Münzbach

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Münzbach
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Münzbach (Austria)
Münzbach
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Perg
License plate : PE
Surface: 24.86 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 16 '  N , 14 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '1 "  N , 14 ° 42' 56"  E
Height : 421  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,808 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 73 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4323
Area code : 07264
Community code : 4 11 13
Address of the
municipal administration:
Arbinger Strasse 7
4323 Münzbach
Website: www.muenzbach.at
politics
Mayor : Josef Bindreiter ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(19 members)
13
4th
2
13 4th 
A total of 19 seats
Location of Münzbach in the district of Perg
Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis Arbing Bad Kreuzen Baumgartenberg Dimbach Grein Katsdorf Klam Langenstein Luftenberg an der Donau Mauthausen Mitterkirchen im Machland Münzbach Naarn im Machlande Pabneukirchen Perg Rechberg Ried in der Riedmark St. Georgen am Walde St. Georgen an der Gusen St. Nikola an der Donau St. Thomas am Blasenstein Saxen Schwertberg Waldhausen im Strudengau Windhaag bei Perg OberösterreichLocation of the community Münzbach in the district of Perg (clickable map)
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Parish church Münzbach
Parish church Münzbach
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Münzbach is a market town in Upper Austria in the Perg district in the Mühlviertel with 1808 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The municipality belonging to the judicial district of Perg is located about eight kilometers northeast of the district capital Perg , where the seat of the competent district court is also.

A church is in 1111, associated parish rights are first mentioned in 1217 and market rights of citizens for the first time in 1251. The history of the place is shaped by the lords of Perg and Machland , the lords of Klingenberg and Windhaag , the Prague residents in the 16th and Joachim Enzmilner in the 17th century.

In 1938, the market town of Münzbach achieved the current areal expansion through the incorporation of the previously independent town of Innernstein. Since the 1960s, increased settlement activity has led to population growth combined with an expansion of the infrastructure.

As one of 18 municipalities in the Perg district, the municipality is a member of the Strudengau tourist region and particularly advertises the adventure park for the senses and the stations of the Enzmilner cultural hiking trail located in the municipality .

geography

Location and surroundings

The Münzbach market is at an altitude of 426  m above sea level. A. The extension of the hilly municipal area is 7.8 kilometers from north to south, and 7.2 kilometers from west to east. The total area is 25 square kilometers. About 28% of the area is forested and 66% of the area is used for agriculture. The highest point in the municipality is 499  m above sea level. A. near the Lang farm.

geology

The community is located in the Untermühlviertel Schollenland, an extension of the granite and gneiss plateau . From a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as aspects of the use of space, the municipal area of ​​Münzbach belongs predominantly to the Upper Austrian spatial unit Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland . Only in the south-west on the border to Pergkirchen and Arbing and in the east in the village of Danndorf does the southern Mühlviertel peripheral locations also extend to Münzbach.

Local division

Since the incorporation of the municipality of Innernstein on November 1, 1938, the Münzbach community has consisted of the two cadastral communities of Innernstein and Münzbach (the figures in brackets refer to the number of inhabitants as of January 1, 2020):

Neighboring communities and bodies of water

Part of the municipal boundaries is formed by streams. The Schwertmüllerbach forms the north-western border to Windhaag near Perg and the Käfermühlbach the northeast and eastern border of the municipal area to St. Thomas am Blasenstein and Bad Kreuzen . In the southwest the Kropfmühlbach and the Falkenauerbach form the border to Perg and Arbing, respectively . Other notable rivers in the municipality are the Wieserbach and Sulzbach. Among other things, the Neuhauserbach, Puchbergerbach and Deimingerbach have their origin in Münzbach. In the far north Rechberg , in the south Baumgartenberg and in the southeast Klam reaches Münzbach.

population

Population development
year Residents
1846
1869 1,435
1880 1,547
1890 1,432
1900 1,458
1910 1,480
1923 1,416
1934 1,419
year Residents
1939 1,316
1951 1,336
1961 1,351
1971 1,444
1981 1,479
1991 1,511
2001 1,699
2009 1,728

Population development

The population of the market town rose in the 19th century to a high of 1547 people in 1880, then fell significantly in the following decades to 1316 at the beginning of the Second World War and then slowly began to rise again. The high of the 19th century of 1547 people was not exceeded again until the 2001 census.

