Hinzenbach

Hinzenbach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Eferding
License plate :	EF
Surface:	14.58 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 18 ′  N , 14 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 30 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  E
Height :	270  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,074 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	142 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4070
Area code :	07272
Community code :	4 05 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Chr.-Zeller-Weg 1 4070 Hinzenbach
Website:	www.hinzenbach.at
politics
Mayor :	Wolfgang Kreinecker ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	11 7th 7th 11 7th 7th  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 7 FPÖ : 7
Location of Hinzenbach in the Eferding district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hinzenbach is a municipality with 2074 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria in the Eferding district in the Hausruckviertel . The community is located in the judicial district of Eferding .

geography

Hinzenbach is located at an altitude of 270 m in the Hausruckviertel, approx. 20 km west of the state capital Linz . The extension is 5.4 km from north to south and 7 km from west to east. The total area is 14.5 km². 9.7% of the area is forested, 76.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure:

The municipality includes the following 15 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Gstocket (49) Gstöttenau (34) Hinzenbach (379) Lime Kilns (121) Limberg (145)

Oberrudling (93) Polsenz (60) Puchet (141) Seebach (313) Sperneck (77)

Stieglhöfen (72) Unterleiten (95) Unterrudling (28) Wackersbach (158) Wagrein (309)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hinzenbach, Oberrudling and Wackersbach.

Street names : Seebachweg, Anton-Glas-Straße, Chr.-Zeller-Weg, Im wilden Moos, Sommerweg, Karottenweg.

Neighboring municipalities:

Stroheim		Pupping
Prambachkirchen		Eferding
St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz	Nicks	Fraham

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.

politics

Wolfgang Kreinecker of the ÖVP has been mayor since April 2008.

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 1,649 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,980 inhabitants.

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

Humiliated shared ; above split of silver and red with an externally with black peaks besteckten disc in reversed colors , down in a silver green shaft bar .

The community colors are green-white-red .

The divided and half-split shield is the coat of arms of the Lichtenwinkler , vassals of the lords or counts of Schaunberg , hence the colors white-red above; Leutold I. von Lichtenwinkel built the Lichtenwinkel fortress on the eastern slope of the Kürnberg in the second half of the 12th century. The iron-tipped (wooden) ball of a Morgenstern chain refers to the Upper Austrian Peasants' War in 1626 and is particularly reminiscent of the burial place of Stefan Fadinger and his brother-in-law Christoph Zeller in the Seebacher Moos . The wavy band indicates the -bach place name after the Hinzenbach (Sandbach), which belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Aschach arm and is called "Aubach" in the upper reaches.

Attractions

Stefan Fadinger tomb in the Seebacher Moos

• Stefan Fadinger tomb in the Seebacher Moos :

The peasant leaders Stefan Fadinger and Christoph Zeller , who were fatally wounded during the siege of Linz in 1626 , were first buried in the Eferdinger cemetery. In 1627 the Bavarian governor Adam Graf Herberstorff ordered the bodies to be exhumed and buried in an inhospitable place in the moss next to the village of Seebach.

See also:  List of listed objects in Hinzenbach

Sports

Ski jumping hill: Women's World Cup jumping 2014

There have been ski jumps, the Aigner Schanzen, in Hinzenbach since the 1930s . In 2006 the construction of a normal hill began, which was completed in autumn 2010. The ski jump, which is now officially called Energie AG Skisprung Arena , was opened with the Austrian championships in ski jumping and Nordic combined . On October 1, 2011, September 27, 2015 and October 1, 2016, the penultimate and last competitions of the Summer Grand Prix 2011 , 2015 and 2016 took place here. The women's ski jumping World Cup has also been taking place in Hinzenbach since 2012 .

economy

• Efko : The vegetable processing company Efko (Eferdinger Konserven), which has its headquarters in the municipality of Hinzenbach, is of supraregional importance. The group of companies with a total of 532 employees processes around 100,000 tons of fruit and vegetables annually at its production sites in Austria, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and generates a turnover of 115 million euros (in the 2010 financial year).

Personalities

• Ferdinand Umenberger (1901–1992), member of the National Council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ orf.at: Hinzenbach has the new mayor Retrieved on February 14, 2012.

Web links

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

• Community website
• Entry on Hinzenbach in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 40507 - Hinzenbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the community of Hinzenbach can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .