Hörbich

Hörbich is 570 m above sea level. A. Höhe in the upper Mühlviertel . In terms of the nature conservation spatial structure, the municipal area belongs in full to the Central Mühlviertel highlands . The extension is 5.2 km from north to south and 4 km from west to east. The total area covers 11.21 km², making Hörbich the ninth smallest of the 42 parishes in the district. The community area extends over a height of around 425 to 630 meters and is 28.6 percent wooded (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent). A further 65.2 percent (Upper Austria: 49.3 percent) are used as agricultural land, the remaining 6.6 percent of the municipal area is made up of bodies of water, gardens, construction areas and other areas. Neighboring communities are Arnreit in the northeast, Altenfelden in the east, Lembach in the Mühlkreis in the southeast, Putzleinsdorf in the southwest, Atzesberg in the west and Sarleinsbach in the north.

Geology and soils

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan mountain formation in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ). After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary, the crystalline basement was abolished by several 100 meters, causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods . The dominant rocks in the municipality are older, coarse-grained granites of the Weinsberg granite type . It is one of the first masses of magma to solidify during the folding of the mountains, has a typical coarseness and causes a restless landscape character with rapid alternation of peaks and valleys. In the municipality, soils of the brown earth - Podzol series of crystalline predominate, with the dominant soil type being the silicate brown earth, which forms on granites and gneiss. The light to very light soils are generally poor in nutrients and their use depends on the depth and the water supply. The soil type is generally loamy sand or sandy loam, with the dominant form of humus in dry locations being mild , otherwise mull . In addition, in the valley area of the Daglesbach and the Reiterbach and their tributaries there are Podsol soils, in the area of the district of Ausserkötzendorf there is also Gley , which runs tongue-shaped to the north.

Landscape and vegetation

According to the nature conservation spatial division of the federal state of Upper Austria, the municipal area belongs in full to the spatial unit of the Central Mühlviertel highlands . According to the natural spatial classification according to Hermann Kohl , the municipality is mainly in the undulating highlands with its notched valleys of the so-called "Ranna-Mühl-Rodl-Hochland" while the northern part of the municipality is assigned to the "Ameisbergzug with the Gottsdorf mountains" of the so-called Wegscheider mountainous region. Overall, the municipality can be defined as a cultural landscape with a fragmented forest structure. In the small-scale forest areas, coniferous forest is predominant, and there are also a few small-scale deciduous and mixed forests. Agriculture is practiced intensively in the municipality and is divided equally between grassland and arable farming. In addition to a few small forest areas, there are also orchards on the outskirts of the settlement, as well as a few individual trees and rarely hedges as structural elements in the municipality. There is hardly any extensive grassland. Overall, there are only a few small-scale, ecologically valuable landscape elements, the most important elements being the streams, which are largely natural. In addition, there are the few hedges and small structural elements as well as small forests with an intensive border structure.

Waters

The waters in the municipality drain the municipality towards the northeast. The most important river is the Kleine Mühl , which has a straight, not very natural course and in the north has a continuous wood along the banks. The Kleine Mühl forms the municipality boundary in the west. In the lower section, this riparian wood is partially only available locally or restricted by agricultural use. The various nameless tributaries of the Kleine Mühl run consistently within wooded Kerbtal slopes. The Neuwiesbachl in the north and the Leitenbach in the northeast of the community are other noteworthy streams. Both streams meander freely and form part of the municipal boundary over long stretches.

Community structure

Population of the districts
District	2001	2011
Ausserhötzendorf	012	008th
Eiglersdorf	027	024
Eilmannsberg	017th	015th
Hörbich	103	091
Krondorf	091	099
Streinesberg	037	035
Tannberg	047	040
Unterreith	068	069
Wulln	038	035

The municipality of Hörbich is congruent with the cadastral municipality of Hörbich, with nine districts being distinguished. The largest district and main town of the municipality is the village of Hörbich ( 570 m above sea level ). In 2001 the village in the center of the municipality comprised 26 buildings as well as a workplace and eleven agricultural and forestry operations. In 2001 it was the only district with more than 100 inhabitants. The wasteland Froschau is also counted as part of Hörbich. Various hamlets and rotters are grouped around the village of Hörbich. In the north is the hamlet of Unternreith ( 570 m above sea level ) with the associated hamlet of Kirchholz and the wasteland of Rannabauer. In 2001 the district had a total of 15 buildings, two workplaces and ten agricultural and forestry businesses. To the east of Hörbich is the district of Krondorf ( 500 m above sea level ). In 2001, the group, which also includes the Wakolbing wasteland, consisted of 26 buildings, a workplace and eight agricultural and forestry operations. Southwest of Hörbich is the Eiglersdorf district ( 570 m above sea level ), which in 2001 consisted of just nine buildings with three agricultural and forestry operations. Southeast of Hörbich is the hamlet of Eiglersdorf ( 570 m above sea level ), to which the single farm hub is also included. In 2001, Eiglersdorf had nine buildings and three agricultural and forestry operations. West of Hörbich is the Streinesberg district ( 651 m above sea level ), another hamlet to which the hamlet of Passesreith also belongs. The districts of Eilmannsberg and Wulln are also located in the north-west of the municipality. The hamlet of Eilmannsberg ( 578 m above sea level ) had five buildings and four agricultural and forestry operations in 2001, the hamlet of Wulln ( 660 m above sea level ) had eight buildings and five agricultural and forestry operations. In the south of the municipality is the district of Tannberg, the only scattered settlement in the municipality. The hamlet of Kleinasang also belongs to Tannberg ( 460 m above sea level). In 2001 the district had a total of 15 buildings and 10 agricultural and forestry operations.

