Kleinreifling

Kleinreifling ( village ) locality cadastral community Kleinreifling
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Steyr-Land  (SE), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Steyr
Pole. local community	Weyer
Coordinates	47 ° 49 '15 "  N , 14 ° 38' 21"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '15 "  N , 14 ° 38' 21"  E
height	417  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	728 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	65.62 km²
Postcodes	3335, 4464, 8934
prefix	+ 43/7357
Statistical identification
Locality code	12010
Cadastral parish number	49309
Counting district / district	Anger-Kleinreifling (41522 002)
Kleinreifling in winter, from the northeast from the opposite bank of the Enns
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Kleinreifling is a village in the Ennstal in Upper Austria and a locality and cadastral community of the market town of Weyer in the Steyr-Land district .

Location and landscape

Kleinreifling is only a few kilometers north of the Styrian and west of the Lower Austrian border in the extreme southeast of Upper Austria on the Eisenstrasse . The majority of the local area is characterized by a pronounced slope.

The center of Kleinreifling is located at the foot of the 1373 meter high Ennsberg and is a recent street village , as the old core in the reservoir area of ​​the Enns was drowned. In terms of traffic geography, the center of the village is rather unfavorable, as the main road on the other bank of the Enns leads past it and therefore only attracts a few foreigners. The Kleinreifling train station played an important role, especially in the past.

In the center of the village there is very dense to closed development, while in the remaining part of the local area there is moderately dense to loose development, with agricultural areas in between. With regard to the shape of the corridors, there are mainly block and strip corridors, both with and without a courtyard connection. The most common courtyard forms are three-wing courtyards with completely separate building wings and two-wing courtyards in which storage and storage rooms for vehicles, devices and machines are attached directly to the house.

history

The area around today's Kleinreifling was allegedly already provided by the Romans with a road running along the Enns. This development gradually resulted in the settlement of the area. After a rather shorter phase of Celtic residents, settlement followed by the Slavs , to whom the village owes its name (Reifling: rifing from ryba "fish"). After the partial clearing by the Slavs, the area around today's town center was finally completely cleared by the Bavarians . During this time, the first individual courtyards and corridors were built along the Enns to the south.

Around 1138, with the help of the Garstner monks, the area along the Enns was made accessible. The submissive peasants were offered new land as compensation. Originally located in the eastern part of the duchy of Bavaria , the place has been part of the Archduchy of Austria since the 12th century and was assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns from 1490 .

One of the greatest flood disasters occurred around 1567. In 1629 the place was badly affected by the plague epidemic . The establishment of a school in Kleinreifling is reported around 1781. In 1897 the rural population of the community of Weyer, including the residents of Kleinreifling, sought a separation from the center of the community in order to avoid being disadvantaged by the iron industry. The larger part of the municipality in terms of area was henceforth called Weyer-Land and became independent. The center of the original community was now only a few square kilometers and was named Weyer-Markt .

The Enns Bridge, which has always connected the districts on both sides of the Enns, was repeatedly destroyed by floods, including in 1863 and 1899 , only to be rebuilt afterwards.

The Catholic parish church was built as part of the relocation of the place.

Kleinreifling has been part of the federal state of Upper Austria since 1918 . From March 13, 1938, after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, both Weyer-Markt and Weyer-Land belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 what was then Weyer-Land was temporarily divided into two parts - the Enns was divided between the US and Soviet occupation zones .

In 1967 the Weyer Enns power plant went into operation. For this purpose, the old town center in Kleinreifling was cleared in 1966 to prepare for the impoundment.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic development

Iron plays an important role in the development of the village. Despite the rather large distance to the Styrian Erzberg , Kleinreifling was involved in iron processing since the 13th century. The favorable location, at the fork in the Eisenstrasse Hieflau - Steyr , brought economic advantages to all places directly on the Enns. Due to the enormous hydropower of the Enns, the conditions for an industrial settlement were given. The following further reasons should be mentioned here:

• In the inhospitable terrain it was hardly possible to feed many people. Therefore, part of the industry had to be brought as close as possible to the fertile Alpine foothills;
• The heavy iron was easier to bring on the Enns to the main Danube traffic route;
• The processing required large amounts of charcoal, which could be produced through more accessible forests;
• Waterfalls were needed to operate hammers.

