Haslach an der Mühl

market community Haslach an der Mühl
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Surface:	12.41 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 35 '  N , 14 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '43 "  N , 14 ° 2' 7"  E
Height :	530  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,564 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	207 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4170
Area code :	0 72 89
Community code :	4 13 09
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 45 4170 Haslach an der Mühl
Website:	www.haslach.at
politics
Mayor :	Dominik Reisinger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	14th 9 2 14th 9 2  A total of 25 seats SPÖ : 14 ÖVP : 9 FPÖ : 2
Location of Haslach an der Mühl in the Rohrbach district
Marketplace
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Haslach an der Mühl is a market town in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the Upper Mühlviertel with 2564 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The responsible judicial district is Rohrbach in Upper Austria .

geography

Haslach an der Mühl lies at an altitude of 531  m above sea level. A. in the north of the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel . The market is located at the confluence of the Große Mühl and the Steinernen Mühl on the southern edge of the Bohemian Forest . In terms of the nature conservation spatial structure , the southern part of the municipality belongs to the Central Mühlviertler Hochland spatial unit , while the northern part belongs to the southern Bohemian Forest foothills . The extension is 5.4 km from north to south, 3.9 km from west to east, the total area is 12.41 km². Haslach is in the lower third of the municipalities in the district. In 2001 33.1 percent of the community area was forested, 57.3 percent of the area was used for agriculture. Haslach is therefore a little less heavily forested than the regional average in Upper Austria (36.9 percent) or there is more agricultural land (Upper Austria: 49.3 percent). The proportion of other uses (construction areas, gardens, bodies of water and others) is 9.6 percent, below the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. Neighboring communities are Lichtenau im Mühlkreis in the north, St. Stefan-Afiesl in the east, St. Peter am Wimberg in the southeast, Auberg in the south and Rohrbach-Berg in the west.

geology

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian mass . This goes back to a very old mountain range, which was created by the Variscan mountain range in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ), with the formation of granites and gneisses . After a phase of severe erosion of the former high mountains, during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary the Bohemian mass rose by several 100 meters, causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods . The municipality is characterized by the valley basin at the confluence of the Große and Steinernen Mühl rivers, which in turn is surrounded by the Mühlviertel mountain landscape. In the north, Jaukenberg and Eckhartsberg with the dance floor (752 meters) represent the highest elevations, in the south there is a gentle hilly landscape with heights of around 600 meters. The subsoil of the municipality consists mainly of Weinsberger granite, an older, coarse-grained granite type, which is one of the first magma series to solidify during the folding of the mountains and has a typical coarse-grainedness. There are also occurrences of slate and pearl gneiss in the municipality.

Community structure

The municipality of Haslach an der Mühl is congruent with the cadastral municipality of Haslach. Five districts are distinguished within the municipality, with the market Haslach an der Mühl being the main town of the municipality. The market is located in the northern center of the municipality at the confluence of the Großer Mühl and Steinerner Mühl at an altitude of 501  m above sea level. A. and in 2001 housed 547 buildings, 104 workplaces, 45 agricultural and forestry businesses and almost two thirds of the community's population. The Grubberg Chapel also belongs to the Haslach market. The Rotte Jaukenberg lies at 570  m above sea level to the north of the market or to the west and northwest of the Eckartsberg . A. In 2001 the Rotte consisted of 85 buildings, three workplaces and 11 agricultural and forestry operations. West of the market lies at 520  m above sea level. A. the village of Felberau, which also includes the Bründlberg chapel and the scattered settlement Felberau. In 2001 Felberau consisted of 99 buildings and housed three workplaces as well as 19 agricultural and forestry businesses. The village of Hartmannsdorf is located south of the market at 551  m above sea level. A. , to which the Rotte Holzhäusln in the east of the municipality also belongs. In 2001 the district consisted of 45 buildings with one workplace and 23 agricultural and forestry businesses.