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

Ausserhötzendorf (6)
Eiglersdorf (15)
Eilmannsberg (12)
Hörbich (102)
Krondorf (101)
Streinesberg (26)
Tannberg (47)
Unterreith (58)
Wulln (31)

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council as the highest body of the municipality has 13 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections.

The strongest faction in Hörbich's municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which was the only party in the municipality to stand between 1973 and 1991 and thus provided all municipal councils. It was not until the municipal council elections in 1997 that the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) joined the ÖVP , with the FPÖ winning 18.3 percent and the SPÖ 7.6 percent, while the ÖVP Scored 74.1 percent. As a result, the FPÖ no longer competed in the local council elections in 2003, while the ÖVP won 84.2 percent and the SPÖ 15.8 percent. The 2015 municipal council election brought the following results:

ÖVP: 10 mandates
HBL: 3 mandates

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . In the 2015 election, Johann Ecker (ÖVP) was elected mayor with 87.9% of the votes.

Other options

As in municipal council elections, the ÖVP also dominates regional elections in the municipality, although the dominance of the People's Party has decreased somewhat. Nevertheless, since 1973 the ÖVP has always been able to become the party with the strongest vote and achieve a two-thirds majority. The ÖVP achieved its best result in this period in 1979 with 89.5 percent, since then it has gradually lost votes. The second strongest party in state elections was predominantly the SPÖ, which achieved election results between 4.1 and 16.8 percent. The SPÖ had its best result in 2003, its worst in 1997. However, the FPÖ was also able to become the second strongest party three times, which fluctuated between 0.4 percent and 17.6 percent between 1973 and 2009. The FPÖ recorded its best result in the 1997 election year. In the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came first with 72.0 percent and its worst result so far. The SPÖ only got 7.9 percent and thus had to give up around half of its share of the vote. Therefore, the FPÖ was able to advance to second place with 15.1 percent, the Greens only got 2.2 percent.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality of Hörbich on X. XX 1996 by the Upper Austrian provincial government. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In gold on a green shield base between two green hills, a green, trunkless, triangular fir tree reaching to the edge of the shield, accompanied by two black moons turned away. The coat of arms represents a combination of the coat of arms of the gender of the "Tannberger" and the gender of the "Herleinsperger", whereby both sexes were settled in the district of Tannberg. The community colors are green-yellow-black.

history

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 .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

population

Population structure

In 2013, 415 people lived in the municipality of Hörbich, making Hörbich the second smallest municipality in the district. With 37 inhabitants / km², the municipality of Hörbich also had the fourth lowest population density of the municipalities in the district area. At the end of 2001, 99.3 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the value had increased to 98.8 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96, 9 percent) hardly changed. In 2013, only five foreigners were counted in the municipality, all of whom came from Europe. In 2001, 97.0 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent), 0.5 percent were Protestant and 1.8 percent were without confession.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was below the national average. 22.5 percent of the residents of Hörbich were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8 percent), 59.3 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 18.2 percent, below the national average of 20.2 percent. As a result, the average age of the population of Hörbich changed significantly in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 18.6 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 increased significantly to 66.7 percent. In contrast, the proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 14.7 percent. According to marital status, 51.6 percent of the residents of Hörbich were single, 41.4 percent married, 6.1 percent widowed and 0.9 percent divorced in 2001.

Population development

The municipality of Hörbich recorded a population decline of 24 percent since the late 19th century. Initially, the number of inhabitants fell almost successively by around 20 percent between 1869 and 1961. Thereafter, the number of inhabitants rose more sharply, initially in the 1960s, and then fell again almost gradually. Only in the 1990s was there a slight increase in population. The population development has been below average compared with the Rohrbach district, especially since the 1930s, compared with the province of Upper Austria, the population development is significantly below average. The population losses in the municipality result in particular from emigration. The balance of migration in the 1970s and 1980s was very negative, with more than 10 percent of the population emigrating in these decades. As a rule, this emigration could not be compensated for by the birth surplus; the birth surplus was only higher in the 1990s, although emigration had weakened significantly in this decade. Since 2001 emigration has increased again significantly and cannot be compensated for by the low birth surplus.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Hörbich landscape survey. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2007

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

^ State of Upper Austria municipal council elections in Hörbich

↑ ^a ^b Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 25, 2019 .

^ Province of Upper Austria state election results

↑ LGBl. No. 51/1996 19th piece “Kundmachung der Oö. State government of May 13, 1996 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Hörbich. "

↑ Municipality of Hörbich ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. coat of arms @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. Population levels in Upper Austria in comparison by citizenship @1@ 2

↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)

↑ ^a ^b Statistics Austria municipality data from Hörbich

↑ ^a ^b Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Resident population in Upper Austria compared by age group @1@ 2

Web links

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

41311 - Hörbich. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Further information about the municipality of Hörbich on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .