Lend (Salzburg)

Loin

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Salzburg

Political District :

Zell am See

License plate :

ZE

Surface:

29.35 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 18 ' N , 13 ° 3' E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '0 " N , 13 ° 3' 0" E

Height :

663 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,282 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

44 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

5651, 5660

Area code :

06416

Community code :

5 06 08

NUTS region

AT322

Address of the
municipal administration:

Lend 41
5651 Lend

Website:

www.lend.at

politics

Mayoress :

Michaela Höfelsauer ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2019)
(13 members)

7th

6th

7th 6th

A total of 13 seats

SPÖ : 7
ÖVP : 6

Location of Lend in the Zell am See district

Verwessschloss as municipal office, parish church and fountain

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Lend is a municipality with 1282 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Zell am See district in the state of Salzburg .

geography

Lend is the lowest part of the Pinzgau municipality on the Salzach . It is mainly on the south bank. In the north, the Salzach largely forms the municipal boundary. In the south it extends to the Bernkogel ( 2325 m ). In the west, the Rauriser Ache forms the border, which here squeezes through the narrowness of the Kitzlochklamm . At the eastern edge of the village, the Gasteiner Ache flows into the Salzach.

Community structure

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

Mountain (183)
Embach (266)
Heuberg (112)
Loin (552)
Teufenbach (23)
Land (87)
Winkl (59)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Embach and Lend.

Until the end of 2002 the community belonged to the Taxenbach judicial district , since 2003 it has been part of the Zell am See judicial district .

Neighboring communities

in the west: Taxenbach
in the north: Dienten
in the east: Goldegg im Pongau , Sankt Veit im Pongau and Schwarzach
in the south: Dorfgastein and Rauris

coat of arms

Blazon of the municipal coat of arms: In silver, a red stag walking through a body of water (ford).

Population development

politics

The community council has a total of 13 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ and 5 ÖVP. (17 members)
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 7 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.

mayor

1945–1960 Johann Richter (SPÖ)
1961–1972 Johann Denk (SPÖ)
1973–1993 August Primig (SPÖ)
1993-2015 Peter Eder (SPÖ)
since 2015 Michaela Höfelsauer (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Arzhof chapel

Gasthof Handlwirt with beautiful painting

Embach with Maria Elend

Parish church hl. Laurentius on a hill
Pilgrimage chapel Maria Elend in Winkl with the original chapel a little below
Mount of Olives Chapel on the footpath from Maria Elend to Embach
Gasthaus Oberwirt, in the core of the 18th century, with barn and mill

Loin

Parish church hl. Rupert on a step
Arzhof chapel on the Lend-Taxenbach federal road
Verwesschloss Lend , former residence and official residence of the archbishop's mountain and hut administrator
Gasthaus Handlwirt, in the core of the 17th century

economy

Salzburger Aluminum AG (SAG)
Heinrich Bau GmbH
Raiffeisenbank Embach
Reisinger dealership
Transports earthmoving gravel Gruber
Carpentry Plaikner
From the train station you can see the production facilities of Salzburger Aluminum AG, on whose premises the

Klammstein power plant is located, a high-pressure hydropower plant that uses the Gasteiner Ache. This can also be seen in the freely laid pressure pipeline. The headwater, the Gasteiner Ache, is collected at Klammstein Castle and drives three Francis turbines with a total of 21 MW in the power house on a slope of 163 m. The power plant is located on the premises of SAG Lend. SAG also has the Kitzloch power plant in Taxenbach.

The Dientenbach small power station of the Austrian Federal Forests is partly located in the municipality of Dienten .