The scattered settlement Neudorf is located in the south of the municipality at 640  m above sea level. A. (with Burgstall Haglau from the 16th century), which in 2001 consisted of 43 buildings with two workplaces and 29 agricultural and forestry businesses. In addition to the actual Neudorf, the district consists of the Rotte train station around the Haslach train station of the Mühlkreisbahn on the western boundary of the municipality, the scattered settlement of Laah northwest of Neudorf and the desert Feldl between Neudorf and Laah. Statistics Austria also divides the market community into three counting districts, whereby the market is divided into the counting districts Haslach-Altmarkt and Haslach-Neumarkt and the other districts are combined to form Haslach-Umgebung.

The population figures as of January 1st, 2020 are:

• Felberau (296)
• Hartmannsdorf (133)
• Haslach an der Mühl (1733)
• Jaukenberg (261)
• Neudorf (141)

history

The discovery of 3 stone axes from around 2000 BC BC in the municipal area of ​​Haslach indicates that hunters and gatherers have stayed here.

When Emperor Heinrich II donated the area between Ilz and Rodl in 1016 to the Niedernburg convent near Passau, the reclamation of the Upper Mühlviertel began. In a treaty in 1231, the fiefs south of the Steinerne Mühl were ceded to the Bishop of Passau by Witiko von Prčice and Blankenberg , who is considered the founder of the Witigon family branch of the Lords of Rosenberg . Since a regional court is listed in the deed , the place should have been founded earlier. In 1341 the Rosenbergs bought the Haslach market. In 1427 and 1469 the market was destroyed by the Hussites . Wok II von Rosenberg had the fortifications renewed in 1483–1487, making the market one of the four border fortifications against Bohemia.

→ Haslach Castle

In 1599, Peter Wok von Rosenberg sold Haslach to the Passau Bishop Leopold, Archduke of Austria , whereby it fell to the diocese of Passau . From this it acquired the Schlägl monastery in 1663 , which also took over the feudal rule. In 1819 the Vonwiller & Comp. Founded as a trading company with hundreds of wage weavers and home workers. In 1826 there was the biggest fire in the history of Haslach, 124 of 144 houses in the market fell victim to the flames. In 1888 Haslach received a train station, and in 1901 electrical market lighting by the Rechberger brothers' power station .

population

Population structure

In 2013, 2,516 people lived in the municipality of Haslach an der Mühl, making the municipality the fourth largest of the 42 municipalities in the district. With 203 inhabitants per km², Haslach was also, after the district capital, the municipality with the second highest population density in the district. At the end of 2001 97.7 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the figure had fallen slightly to 96.9 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96, 9 percent). A total of 78 foreigners were counted in the municipality in 2013, more than 89 percent of whom came from Europe. A total of 156 community residents were born abroad. In 2001, 93.5 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent), 3 percent were without confession, 1.1 percent were Protestant and 1 percent were of Islamic faith.

At the end of 2017, 14.8 percent of Haslach's residents were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 15.1 percent) and 55.9 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 53 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 29.2 percent (Upper Austria: 24.3 percent).

According to marital status, in 2001 44.6 percent of Haslach's residents were single, 43.9 percent married, 9 percent widowed and 2.7 percent divorced.

Population development

The population development in the area of ​​the municipality of Haslach between 1869 and 2013 was slightly above average compared to the population development of the Rohrbach district, with the population of Haslach increasing by 10 percent during this time. Starting from 2,278 inhabitants in 1869, the number of inhabitants fell from census to census until 1923 to the previous low of 1,912 inhabitants. Thereafter, the number of inhabitants rose continuously to the previous high of 2,649 inhabitants until 1981. Since 1981 the population has fallen by a total of six percent with slight fluctuations. The negative birth balance is characteristic of the population development in the municipality. While there is a birth surplus in most of the Rohrbach district, the community already had a birth deficit in the 1970s, which increased in the following decades. At the same time, however, the community benefited from immigration, which was particularly high in the 1990s. This development is influenced, among other things, by the fact that Haslach is the location of the Haslach District Elderly and Nursing Home.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council as the highest body of the municipality has 25 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The community board consists of seven members.

