Neufelden

market community Neufelden
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Surface:	9.8 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 29 '  N , 14 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '3 "  N , 14 ° 0' 7"  E
Height :	517  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,249 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	127 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4120
Area code :	07282
Community code :	4 13 21
Address of the municipal administration:	Markt 22 4120 Neufelden
Website:	www.neufelden.at
politics
Mayor :	Hubert Hartl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	13 3 3 13 3 3  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 3 FPÖ : 3
Location of Neufelden in the Rohrbach district
Neufelden town center with a fountain
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Neufelden is a market town in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel with 1249 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

The responsible judicial district is Rohrbach in Upper Austria .

geography

Neufelden train station, in the foreground the Große Mühl

Neufelden is located at an altitude of 517 m in the upper Mühlviertel. The extension is 5.8 km from north to south and 3.8 km from west to east. The total area is 9.7 km². 20.6% of the area is forested and 71.1% of the area is used for agriculture.

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

• Long necks (27)
• Neufelden (919)
• Plankenberg (22)
• Pürnstein (163)
• Quarry (98)
• Unterberg (20)

Neighboring communities

	Arnreit	Eggplant
Altenfelden		Sankt Peter am Wimberg
	Kleinzell in the Mühlkreis	Ortisei in the Mühlkreis

history

The place was founded around 1200 by the Lords of Griesbach and was originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria . Velden was first mentioned in a document in 1217 . A feudal matter was settled in a document from Bishop Ulrich von Passau and Neufelden became the property of the Passau Monastery :

... Castrum Griezbach et forum Velden utrumque uidelicet cum suis pertinentiis secundum adtestacionem testium ...
... Schloss Griesbach und der Markt Neufelden, beide nämlich mit ihren Besitzungen gemäß dem Zeugnis der Zeugen ...”

After the Griesbachers died out in 1220, the market became the center of the Passau rulership of Velden and was given high jurisdiction.

District Court of Velden

From 1220 the place was administered by Passau carers. Around 1300 the Capellers are attested as carers, 1347–1354 Chunrat von Tannberg. 1393–1503 are the Herleinsberg keepers from Velden; after that, the nursing court was initially moved to Tannberg and from 1528 to Marsbach .

The area of ​​jurisdiction extended from the Danube along the Große Mühl to against Schlägl . To the west the Ranna formed the border. The place of execution was located on the Galgenberg, which is still known today. The respective owner of the Bruckmühle was obliged to erect the gallows, and at the Feichtnerhof in Bairach there was an obligation to “bring the ladder to court”. The original of the cart with which the delinquents were brought to the place of execution in the 19th century. The chapel on the road to Galgenberg, where the condemned were allowed to perform their last worship, is still called the Poor Sinner Chapel today.

Salt trade

Although Neufelden was destroyed in the course of an invasion of Bavaria in 1266, the place recovered quickly thanks to its location on an important trade route from the Danube to Bohemia . Neufelden was located on the easternmost branch of the Goldener Steig as well as on the westernmost alternative route of the Linzer Steig . In 1311, Bishop Wernhard von Passau granted the place the right to stack salt. Goods that were transported through Velden had to be stored for a few days and offered for sale. Velden was allowed to purchase a certain amount of salt from Passau duty-free and toll-free, and the citizens of Velden should have the same rights as the citizens of Passau.

The Neufeldner traded mainly in salt from Hallein and Reichenhall , which was transported from Passau by ships down the Danube to the mouth of the Kleine Mühl , where the Neufeldner set up the necessary storage rooms and sheds. Over time, the village of Obermühl developed there .

In 1662 there was a dispute between Neufelden and Rohrbach because of the salt trade and the road toll to be paid in Neufelden , which even led to various riots and attacks. The seven markets in Rohrbach, Haslach , Aigen , Sarleinsbach , Hofkirchen , Putzleinsdorf and Lembach allied and sent a joint complaint to the governorate. The toll dispute was finally decided in favor of the seven markets. The toll in Neufelden was not finally lifted until 1776.

The Salzgasse in Neufelden is still reminiscent of the once important branch of the economy.

Another story

1374-1383 Neufelden was pledged to the Schaunberger . From 1595–1597 the market was badly affected by the peasant uprisings. During the market fire in 1615, the writings about the granted privileges fell victim to the fire, but Emperor Ferdinand II confirmed the old freedoms of the market with the privilege letter of December 11, 1631, including the May 1st fair and Martini, the stalking Burggeding and wet Bachwald and the civil right to brew beer . From 1627 the market was subordinated to the Passau rule of Pürnstein .

In the 18th century the place flourished, especially because of the linen trade. Campmiller, Peßler and Stölzl are the names of the wealthy and respected families of flax merchants who are inextricably linked with the upswing in the market at the time. The Campmiller family built the castle and church in Langhalsen and was also in imperial service. Johann Stölzl was a great benefactor of the market, who also had the citizens' hospital rebuilt and enlarged.

In November 1805, Neufelden was occupied by French troops in the course of the Napoleonic Wars and severely damaged by the extraordinary burden of the quarters. Through the long wars, the linen trade was paralyzed and the former rich sales areas were lost. In addition to this economic low, there was also the fire accident of 1830, to which the rows of houses between Marktplatz and Kirchengasse including the church fell victim. In the middle of the 19th century, the Neufeldner tried to create a replacement for the lost linen industry. Sericulture and Indigo GENERATION not proven, but the introduction of hop culture was successful. The landowner Johann Paul Löffler was an avid supporter of hops. He used the hops for his brewery in Langhalsen and with his good beers allayed the mistrust of the other breweries against local hops. Neufelden became the main trading center for Upper Austrian hops, which were also exported to Bavaria, Bohemia and even England . The first hop kiln in Upper Austria was built in Neufelden in 1864. The flourishing of the Mühlviertel hops production lasted until the First World War .

In 1923, the noble seat and the village of Langhalsen were sacrificed for the construction of a reservoir. An 8 kilometer long tunnel was driven from the right bank of the Mühl towards the Partenstein storage power plant, Austria's first large-scale power plant.

Devastating fires devastated the Neufelden market in 1931 and 1937. In the spring of 1931, the two rows of houses between Kirchengasse and Marktplatz burned down. In April 1937, houses no. 11 to 22 were destroyed by flames.

In the autumn of 1938, the previously independent municipality of Pürnstein was incorporated into Neufelden. On May 2, 1945, American troops entered the market from the northwest. The Mühlviertel was then, however, Russian occupation zone until 1955.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council, as the highest body of the municipality, has 19 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The municipality board consists of five members, whereby the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) is represented after the municipal council elections in 2009 with the mayor, the vice mayor and two other members on the municipality board and thus has an absolute majority in this body. The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) sends another member.

The strongest faction in Neufelden's municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which from 1973 onwards always achieved an absolute majority of votes and mandates and at times even had a two-thirds majority. In this period, the ÖVP achieved between 58.7 and 67.3 percent, with its best result since 1973 in the 1985 election and its worst result in 2003. The second strongest party in Neufelden's municipal council has always been the SPÖ, which has achieved election results between 20.9 percent (1997) and 29.7 (2003) percent since 1973. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has always competed in municipal council elections since 1973 and was able to score between 5.0 and 13.3 percent for itself, with a maximum of two mandates. The FPÖ achieved its best result in 1997. In 2003 the Greens were the only other party to stand for election. They were able to achieve 6.6 percent and one mandate straight away, but did not run again in 2009.

In the last municipal council election in 2015, the ÖVP won 64.0 percent or 13 seats, the SPÖ 18.1 percent or three seats and the FPÖ 17.9 percent or three seats.

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . The first direct mayor election was won by the ÖVP candidate Gerald Plank with 89.4 percent unopposed. In 2003, the current mayor Hubert Hartl (ÖVP) ran for the first time and was able to prevail against the SPÖ candidate with 67.3 percent. In 2009 Hartl was confirmed in office with 64.5 percent, in 2015 with 73.6 percent.