Population structure by gender, age and education

On January 1, 2009, the community of Münzbach had 1,728 inhabitants, 905 of them men and 823 women.

The rough age structure of the Münzbach population as of January 1, 2009 shows that 67.1% of Münzbach residents are over 15 and under 65 years old. At 18.5%, a little less than a fifth of the population is younger and, at 14.4%, around a seventh of the population is older. The proportion of women in the main group and in the younger population is around 45.8%, while it is significantly higher in the elderly with 58.2% than in the general population.

Of the 1329 Münzbachers who were over 15 years old in 2001, 650 or 48.9% are women. 30 Münzbachers, 1.2% of those over fifteen, have graduated from a university , technical college or academy ; the proportion of women here, at 56.7%, is significantly higher than that of the population group as a whole. Another 95 Münzbachers, that is 7.1% of the relevant population group, have the Matura , while the proportion of women at 49.5% is slightly higher than that of the population group concerned. 596 Münzbachers, or 44.8%, almost half of those over the age of fifteen, have completed an apprenticeship or vocational secondary school , with 37.2% women. 608 or 45.7% of Münzbach residents have only completed compulsory schooling . Almost three fifths of them are women.

Origin and language

94.9% of Münzbach's residents were Austrian citizens on January 1, 2009 and 93.5% were born in Austria. 2.8% of Münzbach residents come from other EU countries, 2.3% from non-EU countries.

The Middle or Danube Bavarian dialect is a Bavarian dialect form that is widespread throughout Upper Austria . The ostösterreichische branch of the middle Bairischen goes to the dialect of the created by the Bavarian Ostsiedlung Babenberg dominion Ostarrichi back.

In the 2001 census, 1595 people (93.9%) stated German as a colloquial language, 46 (2.7%) Turkish , 10 (0.6%) Croatian , 4 (0.2%) Bosnian , 23 (1.4 %) Czech , 21 (1.2%) another language.

religion

In the 16th century, the successors of Ladislaus Prager converted to the Protestant faith and with them the parishes and subjects belonging to the Windhaag rule (Altenburg, Münzbach, Rechberg, Windhaag). Münzbach also had Protestant pastors and a Latin school. After the counter-reformer Joachim Enzmilner took over the rule , the Protestant pastors were expelled. Those who did not want to return to the Catholic faith lost their possessions and thus the parishes and subjects were catholic again very soon.

In the 2001 census, 1580 people (93.0%) stated Roman Catholic as their religion, 64 (3.8%) Islamic , 3 (0.2%) Protestant , 7 (0.4%) Orthodox and 6 (0 , 4%) other faiths. 39 (2.3%) of Münzbach residents have not professed any religion.

history

See also the history section in the main article Markt Münzbach

Ancient and early Middle Ages

During Roman times , the area around Münzbach was only a few kilometers north of the border of the Noricum province , which was formed in this area by the Limes and the Danube , already outside the 7.5 kilometers wide buffer zone between Romans and barbarians . The Roman fort Adiuvense ( Wallsee ) and the Roman military camp Lauriacum ( Enns / Lorch ) were within sight. There are no traces of settlement from this time in the area of ​​the Münzbach community.

The linguistic influence of the Slavic and Baier settlement activity in the 7th and 8th centuries has been preserved in the names of farms and places. The area around Münzbach was originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria and belonged to the Avarsmark from the 9th century .

middle Ages

At the time of the Babenbergs , the later cadastral communities of Innernstein and Münzbach were in the margraviate and later in the Duchy of Austria in the border area between Riedmark and Machland and in the border area between the areas of the Lords of Perg and the Lords of Machland .

