Grieskirchen

Borough Grieskirchen
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Grieskirchen
License plate :	GR
Surface:	11.74 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 14 '  N , 13 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '6 "  N , 13 ° 49' 55"  E
Height :	335  m above sea level A.
Residents :	4,987 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	425 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4710
Area code :	07248
Community code :	4 08 08
Address of the municipal administration:	Stadtplatz 9 4710 Grieskirchen
Website:	www.grieskirchen.at
politics
Mayoress :	Maria Pachner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (31 members)	13 9 5 4th 13 9 5 4th  A total of 31 seats ÖVP : 13 FPÖ : 9 SPÖ : 5 GREEN : 4
Location of Grieskirchen in the Grieskirchen district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Town Hall (Market: 1327 - City: 1613)

Grieskirchen is a municipality in the Hausruckviertel in Upper Austria with 4987 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) and the seat of the district authorities of the Grieskirchen and Eferding districts , which have been merged as part of an administrative community. The competent court for the judicial district of Grieskirchen is also located in the city.

geography

Grieskirchen is around 330  m above sea level. A. in the Trattnachtal . The extension is 4.7 km from north to south and 4.8 km from west to east. The total area is 11.7 km². 10.3% of the area is forested, 70.9% of the area is used for agriculture.

In terms of landscape, the area is part of the Inn- and Hausruckviertel hill country .

Community structure

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

• Grieskirchen (4532)
• Hiering (71)
• Kickendorf (67)
• Moosham (84)
• Niederndorf (2)
• Parz (58)
• Paschallern (61)
• Steindlberg (3)
• Tolleterau (6)
• Unterberg (13)
• Untersteinbach (87)
• Vornwald (3)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Grieskirchen, Manglburg and Parz.

Counting areas are Grieskirchen-West , Grieskirchen-Ost , Grieskirchen-West , Grieskirchen-Umgebung .

Neighboring communities

Great		Pollham
St. Georgen near Grieskirchen		Bad Schallerbach
	Gallspach	Schlüßlberg

history

Grieskirchen after an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer from 1674

Griezkirichen is first mentioned in a document in 1075 as the property of the Passau monastery St. Nikola , belonging to the diocese of Passau . Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria , the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century . Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

• 1327 oldest mention of Grieskirchen as a market
• In 1398 Andreas von Polheim bought the market and court of Grieskirchen
• In 1515 the Landschloss Parz was built from the parts of the demolished Tegernbach Castle
• 1564 Drafting of the Grieskirchen market regulations
• 1585 raged in Grieskirchen the plague , from this year comes the Sebastiansfriedhof
• 1597 Completion of the Grieskirchner Compactaten (November 20), through which the peasant unrest that has been smoldering since 1595 is ended
• In 1613, Emperor Matthias Grieskirchen granted city rights
• In 1626 the city was a scene of the peasant wars
• In 1651 the city came under the rule of the Counts of Weissenwolf
• In 1713/14 the plague raged in Grieskirchen
• In 1747 there was the greatest fire disaster

During the Napoleonic period , Bavaria was added and was a royal Bavarian border town from 1810 to 1816. Then the city came back to Austria ob der Enns .

Population development

The population increase from 1981 to 1991 was due to a positive balance of migration (+162), while the birth balance was close to zero. From 1991 to 2001 the migration balance was negative (–154), so that the number of inhabitants decreased. From 2001 to 2011, emigration and a positive birth balance were almost in balance.

Culture and sights

Cycle of frescoes on the south facade of Parz Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Grieskirchen

