Hagenberg in the Mühlkreis

market community Hagenberg in the Mühlkreis
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Free City
License plate :	FR
Surface:	15.05 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 22 '  N , 14 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '50 "  N , 14 ° 31' 10"  E
Height :	444  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,764 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4232
Area code :	07236
Community code :	4 06 04
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchenplatz 5 4232 Hagenberg im Mühlkreis
Website:	www.hagenberg.at
politics
mayor	David Bergsmann ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	13 5 4th 3 13 5 4th 3  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 13 GREEN : 5 SPÖ : 4 FPÖ : 3
Location of Hagenberg in the Mühlkreis in the Freistadt district
Place view
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hagenberg im Mühlkreis (until November 1, 1951 only Hagenberg ) is a market town in Upper Austria in the Freistadt district in the Mühlviertel with 2764 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Freistadt .

geography

Hagenberg im Mühlkreis is 444 m above sea level in the Mühlviertel. The extension is 4.5 km from north to south and 6 km from west to east. The total area is 15.1 km². 30.5% of the area is forested and 61.6% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following eight localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Anitzberg (332) including Straßhäuser
• Hagenberg im Mühlkreis (1683) including Stöcklgraben, Teichweg and Zainze
• Mahrersdorf (103)
• Niederaich (49)
• Oberaich (185)
• Penzendorf (23)
• Schmidsberg (54) including Miniberg
• Compressor (335)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hagenberg and Schmidsberg.

Neighboring communities

Neumarkt in the Mühlkreis
Unterweitersdorf
	Wartberg whether the Aist	Pregarten

history

Hagenberg Castle was first mentioned in 1139. Since 1490 the place has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . In the following centuries, this castle was continuously expanded by a large number of owners until a large Renaissance palace complex was built in the 16th and 17th centuries . This burned down in 1728 as a result of a lightning strike. After the reconstruction in the 18th century, the castle changed hands several times.

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. Even before Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, there were propaganda campaigns by members of the banned NSDAP in the Pregartner area . On June 24, 1934, a "swastika fire" was lit in Hagenberg, which led to a forest fire in which 2000 cubic meters of firewood and a larger part of the estate administration's young forest were destroyed. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau and became part of the neighboring community of Pregarten . As the first mayor of the National Socialists, Karl Radler took over the office of Johann Stöger on March 12, 1938. After 1945 Hagenberg was in the Soviet zone of occupation and after 1955 the infrastructure was expanded and rebuilt.

Since the beginning of the last century, the structure of the palace gradually began to deteriorate until the complex finally became uninhabitable in the 1960s. In the 1980s, the facility was rebuilt, revitalized and then used as a training facility through an initiative of the municipality and the castle association with financial support from the state of Upper Austria . In 1988 the Riepl / Moser team of architects and their work were awarded the Upper Austrian State Architecture Prize. With the establishment of the Hagenberg software park , a technology center for computer-related topics, above the castle near the old Meierhof in 1989, the place has experienced an enormous boom since the 2000s and is already known as the “ Silicon Valley of Austria”.

On January 28, 1991, Hagenberg in the Mühlkreis was named a market town.

population

Population development
year	Residents		year	Residents
1869	1,049		1951	1,148
1880	1,038		1961	1,183
1890	1,122		1971	1,583
1900	1,162		1981	1,764
1910	1,080		1991	2.137
1923	994		2001	2,513
1934	988		2008	2,575
1939	1.009		2017	2,716

Population development and structure

In 1869 there were 1,049 people living in the municipality. The population grew steadily until 1961, and since 1961 there has been a rapid population increase due to immigration. In 1991 the community had 2,137 inhabitants, in the 2001 census it had 2513 inhabitants , which corresponds to an increase of 17.6%. On January 1st, 2008 the community had 2575 inhabitants, the highest level in history.

In the 2001 census, the proportion of residents who were 60 years of age or older was 15.9%; 20.7% were under 15 years old. The proportion of the female population was 50.8%.

