Hohenzell (Upper Austria)

Hohenzell
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Ried im Innkreis
License plate :	RI
Surface:	22.52 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 12 '  N , 13 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '39 "  N , 13 ° 32' 40"  E
Height :	478  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,267 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4921
Area code :	07752
Community code :	4 12 09
Address of the municipal administration:	Hofmark 11 4921 Hohenzell, Germany
Website:	www.hohenzell.at
politics
Mayor :	Thomas Priewasser ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	12 7th 4th 2 12 7th 4th 2  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 12 FPÖ : 7 GREEN : 4 SPÖ : 2
Location of Hohenzell in the Ried im Innkreis district
Aerial view of Hohenzell
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hohenzell is a municipality with 2267 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria . It is located in the Ried im Innkreis district in the Innviertel . The community is located in the judicial district of Ried im Innkreis .

geography

Hohenzell lies at an altitude of 478 m in the Innviertel. The extension is 6.8 km from north to south and 5.7 km from west to east. The total area is 22.52 km², of which 10.2% is forested and 80.1% is used for agriculture.

Community structure

Hohenzell consists of seven cadastral communities : Emprechting 374.00 ha, Gonetsreith 425.84 ha, Hasenzagl 151.79 ha, Hohenzell 500.10 ha, Oberham 267.17 ha, Untermauer I 364.07 ha, Wimm 170.71 ha.

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

• Aching (69)
• Aschbrechting (27) including Thaling
• Breiningsham (53)
• Breitsach (50)
• Dürnberg (39)
• Emprechting (130)
• Engersdorf (100)
• Spruce (47)
• Gadering (90)
• Gonetsreith (428) including the Lias settlement
• Hilprechting (146) including the Knittler settlement
• Hohenzell (464)
• Kager (20)
• Langstadl (117) including Schönedt
• Leisen (30) with Aigen
• Mauler (37)
• Oberham (74) including the Oberham settlement
• Oberlemberg (49) including Reischau
• Upper wall (14)
• Plöck (72)
• Ponner (24)
• Roith (57)
• Wanger (37) with Haid and Spitz
• Willmerting (31)
• Woing (42)
• Wötzling (20)

Neighboring communities

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history

Since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen with the Innviertel (then "Innbaiern"). Bavarian again during the Napoleonic Wars , the place has belonged to Upper Austria since 1816 .

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

coat of arms

Blazon of the municipal coat of arms:

“Divided diagonally by red and silver with two heraldic roses in alternating colors; on the dividing line a sword silver at the top and black at the bottom. "

The community colors are green and white.

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1,870 inhabitants, in 2001 it had 1,999 inhabitants. The strong growth occurred because both the birth balance and the migration balance were positive. From 2001 to 2011 there was a slight emigration and the birth rate fell, so that the population only rose slightly to 2,044 people.

politics

The municipal council has 25 members.

• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2003, the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ and 2 GRÜNE.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2009, the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ, 3 GRÜNE and 2 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 7 FPÖ, 4 GRÜNE and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2005 Josef Wöllinger (ÖVP)
• 2005–2015 Johann Zweimüller (ÖVP)
• since 2015 Thomas Priewasser (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church of Hohenzell

See also:  List of listed objects in Hohenzell

• Catholic parish church Hohenzell hl. Michael: It was originally a Gothic church with a roof turret . The bell tower in the southern choir corner was built during the Baroque period and in 1685 a side chapel with a small entrance hall was added to the south.

safety

• In the municipality of Hohenzell there are a total of five volunteer fire brigades (FF), which were all founded around the turn of the century: FF Hohenzell (founded 1879), FF Ponner (1892), FF Breiningsham (1911), FF Engersdorf (1919) and FF Emprechting (1921).

Personalities

• Josef Bauchinger (1880–1962), farmer and politician
• Josef Helm (1884–1965), farmer and politician
• Josef Landlinger (1919–1996), farmer and politician
• Josef Kettl (* 1948), carpenter and dialect author
• Martina Spitzer (* 1962), theater and film actress
• Michael Reisecker (* 1982), documentary filmmaker

Web links

Commons : Hohenzell, Upper Austria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

• 41209 - Hohenzell (Upper Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 11, 2019 . 
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hohenzell, population development. Retrieved April 11, 2019 . 
4. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Hohenzell municipality, politics, mayor / vice mayor. Retrieved April 11, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Joseph Kettl, in: website of Regiowiki.at