Mühlviertel Alm

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Mühlviertler Alm (Upper Austria)
Mühlviertel Alm
Mühlviertel Alm

The Mühlviertler Alm is the name of a regional association and a tourism region in the north-eastern Mühlviertel in Upper Austria .

The association comprises ten communities , nine of which are in the Freistadt district and one in the Perg district , eight of these communities also form a joint tourism association. Brand is the Mühlviertler Alm region.

Eastern Mühlviertel near St.Leonhard

designation

There are no alpine pastures or alpine huts in the Mühlviertel . Only occasionally do snack stations and accommodation establishments use the addition Alm for tourist reasons .

geography

Mühlviertel Alm
logo
founding 1993
Seat Unterweißbach
purpose Association for regional and tourism development
Chair Johann Holzmann
Managing directors Renate Fürst
Members 10 municipalities
Website muehlviertleralm.at

The Mühlviertler Alm is located in the Mühlviertler and Waldviertler Grenzbergland and extends in the north almost to the Czech border . In the east, the region is bounded by the federal state of Lower Austria . The landscape is part of the hill and valley landscape of the Bohemian Massif ( granite and gneiss highlands ) and lies at an altitude of 500 to 1000  m above sea level. A. The region has about 18,000 inhabitants and covers more than 450 square kilometers.

Neighboring regions
Tourism regions (TR) and other spatial planning regions
Jižní Čechy (South BohemiaCZ , TR ) Waldviertel border region  (Lower Austria, Leader )
Mühlviertler Kernland (TR, Leader) Neighboring communities Waldviertel  (Lower Austria, TR )

Southern Waldviertel - Strudengau  (Lower Austria, Leader )

Strudengau (Leader)

organization

history

The Mühlviertler Alm working group was founded in 1993 on the basis of a regional collaboration between the eight municipalities of the Unterweißbach judicial district that began in the 1970s and originally covered an area of ​​around 355 square kilometers with 13,335 inhabitants (2001 census).

After joining the EU , the ARGE was defined as a LEADER region from 1994 to 2000 and as a Leader Plus region from 2000 to 2006 and transferred to the Mühlviertler Alm association.

In 1995, the region was one of the structurally weakest regions in Austria due to its location away from the major conurbations and major traffic routes. Problem areas were the high share of agriculture as the only source of income, the lack of alternative jobs in the region combined with the necessity to commute daily or weekly to workplaces, mostly in the central area of ​​Linz and the surrounding area, which is an average of 35 kilometers away. Apprentices and students had to leave their hometown early on, at least for the duration of their training. Overall, the number of inhabitants in the eight founding communities has continuously decreased since 1971 from 13,993 to 13,271 in 2009. If the municipalities only added in 2003 and 2008 were included, the population decreased from 18,285 to 18,164 inhabitants (2001 census).

As part of the Agenda 21 regional development process, a concept based on the participation of the population was developed from 2001 in three regional future workshops , which was published in a future book.

In 2003 the regional association was expanded to include St. Georgen am Walde in the Perg district . In 2004 the region received the Upper Austrian Provincial Environment Prize, and further awards followed. The region has been describing itself as a living region since 2006. With the inclusion of the municipality of Bad Zell in 2008, part of the Mühlviertel Nature Park also belonged to the region .

Association and tourism association

The as club organized association Mühlviertler Alm - Association for Regional u. Tourism development employs a full-time managing director who is responsible for the areas of municipalities (ten Mühlviertler Alm communities), tourism (Mühlviertler Alm tourism association and Königswiesen tourism association), gastronomy (Mühlviertler Almwirte), agriculture (Mühlviertler Alm farmers, local farmers, projects), the Mühlviertler Alm riding association (regional riding clubs and riding businesses).

The Mühlviertler Alm tourism association as a public corporation has 8 member municipalities, as the municipalities of Königswiesen and Bad Zell still have their own tourism associations (as of 2013). Both the club and the association are based in the Mühlviertel Almbüro in Unterweißbach . In the course of the restructuring of the regional tourism organizations, the Mühlviertler Alm tourism association will be merged into the new "Mühlviertel Alm Freistadt Tourism Association" (the association for regional and tourism development remains unchanged).

Functionaries and managing directors

The officials and managing directors of the Mühlviertler Alm regional association:

Chairmen / incumbents
  • Bgm.aD Cons. Johann Gradl, Schönau (1993 - 2014)
  • Mayor Johann Holzmann, Königswiesen (2014 - current)

executive Director

  • Josef Greindl (2001 - 2007)
  • Klaus Preining (2008 - 2018)
  • Renate Fürst (2019 - current)

Members

The Mühlviertler Alm consists of ten communities , including seven market communities. In brackets the population as of January 1st, 2020.

