Gründberg (Linz)

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Gründberg is a district of Linz in Upper Austria , north of the Danube , which belongs to the district and statistical district of Pöstlingberg .

geography

The approximately 3 km² large district lies at the foot or on the slopes of the hill ridge from which it is named, Gründberg , an offshoot of the Mühlviertel hill country.

Pachmayrstrasse forms the border with the districts of Harbach in the south and Bachlberg in the west. In the northwest and north, to the lies District Urfahr environment belonging municipality Lichtenberg . In the east, the Leonfeldener Straße and the Haselbach coming from the Haselgraben (valley) form the border to the neighboring district of St. Magdalena . The western half of the lower Haselgraben thus belongs to the Gründberg district.

history

The history of the district is closely linked to the mountain of the same name. The mule tracks that led from the Celtic oppidum from Gründberg an der Donau to the Vltava and on to Prague were also used in the Middle Ages for the salt trade along the so-called Linzer Steig . Ultimately, the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway , which ran from 1832 to 1872 at the foot of the Gründberg, served as a transport route from the Salzkammergut to Bohemia .

In 1405 the area was first mentioned in writing as Grinperg and Grimperg in the land register of the Benedictine Abbey of Nonnberg (Salzburg).

In the 19th century Gründberg originally belonged to the independent municipality of Pöstlingberg . On May 31, 1919, the area was incorporated first to Urfahr and the day after to Linz.

In 1925 there were efforts on the Gründberg to break away from Linz and to become part of the neighboring community of St. Magdalena. The farmer Josef Kellerer sent a letter with 57 signatures and corresponding demands to the city of Linz. The undersigned even wanted to raise the cost of remeasuring the municipal boundaries themselves. The secessionist efforts of the Gründbergers were supported by the municipal council of St. Magdalena, which also sent a letter to the state capital in December 1925 and proposed a new definition of the municipal boundary along the Asterbachl. The Mayor of Linz, Dametz, offered the Gründbergers the prospect of a reduction in property tax, but made no commitments regarding local boundaries, which became completely unnecessary with the incorporation of St. Magdalena in 1938.

After the flood disaster in 1954 the so-called has been using Swedish donations Sweden settlement construction.

Attractions

leisure

  • The Höllmühlstraße, which leads through the site of the former Celtic hillside settlement, and the Höllmühlgraben are popular paths for hikers and mountain bikers.

See also

literature

  • Michaela Gusenbauer, Daniela Fürst, Cornelia Hochmayr, Ingo Mörth, Elke Schmid: Linz's cultural districts today - St. Magdalena, Gründberg, Steg (including Haselgraben and Harbach-Nord). Linz 2008, 37 pages ( PDF on linz09.at).
  • Oskar Dohle: Urfahr - 80 years near Linz (1919-1999). In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1997. Linz 1999, pp. 291–352 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Friedrich [Fritz] Schwarz, Christiane Höller: Up to the “G sharp” - a nature hike to the climax in the Linz area. In: ÖKO.L magazine for ecology, nature and environmental protection. Linz 2011, pp. 17–27 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , natural history hike through the Gründberg district along the Höllmühlbach up to the “Gis”).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Linz - Politics / Administration - Linz Numbers - City Area
  2. ^ Leonhard Franz, Franz Stroh: The Celtic settlement on the Gründberg. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 89, Linz 1940, p. 218 (entire article p. 215-238, PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  3. ↑ Dohle 1999, p. 336 (plan sketch p. 315).
  4. ↑ a b c Dohle 1999, p. 339.