• The Plot Castle with significant external frescoes is one of the most magnificent Renaissance castles of Upper Austria and, together with the associated surge Plot a closed ensemble. Around 400 years ago, the south facade of the palace was decorated with extensive frescoes , which until a few years ago were whitewashed with baroque paint and were only discovered in 1987 during renovation work. It is the largest series of exterior frescoes from the Renaissance north of the Alps that has been preserved in the original. In 2010, the state exhibition Renaissance and Reformation was on view in Parz Castle .
• The Tollet Castle is a Renaissance castle from 1601-1611 in the neighboring municipality of Tollet . The first fortification dates back to 1170. From 1601 and 1611, Hans V. Jörger von Tollet had the castle rebuilt in the Renaissance style with, among other things, a courtyard with interesting grating from 1607, which encompass 48 fields with 46 different motifs. From 2002 - 2009 renovation of the castle. Today the District Home Hall Association Grieskirchen , a non-profit cultural association, has its seat at Schloss Tollet and has been running the Kulturama Schloss Tollet Museum in the castle since April 23, 2009 . There are exhibitions and concerts.
• The castle clean conduct is no longer in its original form; It was converted into a hospital by Georg Wagenleithner at the beginning of the 20th century, which today belongs to the Franciscan order.
• The parish church of Grieskirchen was built in Gothic style and later changed to Baroque style.
• Annakapelle : Late Gothic chapel from the 15th century with ribbed vaults and an altar in early Baroque style (mid-17th century).
• Bürgerhaus at Stadtplatz 40: Built at the end of the 16th century under Siegmund and Gundacker v. Polheim, Renaissance portal 1604, round corner bay window. Today Gasthof Zum Weißen Kreuz . Connected by the so-called Schwibbogen to the neighboring house at Stadtplatz No. 3 , which was built at the same time . Later owned by the innkeeper and mayor Christoph Manglburger (1541–1616).
• Karbrunnen: A devastating fire raged in the Middle Ages - the Karbrunnen on the church square dates from this time.
• Holy Trinity Column: donated by Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck in 1708 . Until 1972 it was in Unternberg next to the Trattnach Bridge, since 1979 it has been on Pühringerplatz.
• Sebastianfriedhof: emerged from a Pestanger in 1585, with an entrance gate dated from 1593.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

train

Grieskirchen-Gallspach train station

Grieskirchen is located on the Passau Railway , which was completed in 1861 , a planned connecting railway from Grieskirchen via Gallspach to Gaspoltshofen was not implemented.

The Grieskirchen train station is on the eastern outskirts, north of the industrial site, which characterizes the Pöttinger Landtechnik factory and the somewhat smaller Froling heating factory . The name of the train station is also historically founded: Grieskirchen-Gallspach . The neighboring town of Gallspach - known for its rowis institute - has been popular with spa guests since the early 1920s. This was also the reason why several express trains, including the legendary Oostende-Vienna Express , soon stopped here. When health insurance companies in Germany started saving money at the beginning of the 1990s and a stay abroad was no longer financed, this clientele of spa guests stayed away; this was the end of the stopping of the express trains in Grieskirchen.

Street

GRIESKIRCHEN located on the Innviertler national road  (B137) to which at the Pöttingerkreuzung the Gallspacher road  (B135) south towards Gallspach , Gaspoltshofen and Schwanenstadt branches. Until the Innkreis Autobahn  (A8) was finally completed in the 1990s, the B137 was the northern part of the guest worker route . When the Innkreis Autobahn was finally completed, the road signs E5 ( Europastraße 5 ) were transferred from the federal highway to the Autobahn.

There is no direct motorway connection. To the east ( Linz , Vienna ) or south ( Graz ) you drive at Wels -Nord or Pichl bei Wels onto the Wels motorway  A25 or Innkreis motorway  A8. To the west ( Ried , Passau ) there are the Meggenhofen-Gallspach or Haag am Hausruck junctions .

There are also district or state roads to the north in the direction of Michaelnbach and Waizenkirchen as well as in the direction of Pollham and St. Thomas or St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz and to the east the "old federal road" B137 in the direction of Bad Schallerbach and also one to the west in Direction Tollet .

The narrow streets of the city are historically founded; A few years ago the speed limit was 30 km / h in the entire city center, instead of the usual 50 km / h.

Established businesses

The Grieskirchen brewery was first mentioned in a document in 1708 and today produces a variety of different types of beer and lemonades . Special features of the brewery are its multiple award-winning pils and wheat beers (cloudy & dark whites). The brewery's wheat beer history in particular goes back a long time. The reason is that Grieskirchen was a royal Bavarian border town and thus the Grieskirchner Brewery was the easternmost wheat beer brewery in Bavaria. The Grieskirchner Brewery is a regionally anchored private brewery owned by Dr. Marcus Mautner Markhof.

Alois Pöttinger Maschinenfabrik , founded in 1871, manufactures agricultural machinery for grassland and soil cultivation. The export share is 80%. The company operates branches in Bernburg and Vodňany and employs 1,370 people.

The Pfleger mill at Parz Castle, first mentioned in 1659 , has been owned by the Haberfellner family since 1892. Today the company is led by Leopold and Markus Haberfellner.