Market towns

Communities

In addition to the municipalities, the tourism associations and the Mühlviertler Alm riding association are members of the association. The Mühlviertler Alm farmers are integrated into the association with representatives of the local farming communities. Other members are representatives of working groups / projects (youth petrol station, quality of life in old age, regional Agenda 21, ...) as well as committed citizens of the Mühlviertler Alm.

economy

In 1995, the region's economic strength was the lowest in relation to the Upper Austrian average, measured by the financial strength of the municipalities. Despite the relatively large distance to the economic and work centers in the central area of ​​Linz, almost a fifth of the population commutes there.

The local small businesses mainly serve the local supply, Sonnberg Biofleisch (Unterweissenbach) is one of the largest private companies with 55 employees. The farms have been run as part-time businesses for many years and are characterized by natural, ecological management, primarily in the dairy industry . The ratio of 24 percent organic farms to conventional farms is at the forefront throughout Upper Austria. Due to the abundance of forests, forestry plays an important role. The proportion of forest areas is increasing and is already around 45 percent.

The region has numerous different intact natural spaces and landscape elements. The Tourism plays a minor role, the focus is on the recreational tourism , and the tourist offer apart from ruins and a raised bog is modest. The part of the region in the Naar valley between Unterweißbach and Bad Zell belongs to the Natura 2000 area Waldaist-Naarn. The part of the Naar valley located in the municipality of Bad Zell is also part of the Mühlviertel Nature Park .

Projects

In the meantime, more than 200 projects have been processed through Leader. In addition, several cross-border projects have already been implemented with the South Bohemian partner region Ruze. Examples are:

  • The Mühlviertler Alm as a partner of urban space
  • Regional Agenda 21, continuous since 2000
  • Trail riding Mühlviertler Alm, horse kingdom, staged relaxation areas, ...
  • Economic impulse center Königswiesen
  • Leisure tourism facility Stoaninger Alm
  • Youth filling station Mühlviertler Alm
  • Do something Otelo Mühlviertler Alm
  • "Do something, then something will happen" in the Mühlviertler Alm region 2013/14
  • Quality of life in old age, fit at home
  • Castles and palaces trail - from the Danube to the Maltsch (Mühlviertler Alm in charge)
  • Tour de Alm, mountain bike route
  • Organic spelled circle
  • Corporate development program
  • Kulturstube Meierhof Prandegg
  • Hirschalm hunting fairy tale park
  • Indoor climbing forest
  • Kaltenberg fruit show garden
  • Archery range Mönchdorf
  • Johannesweg
  • John Ride
  • and much more.

Sprachalm

In 1955, the foundation stone was laid in Unterweissenbach for a relationship between the region and the Eastern European economic and linguistic area that had lasted for more than fifty years. International language seminars and specialist seminars are held in the region every year. The work begun by Georg Dox (* 1905 in Petersburg, † 1984) in Unterweissenbach was taken over by the Komino (Communication in Eastern Languages) based in Vienna in 1995 and continued until 2005. The Sprachalm LEADER project has been coordinated by the Mühlviertler Alm since 2006. The offer particularly includes summer seminars for Russian, Czech and German on the one hand as language intensive seminars, on the other hand also for beginners and advanced learners and can be expanded to other languages ​​if required.

Horse kingdom Mühlviertler Alm

The Mühlviertler Alm has a 700-kilometer network of bridle paths with 50 horse rest stops and rider hostels, which offers day rides as well as trail riding. The companies have undergone a classification and use one to four horseshoes to describe the quality level achieved. The horseshoe is a protected trademark of the region.

Mühlviertler Alm pasture goose

In 1992 a farmer in Mönchdorf (Königswiesen) became the first Austrian farmer to start keeping goose again. Six farms in the region now produce around a thousand free-range geese per year. As a brand, the Mühlviertler Alm Weidegans has been the flagship product of the eponymous region since 2006 and is registered in the register of traditional foods in Austria (No. 109, product group meat, other poultry meat).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Board of Directors. Website of the Mühlviertler Alm tourist region, accessed on December 5, 2017 .
  2. a b tourism associations , muehlviertleralm.at, accessed May 17, 2013.
  3. ^ H. Kohl, Naturräumliche Gliederung, II. Main Units and Types, Atlas of Upper Austria , 2nd delivery, Linz, 1960
  4. Visit South Bohemia , jiznicechy.cz;
    see Turistické regiony , risy.cz
  5. a b Mühlviertler Alm ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.netzwerk-land.at archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , netzwerk-land.at
  6. Lived regional development on the Mühlviertler Alm (PDF file; 86 kB)
  7. Mühlviertler Alm - Ten municipalities pull together , agenda21-ooe.at
  8. Future book of the Mühlviertler Alm living region  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / muehlviertleralm.at  
  9. LEADER region Mühlviertler Alm  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / muehlviertleralm.at   , muehlviertleralm.at (pdf)
  10. TOURISM: More power through Mühlviertler Alm Freistadt. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  11. Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
  12. Leader analysis 1995 ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / php.leader-austria.at
  13. LEADER region Mühlviertler Alm  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / muehlviertleralm.at  
  14. Mühlviertler Alm Weidegans . Entry no. 109 in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism .
    Mühlviertler Alm Weidegans at the Genuss Region Österreich association .