Of the 1994 residents of Hagenberg, who were over 15 years old in 2001, 7.3% had graduated from a university , technical college or academy . Another 11.0% had completed a high school diploma, 46.2% had completed an apprenticeship or a vocational middle school and 35.6% of all Hagenbergers had compulsory school as the highest degree.

Origin and language

The German dialect, which is generally spoken in the Hagenberg area and in Upper Austria, is Middle Bavarian . In 2001, 98.1% of the Hagenbergers gave German as a colloquial language. Another 1.8% spoke other languages.

The proportion of Hagenbergers with foreign citizenship was 1.8% in 2001, well below the average in Upper Austria. 0.4% of the Hagenberg population had citizenship from Germany and 1.4% were other citizens. In 2001, around 3.7% of the Hagenbergers were born in a country other than Austria.

politics

Community representation

The municipal council and mayoral elections take place every six years, at the same time as the state elections. From 1945 to 1997 the ÖVP always achieved an absolute majority and was unable to recapture it in 2003 or 2009. Until 2015, the SPÖ was always the second strongest party, but in 2015 they lost this place. In 2003, the Greens ousted the FPÖ as the third strongest party and even managed to achieve second place in 2015.

Municipal council and mayoral election 2015

The 2015 municipal council election with a turnout of 87.37% gave the following result:

Party / political grouping	voting share	Verän- alteration	Seats on the local council	Verän- alteration
ÖVP	51.96%	+ 10.38%	13	+2
GREEN	18.68%	+ 3.72%	5	+2
SPÖ	17.32%	−18.46%	4th	−5
FPÖ	12.04%	+ 4.36%	3	+1

The ÖVP Hagenberg was able to achieve an absolute majority in this election. In the mayoral election, which took place at the same time as the municipal council election, the incumbent mayor Kathrin Kühtreiber-Leitner was able to achieve a clear success with 72.78%.

Municipal council and mayoral election 2009

The municipal council election in 2009 with a turnout of 86.55% produced the following result:

Party / political grouping	voting share	Verän- alteration	Seats on the local council	Verän- alteration
ÖVP	41.58%	−2.64%	11	± 0
SPÖ	35.78%	−0.74%	9	± 0
GREEN	14.96%	−0.17%	3	−1
FPÖ	7.68%	+ 3.55%	2	+1

In the mayoral election, which took place at the same time as the municipal council election, no candidate could achieve the required majority in the first ballot, which is why a run-off election took place on October 11, 2009, which Kathrin Kühtreiber from the ÖVP was able to win with 57.56%. She replaced Rudolf Fischerlehner after 30 years as mayor.

mayor

• until 2009: Rudolf Fischerlehner
• 2009–2019: Kathrin Kühtreiber-Leitner (ÖVP)
• since 2019: David Bergsmann (ÖVP)

In October 2019 David Bergsmann was elected to succeed Kathrin Kühtreiber-Leitner.

coat of arms

Blazon :
“In red on the middle crest of a green three-piece mountain , the outer crests of which are each lined with a silver one, the facade of a silver tower with two tall, rectangular, six-pane windows above a base and under a cornice; crowned with a silver eaves cornice, on top of it between two silver corner turrets with onion roofs a silver, laterally curved and upwardly curved gable wall with a black round window over two black round arched windows and a black wedge roof. “
The community colors are green-white-black .

The Dreiberg can be related to the place name. The tower is a former part of the castle that characterizes the townscape. The coat of arms was designed by Franz Kühtreiber.

The municipal coat of arms and the municipal colors were awarded on January 21, 1985.

