Punch at the lake

Punch at the lake
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Braunau am Inn
License plate :	BR
Main town :	Punch
Surface:	33.28 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 1 '  N , 13 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '32 "  N , 13 ° 10' 50"  E
Height :	516  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,823 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	5221
Area code :	07745
Community code :	4 04 19
Address of the municipal administration:	Ringstrasse 14 5221 Lochen am See
Website:	www.lochen.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Wimmer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	13 6th 6th 13 6th 6th  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 6 FPÖ : 6
Location of Lochen am See in the Braunau am Inn district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Lochen am See is an Austrian municipality in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel in Upper Austria with 2823 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

geography

Lochen am See borders the Mattsee on a high plateau, with the Tannberg in the south of the municipality. The municipality has an area of ​​33.3 km².

Neighboring communities

Kirchberg near Mattighofen	Jeging	Munderfing
Palting		Lengau
Mattsee Schleedorf (both districts Salzburg-Umg. , Sbg. )	Köstendorf ( District Salzburg-Umg. , Sbg. )	Straßwalchen ( District Salzburg-Umg. , Sbg. )

Community structure

The community consists of the cadastral communities Lochen , Oberweissau , Tannberg and Wichenham .

The municipality includes the following 33 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Ainhausen (94)
• Astatt (215)
• Babenham (175)
• Bergham (64)
• Dax Jews (17)
• Dirnham (20)
• Edenplain (13)
• Feldbach (134)
• Gebertsham (27)
• Gunzing (58)
• Gutferding (38)
• Hofstaett (6)
• Intenham (33)
• Kerschham (237)
• Koppelstaett (28)
• Kranzing (23)
• Lasberg (16)
• Punch ( main town, 808)
• Lower run (18)
• Upper custody (67)
• Oberweißau (43, districts also in the municipality of Munderfing )
• Petersham (56)
• Rackersing (24)
• Riding Sham (84)
• Scherschham (179)
• Shimmerl Jews (6)
• Sprinzenberg (5)
• Stone (66)
• Stullerding (104)
• Tannberg (118)
• Perforated (15)
• Wichenham (28)
• Zeisental (4)

The only counting area is punching for the whole community.

history

There are already depot finds in Lochen from the Younger Stone Age . As a result, there are also finds from the Hallstatt and La Tène periods , when Illyrians and Celts settled the country. Roman settlements could also be secured in Lochen, where the road to Castra Batava (Passau) ran. After the Migration Period, Bajuvars settled in the area from the 6th century.

Lochen was first mentioned in a document in 903 in a deed of donation from Bishop Madalwin. Lochen belonged - as can be seen from a personal interest certificate - to Mattsee Abbey . Through the Peace of Teschen in 1779, the entire Innbaiern region of that time came with Punch from Bavaria to Austria . In the course of this change, Lochen came from the Diocese of Passau to the Diocese of Linz, which was newly founded in 1785 .

Punch was proposed as the location for Salzburg Airport in 1974 .

The community has only recently been called Lochen am See . This should refer to the fact that the municipality extends to the Mattsee , which belongs to the state of Salzburg . This fact is relatively unknown in space. The main town itself is not on the lake.

politics

The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

Community representation

13

6th

6th

13 6th 6th 

A total of 25 seats

• ÖVP : 13
• SPÖ : 6
• FPÖ : 6

Distribution of seats since the municipal council election 2015:

• 13 mandates of the Austrian People's Party  (ÖVP)
• 06 mandates of the Social Democratic Party of Austria  (SPÖ)
• 06 mandates for the Freedom Party of Austria  (FPÖ)

Mayor is Franz Wimmer from the ÖVP.

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

In silver on a green shield base between two green hills a green, trunkless, triangular fir tree that extends to the edge of the shield .

The community colors are white-green .

Regional policy

Lochen is part of the Oberinnviertel – Mattigtal leader region .

Culture and sights

Branch church in Gebertsham , late Gothic winged altar

• Parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Lochen, with the famous baroque high altar by Meinrad Guggenbichler
• Filial church of the Holy Cross in Gebertsham: The late Gothic church is a single-nave building with a western roof turret from around 1500. The Gebertsham winged altar from 1515/20 is ascribed to the workshop of the master Gordian Guckh . The altar shows a crucifixion rich in figures in the central shrine and the legend of the Holy Cross on the panels on the inside of the wings . In 1986, wall paintings were discovered in the church. 178 multi-colored plant ornaments, several consecration crosses and four murals were restored. In 1988 the wedding of Germany's former Federal President Walter Scheel took place in the church .
• Filial church of St. John the Baptist in Astätt
• Celtic Vierecksschanze: Since no relevant finds could be secured during an excavation campaign in 2007, the name La Téne-temporal Vierecksschanze is probably wrong, the facility was probably built during the Austrian-Bavarian border disputes in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession .

Place of execution in Astätt

• The Richtstättenweg Lochen was established on September 30, 2012, it leads from the Kirchweg in Lochen to the Köpfstattsäule in Astätt, where the last execution took place in 1762.

See also:  List of listed objects in Lochen am See

Personalities

• Peter E. Steiner (* 1926), professor of writing and typography, designed almost 70 postage stamps and postmarks for the Deutsche Bundespost, later for the Deutsche Post AG.
• Albert Anglberger (1942), composer, church musician and university professor
• Harald Unverdorben (* 1981), soccer player
• Tobias Pötzelsberger (* 1983), journalist and singer-songwriter

literature

• Reinhard Weidl: Lochen - Gebertsham - Astätt (= Christian art places of Austria. No. 145). Salzburg printing house, Salzburg 1985.

Web links

Commons : Punch at the lake  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Community website
• 40419 - Punch at the lake. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Lochen am See can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Entry on punching in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Association Future Oberinnviertel-Mattigtal (Zukunft-om.at) .
3. ^ Christian K. Steingruber : A critical consideration of the historical-topographical manual of the fortifications and mansions of Upper Austria . Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Linz 2013, p. 212 .
4. ^ Richtstättenweg opened in Lochen , Zukunft-om.at;
   Lochen am See opens Richtstättenweg , Barbara Eder in mein district.at, September 22, 2012.