Gloxwald

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Gloxwald ( village ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg  (PE), Upper Austria
Pole. local community	Waldhausen im Strudengau   ( KG  Waldhausen)
Coordinates	48 ° 14 '16 "  N , 14 ° 57' 24"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '16 "  N , 14 ° 57' 24"  E
height	510  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	300 (2006)
Post Code	4382
prefix	+ 43/07268
Statistical identification
Locality code	10276
Counting district / district	Waldhausen-South (41 125 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Gloxwald is a village that emerged in the 19th century as a workers' settlement of a granite factory in the forest landscape of the same name north of the Danube between Sarmingbach and Kleiner Ysper on the border between Upper and Lower Austria , which belongs to the market town of Waldhausen im Strudengau in the Perg district.

geography

The village with 385 inhabitants is located at 510  m above sea level. A. about 6.5 kilometers south of Waldhausen, about 4 kilometers by road above Sarmingstein , a district of the neighboring municipality of St. Nikola an der Donau , and about 3 kilometers northwest of Nöchling, which is already in Lower Austria .

The forest area is drained via the Weidenbach, which rises in the Gloxwald and flows into the Danube east of Sarmingstein, and the Sarmingbach .

The highest elevation in the area is the high wall 739  m above sea level. A. Directly on the border between Upper Austria and Lower Austria, the Toberspitz is 734  m above sea level. A. To the west of it is the Einsiedelstein ( shell stone ).

About two kilometers south of the village is the Predigtstuhl natural monument , a natural rock pulpit in Weinsberg granite , at 520  m above sea level. A. , around 290 meters above the Danube, which serves as a vantage point into the Danube Valley. Since 2010, one stage of the Donausteig has led from Sarmingstein past the Predigtstuhl to Gloxwald and on to Waldhausen.

A connecting road in the rank of a state road (L 575) leads through the Gloxwald from Sarmingstein to Waldhausen, from which a municipal road branches off to the right and leads to the village of Gloxwald and further to the neighboring municipality of Nöchling.

history

Population development
year Residents 1888 298 1901 445 1909 495 1921 418 2001 385 2006 300

The first documentary mentions of Glokis refer to the mountain name Gloxer Hochmauer. The area only got its compound name in the course of the Josephinische Landesaufnahme around 1775, before that only Glox was said. Slavic roots are assumed for the name. The Gloxwald was first mentioned in 1147 in the deed of foundation of Otto von Machland of the Waldhausen monastery and is about half an hour's walk southeast of Waldhausen.

The Gloxwald workers' settlement emerged in the Gloxwald in the second half of the 19th century near two forest houses and two farms. The company apartments built by the operator of the quarries in Gloxwald for the workers and their families were at ground level and covered with tiles. They consisted of a room and a kitchen. For the older children, the families built wooden huts in the garden that were insulated with panels made of pressed sawdust. Rent for the houses and rent for the small vegetable garden had to be paid to the quarry owner.

In 1898 the workers built a chapel in honor of Mary in place of the old statue erected there. Since then, the chapel has served the population as a burial room and was thoroughly renovated from 1998 to 2010. In 1956, the Bishop of Linz, Franz Zauner , inaugurated a barrack church as the first place of worship in Gloxwald, which is a branch church of the Waldhausen parish. In 1976, the Leopold Chapel was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Alois Wagner in its place .

The quarries in the Gloxwald

In 1870 Josef Strasser bought 26 Joch quarry area in the Gloxwald and began mining granite. His son received a permit to operate a quarry on other properties in 1873 and acquired it in 1880. For decades he owned several quarries and from around 1920 to 1949 his daughter Maria (* January 13, 1896; † June 10, 1942) and her husband Franz Helbich (born March 6, 1885 - † October 7, 1964) and made tombstones , monuments , paving stones, gravel , quarry, etc. from granite . Their son Leopold Helbich (1926-2004) married Wilburgis Poschacher in 1952 .

In 1901 Leopold Strasser registered the business for a workers canteen. In 1904, 5 pairs of horses break and drove three times a day paving stones according Sarmingstein where the material on the one hand on the Danube ships also, and from 1909 on railway cars of Donauuferbahn was loaded. In 1905 around 230 workers were employed.

In the time of need until 1938, the quarries were closed in winter. In the summer, up to 120 men could be employed in some cases. 1939 to 1941 (according to another source 1945 to 1949) heavily invested with loans and u. a. a crusher was set up to accelerate the production of fragments, a cable car set up for transport to Sarmingstein and a loading facility for gravel and stone built at the Sarmingstein station on the Danube bank.

In 1949 the Schoellerbank took over the business from the Helbich family. The number of employees rose to 200. At that time, 60 wagons were produced daily, which made the quarry the second largest in Europe. Among other things, material for the construction of the Danube power plant Ybbs-Persenbeug was supplied at the end of the 1950s .

In 1960 the Helbich-Spanlang consortium (Granitwerke Anton Poschacher and Schärdinger Granitwerke) bought the company. The number of employees fell to 70. At the end of March 1979, the 5 breaks (old break, new break, four break, five break, six break) were closed due to inefficiency and the cable car dismantled.

In 1982 the Linz cathedral chapter bought the quarries. The property was planted, the quarries overflowed with water and are now fish ponds . The Dompfarre Linz has been running a holiday home in Gloxwald in the former Ortnerhaus for several years.

people

• Josef Strasser, acquired 26 Joch quarry area in the Gloxwald in 1870
• Leopold Strasser, acquired the right to mine granite on other properties in the Gloxwald in 1873 and acquired it in 1880
• Maria Strasser, daughter of Leopold Strasser, ran the stone quarries in Gloxwald together with her husband Franz Helbich from around 1920 to 1949
• Leopold Helbich , politician, acquired the quarries and facilities together with Schärdinger Granitwerke in 1960 and shut them down in the following decades after they had become unprofitable. He played a key role in financing the Leopold Chapel in Gloxwald, which was inaugurated in 1976.

literature

• Monika Kratzer: Poverty in the interwar period , diploma thesis, Vienna 2008
• Josef Stummer: Granite - building block from Pulgarn to Gloxwald, manuscript, Perg 2010, web query (PDF; 46 kB)
• History of the Gloxwald quarries Web query

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Waldhausen im Strudengau residents by location
2. ↑ Christa Hlawinka: Slavonic language traces in the Mühlviertel, diploma thesis, Vienna 2009 PDF
3. ↑ Community news Waldhausen (PDF; 569 kB)
4. ↑ 50 years church in Gloxwald , in: Church newspaper of the Diözese Linz, issue 29/2006, Linz 2006, web query  ( 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.  
5. ↑ Josef Stummer, Perg 2010: History of the stone quarries in the Gloxwald
6. ↑ Granite - building block from Pulgarn to Gloxwald ( Memento from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 46 kB)