Grünau im Almtal

Grünau im Almtal
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Gmunden
License plate :	GM
Surface:	230.18 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 51 '  N , 13 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '10 "  N , 13 ° 57' 20"  E
Height :	528  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,060 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	8.9 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4645
Area code :	07616
Community code :	4 07 07
Address of the municipal administration:	In the village 17 4645 Grünau im Almtal
Website:	www.gruenau.at
politics
Mayor :	Wolfgang Bammer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	10 7th 6th 2 10 7th 6th 2  A total of 25 seats SPÖ : 10 ÖVP : 7 FPÖ : 6 GREEN : 2
Location of Grünau im Almtal in the Gmunden district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Grünau im Almtal is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Gmunden district in the Traunviertel with 2060 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Grünau im Almtal lies at an altitude of 528  m above sea level. A. in the Salzkammergut (Traunviertel). The extension is from north to south 18.2 km, from west to east 21.3 km. The total area is 230 km², making Grünau the largest municipality in Upper Austria. 74.5% of the area is forested. In addition to the Almsee in the south of the municipality, northeast of it are the Small and Large Ödsee in a side valley (Hetzautal) of the Almtal . To the south of the lakes, the Great Priel , the highest peak of the Dead Mountains, towers over the chalk-white mountain range. The municipality is traversed in a south-north direction by the Alm , which forms the outflow of the Almsee. Significant tributaries in the municipality are the Straneggbach from the Hetzau and the Grünaubach .

Community structure

There is only the cadastral community Grünau and the locality Grünau im Almtal . In addition to the village of Grünau, this includes around two dozen hamlets and rotten, a few scattered settlements and several farmsteads, as well as mountain huts.

Neighboring communities

The only community through which Grünau is connected by the Almtal and also in terms of traffic is Scharnstein in the north. In addition, Grünau's municipal area borders on the communities of Ebensee and Gmunden , which belong to the Traunsee region , on the Steyrtal communities of Steinbach , Micheldorf , Klaus and Hinterstoder , and on the communities of Altaussee and Grundlsee in the Styrian Salzkammergut .

Gmunden	Scharnstein	Steinbach am Ziehberg ( District Kirchdorf adK ) Micheldorf ( District Kirchdorf adK )
Ebensee		Klaus an der Pyhrnbahn ( District Kirchdorf adK )
Altaussee ( district Liezen , Styria )	Grundlsee ( district Liezen , Styria )	Hinterstoder ( district Kirchdorf adK )

history

With the foundation of the Benedictine Abbey Kremsmünster by Duke Tassilo III. In 777, the landscape at the Alm is gradually moved into the focus of history. When the monastery was badly affected by the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century, it also lost the area around the Almsee. In the year 992, Count Arnold von Lambach gave the monastery back fishing in the Almsee and the pastures on the Kasberg . After the Hungarian storms , a descendant of this count, St. Adalbero , founded Lambach Abbey in 1056 . He had inherited the area around Grünau and made it arable with his monks.

In 1160 the name Gruona appears for the first time . Kremsmünster left no stone unturned in regaining the lost territory. The parish tenure from Grünau fell to Lambach in 1224.

This fact suggests the existence of a church, perhaps even its own parish Grünau around 1250. The first church in Grünau was consecrated to St. Kilian , Bishop of Würzburg and Lambacher Stiftspatron.

In 1418 Grünau was exchanged for Lambach by Reinprecht II von Walsee , the owner of the Scharnstein estate . The church has since been consecrated to St. James the Elder . The patronage and bailiwick were tied to Scharnstein ever since. The independence of the parish was reduced in the near future because they only looked after the Scharnstein castle chaplains spiritually.

Only after the Walseers died out (1483) did the parish regain its independence. The right of occupation remained in the rule of Scharnstein until the Jörger was overthrown in 1620. As early as 1625, the Kremsmünster monastery acquired the rule of Scharnstein and with it the authority over the Grünau parish. At the request of the parishioners, Grünau was incorporated into the Kremsmünster pastoral care area in 1964. To this day Grünau is looked after by the Kremsmünster Abbey.

