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The title of this article is ambiguous. For further meanings, see Tollet (disambiguation) .

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coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Grieskirchen
License plate :	GR
Surface:	9.55 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 15 '  N , 13 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '44 "  N , 13 ° 48' 2"  E
Height :	381  m above sea level A.
Residents :	921 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4710
Area code :	07248
Community code :	4 08 30
Address of the municipal administration:	Tollet 1 4710 Tollet
Website:	www.tollet.at
politics
Mayoress :	Gisela Maria Mayr ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	7th 2 2 2 7th 2 2 2  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 7 FPÖ : 2 GREEN : 2 SPÖ : 2
Location of Tollet in the Grieskirchen district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Tollet is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Grieskirchen district in the Hausruckviertel with 921 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Grieskirchen .

geography

Tollet is 381 m above sea level in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 4.8 km from north to south and 3.1 km from west to east. The total area is 9.6 km². 17.7% of the area is forested, 71.9% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 17 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Prince (0)
• Kroisbach (106)
• Lahof (102)
• Neuwies (81)
• Niederwödling (22)
• Oberwödling (93)
• Pollhammer Forest (6)
• Schappenedt (11)
• Schickenedt (3)
• Schröttenham (12)
• Spöck (1)
• Stadlberg (8)
• Stone (6)
• Steindlberg (50)
• Tollet (169)
• Unterstetten (122)
• Angles (129)

The community consists of the cadastral community Tollet.

Neighboring communities

Poetting	Michaelnbach
Taufkirchen		Pollham
	St. Georgen	Grieskirchen

history

Tollet was first mentioned in a document in 1170. Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. From 1490 it is assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

Tollet has had its own mayor since 1855. 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 . The Reich Labor Service Department RADA 6/342 was housed in Tollet Castle. After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

politics

Mayor is Gisela Maria Mayr from the ÖVP.

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 788 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 867 inhabitants. Since both the birth balance and the migration balance remained positive, the population grew to 906 people in 2011.

coat of arms

Blazon : Split at an angle; above in gold a black, red armored cock with a red comb and red chin flaps, below in red a golden wheel with six plow knives (six) as spokes. The community colors are red-yellow-red.

The rooster in the municipal coat of arms awarded in 1989 is taken from the coat of arms of Bishop Franz Zauner of Linz , who was born in Tollet. The wheel refers to the only wagon museum in Austria in Tollet. The plow knives come from the Jörger coat of arms , who owned Tollet Castle for several centuries. Hahn and Rad also illustrate the agricultural character of the community.

Culture and sights

Fountain and courtyard in the castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Tollet

• Tollet Castle : The first fortification dates back to 1170. From 1601 and 1611, Hans V. Jörger von Tollet had the palace rebuilt in the Renaissance style. a. with a courtyard ambience with interesting grating from 1607, which have 48 fields with 46 different motifs. From 2002 to 2009 renovation of the castle. Today the District Home Hall Association Grieskirchen , a non-profit cultural association, has its seat at Schloss Tollet and has been operating the Kulturama Schloss Tollet Museum with exhibitions and concerts in the castle since April 23, 2009 .
• Branch church Oberwödling

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz Zauner (1904–1994), Roman Catholic priest, professor of canon law, bishop of the Diocese of Linz from 1956 to 1980

societies

• Kulturama Schloss Tollet (district home town hall association Grieskirchen: at Schloss Tollet (see under Sights))
• Tollet youth club
• Union Tollet
• Oberwödling volunteer fire department
• Unterstetten volunteer fire department

Web links

Commons : Tollet  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Tollet in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Background information on the story
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the municipality of Tollet on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 . 
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Tollet, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 8th supplement (1988-1991) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 3, 1992, p. 300, online (PDF; 4 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at