Kallham

Kallham is 397 m above sea level in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 7.9 km from north to south and 6.3 km from west to east. The total area is 26.7 km², 10.1% of the area is forested, 78.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 51 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Aigen (9)
Aschau (34)
Aspeth (315)
Au (21)
Auing (114)
Baumgarten (5)
Birnsteig (12)
Ebergassen (1)
Ends (3)
Erlach (49)
Flenkengrub (8)
Women lift (10)
Geßwagen (44)
Guettling (73)
Hading (74)
Dwell on the wood (3)
Henning (10)
Courtyard (6)
Wooden houses (25)
Holzleithen (19)
Itzling (94)
Kainzing (42)
Kallham (562)
Kallhamerdorf (46)
Kimpling (212)
Kirchbach (126)
Fiefdom (34)
Mairhof (12)
Niederleithen (32)
Obereibach (18)
Obernfurth (11)
Oberrühringsdorf (10)
Upper Sampling (32)
Parzleithen (11)
Pauzenberg (14)
Pehring (65)
Penzing (17)
Poing (9)
Puchet (9)
Putzenbach (16)
Schildorf (41)
Sixberg (2)
Stockham (5)
Unterfurth (8)
Unterrühringsdorf (14)
Subsampling (67)
Waxling (17)
Weireth (54)
Wies (18)
Wiesing (14)
Wuerzberg (62)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Erlach, Kallham and Kimpling.

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 connection of Austria to the German Reich on 13 March 1938, the place to "Upper Danube" belonged. In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

Population development

In 1991 the community had 2,622 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 2,536 inhabitants. The decline occurred because the emigration was stronger than the increase due to the positive birth balance . From 2001 to 2011, the positive birth balance and the negative migration balance almost canceled each other out, so that the population rose only slightly to 2,543 people, before falling to 2,498 inhabitants by 2018.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1971, refers directly to the coat of arms of those of Ungnad von Weißenwolff , who were the masters of the area. The blazon shows a golden battlement wall in the lower half of the escutcheon with a silver, red-tongued and armored wolf above. The wall is a symbol for Erlach Castle, which is located in the municipality of Kallham, and the silver wolf refers to the long-standing castle owners. The municipality colors are blue-white-blue.

Kallham Church

Culture and sights

The Catholic parish church of Kallham Maria Himmelfahrt was built between 1713 and 1718 by the Baroque master builder Jakob Pawanger, while maintaining the mighty, essentially Gothic tower. The exterior design gives the church the appearance of a cathedral church. The last church renovation was completed in 2009.

Branch church Kimpling

Erlach Castle

The lost Rohrawiesing Castle

music

Kallham traditional band
Kimpling Music Association

traffic

In Neumarkt in Hausruckkreis lies Neumarkt-Kallham station . Kallham is on Innviertler Strasse .

politics

mayor

Gottfried Pauzenberger (ÖVP)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Matthias Altmann (1790–1880), poet
Johann Weidenholzer (1884–1958), politician ( CSP , ÖVP )
Matthias Spanlang (born February 20, 1887 at Steindlgut in Stockham; † June 5, 1940 in Buchenwald concentration camp) was an Austrian Christian resistance fighter against National Socialism, prisoner in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps
Josef Enengl (1926–1993), poet, narrator and essayist