The strongest parliamentary group in Haslach's municipal council until the end of the 1990s was the ÖVP, which up to and including 1997 held the absolute majority of the mandate and predominantly also the absolute majority of votes. In 1961 the ÖVP achieved its best result to date with 59.2 percent. The SPÖ is traditionally strong in Haslach, it reached 34.9 to 45.1 percent between 1945 and 1997. In 2003, the SPÖ achieved an absolute majority of votes and mandates for the first time with 56.5 percent and took first place, which it was able to hold in 2009. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has only been represented in the municipal council since 1973, with the predecessor organization VDU having two seats on the municipal council from 1949 to 1955. The FPÖ reached 3.5 to 7.5 percent since 1973, although the FPÖ was temporarily no longer represented in the local council in 2003. In the municipal council elections in 2009, the ÖVP won 39.4 or 10 seats, the SPÖ won 54.6 percent or 14 seats. In addition, the FPÖ had a mandate with 6 percent.

The 2015 municipal council election brought the following results:

• SPÖ: 14 seats
• ÖVP: 9 mandates
• FPÖ: 2 mandates

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . The first direct election was won by Norbert Leitner (SPÖ) with 53.5 percent in the first ballot, against the candidate from the ÖVP, which this year still had the absolute majority of seats. Leitner was subsequently confirmed in office in 2003 with 74.0 percent. He handed over the office to Dominik Reisinger (SPÖ) in 2008 , who was confirmed in the direct mayor election in 2009 with 70.3 percent and in 2015 with 72.7 percent of the votes.

Mayor since 1850:

Term of office	Surname	Term of office	Surname
1850-1858	Franz Stifter	1935-1938	Max Wiplinger
1858-1861	Eduard Zankl	1938-1945	Norbert Zinöcker
1861-1866	Johann Franz	1945-1946	Max Wiplinger
1866-1867	Lorenz Lampsteiner	1946-1947	Emil Sündermann
1867-1870	Johann Mathie	1947-1949	Josef Ortner
1870-1873	Johann Franz	1949-1954	Max Wiplinger
1873-1876	Robert Salomon	1954-1955	Josef Ortner
1876-1894	Franz Xaver Mathie	1955-1961	Johann Königseder
1894-1897	Heinrich Zlabinger	1961-1972	Johann Schmidinger
1897-1903	Alois Höss	1972-1988	Franz Zierlinger
1903-1909	Karl Koblmüller	1978-1985	Friedrich Andexlinger
1909-1913	Leopold Wagner	1985-1997	Johann Gierlinger
1913-1919	Theodor Aumayr	1997-2008	Norbert Leitner
1919-1929	Ferdinand Mathie	since 2008	Dominik Reisinger
1929-1935	Johann Rechberger

Regional policy

Haslach operates a community-owned local public transport system and is therefore - as the only community - a direct member of the Upper Austrian Transport Association  (OÖVV).

coat of arms

The use of a market seal is known from an announcement text in a Seelgerätstiftung dated April 24, 1373, while the first evidence of the coat of arms is handed down to an early measurement foundation from November 28, 1472 through a badly damaged seal. The confirmation or new award of the coat of arms in use today took place on January 1st, 1615 by Emperor Matthias , after the Haslach judge as well as the council and citizens asked for confirmation of the coat of arms that has been in use for "over three hundred years". The community colors blue-yellow-red were set by the community committee on March 31, 1958 and confirmed by the Upper Austrian provincial government on May 6, 1958. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In blue on a green shield base a silver, rectangular and tinned, continuous wall; in the middle a black, open arched gate with a golden, half-raised protective gate, wooden (brown) battlement and red gable roof with two golden knobs. Between the silver, black-open towers with stone battlements, red pointed roofs and golden knobs, rising up on both sides of the gate structure, a silver plate with a red five-leaf letter M appears, accompanied by fourteen golden stars and overlaid with a golden, gold-crowned uncial letter M heraldic rose. The coat of arms shows the fortification of the market with towers and a defensive wall as a border guard to the north, which has been known in documents since the middle of the 14th century. The Witigonen rose refers to the Lords of Rosenberg, who owned the "Markcht ze Haslach" from 1341 to 1599 as a fief of the Passau bishops. The crowned M symbolizes the reassignment of the coat of arms by Emperor Matthias.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Haslach an der Mühl

