Mühlviertel news

The Mühlviertler Nachrichten , initially with the subtitle Organ for the Christian middle class and peasant class. , later Catholic-conservatives weekly paper for the Mühlviertel. or Catholic weekly paper for the Mühlviertel. (until December 27, 1924), from January 2, 1925 without subtitles, was a weekly newspaper in Rohrbach between 1889 and 1986 on Friday, from 1900 to the end of 1924 on Saturday, and from 1925 on Thursday .

Title of the first edition dated June 7, 1899

Title of the edition of September 7, 1899 with the view of Rohrbach

Title from the edition of January 1, 1900

Title from the edition of January 2, 1925

Alfred Ebenhoch, owner and editor of the sheet 1889–1893

history

From 1889 to 1938

As early as January 5, 1889, the first edition of the weekly Mühlviertler Nachrichten appeared in Rohrbach as an organ for all statuses regardless of the party , the publisher and editor in charge was Franz Rothauer, who had opened a printing house in Rohrbach in 1888. One of its co-founders was Norbert Hanrieder . The first managing editor, Wenzel Wilharticz, gave the paper a liberal, anti-church direction. Due to financial difficulties, he was soon to be hired. So that the paper would not have a liberal owner, the conservative Reichstag member Alfred Ebenhoch bought the paper in May 1889 and continued to publish it as a weekly political paper from June 6th. Ebenhoch was also the publisher. For Printing and Publishing Rothauer was still in charge, who was as responsible editor while the editor is actually in the hands of high-level and Norbertine - Canons of the pin Schlägl John Winkler and Gilbert Schartner was.

After Ebenhoch suffered financial losses with the newspaper, a Catholic press association was founded in 1891 for the upper Mühlviertel to ensure the continued publication of the newspaper. In 1892 there were differences of opinion with Rothauer, who no longer wanted to take over the printing. The press association of the Diocese of Linz stepped in on a temporary basis until October 27, 1893, and on October 30, 1893, a printing company was opened in Rohrbach. Franz Bieler took over the management, who was able to assert the printing company against the competition of Rothauer until 1922 and brought the newspaper up. His successor was then Berthold F. Bieler. From this point on, the owner and publisher was the Catholic Press Association of the Diocese of Linz, from No. 17 on April 29, 1938, the Press Association Linz.

The editors-in-chief were Franz Bieler from 1893, Jakob Pichler from June 3, 1922, Josef Moser from September 11, 1925 and Josef Bogner from June 28, 1929.

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", the newspaper passed into National Socialist hands, from No. 17 on April 29, 1938, the Linz Press Association was the owner and publisher, and Emanuel Scherbaum was the editor-in-chief. From July 1938 to 1945 the newspaper appeared under the name Mühlviertler Heimatblatt .

The circulation varied between 4,700 copies in 1925 and 2,700 copies in 1924.

From 1949 to 1986

From 1945 to 1949 the paper was published as Mühlviertler Post , and the following year as Der Mühlviertler . From 1950 there was the Mühlviertler Nachrichten again . In 1986 the newspaper was renamed Mühlviertler Rundschau , from which later the Rundschau am Sonntag and in 2010 the BezirksRundschau emerged.

Orientation and content

The direction of the newspaper was conservative Christian and at least in the beginning also anti-liberal and anti-Semitic, as already stated in the leading article of the first edition of June 7, 1889 with the following words: “The 'Mühlviertler Nachrichten' will therefore adopt a Catholic and Austrian stance and in economic terms fight against Jewish liberalism, which brought our good citizens and peasants to the edge of the abyss and turned the workshop of the honorable master into a desolate room. - God bless the honorable craft! With God for our holy faith, for emperor and fatherland! "

Well-known authors

In addition to numerous clergymen - including canons of Schlägl Abbey - Johann Blöchl , Anton Gasperschitz , Balthasar Gierlinger , Franz Hofer , Felix Kern , Franz Lorenzoni and Georg Stempfer worked for the company until 1938 .

After 1949 published u. a. by Albrecht Dunzendorfer , Herbert Lange , Alexandra Schmid Contributions for the newspaper.

literature

• Edith Sybille Rohleder: The Upper Austrian daily and weekly newspapers in their development from the end of the monarchy to 1965. Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1966, pp. 75-80 .

Web links

• Editions digitized by the Austrian National Library : Mühlviertler Nachrichten (online at ANNO )
• Mühlviertler Nachrichten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mühlviertel history from 1889 to 1938 on the Internet In: OÖ Nachrichten (online) on January 31, 2019. Retrieved on February 21, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daily news from town and country. - Journalistic. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , January 10, 1889, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Norbert Hanrieder website of the market town of Putzleinsdorf. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
3. ↑ Daily report. Inland. ("Mühlviertel News."). In:  Linzer Volksblatt , June 2, 1889, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ Daily news from town and country. - Catholic press association for the upper Mühlviertel. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , January 10, 1892, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Daily news from town and country. - Opening of the branch of the Preßverein printing house in Rohrbach. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , November 1, 1893, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ Weekly newspaper from that time. In: mein district.at of August 2, 2016.