In the course of modern times, Grünau belonged to the following landlords: Starhemberger , Jörger , Emperor Maximilian I , Fernberger and the Kremsmünster monastery.

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. After 1866 the place became the exile of the Guelph Duke King George V of Hanover .

Population development

In 1991 the community had 2,137 inhabitants according to the census, by 2001 the population had dropped to 2,115. At the end of 2017, the community had 2,073 inhabitants. In the following year (2018) the population decreased further to 2,064. The decline since 1991 is due to a negative migration balance , the birth balance remains positive.

politics

The community is located in the judicial district of Gmunden .

Community representation

The council is composed as follows:

• 10 seats in the Social Democratic Party of Austria  (SPÖ)
• 07 mandates of the Austrian People's Party  (ÖVP)
• 06 mandates for the Freedom Party of Austria  (FPÖ)
• 02 mandates  The Greens - The Green Alternative  (Greens)

Alois Weidinger ( SPÖ ) was mayor until the end of 2017 . He was killed in a forest accident on December 30, 2017. On April 29, 2018, a mayoral election took place, in which Wolfgang Josef Bammer (ÖVP) received 35.08 percent of the votes, Klaus Kramesberger (SPÖ) came second with 33.70 percent of the votes. A runoff election took place on May 13, 2018, in which Wolfgang Bammer (ÖVP) was elected mayor.

Vice Mayor is Klaus Kramesberger from the SPÖ.

coat of arms

Description of the municipal coat of arms:

Split by green and silver with a conifer in alternating colors .

The community colors are white-green .

The coniferous tree, half of which is depicted in the snow cover of winter and half in summery green and dominating the coat of arms, speaks for the rich landscape of the tourism community with the Almtal and the protected waters of the Almsee and Ödseen, the Cumberland Wildlife Park and facilities of the prosperous in all seasons Alpinism.

The coat of arms was awarded in 1992.

Regional policy

Grünau has been part of the Salzkammergut since the 1950s and was a founding member of the Almtal Tourism Association and a sub-region of the joint Salzkammergut Tourismus GmbH (2001). Via the association for the tourist, economic and rural development of the Almtal - Almtal "Vera" association  (VERA) with the participation of Upper Austria Tourism and Upper Austria Regional Management . Cooperation with the northern municipalities was recently intensified and the Almtal tourism region (multi-municipality tourism association, MTV) was founded on January 1st, 2013 (first general assembly was January 21st, 2013 in Vorchdorf). Grünau thus forms the eastern end of the Salzkammergut region, which today still extends northwards towards Wels.

Grünau has also been a member of the Bergsteigerdörfer Association since 2008 .

Main town of the municipality: Grünau village in the Almtal

Grünau im Almtal ( village )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gmunden , Upper Austria
Pole. local community	Grünau im Almtal ( KG  Grünau)
Locality	Grünau im Almtal
Coordinates	47 ° 51 '12 "  N , 13 ° 57' 24"  E
height	528  m above sea level A.
Post Code	4644 Grünau im Almtal
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Grünau central area (40 708 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

The municipality's capital is the village of Grünau in the Almtal . The place is located about 35 kilometers south of Wels and 15 kilometers southeast of Gmunden , just on the northwestern municipal boundary. It extends at the confluence of the Grünaubach in the Alm , to around 530  m above sea level. A. Height.

The location of Grünau and Schindlbachstrasse in the immediate vicinity - the counting district of Grünau-Zentralgebiet - comprises around 320 buildings with around 900 inhabitants, which is slightly less than half of the entire municipality. The village and cadastral community of Grünau , however, encompass the entire community.

To the north rise Windhagkogel  ( 1334  m above sea level. A. ) and Hochsalm  ( 1405  m above sea level. A. ), in the west of Zwillingskogel  ( 1402  m above sea level. A. ), in the southeast of the mountain Sugar Loaf  ( 902  meters above sea level. A. ) and the Hochberg (Farrenaubühel ,  1287  m above sea level ). The mountains all belong to the limestone pre-Alps ( Salzkammergut pre-Alps or Upper Austrian pre-Alps ).

Neighboring places:

Nicks		Wändt
Wiesleithen		In the Lahn
Upper hell

Economy and Infrastructure

The economy is characterized by two-season tourism with around 138,000 overnight stays per year, as well as forestry and wood processing.