Economy and Infrastructure

RISC in Hagenberg Castle

Local supply

For its size, Hagenberg has a relatively good local supply , the structure of which has, however, changed significantly over the past decades. While local businesses (inns, butchers, bakers, hairdressers, two general stores) provided local supplies until the late 1980s and early 1990s, the range of products on offer changed noticeably with the establishment of the first supermarket on the outskirts in the 1990s. Today, larger business settlements, mainly accessible by car, in the periphery of the neighboring communities of Pregarten and Unterweitersdorf represent great competition for local supply in the center of Hagenberg. To counter this development, the Neue Mitte business building was built on the area of ​​a former children's playground houses a pharmacy, a business premises of the Diakoniewerk , an information center of the software park, a second hairdressing studio, a general practitioner, a pulmonologist, a pizzeria and a masseuse. With a long continuity, there is a bank branch of Raiffeisenbank and Sparkasse each in town. In 2008 the post office was closed despite numerous protests and a resolution by the local council and the postal services and the services of the PSK-Bank were transferred to the Diakoniewerk as a “post partner”.

Research and training

The Softwarepark Hagenberg is a technology center and combines business, research and training with a focus on software. Since the founding of the software park in 1989 by Bruno Buchberger , over 1000 jobs and 1500 study places have been created in 50 companies, 10 research institutes and various training facilities under his leadership. The technology park offers a total of 17,700 m² of office space in the office buildings Meierhof, IT-Center, amsec, COUNT IT Group, Arbeit & Wohnen and Schloss Hagenberg , 8,600 m² of training space in the two university buildings and business space of around 1,100 m² in the New Center .

As one of the largest independent research centers in the field of software in Austria, the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) is located in the Meierhof office building.

Educational institutions

The RISC (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation) of the Johannes Kepler University Linz has been located in the revitalized castle in Hagenberg since 1989 . In 1992, the redesign of the Gutmeierhof began into an office building, in which, in addition to numerous small but also larger companies and university institutes (RISC-Linz, FAW, FLLL), the first courses of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences were finally settled in a completely newly constructed building on the Move into campus. In 2004 another large building of the FH-Hagenberg was handed over to its purpose to accommodate the growing number of students and to offer an optimal infrastructure. In October 2012, the FH3 building was opened, which, in addition to rooms for teaching, also houses a Research Center of the FH Upper Austria.

A primary school is available in the village . The educational offer in Hagenberg was expanded in the autumn of 2003 by a federal upper level secondary school (BORG) for communication. The BORG Hagenberg is a branch of the Bundes-Oberstufenrealgymnasium in Linz .

traffic

Public transport

Hagenberg has a connection to the route network of the Austrian Federal Railways ( Summerauer Bahn ) via the nearby Pregarten train station (approx. 20 minutes' walk from the center ). The place can be reached directly with the bus lines of the Postbus . In particular, the establishment and expansion of the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences have led to a noticeable improvement in public transport connections, from which the numerous commuters - especially those traveling to Linz - benefit. In addition to the regular operation of the Postbus, the timetable is supplemented by shift bus routes to the Linz industrial area.

The regional bus route 343 has been connecting Pregarten with Hagenberg and Gutau since September 13, 2010. Before that, from December 2004 to September 2010, the 3-market bus ran between the closely neighboring communities of Hagenberg, Pregarten and Wartberg . He opened up the most important settlement areas of these three communities on two routes. For the 3-market bus , the operating communities of Hagenberg, Pregarten and Wartberg were awarded the VCÖ mobility award for the state of Upper Austria in 2009.

On September 22nd, 2009 an express bus line went into operation, which connects the Johannes Kepler University in Linz with the Hagenberg software park with a journey time of 22 minutes . The departure and arrival times are coordinated with the trains at the Pregarten station and the tram traffic in Linz Auhof.

In January 2010, the Hagenberg municipal council, as well as the municipalities of Pregarten, Engerwitzdorf, Gallneukirchen and Unterweitersdorf, passed a resolution for the establishment of a light rail connection Linz - Gallneukirchen - Pregarten.

Street

The Königswiesener Straße B 124 borders on the municipality to the south of the town; the Hagenberger Landesstraße runs through the town and ends in the Mühlviertler Straße B 310 in the north . The junction to the Mühlviertel expressway S 10 in the neighboring municipality of Unterweitersdorf offers a transport connection to Linz .

