Mattighofen

Borough

Mattighofen

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Upper Austria

Political District :

Braunau am Inn

License plate :

BR

Surface:

5.15 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 6 ' N , 13 ° 9' E Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '24 " N , 13 ° 8' 58" E

Height :

454 m above sea level A.

Residents :

6,927 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

1345 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

5230

Area code :

07742

Community code :

4 04 21

NUTS region

AT311

Address of the
municipal administration:

Stadtplatz 1
5230 Mattighofen

Website:

www.mattighofen.at

politics

Mayor :

Friedrich Schwarzenhofer ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(31 members)

10

8th

7th

4th

1

10 8th 7th 4th 1 1

A total of 31 seats

SPÖ : 10
FPÖ : 8
BfM : 7
ÖVP : 4
GREEN : 1
LFM : 1

Location of Mattighofen in the Braunau am Inn district

Mattighofen around 1700

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mattighofen is a town with 6927 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Upper Austrian Innviertel in the Mattigtal . The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

geography

Mattighofen lies at an altitude of 454 m in the Innviertel. The extension is from north to south 3 km, from west to east 3.3 km. The total area is 5.2 km². 13.5% of the area is forested, 50.0% of the area is used for agriculture.

The Trattmannsberg district also belongs to the area of the city of Mattighofen .

history

Mattighofen was one of the five early Bavarian ducal courts. In 757 a royal palace was established . In 1007 the Mattiggau was given to the diocese of Bamberg . In 1517, Count Christoph von Ortenburg acquired the castle and the rule. His son Joachim introduced the Reformation in his Lower Bavarian county in 1563 . For Mattighofen, too, this caused conflicts with the Bavarian dukes for decades. In 1602 the counts were reconciled with the dukes. In return, however, they had to sell the rule to the Wittelsbachers for 102,000 guilders . With the Treaty of Teschen in 1779/80, the entire Innviertel including Mattighofen became part of Austria . During the Napoleonic Wars briefly Bavarian again, the place has been part of Upper Austria since 1816 ( Treaty of Munich ). After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the "Gau Oberdonau". After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place. Mattighofen was elevated to a town in 1986 by the Upper Austrian provincial government . In 2012 Mattighofen, together with Burghausen and Braunau , hosted the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition , which was one of the most popular in the history of the provincial exhibitions. In Mattighofen, the state exhibition was located in the castle, which was redesigned after the exhibition into the new city office and has been in operation as such since 2013.

Population development

The increase in population occurs despite the negative birth balance (since 1981) because of the high level of immigration .

politics

Mayor is Friedrich Schwarzenhofer ( SPÖ ). He succeeded Josef Öller , who died surprisingly .

The mandate distribution in the municipal council (31 seats) is SPÖ 10 seats, ÖVP 4 seats, FPÖ 8 seats, Greens 1 seat, Movement for Mattighofen 7 seats and LFM 1 seat.

coat of arms

Blazon :

In blue a silver, right- facing crescent moon , accompanied in the cavity by a golden, six-pointed star .

The community colors are red-green.

The origin of the coat of arms is unknown. The first official evidence is from 1781 (Sigil gemaines Marckts Mattighofen) .

Agencies and public authorities

City Office
Police inspection (until June 30, 2005: Gendarmeriepostenkommando )
District Court (since 2003 also responsible for the Wildshut district)
Branch office of the district administration Braunau am Inn (for forest supervision and youth welfare)

education

four kindergartens (Kindergarten East and West, Caritas Kindergarten, Remedial Kindergarten - Lebenshilfe)
Elementary school
New middle school I and II
Polytechnic school
Special education school
professional school
State music school
Community College

traffic

With a stop at the Mattigtalbahn , Mattighofen has a connection to the rail network (towards Salzburg or towards Braunau).

economy

The largest employers in the region are based in Mattighofen in the KTM incurred KTM AG and KTM bike .

The following companies are also located in the city:

Robust plastic eder
Aptiv (formerly Delphi)
DAWO Pulverbeschichtung GmbH
GBM GmbH
Wood pellets Hot's (Glechner GmbH)
KA-MA Metallbau GmbH
Ing. Ernst Bamberger electrical machine technology
Lohberger InstallationsgmbH
Leo Demetz GmbH
MAHLE Filtersysteme Austria GmbH
RJ GmbH
Elektroland Mattighofen
KS electrode

In 2010 Mattighofen had sixteen agricultural and forestry holdings that cultivated 384 hectares . In 1999, 15,966 hectares were still cultivated, which means a decrease of 97.6%. In the secondary economic sector, 59 companies employed 2,699 people, mostly in the manufacture of goods. In the tertiary economic sector, 361 companies gave work to 2,122 people, most of them employed in trade, social and public services and technical and economic services.

Culture and sights

Mattighofen town square in the Inn-Salzach style
Mattighofen Castle : once Agilolfingian , later Carolingian farmyard, then rule of the Bamberg diocese, the Counts of Ortenburg and the Bavarian dukes ; Sequoia tree in the castle garden
Mattighofen parish church with the Mattighofen Collegiate Foundation
Pewter foundry house: The oldest preserved house on the town square. The pewter foundry was in operation until the 20th century. Today it serves as a clubhouse for the civil guards
Vogl-Villa: today state music school

In May 2019 the KTM Motohall , an exhibition space with an area of 3000 square meters, was opened in Mattighofen.

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

Joachim von Ortenburg (1530–1600), ruling Count von Ortenburg from 1551 to 1600
Karl Frauscher (1852–1914), paleontologist
Rudolph Hittmair (1859–1915), was a Roman Catholic bishop in Linz
Rudolf Pfaffinger (1859–1905), Austrian politician, member of the Reichsrat
Michaela Pfaffinger (1863–1898), Austrian painter
Josef Hafner (1875–1932), teacher and Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) (member of the state parliament, the National Council and the Federal Council)
Friedrich Chlubna (1946–2005) chess composer
Erwin Stricker (1950–2010), Italian ski racer, born in Mattighofen
Susanne Riess-Passer (* 1961), lawyer, 2000–2003 Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, former Austrian politician (FPÖ)

People related to the city:

Anton Wieninger (1813–1880), beer brewer and liberal Austrian politician, elected mayor of Mattighofen in 1860
Josef Hamberger (1884–1962), politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament, died in Mattighofen
Karl Hosaeus (1893–1964), forest adviser and painter, co-founder of the Innviertel artists ' guild in 1923 , lived in Mattighofen
Linus Kefer (1909–2001), educator and writer
Franz Bachleitner (1926–2003) was mayor when Mattighofen was named town in 1986
Josef Linecker (1928–1997), architect, ran an architecture office in Mattighofen
Joseph Werndl (* 1929), Austrian organist, choir director, composer and conductor, between 1951 and 1977 organist and choir director in Mattighofen
Josef Öller (1949–2008), politician ( SPÖ ), 1997–2008 Mayor of Mattighofen, member of the state parliament
Hermann Gschaider (* 1956), Austrian sculptor, lives and works in Mattighofen
David Witteveen (* 1985), soccer player, began his active career as a soccer player in 1991 with ATSV Mattighofen
Alisar Ailabouni (* 1989), photo model and mannequin, lived in Mattighofen

literature

Rudolf W. Schmidt: Mattighofen. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .