Marchtrenk

Borough Marchtrenk
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Catfish Land
License plate :	WL
Surface:	23.13 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 12 '  N , 14 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '30 "  N , 14 ° 6' 38"  E
Height :	304  m above sea level A.
Residents :	14,070 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4614
Area code :	07243
Community code :	4 18 12
Address of the municipal administration:	Linzer Strasse 21 4614 Marchtrenk
Website:	www.marchtrenk.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Paul Mahr ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (37 members)	19th 10 6th 2 19th 10 6th 2  A total of 37 seats SPÖ : 19 FPÖ : 10 ÖVP : 6 GREEN : 2
Location of Marchtrenk in the Wels-Land district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Marchtrenk is a town in Upper Austria in the Wels-Land district in the Hausruckviertel with 14,070 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The responsible district court is Wels.

geography

Marchtrenk is located at 304 m altitude on the border with the Traunviertel . The municipality borders on the Traun . The extension is 6.4 km from north to south and 5.5 km from west to east. The total area is 23.13 km². 10.4% of the area is forested, 63.6% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Au an der Traun (1946)
• Kappern (429)
• Leithen (382)
• Marchtrenk (8700)
• Mitterperwend (523)
• Niederperwend (383)
• Niederprisching (5)
• Oberneufahrn (177)
• Sheep meadows (597)
• Unterhaid (161)
• Under hard (738)
• Firmeneufahrn (29)

The community consists of the cadastral community Marchtrenk.

Neighboring communities

Holzhausen Buchkirchen	Oftering ( district Linz-Land )
Wels (city)		Hörsching ( district Linz-Land ) Pucking ( district Linz-Land ) ∗
Schleissheim	Weißkirchen an der Traun

^∗ Only at one point in the middle of the Traun

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms awarded in 1972: oblique left humiliated divided; above in red a golden, growing wolf, below in silver two blue oblique left bars. The community colors are red and yellow.

The coat of arms of the Marchtrenker, who was raised to the imperial nobility in 1589, exiled to Germany because of the Protestant faith and died out in 1743, was adopted as the municipal coat of arms.

history

Old parish church Marchtrenk

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Marchtrenk was first mentioned in a document in 1205. Since 1490 the area has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . During the Peasant Wars, the peasants won their last victory on October 10, 1626 near the village of Leithen. At the end of the 17th century, the area was part of the Steyregg rule .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

An Austro-Hungarian POW camp has been located here since 1915. Since 1918 the place belongs to 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 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

On February 4, 1985 the community Marchtrenk with the governor Josef Ratzenböck was raised to the market community; the market survey ceremony finally took place on June 22, 1985. On January 1, 2000, the then market town was raised to the status of the township by Governor Josef Pühringer ( ÖVP ).

One of the oldest buildings in Marchtrenk is the old Catholic church. It dates from around 1487, but has been repeatedly damaged by lightning strikes and other disasters over the years. At the beginning of the 1970s, a new parish center was built in the immediate vicinity for reasons of space. With the influx of Germans from Danube Swabia and Transylvania , the number of Protestants in Marchtrenk rose sharply after the Second World War . As a result, a Protestant church was built in Marchtrenk in 1968.

Population development

Statistics Austria has been using the quarterly data to determine the number of residents via upright main residence reports in the Central Residential Register (ZMR) since 2002. In May 2008 the 12,000 residents (influx) were welcomed. Marchtrenk is by far the largest municipality in the district of Wels-Land and is on the list of the largest cities in Austria in 51st place (as of 2012).

politics

Local council: 19 SPÖ , 10 FPÖ , 6 ÖVP , 2 Greens

• City council: 5 SPÖ , 3 FPÖ , 1 ÖVP

mayor

• 1969–1990 Ferdinand Reisinger (SPÖ)
• until 2013 Fritz Kaspar (SPÖ)
• since 2013 Paul Mahr (SPÖ)

traffic

Marchtrenk train station

• Road: In the west, the Welser Autobahn A 25 runs through the municipality. There are two motorway connections: Wels -Ost / Marchtrenk West and Weißkirchen / Marchtrenk Ost. Wiener Straße B 1 also runs from east to west .
• Rail: Marchtrenk is on the Westbahn and has its own train station in the northwest of the municipality. Regional trains in the direction of Linz or Wels stop several times an hour . A turnoff to the Pyhrnbahn for trains that run via Traun to Linz is located in the municipality.
• Airport: Linz Airport is located in the neighboring municipality of Hörsching .
• Wheel: In the south of the municipality runs along the Traun of Traun bike path from Linz to Gmunden .

education

Marchtrenk has four kindergartens , two elementary schools , two new middle schools and a polytechnic school .

economy

In Marchtrenk there are 507 companies with a total of 4862 employees (as of May 2001). There is one company with over 200 employees and five companies with 100–199 employees each.