Other manufacturing companies in Grieskirchen:

• Froling boiler and tank construction
• Gföllner container construction
• Plohberger malt house

education

• Elementary school
• Technical New Middle School 1
• New Middle School 2
• Polytechnic school
• Federal upper level secondary school with the branches music education (in-depth music education or instrumental), visual education (in depth artistic techniques or multimedia) and natural sciences
• Higher technical college for computer science and medical informatics
• State music school

politics

Community representation

Maria Pachner ( ÖVP ) has been mayor since February 2009 .

coat of arms

Blazon : In red on a green shield base, a silver church with a black gate, window openings and roofs as well as a black knob and cross on the tent roof of the flank tower on the left. The community colors are green and red.

It is not known when the coat of arms was awarded. In the market regulation issued in 1564, provisions on production with the market seal are already mentioned, and the city law of 1623 also refers to the coat of arms, albeit without an illustration. The first pictorial representation can be found as a seal impression on a document from 1690.

As a talking coat of arms , the motif refers to the name and thus the development of the settlement, which has developed around a church on the gravelly, sandy bank (obd. Gries ) of the Trattnach.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Amandus Schickmayr (1716–1794), Benedictine abbot of Lambach
• Josef Moser (1812-1893), doctor and local poet
• Otto Prechtler (1813–1881), playwright, poet, librettist and archivist
• Konrad Schiffmann (1871–1941), historian, archivist and librarian
• Franz Huber (1875–1940), farmer and politician
• Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (1897–1944), SS brigade and police leader
• Josef Hofer (1898–1958), first district captain in Grieskirchen and resistance fighter
• Traugott Erich Gattinger (1930-2006), geologist
• Franz Födermayr (1933–2020), musicologist
• Marianus Hauseder (* 1936), Engelszeller Dept.
• Hubert Palfinger (1942–2020), engineer
• Georg Simbruner (* 1945), doctor in the pediatrics and neonatology department
• Wolfgang Großruck (* 1947), politician (ÖVP)
• Inge Kurtz (* 1949), painter and feature writer
• Ernst Strasser (* 1956), politician (ÖVP)
• Carl Achleitner (* 1963), actor
• Josef Mayr (* 1967), farmer and politician, member of the Upper Austrian Parliament
• Ernst Hausleitner (* 1968), journalist and commentator
• Gernot Schieszler (* 1970), manager
• Alexander Pointner (* 1971), ski trainer
• Karin Doppelbauer (* 1975), politician (NEOS)
• Manfred Razenböck (* 1978), soccer player
• Doris Golpashin (* 1980), TV and radio presenter and actress
• Ingrid Rumpfhuber (* 1981), ski racer
• Beate Ritter (* 1983), opera singer
• Philipp Huspek (* 1991), soccer player

Personalities associated with the city

• Franz Müllner (1878–1955), politician (CSP)
• Johann Gruber (1889–1944), priest and resistance fighter

literature

• Michael Pühringer: History of Grieskirchen and the surrounding area . Grieskirchen 1882
• Franz Berger: Contributions to the history of Grieskirchen . Ried i. I., 1916
• Hubert Leeb: Contributions to the history of Grieskirchen and the surrounding area . Grieskirchen 1956
• Johann Baumgartner [Hg]: The district of Grieskirchen. A home book . Linz 1983
• Josef Zeiger: Chronicle of the municipality of Grieskirchen . 7 volumes. 1988
• Siegfried Rathner, City of Grieskirchen (Hg): Grieskirchen from A to Z. A lexicon on the city's history . Grieskirchen, 1993
• W. Helmut Nimmervoll: The way of time - living local history . Grieskirchen 2009
• Walter Aspernig, Roland Forster, Elisabeth Gruber: The grave monuments of the parish Grieskirchen. Grieskirchen 2010

Web links

Commons : Grieskirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Grieskirchen
• 40808 - Grieskirchen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry on Grieskirchen in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Further information about the community of Grieskirchen can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ -, Pühringer, Michael: History of Grieskirchen and the surrounding area. In: digi.landesbibliothek.at. January 1, 1882, accessed November 29, 2016 . 
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Grieskirchen, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Tollet Castle and cultural association
5. ↑ BORG Grieskirchen at a glance. BORG Grieskirchen, schulen.eduhi.at, accessed on July 25, 2013 . 
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 . 
7. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Coat of arms of the municipality of Grieskirchen