Lest (municipality of Kefermarkt)

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Lest ( scattered settlement )
locality
Lest (municipality of Kefermarkt) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Freistadt  (FR), Upper Austria
Judicial district Free City
Pole. local community Kefermarkt   ( KG  Pernau )
Coordinates 48 ° 27 '20 "  N , 14 ° 29' 55"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '20 "  N , 14 ° 29' 55"  Ef1
height 533  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 305 (January 1, 2020)
Statistical identification
Locality code 08290
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS
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Lest is a village in the municipality of Kefermarkt in the Freistadt district , Upper Austria .

The scattered settlement is located south of Freistadt and about one kilometer west of the Mühlkreis Autobahn . On January 1, 2020, the village had 305 inhabitants.

history

The earliest written document is from 1270 and is identical to today's spelling. The name goes back to old Slavic leska , which means hazel bush . The field name was transferred to the river and settlement.

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Albrecht Greule: German water names book. Etymology of the water body names and the associated area, settlement and field names. de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-486-77554-5 , p. 311 .