Kriechbaum (community of All Saints)

Kriechbaum ( village ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg  (PE), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Perg
Pole. local community	Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis   ( KG  Allerheiligen)
Coordinates	48 ° 18'30 "  N , 14 ° 37'6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18'30 "  N , 14 ° 37'6"  E
height	380  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	134 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	56 (2001)
Postcodes	4320, 4284
prefix	+ 43/07262
Statistical identification
Locality code	10016
Kamig factory building in Kriechbaum (in the municipality of Tragwein, town of Schedlberg)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Kriechbaum is a place of the cadastral and local community of Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis in Upper Austria with 157 inhabitants (2001 census).

geography

The village Kriechbaum is located on the western edge of the municipality of Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis at an altitude of 340  m above sea level. A. up to 380  m above sea level A. The border with the neighboring municipality Tragwein north and west of the village is also the boundary of the district Perg for the district of Freistadt . In the south, the village of Lina, the market town of Schwertberg, extends to the village. Within the cadastral community of Allerheiligen, Kriechbaum borders the main town of Allerheiligen in the east and the town of Baumgarten to the north of it. In the south-west of Kriechbaum is the village of Oberlebing of the cadastral municipality of Lebing, which belongs to the municipality of Allerheiligen. Part of the Kamig mine and business premises, including the striking company building (Wienerbergerhaus), is located in the village of Haarland in the municipality of Tragwein.

The main flowing water is the Kettenbach , which initially flows from north to south and forms the border to the neighboring municipality of Tragwein , then turns at a right angle to the west, flows through the populated area of ​​Kriechbaum and back to the municipality of Tragwein and there into the Aist flows out.

geology

Kriechbaum is located on the southern edge of the Mühlviertel granite massif, the so-called Bohemian mass . In Kriechbaum, the landscape forms an elongated depression caused by tectonic fracture processes, in which a minable kaolin deposit formed in the Tertiary forty million years ago . The area was then flooded by the sea due to the further subsidence and covered by marine deposits. The coastline ran in an east-west direction at an altitude of around 420 meters above sea level. The kaolin deposits extend to the communities of Allerheiligen (Kriechbaum), Perg ( Weinzierl ), Tragwein and Schwertberg .

history

Aristocratic residence in Kriechbaum in the municipality of Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis

The Öder von Geiersberg were originally Regensburg vassals who sat in the vicinity of Windegg Castle and were subordinate to the respective feudal lords of this rule. After the high freedoms of Lengenbach died out in 1236, these were the lords of Kuenring . A member of the family was first mentioned in a document in 1265. The descendants of Öders Heinrich II founded the three main lines of the family with headquarters in Schwertberg as well as Siegenhofen and Kriechbaum and gave up Geiersberg from their ancestral seat at Geiersberg Castle in Oberlebing , which was built in the 12th century near the Reifegger estate .

The Siegenhof near the Kettenbach in today's village of Kriechbaum is first mentioned around 1300 in the fief book of Jann von Kapellen . The first Öder of Siegenhofen was Hartneid (1260 to 1313), the last was Lorenz V (1490 to 1494). Towards the end of the 15th century, the seat was only used as a farm.

The first Öder von Kriechbaum was Heinrich II., Who was associated with the Grellen family (1270 to 1335), established the seat around 1315 and named it Kriechbaum like the seat of the same name in Kastendorf near Königswiesen , which was owned by the Grellen family. The seat was owned by the Öder until the end of the 15th century and then changed hands several times (end of the 15th century Walchen von Prandegg , 1534 Hoheneck, 1611 Tattenbach). The Lords of Tattenbach had the seat rebuilt from 1611 to 1621. Other owners were in 1631 Hanns Händl von Breitenbruck near Katsdorf , Starhemberger and Kuefstein .

With the sale to the farmer Jakob Klinger, the seat lost the property of a noble country estate , was deleted from the country table and assigned to the Riedegg rulership . Land sales resulted in smaller properties and small houses.

See also main article: Kriechbaum Castle

The extraction, processing and marketing of kaolin in Kriechbaum has been documented in the parish chronicle of Tragwein since the beginning of the 19th century . At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, kaolin production became more professional and companies became interested in it, for example the Prager Montanaktiengesellschaft in 1910, a Viennese cooperative in 1920 and then KAMIG, which is majority owned by the Götzl family. Kaolin was extracted in mines. The highest extraction and production capacity was achieved between 1960 and 1970, when up to 170,000 tons of raw kaolin were mined annually. At that time there were 250 employees in Kriechbaum alone, and at that time Kamig had around 500 employees, making it one of the largest companies in the Mühlviertel .

Due to the discovery of kaolin deposits, which could be tapped in more cost-effective opencast mining, restructuring and rationalization measures were necessary in the 1980s and the marketing of by-products such as quartz sand was accelerated.

Population, culture

The development of the settlements in Kriechbaum is closely related to the local kaolin mining. Kamig's management supported the miners and their families in finding housing close to their place of work and in setting up cultural and sports facilities.

The Barbara celebration has been held annually in December since 1930 . Also in 1930 miners founded the workers 'music band Kriechbaum-Tragwein, which was transferred to a Kamig factory band in 1934 and is known as the Kamig miners' band.

In 1957 the Kamig football club was founded, a sports field was built and championship operations began. In 1963, FC Kamig joined ASV and Union Tragwein.

literature

• Alois Aumayr, Roland Huber, Josef Kiesenhofer, Karl Kitzmüller, Leopold Josef Mayböck , Martin Lehner, Municipal Office of All Saints in the Mühlkreis (editor and publisher): All Saints in the Mühlkreis 1492 to 1992 - A home book for the parish and parish of Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis - 500 years of pilgrimage church. All Saints' Day 1992, OCLC 165204952 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Romedio Giacomini: 180 years of kaolin production in Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis. In: Local authority of Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis (editor and publisher), Heimatbuch Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis 1992, p. 300ff.
2. ↑ Festschrift 80 years of Kamig (PDF; 921 kB)