Innernstein Castle after Georg Matthäus Vischer around 1674

The history of Innernstein Castle, first mentioned in 1209 with the castle of Chunradus de Staine, is described in a separate main article. The plant came to the Kapeller , Liechtensteiner , Mühlheim, Kaiserstein, Stiebar , Rosenberg , Clam-Martinic , Salm-Reifferscheidt and finally (1897) the barons of Tinti. Despite several changes of ownership in the 20th century, the castle is still privately owned.

A church in Münzbach was reported as the property of Friedrich von Perg until 1111 , of the St. Florian monastery from 1111 to 1122 and of the Säbnich monastery in 1147 . The church received parish rights for the first time in 1217, the first pastor was Mag. Gottschalkus, but in 1331 the church came back into the possession of the Waldhausen monastery . Market rights for the citizens of Münzbach that were not dated in detail were first mentioned under the Babenbergers . From the 13th to the 15th century, the responsible regional court was the Machland regional court and, from 1491, the Windhaag Castle or Lordship . Since 1490 the place belongs to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

Modern times

In 1530 the place came under the rule of Windhaag , which at that time belonged to the descendants of Ladislaus Prager , then to various noble families, until it came from the rule of Klingenberg as a fief to Lorenz Schütter in 1588 . Protestantism had already spread among the Prague people, and Luther's teaching was omnipresent under the shivers. Only eleven houses are said to have remained Catholic. In the course of the Counter Reformation , Münzbach came to the Baumgartenberg Monastery for a few years and the Cistercians took over pastoral care. In 1636 Joachim Enzmilner acquired patronage over the parish and in 1639 the Münzbach market and from 1657 appointed Dominicans as pastors. With the establishment of the Dominican Monastery Münzbach , the church became a monastery church. Existing facilities such as the originally Protestant Latin school , which was converted into a Catholic alumnate in 1641, and the Barbaraspital , which had been in existence since 1591, were assigned to the monastery and administered by the Dominicans. The Ertzbruderschaft Jesu, Mariae and des Eternal Rosenkrantz established by Enzmilner in 1653 had 11,250 members, including Emperor Ferdinand III. and Emperor Leopold I , several empresses and members of the imperial family. In 1684 the plague raged in the Münzbach parish and there were 158 deaths. The Dominican monastery was closed in 1784, as was the collegiate school. For many years the building was the Linz infirmary with at times more than a hundred sick people and is now used as a parsonage and for apartments. In 1848 the independent municipalities of Innernstein and Münzbach emerged in the areas of the cadastral communities of the same name. The market commune was an independent body with its own administration. The municipal council was elected for three years. The market commune was responsible for supplying beneficiaries in the citizen's hospital, maintaining the market fountain, appointing the night watchman and maintaining the market lighting. The property consisted of the parish forest as well as donations and securities. In 1938 ownership became the property of the market town and the commune dissolved. The Barbaraspital is owned by the market town.

20th and 21st centuries

From 1918 these communities were in the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1938 the community of Innernstein was incorporated into the community of Münzbach. In 1945 Upper Austria was restored and Münzbach belonged to the Soviet occupation zone until 1955 . The population development stagnated or declined from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 1960s, only then did lively settlement activity begin and the number of inhabitants has risen significantly since then.

politics

City council and mayor

In the municipal council elections , the ÖVP has had an absolute majority of the votes and mandates since 1945, with the proportion of votes ranging between 84.9 percent (1945) and 58.7 percent (1979) of the votes cast. Most of the rest of the vote went to the SPÖ , which achieved the lowest share of votes in 1973 with 11.3% and the highest in 1979 with 24.7%. Josef Bindreiter from the ÖVP has been mayor since autumn 2007.