Lower gate tower, in use as a local museum since 1927

Haslach's old fortification wall

Parish church

Museums

Despite the manageable size of the town, Haslach has many museums that are well worth seeing :

• Local history museum in the defense tower
• Merchant Museum
• School museum
• Haslach textile center with weaving museum and sewing machine museum
• Museum of Mechanical Sound Factory

Buildings

• Plague column in the cobblestone street
• Parish church of St. Nikolaus with a free-standing former defense tower and war memorial with Pietà by Adolf Wagner von der Mühl .

Regular events

• Kranzlingfest Haslach: one of the largest tent festivals in the Rohrbach district, which takes place every year at Whitsun at the Kranzling leisure area in Haslach.
• Weber market: Weber market known far beyond the regional borders, organized annually by the voluntary association "Textile Kultur Haslach". In the old district of Auf der Stelzen , textile workers from all over Europe present high-quality products and individual creations.
• Textile Kultur Haslach: The big summer symposium "Textile Kultur Haslach" takes place every year. During the 14-day event there will be courses on all aspects of hand-loom weaving, but a variety of other textile techniques will also be taught by recognized course leaders from several countries. Numerous workshops, experimental workshops, exhibitions and a supporting program with specialist lectures, theater and dance performances, readings and music events round off the symposium. These are open to both the specialist public and laypeople.

The association was founded in 1991 and has set itself the task of promoting textile art and culture in its broad spectrum. The aim is to create a connection between tradition and modernity, art and technology, craft and industry, research and teaching, experiment and practice.

Haslach offers a historical foundation stone. The place on the Mühl in the upper Mühlviertel and its surroundings were an important center for the linen industry for several centuries and some of them are still today. The team at Textile Kultur Haslach wants to tie in with this tradition in a contemporary way.

Culinary specialties

For linseed oil potatoes, a regional specialty known in and around Haslach, linseed oil is pressed in the "steel mill". This lies at the confluence of the rivers Große Mühl and Steinerne Mühl .

Personalities

• Helmut Andexlinger (* 1973), engraver and coin designer
• Michael Doneus (* 1967), prehistoric
• Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (* 1971), journalist
• Andreas Mitterlehner (1960–2019), bank manager and CEO of HYPO Upper Austria
• Nikolaus Wiplinger (1937–2018), concert pianist, professor at the Bruckner Conservatory
• Peter Paul Wiplinger (* 1939), writer and artistic photographer

Web links

Commons : Haslach an der Mühl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Parish and community Haslach an der Mühl. In: Breitwieser.cc. Franz Breitwieser, archived from the original on October 22, 2002 (background information on the history). 
• 41309 - Haslach an der Mühl. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• More information about the municipality of Haslach an der Mühl on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Topothek Haslach with many historical pictures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Haslach an der Mühl landscape survey . Final report. In: Natural area mapping Upper Austria . Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Nature Conservation Department, Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006 ( Online [PDF; 1.7 MB ; accessed on February 5, 2018]).
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2005 p. 258
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ ^{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 
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics Austria municipality data from Haslach
7. ↑ Population level - key figures according to regional selection: Haslach an der Mühl <41309> and Upper Austria. (PDF; 788 KB) In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. 2018, accessed September 25, 2019 . 
8. ^ Province of Upper Austria ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Municipal council elections in Haslach from 1945
9. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 25, 2019 . 
10. ^ Province of Upper Austria election results in mayoral elections
11. ↑ State of Upper Austria Mayor of Haslach an der Mühl since 1850
12. ↑ Haslach an der Mühl - coat of arms of the community. In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. Retrieved January 20, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Mechanical sound factory - start. In: mechanicalklangfabrik.at. Museum Mechanische Klangfabrik, accessed October 30, 2017 .