Grossgmain

Grossgmain
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Salzburg
Political District :	Salzburg area
License plate :	SL
Surface:	22.82 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 44 '  N , 12 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '30 "  N , 12 ° 54' 31"  E
Height :	520  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,631 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	5084
Area code :	06247
Community code :	5 03 15
Address of the municipal administration:	Salzburger Strasse 220 5084 Großgmain
Website:	www.grossgmain.at
politics
Mayor :	Sebastian Schönbuchner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2019) (19 members)	9 6th 2 2 9 6th 2 2  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 9 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 2 GREEN : 2
Location of Großgmain in the Salzburg-Umgebung district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Großgmain is a municipality in the state of Salzburg in the Salzburg-Umgebung district in Austria with 2631 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

View over the Gmain

The municipality is located in the Flachgau in the state of Salzburg on the foothills of the Untersberg directly on the border with Bavaria ( Germany ). The state border is the Weißbach in the west of the village, on the other side of the bank is Bayerisch Gmain .

Community structure

The community consists only of the village of Großgmain. Districts are Großgmain (the church district), Schwaig , Tannenwinkl , Hinterreit and numerous individual locations.

Neighboring communities

Bad Reichenhall ∗ ( District Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY ,  DE )		Wals-Siezenheim ( District Salzburg-Umgebung , Land Salzburg , AT )
Bayerisch Gmain ( district Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY ,  DE )		Grödig ( District Salzburg-Umgebung , Land Salzburg , AT )
	Bischofswiesen ( district Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY , DE )

^∗ Bad Reichenhall itself is to the west, behind Bayerisch Gmain

history

On the Gmain is a name that has been used for centuries for the settlement area between Untersberg and Lattengebirge , Hallthurm and Kirchholz . Already the people of the Bronze Age knew the richness of the soil and the favorable location of the area to appreciate and settled here laid down, as well as thousands of years later, the Counts of Plain , which the area of Gmain with the erection of the Plainburg the center of their upper county made . Regardless of the rulers' borders, which divided the widely scattered farms into a Bavarian and a Salzburg half after the fall of Plain rule before 1300, the village community was always understood by the population as a unit.

In the fulfillment of religious life, the canonical unit formed a community-building basis for all Gmainers. For the economic structure, cultural life in general and school education in particular, the state border along the Weißbach only played a tax role. The diverse family ties across the border naturally formed a strong link. The only thing separating was the Salzburg and Bavarian jurisdiction that ended at the Weißbach, which established the different sovereignty .

However, the state separation only gained real importance from 1816, when, after a short period of unification of the two districts under Bavarian administration, the political differences in the 19th century became more and more important. According to the Treaty of April 14, 1816 between Bavaria and Austria ( Treaty of Munich ), the Reichenhall area remained with the Kingdom of Bavaria , while the Salzburg area was largely annexed to the Austrian Empire . Despite the formation of two independent communities, the feeling of togetherness remained. The same economic interests, especially in tourism, contributed just as much as the usefulness of common technical facilities.

Since the Großgmain volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1889, the traditional Florian Festival has been celebrated together with the Bayerisch Gmain volunteer fire brigade . In 2005 the 100th joint Florianifest of the fire brigades was celebrated. There were frequent interruptions during the First and Second World Wars, but the fire departments of the two communities did not allow themselves to be diverted from their tradition.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is described :

Split ; on the right an inward-facing silver wing in red ; on the left a red-armored black lion in gold .

politics

The community council has a total of 19 members.

• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ, 1 BFG - Bürgerforum Großgmain. (17 members)
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ, and 1 BFG - Bürgerforum Großgmain.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ, 3 SPÖ, and 3 Greens.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 6 FPÖ, 2 SPÖ, and 2 Greens.

mayor

• 1969–1989 Matthias Koch (ÖVP)
• 1989–1994 Johann Pögl (ÖVP)
• since 1994 Sebastian Schönbuchner (ÖVP)
• 2009–2019 Vice Mayor Ingrid Scheucher-Neumüller (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Vice Mayor Marlene Svazek

Culture and sights

Marienbrunnen Großgmain

See also:  List of listed objects in Großgmain

• Plainburg , one of the oldest castle ruins in Austria
• Pilgrimage Church of Our Lady on the Gmain with a so-called Beautiful Madonna from 1395 and the Gothic panel paintings by the Master of Großgmain from 1499
• Marienbrunnen Großgmain
• Josef Meinrad Park
• Marienheilgarten: designed by Heinrich Bunzel

• Salzburg open-air museum : with numerous historical farms from all over the Salzburgerland, put together on a large area in farmsteads with regional reference, the Großgmain museum field railway

nature

Untersberg : With the exception of the settlement area, the entire community area belongs to the Untersberg landscape and plant protection area  ( LSG 51 , PSG 1 ), the Untersberg nature park  ( NPK 1 ) along the Zwinkbach stream (to the Kohlgraben to Marzoll) and the Untersberg European and landscape protection area -Vorland  ( FFH  AT3227000 / ESG 17 , LSG 63 ), on the Saalach, whichbelong to a protection associationvia the Bavarian biosphere reserve Berchtesgadener Land (adjacent development zone ), which extends to Pongau and Pinzgau and to the northwest, and in the city of Salzburg with the Landscape protection area Leopoldskroner Moos  (LSG 47) continues.

Regular events

Großgmain in winter

Großgmain with pilgrimage church in winter

• Mother's Day concert by the Großgmain Trachtenmusikkapelle: annually on the Friday before Mother's Day
• Barbecue of the Großgmain Trachtenmusikkapelle: annually on the second Saturday in July
• Thanksgiving Day : annually
• Großgmain without borders
• Children's & club ski races: organized by the ski club
• Krampus run: every year around December 5th ( Krampus Day)

education

• Großgmain crawling group
• Großgmain kindergarten
• Großgmain elementary school
• Musikum Flachgau
• Education center of the security executive (BZS) of the SIAK

freetime and sports

• Großgmain swimming pool
• Untersberg Nature Park
• Adventure playground
• Wolfschwang Wildlife Park
• Nordic walking park
• Sports field with beach volleyball court
• JUZ - youth center

Personalities

• Wilhelm zu Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (1875–1956), chemist and forest scientist, professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , lived and died in Großgmain
• Oscar Fritz Schuh (1904–1984), theater director and opera director, died in Großgmain
• Ursula Schuh (1908–1993), painter and set designer, lived in Großgmain from 1961
• Cesar Bresgen (1913–1988), composer, lived in Großgmain from 1956
• Josef Meinrad (1913–1996), chamber actor, died in Großgmain
• Wolf von Schilgen (1917–2015), writer, lived and died in Großgmain
• Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer, mother of Clemens Eich, lived in Großgmain from 1963 to 1981
• Lolita (1931–2010), singer, last lived in Großgmain
• Clemens Eich (1954–1998), actor and writer, grew up in Großgmain
• Marlene Svazek (* 1992), politician

literature

• Johannes Lang , Max Schneider: On the Gmain - Chronicle of the communities Bayerisch Gmain and Großgmain . Self-published by the municipalities of Bayerisch Gmain and Großgmain 1995.

Web links

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

• 50315 - Großgmain. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Community website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Großgmain in numbers
2. ^ Friederike Zaisberger: History of Salzburg . In: History of the Austrian Federal States , ed. by Johann Rainer (Munich and Vienna 1998), p. 249.
3. ↑ Matthias Koch . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
4. ^ Johann Pögl . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
5. ↑ Sebastian Schönbuchner . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
6. ↑ Großgmain: Svazek becomes Vice Mayor . Article dated March 10, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019.
7. ↑ Untersberg landscape protection area in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg
8. ↑ Untersberg plant protection area in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg
9. ↑ Untersberg Nature Park in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg
10. ↑ Landscape protection area Untersberg-Vorland in the nature protection book of the State of Salzburg
    Untersberg-Vorland - European Protection Area Ordinance, Untersberg. Landscape Protection Ordinance 1981, Plant Species Protection Ordinance . Sbg LGBl 2007/59 ( ris.bka , pdf)