Pendulum currents

Of the 5,303 employed people living in Marchtrenk, 3,487 are out- commuters (as of May 2001). The most frequent destinations are Wels (city) with 1434, Linz (city) with 758 and Linz-Land with 632 people. Conversely, there are 3,036 in-commuters. Of these, 767 commuters come from Wels (city), 590 from Wels-Land and 519 from Linz-Land.

Sports

In Marchtrenk there is an outdoor swimming pool, a beach volleyball field, tennis courts, two large soccer fields and several smaller soccer fields, an ice rink and a hiking trail along the Traun.

There are two football clubs in Marchtrenk:

• The SC Marchtrenk played 2013-14 in the fourth-class division Upper East.
• SV Viktoria Marchtrenk was founded on March 15, 1959. In the 2004/05 season, the club made it to the regional league, and Viktoria is now back in the regional league.

Culture and sights

The war cemetery has 1,879 soldiers from Italy, Russia, Serbia and Romania

See also:  List of listed objects in Marchtrenk

• Old Marchtrenk parish church , now cemetery church
• New Marchtrenk parish church
• Marchtrenk Evangelical Parish Church
• Water tower (of the Kuk POW camp), built in 1915 by Bohr, was only in operation for 2 years
• War cemetery First World War
• Rectory
• Ufermann Chapel
• Marchtrenker Mauthaus (built on the former wooden bridge over the Traun by the Bridge Association in 1893)
• Marchtrenker cradle: A historical curiosity of the community is the painted and labeled “Marchtrenker cradle”, which is now in the castle museum Linz . It is also known as the "cradle of the ancients". The Marchtrenk judge Johann Kötzinger had it made in 1702 to punish quarrelsome married couples. These were chained up like baby diapers, placed in the cradle and weighed publicly to the amusement of the local residents. Later a Schwank was also written about the “Marchtrenker cradle”.

societies

• Museum Association Marchtrenk-Welser Heide
• Marchtrenk Music Association
• KIM - Culture in Marchtrenk (cultural association)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Karl Kollmann (1898–1989), Vice Mayor and Member of the State Parliament
• Hans Graf (* 1949), conductor
• Thomas Pesendorfer (* 1952), engraver and coin designer.

People related to the community

• Karl Rössing (1897–1987), graphic artist, lived in Marchtrenk from 1977 to 1987
• Ferdinand Reisinger (1928–1998), mayor
• Georg Zellhofer (* 1960), soccer coach, lives in Marchtrenk.
• Ewald Brenner (* 1975), soccer coach at SV Viktoria Marchtrenk

Web links

Commons : Marchtrenk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Office Marchtrenk

• 41812 - Marchtrenk. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Marchtrenk on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://marchtrenk.evang.at/
4. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections. Accessed June 28, 2016 . 
5. ^ Paul Mahr new mayor of Marchtrenk. In: ooe.orf.at. May 26, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Statistics Austria - Workplace census from May 15, 2001 (PDF; 18 kB) Accessed on October 18, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Statistics Austria - Employees by commuting destination. (PDF; 14 kB) Retrieved October 18, 2010 . 
8. ↑ Report from the 2015 Water Tower Festival (99 years) museumsverein-marchtrenk.at, accessed February 6, 2017.
9. ↑ MTW Wasserturmfest 2015 youtube.com, video 4:21 min, Museumsverein Marchtrenk, November 23, 2016, accessed February 6, 2017.
10. ↑ Mauthausreinigung September 3, 2016 youtube.com, video 6:52 min, Museumsverein Marchtrenk, November 23, 2016, accessed February 6, 2017.
11. ^ Johann Werfring: Shame punishment for quarrelsome spouses Article in the "Wiener Zeitung" of April 24, 2014, supplement "ProgrammPunkte", p. 7.
12. ↑ Wilfried Seipel (Ed.): Catalog: Karl Rössing [1897-1987] . Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900325-78-2 , p. 11 ff., 37 .