy set up in 1732, a priest lived in Regau. From 1745 the municipality of Regau tried to establish an independent parish. In the course of a decree by Empress Maria Theresa in 1750 to set up mission stations throughout the country, two Capuchin priests and a lay frater from Gmunden took over the mission in the community in 1752 .
It was not until 1778 that a local chaplain named Matthias Mödlhammer was sent from St. Florian Monastery, but the baptismal, wedding and death books were still kept in Vöcklabruck. At that time, 434 Catholic families with 2190 people and 185 followers of Protestantism were named. In 1786 there were 1900 Catholics and around 300 Evangelicals.
In 1784 the theology professor Franz Freindaller took over pastoral care in Regau, and since register books were kept from May of the same year, this year is also considered the year the parish was founded in Regau. Regau only became a parish in 1892.
In addition to the parish church of Regau and the Vituskircherl, the parish also owns the parish home, which was built as a youth home in 1953 under Chaplain Josef Friesenecker. In 1952 a new cemetery was created outside the town center, with the old cemetery at the church being abandoned.
Since the parish is incorporated into the Augustinian Canons of St. Florian, the parish also draws its priests from there.
Coalition wars
After Napoleon Bonaparte came to power , the French crossed the borders of present-day Austria in 1800, 1805 and 1809. On December 17, 1800, a battle broke out between Regau and Vöcklabruck - Austrian troops with three regiments of cavalry and two regiments of infantry lay in wait for the enemy on. However, the battle went to the French, who captured three generals and 5000 men.
In the following years the country was increasingly traversed and plundered by troops, which led to a rise in food prices; the population became impoverished.
In the course of the Fifth Coalition War (1809) the Hausruckviertel came to Bavaria until 1816 , but Regau remained part of Austria. The state border at that time was determined with the Ager , a toll house was set up at the Agerbrücke.
In order to protect Regau from the marauding French, a Landwehr was set up in 1814 . In 1827, the corporator Jakob Fleischanderl suggested the conversion of this Landwehr into a civil guard, which should maintain camaraderie, embellish celebrations and pursue peaceful purposes. 1827 is therefore considered to be the founding year of the “ Regau Uniformed Citizens Corps ”. Two years later, at the feast of Corpus Christi , the guards appeared for the first time in the uniform that contains elements of French uniforms and is still worn today. The "Burgerkapelle Regau" was founded as early as 1817; Today it bears the name “Regau Citizens Corps Band” and from a young age it acted as a band of music for the Citizens Guard.
Foundation of the church
| mayor | from |
|---|---|
| Franz Puchegger | 1851 |
| Jakob Leitner | 1858 |
| Franz Föttinger | February 27, 1861 |
| Josef Enser | July 31, 1864 |
| Karl Reiter | August 16, 1873 |
| Josef Kemptner | April 18, 1876 |
| Johann Oberberger | April 18, 1879 |
| Josef Enser | April 19, 1882 |
| Georg Leitner | June 20, 1888 |
| Leopold Humer | May 2, 1900 |
| Josef Puchegger | May 20, 1903 |
| Karl Reiter | 1908 |
When a fundamental reorganization of the administrative and political division in Austria was carried out in 1850, district authorities and municipalities were established.
Shortly after this constitution , the cadastral communities of Rutzenmoos, Oberkriech and Neudorf declared their willingness to integrate into the community of Regau for economic reasons. In addition, efforts were made, especially in Regau, to unite the Wagrain cadastral community and thus the localities of Schalchham, Lixlau, Oberregau, Lahn, Roith and Schöndorf into one political community.
The leading persons in this process were Mr. Schneider von Regau and Jakob Leitner from Schalchham. Both the district administration and the pastor at the time as well as many other important residents of Vöcklabruck tried in vain to counteract this development. The municipality of Regau was finally formed from Wagrain, Rutzenmoos, Oberkriech, Neudorf and Unterregau - this structure already had 3647 inhabitants at that time and thus the municipality of Regau was by far the largest in the Vöcklabruck district. The new municipal area was bordered in the north by the municipalities of Vöcklabruck, Ungenach and Pilsbach , in the east by Attnang, Desselbrunn and Ohlsdorf and in the south by the municipalities of Schörfling , Timelkam and again Vöcklabruck. The area of the municipality was a total of 4424 ha and included 47 localities.
