Lengau

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Lengau
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Coat of arms of Lengau
Lengau (Austria)
Lengau
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Braunau am Inn
License plate : BR
Main town : Friedburg
Surface: 58.18 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 0 '  N , 13 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '18 "  N , 13 ° 13' 4"  E
Height : 532  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,819 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density : 83 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5211
Area code : 07746
Community code : 4 04 18
Address of the
municipal administration:
Salzburger Strasse 9
5211 Lengau
Website: www.gemeindelengau.at
politics
Mayor : Erich Rippl ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)
12
6th
5
2
12 6th 
A total of 25 seats
Location of Lengau in the Braunau am Inn district
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Lengau is a municipality in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel in Upper Austria with 4819 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

geography

Lengau is located in the upper Mattig Valley .

The municipality covers an area of ​​58.1 km².

Neighboring communities

Munderfing Maria Schmolln
Punch at the lake Neighboring communities Pöndorf ( district Vöcklabruck )
Straßwalchen ( District Salzburg-Umg. , Sbg. )
Lohnsburg only borders on one point.

Community structure

The community consists of the cadastral communities Friedburg , Heiligenstadt , Krenwald , Lengau , Oberehreneck and Utzweih .

The three main places are Friedburg, Schneegattern and Lengau . The municipal area comprises a total of 30 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Counting districts are Friedburg, Schneegattern and Lengau .

The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

history

Lengau

The oldest place in the municipality is Teichstätt ( Tichsteti , first mentioned in 776). The community name Lengau is not mentioned for the first time until the 19th century, but is probably old due to existing family names, and could become ahd. * Bi zuo demo langin / lengin gouue 'in the elongated Gau (ort)' or ahd. * Bi zuo dero langin / Lengin OHDP , in the elongated Au are '.

The brothers Konrad and Hartneid Kuchler acquired the dominion of Friedburg from the Bamberg monastery in 1377 . The castle was destroyed in the War of the Spanish Succession (18th century).

Since the founding of the Duchy of Baiern (around 7th century) the area was Bavarian until 1779. With the Peace of Teschen , the Innviertel (then Innbaiern ) became part of Austria. During the Napoleonic Wars briefly Bavarian again, the Innviertel and thus Lengau has belonged to Austria ob der Enns since 1814 .

From the 19th century onwards, the political municipality of Lengau comprised the 3 main towns of Lengau, Friedburg and Schneegattern, as well as other villages such as Teichstätt ( Teichstätt Castle , nature reserve) and Heiligenstatt with a well-known pilgrimage church. Because of the three former parishes, Lengau now also has three parish offices (Schneegattern as Friedburg's branch). In 1931 the village of Friedburg was raised to the market again; this happened for the first time in 1439, but was forgotten.

politics

The municipal council with 25 members has had the following distribution of seats since the 2015 municipal council election: SPÖ: 12, ÖVP: 6, FPÖ: 5, GREEN: 2.

mayor

coat of arms

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

In green a silver deer hull with ten-pointed antlers .

The community colors are green and white.

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1979, goes back in a modified form to the family coat of arms of the Lords of Kuchl , who had ruled Friedburg since 1377.

Partnerships

traffic

With the Friedburg, Lengau and Teichstätt stops of the Mattigtalbahn , the place has a direct connection to the district town of Braunau am Inn and a connection to the Western Railway and the S-Bahn (S 2) to Salzburg .

Culture and sights

Castle Erb
Lourdes Church Schneegattern
Monument on the giant theme trail in Lengau

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • 2018: Peter Egger, community doctor in Lengau 1982 / 83–2017

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with the community

  • Erich Rippl (* 1958), Mayor of Lengau and member of the state parliament (SPÖ)

Web links

Commons : Lengau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. main locations , gemeindelengau.at
  2. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. ^ Elisabeth Bertol-Raffin, Peter Wiesinger: The place names of the political district Braunau am Inn . Vienna 1989. , Volume 1, p. 49; after Ute Maurnböck-Mosser: Altheim. (Diploma thesis) In: The house and farm names in the judicial district of Mauerkirchen. 2002, accessed July 24, 2008 .
  4. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (5th addendum 1977–1979) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, issue 3/4, 1980, p. 128 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at)
  5. ^ Association Future Oberinnviertel-Mattigtal (Zukunft-om.at) .
  6. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/braunau/c-lokales/ehrenbuergerschaft-fuer-frueheren-gemeindearzt_a3017991 , accessed on April 30, 2019.