Gurten (Upper Austria)

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Gurten (Upper Austria)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Ried im Innkreis
License plate : RI
Surface: 16.22 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 14 '  N , 13 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '28 "  N , 13 ° 20' 41"  E
Height : 400  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,196 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code : 4942
Area code : 07757
Community code : 4 12 08
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hofmark 21
4942 Gurten
Website: www.gurten.net
politics
Mayoress : Petra Mies ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(19 members)
8th
6th
5
8th 6th 
A total of 19 seats
Location of Gurten in the Ried im Innkreis district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Gurten is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Innviertel with 1196 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Ried im Innkreis .

geography

Gurten is 400 m above sea level in the Innviertel. The extension is 5.5 km from north to south and 5.1 km from west to east. The total area is 16.22 km², 22.7% of the area is forested, 66.3% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

Gurten consists of the two cadastral communities Dorf (649.56 ha) and Gurten (972.78 ha).

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

  • Baumgarten (26)
  • Village (54)
  • Edt (168) including Sachsenbuch and Schoppering
  • Freiling (62) including lower freiling
  • Belts (648)
  • Itzenthal (40)
  • Mittermoos (25)
  • Oberndorf (37)
  • Ranzing (26)
  • Travel (20)
  • Schmalzberg (17)
  • Schmiedhof (23)
  • Wagnerberg (50)

history

The place is mentioned in Latin ad curtina ("near the small court") in a Passau land register in the 12th century, and belonged to the diocese of Passau . The place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen and the Innviertel (then "Innbaiern"). During the Napoleonic Wars briefly Bavarian again, since 1816 it has finally belonged to Austria ob der Enns .

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

coat of arms

Coat of arms at gurten.png

Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

"Three silver, heraldic roses diagonally behind each other in red."

The community colors are red and white.

economy

The largest employer in Gurten is Fill Gesellschaft mbH , an internationally active special machine and plant construction company for various industrial sectors. The business activities include the areas of metal, plastic and wood for the automotive, aviation, wind power, sports and construction industries, the company is particularly known for innovative solutions and intensive research and development. The family business, founded in 1966, employs more than 900 people.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 19 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 6 FPÖ and 5 SPÖ.

mayor
  • 2003–2019 Karl Pumberger-Kasper (ÖVP)
  • since 2019 Petra Mies (SPÖ)

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 1,143 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,228 inhabitants. The population increased in these ten years as both the birth balance and the migration balance were positive. From 2001 to 2011 there was a strong emigration that could no longer be reversed by the positive birth balance, so that the population fell to 1,187 people.

Culture and sights

East view of the parish church of St. Stephan

Personalities

  • Michael Gerstberger (1867–1931), farmer and politician.
  • Ludwig Kasper (1893–1945), sculptor born in Gurten. 1912–1925 studies at the Munich Art Academy, from 1933 part of the dissident studio community in Klosterstrasse in Berlin. 1945 return to Upper Austria and death. Grave in Gurten.
  • Berthold Mayr (born October 1, 1925 in Gurten; † March 19, 2015), Roman Catholic theologian, historian, Germanist, pedagogue and media minister,
  • Josef Fill (born July 16, 1939 in Afing, South Tyrol) is a retired Austrian entrepreneur and politician (ÖVP). From 2000 to 2004 he was regional councilor in the Upper Austrian regional government.
  • Josef Penninger (born September 5, 1964), geneticist and from 2003 to 2018 Scientific Director at IMBA (Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Vienna.

Web links

Commons : Gurten, Upper Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. Urb Passau Dk 8.75, in: Isolde Hausner, Elisabeth Schuster: Old German name book: the tradition of place names in Austria and South Tyrol from the beginnings to 1200 . Ed .: Austrian Academy of Sciences , Commission for Dialectology and Name Research. Part 10, 1989, p. 474 .
  3. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .
  4. Facts & Figures. fill.co.at, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  5. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections (PDF) Retrieved on April 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Gurten, population development. (PDF) Retrieved April 10, 2019 .