The Konrad Lorenz Research Center of the University of Vienna is located in Grünau im Almtal .

traffic

Grünau can be reached on the roads from Gmunden or Wels. There is a regular bus connection with both cities. A bus connection with low frequency connects Grünau with the Almsee (14 km). Grünau is the terminus of the Almtal-Lokalbahn , starting at Wels Hauptbahnhof .

Culture and sights

Grünau church with main altar

• Parish church : One of the cultural sights is the baroque parish church of St. James the Elder from 1695 with its high altar, which comes from the Kremsmünster collegiate church. The group of figures in the upper part of the baroque altar was made by the Nuremberg Renaissance sculptor Hans Peisser (documented evidence), a student or successor of Veit Stoss , and was completed in 1531. It depicts Christ as Savior with Saints Benedict and Agapitus and is one of the few monumental masterpieces of the Renaissance north of the Alps.

See also:  List of listed objects in Grünau im Almtal

• Nature: Grünau has a lot to offer in terms of landscape. The main attractions include the Almsee and the surrounding nature reserve with its fascinating flora and fauna, the Ödseen, the Cumberland Wildlife Park and the Kasbergalm .

Regular events

• Echo blowing: Every Wednesday from the end of June to the beginning of September there is an echo blowing at the Almsee, where brass instruments are used to make music with the natural echo .
• Wind festival: Another cultural highlight is the annual wind festival, in which wind groups from all over Austria take part.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Ernst August Prince of Hanover (* 1954), honorary citizen of the community
• 2011: Helmut Wittmann (* 1959), storyteller, has been working and living with his family in Grünau for many years
• 2017: Christoph Eisl (* 1942), pastor of Grünau in the Almtal

People related to the place

• Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), co-founder of comparative behavioral research, Nobel Prize winner, founded and ran the Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Grünau (1974).
• Simone Stribl (* 1987), journalist and television presenter

Web links

Commons : Grünau im Almtal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Entry on Grünau im Almtal in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 40707 - Grünau im Almtal. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the community of Grünau im Almtal can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Grünau im Almtal. In: Bergsteigerdörfer. Oesterreichischer Alpenverein, accessed on July 17, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} orf.at: Mayor elections in Grünau and St. Konrad . Article dated May 13, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018.
2. ↑ See also street name Grünau im Almtal , as of October 7, 2004 (pdf, gruenau.ooe.gv.at; 642 kB).
3. ↑ Population on October 31, 2017 in accordance with Section 10 (7) FAG 2017. (PDF; 263.24 kB) In: statistik.at. STATISTIK AUSTRIA Federal Statistical Office Austria, January 1, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Grünau im Almtal, population development. Retrieved March 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Grünau im Almtal: Mayor died in a forest accident
6. ↑ orf.at: Mayor election in Grünau . Article dated April 29, 2018, accessed April 29, 2018.
7. ^ Community of Grünau im Almtal: Mayoral election 2018 . Retrieved April 29, 2018.
8. ↑ Das Almtal (almtal.at) - official website of the region (Vera Association)
   Almtal Association "VERA" (almtalonline.at)
9. ↑ Almtal tourist office: announcement ; Retrieved Feb. 6, 2013
10. ↑ ORF-Online: optimism in the Almtal
11. ↑ MTV Almtal launched. ÖVP Bad Wimsbach Neydharting, February 4, 2013, accessed on November 15, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Ideas - Deeds - Facts, No. 1: Start conference mountaineering villages in the mountaineering village of Ginzling, from 10-11. July 2008 , Austrian Alpine Association as part of the project “Specific Alpine Convention: Via Alpina and Mountaineering Villages”, Spatial Planning-Nature Conservation Department, Innsbruck 2008, p. 4. PDF download ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der 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. , accessed November 7, 2018. 
13. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/salzkammergut/lokales/gruenau-ia-zu-seinem-50-jaehrigem-iesterjubilaeum-wurde-der-pfarrer-pchristoph-eisl-zum-ehrenbuerger-der-gemeinde-ernannt-d2085647 .html (accessed February 11, 2018)

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