Numerous hammer mills were built in Kleinreifling and the surrounding areas during this time . In the 15th century there was a considerable increase in production, which resulted in a division of labor into Welschhämmer (separation of iron and steel) and the so-called Zainhämmer (processing of the finer types of pig iron). During this time there were more than 700 raft transports between hammer mills in Steyr and Großreifling, which led directly through Kleinreifling. These rafts were usually between 20 and 30 meters long and had to be steered by four to five men.

Another development is the ironworks, which processed the products supplied by the hammers into ready-to-use tools. The ironworks were also later subjected to further specializations. In 1499 Maximilian I von Habsburg issued a regulation in which forest owners were instructed to deliver wood and coal to the nearest hammer mills. This arrangement was monitored by specially appointed forest masters . The unsteady development of the iron industry led to numerous protests by hammer workers and lumberjacks, who especially could not tolerate the frequent shortage of food. The oldest evidence of hammers in Kleinreifling come from a land register (called a register of ownership of a landlord and achievements of its basic subjects) the rule Steyr to 1424. But it was in another land register of 1658 are at the Undern Reifling "5 wälsche, 1 large, 9 small and 2 Zain hammers called “. In the middle of the 15th century, some ore deposits that were not very productive were discovered.

The iron was processed with charcoal until the 19th century - the abundance of wood from Kleinreifling therefore played an important role in the development of the area. But since the forests were not owned by the hammer mills, forest and cabbage interest as well as a publishing fee had to be paid. The Innerberger  Hauptgewerkschaft (IBHG), which was founded in 1625, was responsible for the administration of the entire area . According to records, an IBHG hammer mill in Kleinreifling produced around 476 tons of crude steel around 1879.

Between 1857 and 1862 the IBHG leased its operations - including those in Kleinreifling - to the privately owned Steiermärkisch-Österreichische Stahlwerk-Gesellschaft, backed by foreign capital. The aim of this lease was the continuous reorganization of the plants. The sale of the Kleinreifling hammer mill and its closure in 1901 also meant the end of the traditional Innerberg hammer district.

The Ennsmuseum Weyer , built in 1974 , now offers a comprehensive picture of the natural, cultural and economic history of the Enns Valley.

traffic

View of the Kleinreifling train station and the Enns

The place is located directly on Eisen Straße B 115.

A few kilometers outside, the branch line Amstetten - Kastenreith branches off from the single-track Rudolfsbahn St. Valentin - Selzthal in Kastenreith . For this reason, Kleinreifling has a comparatively large train station that squeezes into the valley. Due to the ore trains of the Voestalpine from Eisenerz to Linz as well as regional trains from three directions, there is also a very high volume of traffic.

Development of traffic in the area

After the opening of Austria's first steam-powered railway in 1837, the construction of a railway line through Upper Austria, Styria and Carinthia was planned as early as the middle of the 19th century. In 1865 the building and operation of the Crown Prince Rudolf Railway was finally approved . This railway line ran from St. Valentin in Lower Austria via Steyr, through the town of Kleinreifling and on into Styria to Hieflau, Rottenmann to Villach. The construction of the railroad replaced mule tracks and river routes as transport routes for iron ore. The rafting continued to be used for timber transport. The rafting finally came to a standstill when the power station was built by Energie AG .

education

• Kindergarten Kleinreifling
• Kleinreifling elementary school

societies

There are 19 registered associations in Kleinreifling, including:

Surname	founding year	Further information
Kleinreifling music association	1900	The music association has around 30 musicians.
Kleinreifling volunteer fire department	1912	currently 7 youth members, 61 active members, 12 reserve and 2 authorized members.
Heimat- und Trachtenverein Kleinreifling	1927
ASV Kleinreifling	1974	The ASV (General Sport Club) is currently playing in the 2nd class East in Upper Austria.
Kleinreifling tennis club	1978	The TC Kleinreifling has 4 clay tennis courts with a clubhouse.
Kleinreifling model railway club	2012	20 active members and 40 supporting members
Hunting horn group
Hunter
Grave monsters Kleinreifling	1989	The association has around 40 members.

literature

• Hofer Hans, Gerhard Sonnenschein: Kleinreifling. History of a village in the Upper Austrian Ennstal. Self-published by the authors, Weyer 1997.

Web links

• 41522 - Kleinreifling. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ after Alfred Hoffmann
2. ↑ Rainer Rauter: A traffic route opens up the Alps. The kk priv. Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn. St. Petersburg ob Judenburg: Mlakar 1992.
3. ↑ Agenda 21 press release of February 9, 2009 on the situation in Kleinreifling (PDF; 1.4 MB)