Natternbach

Natternbach is located at an altitude of 434 meters in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 8.6 kilometers from north to south, and 6.6 kilometers from west to east. The total area is 30.9 km². 35.6% of the area is forested, 57.9% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 40 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Au at Ed (26)
Au near Natternbach (10)
Baumuhl (18)
Berndorf (63)
Amber wheel (41)
Double (16)
Corner (25)
Ed (18)
Fronberg (58)
Gaisbuchen (96)
Gschaid (22)
Haibach (38)
Hairet (8)
Hochstraß (52)
Hearing rating (34)
Hörzingerwald (41)
Hungberg (27)
Capping (22)
Kirchberg (30)
Knotzberg (14)
Cross (39)
Lichtberg (14)
Moss (16)
Natternbach (1018)
Oberhoering (13)
Obermaggau (27)
Obertresleinsbach (97)
Pfeneberg (38)
Pötzenau (11)
Poetzling (37)
Puret (10)
Riding (28)
Rittberg (21)
Blacksmith resin (59)
Valley (78)
Traunolding (24)
Lower corner (16)
Unterhörzing (23)
Lower Maggau (49)
Wolfgrub (10)

The community consists of the only cadastral community Natternbach.

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 2,300 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 2,337 inhabitants. From 2001 to 2011 the birth balance remained positive (+70), but emigration increased (-86), so that the population decreased to 2,321 in 2011.

history

Natternbach was mentioned in writing as "Norderenbar" as early as the 9th century and was created through a contract between Otto von Norderenbar and the Babenberg family.

At the time of the Upper Austrian Peasants' War , Natternbach played a key role. In January 1625 the dean Blasius de Livo and the Italian pastor he appointed were pelted with stones by a few hundred farmers and chased away in Natternbach. This initially had no consequences, but set in motion a series of events that ended in the Upper Austrian Peasants' War. In May of the same year, the Catholic priest was chased away in Frankenburg am Hausruck and the keeper of the county was besieged in Schloss Frankenburg . In order to nip further uprisings in the bud, Adam Graf von Herberstorff set an example with the Frankenburg dice game . But this increased the anger of the Protestant peasants even more, whereupon the Peasants' War began in May 1626 with the first fighting in Lembach in the Mühlkreis .

Together with other villages in the “Dark Corner”, as Herberstorff called the rebellious farming communities, a troop consisting of several hundred peasants under the command of Hansen Vischer was provided, which was extremely strong and at the same time powerful for the time, around the Bavarian troops and troops To drive St. Agatha , Neukirchen am Walde and even Peuerbach out of the same town. This succeeded in a first battle, and the farmers captured cannons and modern weapons from the Bavarian soldiers.

When Count Herberstorff wanted to move out with a large detachment of Bavarian professional soldiers in order to repel the rebels in Peuerbach, he was surprised by an ambush by the peasants in the middle of the march on the Ledererwiese. They fought resolutely against Herberstorff's elite soldiers, the Black Riders of Munich , so that the count could only save himself with a small troop through an uncontrolled escape. All Bavarian infantry remained behind on the battlefield. In this battle, too, the peasants captured large amounts of war material. However, when the siege of the provincial capital Linz failed, all the high personalities of the peasants were captured, including Hansen Vischer. They were allowed to choose between conversion to Catholicism or death. Hansen Vischer was the only one of them who chose death so as not to lose face.

Since 1490 Natternbach has been part of the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. 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.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by a blue-silver wavy bar divided by silver and red, humiliated; above a black raven ready to fly. ”The community colors are blue-white-red.

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1967, is based on the coat of arms of the knight dynasty once resident here, based on an imprint of the seal of Pernhart von Nadernpach from 1300. The wavy bar refers to the place name.

politics

mayor

since 2003 Josef Ruschak (ÖVP)
1988–2003 Hermann Obernhumer
1967–1988 Franz Lindner
1961–1967 Josef Litzlbauer
1949–1961 Franz Klaffenböck
1945–1949 Josef Zauner

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Margareta

Parish church Natternbach : At the end of the 18th century the vault of the nave was redesigned in Baroque style on the late Gothic church building.

Sports

Natternbach has been trying to expand its sports facilities since 1955 and can refer to many great sporting successes. It is worth mentioning the athletics club IGLA Long Life with chairman Hubert Lang, the most successful gymnastics teacher in Upper Austria and initiator of the annual New Year's Eve run in Peuerbach (from 1981 to 1996 New Year's Eve run in Natternbach ). This club is one of the best in Austria and is internationally known, only the LV Wien can point to even more successes.

The Natternbach football club also made a name for itself. Young players keep coming to the national team, a goalkeeper even made it into the national team and was very successful there. The club itself was also unmatched in the district for a long time: it made it into the 2nd regional league, where almost exclusively large cities rank.

Two Natternbachers became world famous, repeatedly becoming European champions in their class in skibobing, one of them even made it to multiple world championships.

With a large sports facility and covered auditorium, its own training ground, tennis courts, cross-country skiing trails, a ski lift ("Liftomat 2000" and floodlights), large hiking trails, etc. Natternbach offers one of the most extensive sporting activities that you can find in a village with this number of inhabitants Can be found.

tourism

With a nature adventure park, but also many guest houses, riding stables, a beach volleyball court and asphalt stick pitches, it is a popular tourist destination in the Grieskirchen district.

Personalities

Anna Maria Dieplinger (* 1970) social scientist
Martin Humer (1925-2011), anti-pornography activist
Johannes Marböck (* 1935), theologian
Josef Pfeneberger (1880–1952), member of the state parliament

Web links

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

Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
More information about the municipality of Natternbach on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
Natternbach on the website of the Province of Upper Austria on the history of the country

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Natternbach, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (2nd supplement) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 1/2, 1970, p. 62, online (PDF; 1.6 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Natternbach, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .

[3] Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (2nd supplement) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 1/2, 1970, p. 62, online (PDF; 1.6 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

[4] Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 .