The FPÖ and WdU ran for every election from 1949 and scored between 15% (1949) and 4.6% (1979). The voting shares of communists and left-wing socialists who ran between 1945 and 1955 were negligible. The home list only entered in 1979 and reached 12.1% of the vote at the time.

Mayor of Münzbach

  • Vinzenz Kunze (1850 to 1861)
  • Tobias Mehr (1861 to 1870)
  • Engelbert Pilshofer (1870 to 1886)
  • Heinrich Höllinger (1886 to 1891)
  • Josef Stollnberger (1891 to 1894)
  • Franz Mehr (1895 to 1909)
  • Sebastian Grillenberger (1909 to 1919)
  • Georg Baumgartner (1919 to 1924)
  • Alois Stollnberger (1924 to 1938)
  • Josef Fröschl (1938 to 1945)
  • Franz Tagwerker (1945 to 1946)
  • Franz Langeder (1946 to 1961)
  • Josef Fröschl (1961 to 1984)
  • Ferdinand Strasser (1984 to 2007)
  • Josef Bindreiter (since 2007)

Mayor of Innernstein

  • Huber Philipp (1850 to 1861)
  • Josef Buchmayr (1861 to 1864)
  • Anton Grillenberger (1864 to 1867)
  • Josef Buchmayr (1867 to 1879)
  • Johann Kragl (1879 to 1882)
  • Peter Brandstetter (1882 to 1894)
  • Georg Kriechbaumer (1894 to 1900)
  • Peter Grillenberger (1900 to 1919)
  • Karl Schickermüller (1919 to 1934)
  • Johann Böcksteiner (1934 to 1938)

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms: In red a silver wavy bar, inside a red crayfish. The community colors are white-red-yellow.

sport and freetime

There are a number of associations in Münzbach that meet the cultural needs of the regional population. There are two music associations, in addition to the brass band there is also a chamber orchestra, which has an annual New Year's concert. The Münzbach parish operates a public library and a theater group goes public every year with a full-length play. The Sport Union Münzbach is divided into sections football (since 1966), Skiing (since 1971), Fistball (since 1975), tennis (1987) and Chess (1987). In August 2006 the sports area of ​​the Sportunion Greisinger Münzbach was opened. This area includes two soccer fields, two fistball courts and a clubhouse.

Culture and sights

Koppler-Föhre natural monument in Münzbach

Economy and Infrastructure

Commercial enterprises

In Münzbach mainly local and regional companies and public institutions are based, which mainly serve the local supply, including several restaurants.

In the 1990s, a meat processing company settled in Münzbach with public funding from the state government and the market town of Münzbach and has since built a factory area that has been expanded to around 20,000 square meters, which also employs workers from the region. In 2008, according to the company's own information, around 530 people were employed in Münzbach and the branches in Freistadt and Linz, sales amounted to around € 95 million with an export share of 20 percent. The company supplies markets at home and abroad, whereby the foreign markets are divided into EU countries, countries in southern and eastern Europe outside the EU, Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East and in Asia with the CIS countries, Japan and Singapore.

The market community of Münzbach is one of 18 communities in the Strudengau region .

Employment situation

On January 1, 2001, 589 people were employed in Münzbach. Of the 789 employed people living in Münzbach, 505 commuted to their workplaces outside the municipality, while at the same time 307 people commuted to their workplace in Münzbach.

330 jobs for the Münzbachers are in another municipality in the Perg district, mainly in Perg, Schwertberg and Baumgartenberg and 130 outside the Perg district in Upper Austria, mainly in Linz-Stadt and Linz-Land. The remaining jobs are located in other federal states, and a few abroad.

217 people from the Perg district and 43 people from the Freistadt district work in Münzbach, the rest of the commuters are spread across other districts of Upper Austria or other Austrian federal states.

In 2001, 11.5 percent of the Münzbachers worked in agriculture and forestry, 45.4 percent in industry, trade and construction and 42.6 percent in the service sector. In 1981 the share of people from Münzbach working in agriculture and forestry was 31.6 percent. 16.1 percent of the jobs in Münzbach were in agriculture, 64.2 percent in industry, trade and construction and 19.7 percent in the service sector. In 1981, 62.8 percent of jobs were still in agriculture and forestry.

Traffic situation

The next stops and stations of the Donauuferbahn are on the route between Perg and Grein at a distance of between 8 and 15 kilometers. Only buses are available for public transport directly in Münzbach, with connections coming from the hinterland to the district and state capital. A large number of inbound and outbound commuters depend on their own vehicle. The next motorway connections are in the west in Sankt Valentin, Enns and Asten with a journey time of 30 to 45 minutes and in the east in Amstetten and in Ybbs with a journey time of 50 to 55 minutes.

For commuters, the expansion of the road network over the past few years and decades means a significant improvement. Particular mention should be made of the Münzbach bypass, the continuous expansion of the state roads in the municipality from the south-west of Perg with a connection to the Donau Strasse , from the south of Arbing and from the north-east of Pabneukirchen .

As early as April 25, 1898, the construction of the road from Münzbach via Innernstein to Klam began, thus avoiding the route over Obernstrasse, which is difficult to pass in winter. In 1909 the Falkenauerbach was bridged and an access road was built along the Tobrabach . In 1910, traffic obstacles on the road from Perg to Münzbach were removed.

Infrastructure

The market town of Münzbach is supplied with electricity by the Perg electricity company on the one hand and Linz AG on the other . There is both a regional district heating supply for parts of the municipality and a connection to the Upper Austrian gas network .

There are two local fire brigades in the market town. In addition to the Münzbach volunteer fire department, there is also the Obernstrasse fire department.

In the market town of Münzbach there is a kindergarten and playgroups for children who are not yet of school age, as well as an elementary school. The possibility of attending secondary schools, a lower-level grammar school, the polytechnic course or the middle and higher schools is possible in the district of Perg, whereby the city of Perg in particular acts as the school town.

In 1996 street names were introduced.

Personalities

Personalities associated with Münzbach

Personalities who were born in Münzbach

  • Reinhard Dyk , Vice Mayor of Linz, state civil servant, honorary ring holder of the city of Linz, the cultural medal of the state of Upper Austria and the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria.
  • Michael Mayr, (born November 12, 1898 in Münzbach; † September 7, 1978 in Schardenberg), honorary citizen of Schardenberg, pastor of Schardenberg 1935 to 1970 with interruptions from 1940 to 1945, briefly secretary of Diocesan Caritas in 1945, consistorial councilor in Linz and Vienna, suggested the Fatima celebrations in Münzbach.
  • Georg Grüll , teacher and historian, wrote the articles for the Münzbach school chronicle, which also appeared in newspapers, as well as the work “Münzbach. The story of an old Machländer market ”.
  • Johann Ritter von Hitzinger (born May 13, 1813 in Münzbach; † 1889 in Vienna), was a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Vienna and was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd class by the Emperor and made knightly.
  • Josef Salzmann , Austrian priest (ordained 1842) and theologian, missionary in the Diocese of Milwaukee.
  • Franz Starzer (born November 22, 1922 in Münzbach; † October 23, 2002), was Deputy State Office Director and President of the Upper Austrian Red Cross in the pension. He was the honorary ring bearer of KaV Bajuvaria Vienna.
  • Franz Greisinger (* in Münzbach), entrepreneur in the meat processing industry, built a factory in Münzbach, which has now been expanded to an area of ​​20,000 square meters and employs 530 people, some of whom come from the region.

Honorary citizen of Innernstein

  • Georg Aigner, pastor of Münzbach from 1902 to 1931.
  • Franz Mehr, doctor and mayor of Münzbach from 1894 to 1909.
  • Franz Josef Rudigier, Bishop of Linz (1878).
  • Johann Sonnleitner, pastor of Münzbach from 1931 to 1938.

Honorary citizen of Münzbach

(The year of the honor is given in brackets)

  • Georg Aigner, pastor of Münzbach from 1902 to 1931.
  • Ferdinand Ansorge, pastor of Münzbach from 1938 to 1961.
  • Georg Edtenstrasser, headmaster and organist from 1866 to 1892 (1890).
  • Rudolf Fischer, primary school director from 1923 to 1945 (1966).
  • Josef Fröschl, Mayor of Münzbach from 1961 to 1984 (1985).
  • Josef Grafeneder , pastor of Münzbach since 1990 (2003)
  • Rupert Holzer, Kapellmeister (1953).
  • Franz Mehr, doctor and mayor of Münzbach from 1894 to 1909 (1899).
  • Alfred Pfanzagl, pastor of Münzbach from 1961 to 1990 and dean of the Perg deanery from 1973 to 1988 (1981).
  • Hans Pilshofer, community doctor
  • Johann Sonnleitner, pastor of Münzbach from 1931 to 1938.
  • Ferdinand Strasser, Mayor of Münzbach 1979 to 2007 (2008).
  • Erwin Wenzl, Governor of Upper Austria (1973).

Honorary ring bearer from Münzbach

  • Josef Fröschl, Mayor (1974).
  • Johann Lettner, local council and council (1979).
  • Anton Mayrhofer, fire brigade commander (1993).
  • Max Langeder, community council (1998).
  • Matthäus Ebenhofer fire brigade commander and community chairman (1998).
  • Ferdinand Strasser, Mayor (2002).
  • Franz Greisinger, entrepreneur (2003).
  • Franz Langeder, Vice Mayor (2004).
  • Josef Enengl, municipal councilor (2004).
  • Karl Heiligenbrunner, long-time member of the community council (2007).

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 .
  • Joseph Rainier: Dr. Joseph Salzmann, Life a. Act St. Louis in 1876, 2nd editon, Milwaukee in 1903; tr.BERG, A Noble Priest, Milwaukee 1903.
  • Karl Schmidtberger: Münzbach, worth living for every individual. In: Our home. The district of Perg. Association for the publication of a district homeland book Perg - communities of the district of Perg, Linz 1995.
  • Josef Grafeneder , Marktgemeinde Münzbach (Ed.): Münzbach, Land and People - Yesterday and Today. Ried im Innkreis 2010.
  • Georg Grüll : Münzbach. The story of an old Machländer market. Münzbach 1922-1924.

Web links

Commons : Münzbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Kohl: The lifeless nature. In: Land Oberösterreich (Ed.): The Mühlviertel, nature-culture-life, contributions to the state exhibition in 1988 in Weinberg Castle near Kefermarkt. Linz 1988, p. 41ff.
  2. ^ Office of the Upper Austrian state government, nature conservation department (ed.): Volume 16: Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland area. Linz, 2007 (Download as pdf; 5.4 MB) ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  3. ^ Office of the Upper Austrian State Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Volume 37: Spatial unit southern Mühlviertler peripheral locations. Vienna, 2007 (download as pdf)
  4. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  5. Statistics Austria: Population development of Münzbach (PDF)
  6. Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Münzbach population status and structure PDF
  7. Statistics Austria: A look at the community Münzbach Education PDF
  8. a b c Statistics Austria table: A look at the community of Münzbach Demographic data PDF
  9. ^ Office of Upper Austria. State government, regional database elections - municipal council election Results of the municipal council elections since 1945 in Münzbach (Upper Austria) queried on December 3, 2011.
  10. Natural monuments in Münzbach
  11. Homepage of the company Greisinger Fleisch-, Wurst- und Selchwarenproduktion GmbH, Münzbach
  12. Strudengau region
  13. View of the community of Münzbach, commuters by commuting destination , (PDF)
  14. Province of Upper Austria, regional database , (PDF) ( Memento from December 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )