Gaflenz
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market community Gaflenz
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Upper Austria | |
| Political District : | Steyr-Land | |
| License plate : | SE | |
| Surface: | 58.98 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 54 ' N , 14 ° 44' E | |
| Height : | 478 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 1,931 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 33 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postcodes : | 3334 (upper part) 3335 (lower part) |
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| Area code : | 07353 | |
| Community code : | 4 15 05 | |
| NUTS region | AT314 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Markt 46 3334 Gaflenz |
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| Mayor : | Günther Kellnreitner ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members) |
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| Location of Gaflenz in the Steyr-Land district | ||
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 Gaflenz seen from the Heiligenstein |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Gaflenz is a market town in Upper Austria in the Steyr-Land district with 1931 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community was originally part of the Weyer judicial district , since January 1, 2014, the community has belonged to the Steyr judicial district .
geography
Gaflenz is located in the Upper Austrian Traunviertel around 28 kilometers southeast of Steyr and around 28 kilometers southwest of Amstetten directly on the state border with Lower Austria and belongs to the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen region .
The extension of the market town is 10.3 kilometers from north to south and 9.5 kilometers from west to east. The municipal area is 58.79 km², of which 60.2% of the area is forested, 35.7% is used for agriculture. The northernmost point is the Elmkogel in the Großgschnaidt district at 898 m above sea level. A. The southernmost point is on the Holzerkogel in the Breitenau district at 962 m above sea level. A. The easternmost point of Gaflenz is at the Amstettner hut and the westernmost point on Feichteck in the cadastral community of Neudorf at 1114 m above sea level. A. While the center at an altitude of 478 m above sea level. A. is the Gaflenzer Kaibling in the district of Breitenau at 1167 m above sea level. A. the highest point.
Community structure
The municipal area comprises the following eight localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Breitenau (57)
- Gaflenz (738)
- Grossgschnaidt (97)
- Kleingschnaidt (87)
- Lindau (130)
- Neudorf (361)
- Oberland (195)
- Pettendorf (266)
The community consists of the cadastral communities Gaflenz, Kleingschnaidt , Neudorf and Pettendorf .
Neighboring communities
| Maria Neustift | Waidhofen an der Ybbs | Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
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Opponitz |
| Weyer | Weyer | Hollenstein on the Ybbs |
history
The market goes back to the former Abelenzi estate , originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria ( Marcha orientalis ), and has 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. At the time of the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529, Ottoman troops penetrated as far as Gaflenz, where they were repulsed at the Türkenschanze in Oberland. Remnants of this defensive system, consisting of ramparts and ditches, are still there today.
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.
Between 1924 and 1938 Georg Grüll prepared a family index based on the church records for the period 1620–1920, which is intended as the basis for a local family book , which is still pending printing. The manuscript available as a copy in the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives in Linz and in Leipzig in the German Central Office for Genealogy comprises 15,000 pages with 7,500 families.
coat of arms
Blazon : divided in Göppelschnitt; above right in blue a golden crescent moon, accompanied by a golden, six-pointed star, above left three times split by silver and red; below in gold on a black three-mountain a silver church in side view with black roofs, doors and windows, the vestibule with a pent roof, the nave with a tent roof, the two-storey tower with a crossed onion dome = the holy stone The community colors are blue-yellow-red .
politics
mayor
Günther Kellnreitner of the ÖVP has been mayor of the market town of Gaflenz since 1985. This means that he is the mayor of Gaflenz who has been in office for the longest time. Since 1997, not only the local council has been elected in Upper Austria, but also the mayor is determined in a direct election. Günther Kellnreitner won 69.6% of the votes in 1997, 66.2% in 2003 and 73.7% in 2009.
- Mayor chronicle
After a provisional municipal patent was put into effect on March 17, 1849 , the first municipal council election took place on July 29, 1850. Pastor Constantin Zwirtmayr was elected as the first mayor of Gaflenz.
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| Duration of function | Surname | Political party | annotation |
| 1897-1919 | Andreas Auer | ||
| 1919-1923 | Franz Weissensteiner | ||
| 1923-1937 | Josef Auer | ||
| 1937-1938 | Sebald Katzensteiner | ||
| 1938-1945 | Josef Schwaiger | ||
| 1945-1949 | Sebald Katzensteiner | for the American zone | |
| Peter Maderthaner | for the Soviet zone | ||
| 1949-1951 | Sebald Katzensteiner | ||
| 1951-1961 | Andrea's head | ||
| 1961-1967 | Johann Maderthaner | ||
| 1967-1973 | Karl Riegler | ||
| 1973–1985 | Walter Neufeld | ||
| 1985– | Günther Kellnreitner | ÖVP | |
Local council distribution
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: 13 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
Parish data
According to the building and apartment census of May 15, 2001, Gaflenz had 502 buildings, of which 449 were residential buildings.
Population development
Culture and sights
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- At the summit of the steeply sloping Heiligenstein ( 782 m above sea level ) is the Gothic style church of St. Sebald am Heiligenstein. The church was built as a chapel in 1413. After the canonization of Sebaldus , there was an upswing in pilgrimage to the Heiligenstein. Around 1470 the chapel was expanded into a church and expanded in the 16th century. In 1657 the pilgrimage route from Gaflenz to the Sebalduskirche was renovated and expanded. In 1701 the Calvary of Gaflenz on the Heiligenstein was built with five chapels and two years later the sacristan's house was built. In 1733 the church tower was erected in its present form. Today's pulpit was erected in 1751 and two altars were erected in 1754 , before today's high altar was erected in 1776/77. In 1813 the bell weighing 600 kilograms was purchased. In 1832 the church received the old Weyer organ , which was renovated by Pastor Zwirtmayr until 1843. In 1945 the church and sacristan's house were devastated by Russian guards stationed there. In 1949 the consecration ceremony for the new, 250-kilogram bell took place, but one year later the large bell that had been carried off and sunk in the Hamburg harbor was returned.
- The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church is the only church in Austria consecrated to St. Sebaldus of Nuremberg . The Sebalduskirche is the landmark of the market town of Gaflenz and also adorns its coat of arms.
- The parish church, built in the early Gothic style, was consecrated in 1140. The survey document dated October 24, 1140 for the parish of Gaflenz is also the first documentary mention of Gaflenz. In 1464 the parish church was expanded. In 1948/49 Gothic frescoes depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary were uncovered. In 1988/89 the church underwent extensive restoration and expansion.
Sports
- The sporting figurehead of the market town of Gaflenz is the SV Harreither Gaflenz . The football club , founded in 1969, has been taking part in the championship of the Lower Austrian Football Association since 1981 after the conditions for admission to the Upper Austrian Football Association could not be met . In 2009, the club achieved its greatest sporting success to date by winning the Lower Austrian Football Cup and winning the championship title in the 1st Lower Austrian Regional League . SV Gaflenz has played in the Regionalliga Ost , the third highest Austrian level, since the 2009/10 season , but has meanwhile been relegated to the Lower Austrian Regional League .
- In addition, the club, which is also characterized by its youth work, regularly organizes international tournaments that have already brought more than 1200 foreign football teams from all continents to Gaflenz.
- In 2008 SV Gaflenz was awarded second place by Governor Josef Pühringer for its activities in the state competition “Best Association Work in Upper Austria” among 1,700 participating clubs .
- In addition to football, SV Gaflenz runs a winter sports group which, in addition to winter sports activities, has also organized the Gaflenz market run in summer since 2005.
- Archery Gaflenz-Weyer
- Gschnaidt ice rifle club
- Model flying club MFI Neudorf
- Gaflenz rider group
traffic
Street
Gaflenz is crossed by Weyerer Straße (B121), which leads from Amstetten, where it branches off the Westautobahn (A1) and Wiener Straße (B1), to Weyer , where it connects to Eisenstraße (B115). A state road branches off from this about a kilometer south of the center of Gaflenz, which leads via the cadastral community of Kleingschnaidt into the Moosgraben.
Gaflenz is served by two public post bus routes (440 and 1648) of the Austrian Federal Railways , which have several stops in the local area.
train
In the area of the market town of Gaflenz there is a train station (Oberland) and a stop (Gaflenz) on the Amstetten – Kastenreith wing of the Rudolfsbahn . The Rudolfsbahn was opened on November 1st, 1872 as a single-track line. Gaflenz was thus connected to the railway network of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , which gave the place a great boost. In the period after the Second World War, the "border controls" were carried out in Gaflenz train station, as this was the demarcation line between the Russian and American zones. The line was electrified in 1967 and 1968. On December 13, 1968, electrical operation was officially commenced and the previously existing operation with steam locomotives was replaced. In November 1971, the last scheduled train with steam locomotives ran on the route . At the same time, the former Gaflenz train station was converted into a stopping and loading point. In 1972, Gaflenz was converted back into a train station with a managing director.
Gaflenz almost became the starting point of the narrow-gauge Ybbstalbahn to Kienberg-Gaming , which should have led via the Breitenau district to Hollenstein an der Ybbs . A boiler house and staff apartments were built for this purpose. After the communities of the Ybbstal prevailed against Gaflenz, Waidhofen an der Ybbs was chosen as the starting point.
Personalities
- Georg Grüll (1900–1975), Austrian historian
Web links
- Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
- Further information about the municipality of Gaflenz can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
- Website of the community of Gaflenz
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Kopf in 850 Years Gaflenz 1140–1990 , published by the market town of Gaflenz 1990; P. 17
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Volkmar Weiss and Katja Münchow: Local family books with location in Leipzig in the German library and German central office for genealogy. 2nd Edition. Neustadt / Aisch: Degener 1998, p. 302; ISBN 3-7686-2099-9
- ^ Province of Upper Austria, coat of arms of the community of Gaflenz. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
- ↑ 850 Years of Gaflenz 1140–1990 , published by the market town of Gaflenz 1990; Pp. 81-82
- ↑ Statistics Austria: census of buildings and apartments in the municipality of Gaflenz from May 15, 2001 (accessed on June 23, 2009; PDF; 19 kB)
- ↑ 850 Years of Gaflenz 1140–1990 , published by the market town of Gaflenz 1990; Pp. 127-129
- ↑ 850 Years of Gaflenz 1140–1990 , published by the market town of Gaflenz 1990; Pp. 106-110
- ↑ Official announcements of the market town of Gaflenz, June 2008 edition: Upper Austrian State Prize - SV Harreither Gaflenz sensational runner-up (PDF file, 1.61 MB; accessed on June 26, 2009)
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