The municipality of Vöcklabruck, on the other hand, was now restricted to the city and only had 1,332 inhabitants. It was surrounded on three sides by the territory of the municipality of Regau and tried to secure the territory of the cadastral municipality of Wagrain. For Regau, Wagrain was the most important area, especially from an economic point of view.
Public elections were still held in 1850, as a result of which the municipal council was constituted. Franz Puchegger became the first mayor. In 1873 Regau and Rutzenmoos each received a post office , a voluntary fire brigade was set up in Regau in 1889 and in Rutzenmoos in 1892. The Salzkammergutbahn stop in Wankham went into operation in 1886 .
First World War
On July 31, 1914, a municipal messenger announced the general mobilization order in Regau ; the very next day, after a church speech by the pastor, 400 men had to enter for military service in the First World War . In order to keep the population supplied with flour, bread and grain during the war, so-called bread and flour cards were issued.
On May 24, 1915, a 240-strong Tyrolean Kaiserjäger marching company was quartered in the Regau schoolhouse . In June of the same year Regau delivered three bells from the tower of the parish church to the War Ministry as part of a large-scale collection of metals.
In order to master the high level of crime in the post-war years, Regau was given a gendarmerie post on November 1, 1919 . In memory of the war victims, a memorial was erected on the village square in Regau , in which the names of all those who died in the Regau community were engraved. Originally the number of victims was estimated at around 80 deaths, but a survey by the monument committee at the time showed that 131 Regau people were killed in the First World War.
| mayor | from |
|---|---|
| Alois Spiesberger | May 13, 1909 |
| Karl Neuhuber | July 10, 1919 |
| Karl Schwarzäugl | March 15, 1938 |
National Socialism
As early as the 1930s, the Vöcklabruck district administration complained that buildings in Regau were increasingly being painted with swastikas . The authorities then forced well-known National Socialist party supporters to set up "cleaning crews" to clean the walls again.
After the connection of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 was the community part of the " Gau Upper Danube ". In addition to fundamental political upheavals, Regau also experienced massive cuts in the municipality. On May 25, 1938, the mayor of Vöcklabruck, Resl, wrote the following text to the mayor of Regau, Schwarzäugl:
“As the future district town and as the economic center of the large political district of Vöcklabruck, the municipality of Vöcklabruck will be given a task under National Socialist leadership that goes far beyond the normal sphere of activity of a municipality. In order to fulfill these tasks, serious efforts must now be made to enlarge the unnaturally small area of the municipality of Vöcklabruck accordingly. "
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On June 17, 1938, it was agreed to incorporate parts of the local community of Regau into the area of the city of Vöcklabruck, which was finally decided by the then Gauleiter August Eigruber . On January 1, 1939, the Regau community ceded the localities of Buchleiten, Dörfl, Dürnau, Freileiten, Haslberg, Oberhaus, Pfarrhofgries, Schöndorf, Vornbuch, Wagrain and Ziegelwies. In addition, the municipality of Regau lost numerous important companies and buildings such as the Maria Schöndorf church , the train station and Wagrain Castle ; in return, Regau received 20% of the respective wage levies from the Eternit works from Vöcklabruck .
On this occasion, the mayor Regaus gave a speech, which was recorded in a consultation protocol of the municipality of February 2, 1939:
“A big decision was made on the incorporation matter. The fact that the municipality of Regau on the left of the Ager was incorporated into Vöcklabruck was unstoppable. If the municipality of Regau had not given its voluntary consent, the Gauleiter would have made the decision with our consent. As a result of the change in the law in terms of tax law, the municipality of Regau does not suffer any significant loss of income from the loss of the Hatschek factory. I therefore ask the population to want to enlighten the population if there is a proven need. "
During the Second World War , 106 registered bombs fell in the municipality, with the villages of Lixlau and Zaißing being particularly hard hit. After the World War, numerous refugees such as the Danube Swabians , Sudeten Germans and Transylvanians came to the municipality to build a new life. These displaced people found their new home in Regau and contributed significantly to the reconstruction of the community.
On May 26, 1945, the American military government appointed the farmer and innkeeper Karl Reiter mayor in Vöcklabruck.
In 1954 the war memorial fountain was built to commemorate the war victims. This memorial also lists the names of the fallen citizens. As a result of the renovation work on the market square on the occasion of the festivities around the turn of the millennium, the monument was moved and redesigned, today no fountain adorns the market square, the remaining components have been preserved.
Regau in the modern age
| mayor | from |
|---|---|
| Karl Reiter | May 26, 1945 |
| Josef Kriechbaum | November 23, 1950 |
| Josef Neuhuber | May 5, 1965 |
| Hans Charbula | November 27, 1967 |
| Engelbert Bramerdorfer | January 23, 1977 |
| Otto Aigner | June 2nd 1977 |
| Friedrich Feichtinger | November 11, 1985 |
| Peter Harringer | May 22, 2005 |
In January 1946, the community committee and board were newly constituted - the first community board after the war was composed of 16 members of the ÖVP and 8 of the SPÖ .
As early as 1943, the construction of the Regau animal carcass recycling plant began , which was put into operation in 1945 and whose catchment area has included all of Upper Austria since 1963. TKV became one of the "most powerful and modern" systems of its kind in Europe and is now in the hands of the AVE Group .
In 1947 and 1952, the Regau municipality made requests to re-classify the villages that had been assigned to Vöcklabruck, but these were rejected. In the post-war period, Regau developed into a residential community for people commuting to neighboring communities and recorded a constant increase in population.
Between 1960 and 1962, the West Autobahn was built in the Regau municipality . The route between Regau and Vorchdorf was opened on October 7, 1961, the right-hand lane to Seewalchen on June 15, 1963, the opposite lane to the northeast on December 5, 1964. As a result of the opening of the autobahn, the community's infrastructure improved considerably.
In the primary school in Regau, which was given a new building in 1969, the first preschool class of the Vöcklabruck district was set up in the 1978/79 school year .
In 1981, in the course of a competition, today's coat of arms of the municipality of Regau was selected. The original coat of arms can be seen on the wall of the Regau parish church and goes back to the new building of the church in 1494, when the then head of the Vöcklabruck parish, Jakob Herbersleben, ordered a redesign of the church and had his coat of arms chiseled. In addition, the community colors were set as red and yellow.
The coat of arms shows a red grapevine with leaves in the golden shield head , which indicates that viticulture was practiced in Regau in the past. Below is a winged sword arm on a red background, the coat of arms of Count Herbersleben.
On March 6, 2000, the community was elevated to a market town , and Governor Josef Pühringer presented the certificate on September 17, 2000. Another ceremony took place in May when the 1200 year jubilee was celebrated.
literature
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- Leitner, Franz: 200 years of the parish of Regau . - Vöcklabruck
- Obermüller, Alois: Chronicle of Regau I . - Regau: 1778.
- Pisar, Friedrich: The district of Vöcklabruck. A synopsis. - Linz: Rudolf Trauner Verlag 1981. ISBN 3-85320-224-1
- Satzinger, Franz: The Vöcklabrucker coat of arms towers. Published by the municipality of Vöcklabruck . - Vöcklabruck: Kilian Verlag 2003. ISBN 3-901745-07-6
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- Schindlbauer, Anton: Chronicle of Regau . - Regau: Municipality of Regau 1928–1930.
- Stenzel, Gerhard: From city to city in Austria . - Vienna: Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau 1979. ISBN 3-218-00327-X
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Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Wolfgang Haubrichs : Location in names. Descriptive naming, royal property and the range of interests of the agrarian people of the early Middle Ages . In: Dieter Hägermann , Brigitte Kasten : Fields of activity and experience horizons of rural people in the early medieval manorial rule (up to approx. 1000): Festschrift for Dieter Hägermann on his 65th birthday , pp. 3–37. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3515087885 ; P. 22.
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- ^ Zauner 1971: pp. 15-22
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- ^ Zauner 1971: p. 40
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- ^ Creation of the Evangelical Museum
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- ↑ a b c land-oberoesterreich.gv.at : Mayor
- ↑ a b History of the community at www.regau.at
- ↑ land-oberoesterreich.gv.at : Associations before 1918
- ↑ Wankham (Regau) ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on salzkammergutbahn.net
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- ↑ a b Pisar 1981: p. 173
- ↑ Pisar 1981: p. 89
- ↑ energieag.at ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. Pisar 1981: p. 177ff
- ↑ Opening dates of the motorways and expressways in Austria ( Memento from October 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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