Public institutions, healthcare and associations

There is a kindergarten and a public parish and community library in the village. In addition to a general practitioner, a dentist, a specialist in neurology, a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, a pulmonologist, a practicing psychologist, a pharmacy and regular mother counseling are available.

societies

• General Sports Club (ASV)
• Alpine Club Hagenberg
• ASKÖ Hagenberg
• Choir Association Hagenberg
• Parents Association Hagenberg iM
• FH Sports Club Hagenberg Campus
• Friends of the university of applied sciences courses in Hagenberg
• Dingdorf volunteer fire department
• Hagenberg volunteer fire department
• Goldhaubengruppe Hagenberg
• Hagenberger Kreis for the promotion of digital security
• Beekeeping Association Pregarten-Wartberg-Hagenberg
• Comradeship Association
• Catholic women's movement
• Catholic youth and youth
• Cultural group CART
• Habitat Hagenberg
• Musikverein Hagenberg
• Friends of nature Hagenberg
• Local Development Committee Hagenberg
• PC User Group Hagenberg (PUG)
• Pensioners' Association Hagenberg
• Castle Association Hagenberg
• Seniors' Association Hagenberg
• Savings association GH Hametner
• Savings association GH Lamplmair
• Savings association GH Tannerwirt
• Spiegel-dwarf meeting
• Student association IF Hagenberg
• Theater Association Schlosstheater Hagenberg

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hagenberg im Mühlkreis

Buildings

• Parish church Hagenberg : The current parish church was built in the 1980s.
• Castle and castle chapel : The castle was rebuilt in 1985, the chapel dates from 1610. The characteristic onion roof of the church tower belonging to the castle chapel underwent extensive renovation work in 2009 and was completely renewed for the first time in 110 years.
• Burgstall Alt-Hagenberg
• Venetian small water power plant "Kumpfmühle": Revitalized small power plant from 1921.

Natural monuments

• Castle park : Presumably laid out before 1826, with an exceptional tree population, park meadows and small ponds.

Regular events

In addition to the numerous events characterized by rural charm, such as the Hagenberger Mostkost, parties, balls and conferences are also regularly organized by the students of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and the employees of the software park . For example, the IF student association organizes an annual summer and winter festival, the FH dance sports association a spring ball and the Hagenberger Kreis the renowned Security Forum . The Austrian Hexapod Championship has been taking place at the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences since 2006 and attracts great media interest every year.

In addition, there are always interesting events for companies in the Hagenberg software park.

Personalities

• Franz Friedrich Altmann (* 1958), writer
• Bruno Buchberger (* 1942), mathematician
• Josef Buchner (* 1942), politician
• Karl Radler , local history researcher, politician
• Franz Tumler (1912–1998), writer

literature

• Historical bibliography in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Web links

Commons : Hagenberg im Mühlkreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Hagenberg im Mühlkreis
• Further information about the municipality of Hagenberg im Mühlkreis on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Community changes from 1945 (associations, divisions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 149, 173 , accessed on February 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Our story. In: feuerwehr-hagenberg.at. Retrieved November 24, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Population and components of population development (PDF; 35 kB) Statistics Austria
5. ↑ ^{a b c} 2001 census: Demographic data (PDF; 10 kB)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Local council elections Percentages: Local council elections Hagenberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 28, 2009)  
7. ^ Result of the municipal council election in Hagenberg 2015
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Politics: New mayors elected. In: ooe. ORF.at . October 21, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 . 
9. ^ Province of Upper Austria, regional history: coat of arms of the municipality of Hagenberg (accessed on October 29, 2008)
10. ↑ Negotiating paper on the municipal council meeting on December 14, 2004. (PDF; 65.9 KB) In: hagenberg.at. December 31 , 2014, archived from the original on December 31, 2015 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Public transport - three-market bus repositioned .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the market town of Hagenberg (accessed on November 8, 2010)  
12. ↑ VCÖ investigation: car is becoming less important for mobility .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. VCÖ (accessed on September 28, 2009)  
13. ↑ Hagenberger Gemeinde Nachrichten, issue 1/2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3 MB)