Other options

As in municipal council elections, the ÖVP also dominates regional elections in the municipality, although the dominance of the People's Party has decreased somewhat. Nevertheless, in the period from 1973 onwards, the ÖVP was always able to become the party with the strongest vote, and before 1991 it even had a two-thirds majority. The ÖVP achieved its best result between 1973 and 2009 in 1985 with 69.2 percent, since then it has almost gradually lost its share of the votes, whereby in 2003 it achieved its lowest result to date with 53.5 percent. The second strongest party in state elections was always the SPÖ, which achieved election results between 16.2 and 29.4 percent. The SPÖ had its best result in 2003, its worst in 1997. The third strongest party until 1997 was the FPÖ, which achieved between 2.8 and 15.1 percent in the period from 1973 onwards. The FPÖ had its best result in 1997. In 2003, however, the FPÖ was replaced by the Greens as the third strongest party in state elections. In the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came first with 55.7 percent. The SPÖ only got 16.8 percent and thus had to give up more than 10 percent of its share of the vote. The FPÖ was beaten by the Greens, who achieved their best result with 12.5 percent. The FPÖ came to 11.1 percent.

coat of arms

Blazon : oblique left divided; above in silver a red, silver-armed, growing wolf with a golden bundle of ears in its paws; below in gold a blue, oblique left bar. The municipality colors are blue-yellow-red. The coat of arms was awarded by the Passau bishop Urban von Trennbach on May 4, 1568.

population

Population structure

In 2013, 1,287 people lived in the municipality of Neufelden, placing Neufelden in the middle of the 42 municipalities in the district. In relation to population density, Neufelden had the fourth highest population density in the district with 131 inhabitants per km². At the end of 2001, 93.0 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the value had fallen to 90.3 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent Percent). A total of 125 foreigners were counted in the municipality in 2013, three quarters of whom came from Europe. The proportion of foreigners from the EU was low; the majority of foreigners came from the former Yugoslavia (38 percent), Asia excluding Turkey (24 percent) and other European countries (19 percent). A total of 164 people with a foreign country of birth lived in Neufelden in 2013. In 2001, 94.3 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 88.6 percent), 2.3 percent were without a denomination, 6.0 percent of the Islamic faith, 1.0 percent Orthodox and 0.8 percent Protestant.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was slightly below the national average. 20.9 percent of the residents of Neufelden were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8 percent), 58.9 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 20.1 percent, just below the national average of 20.2 percent. As a result, the average age of the population of Neufelden changed in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 17.0 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 increased significantly to 65.3 percent. By contrast, the proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 17.7 percent. According to their marital status, in 2001 46.7 percent of the residents of Neufelden were single, 43.8 percent married, 6.1 percent widowed and 3.4 percent divorced.

Population development

Today's municipal area of ​​Neufelden shows a comparatively low fluctuation in its population. Between 1869 and 2013, the number of inhabitants was always in a comparatively narrow range of around 1,000 to 1,300. Between the late 19th century and the interwar period, the population initially fluctuated between around 1,100 and 1,300, although no clear trend can be seen during this period. It was not until 1923 that the population began to decline comparatively sharply, with the absolute lowest population figure being reached in 1961 with a population of 1,031. After that the population began to increase slowly but continuously. Most recently, a new high was recorded at the beginning of 2005 with 1,352 inhabitants, since then the number of inhabitants fell again to 1,287 by 2013, which means the population was only slightly above the value of 1880. The population development in Neufelden was almost analogous to the area of ​​the Rohrbach district, but was far weaker than that of the federal state of Upper Austria. In the 1970s and 1980s, Neufelden had a slight to larger excess of births as well as a slight immigration, before emigration increased massively in the 1990s. In this decade, however, emigration could still be compensated for by the birth surplus. After there was short-term immigration at the beginning of the 21st century, the municipality has had a significant annual decline in migration since 2004, which cannot be offset even by the slight excess of births.

Economy and Infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

In Neufelden, the Neufeldner BioBrauerei is a traditional company that dates back to 1523. The community is also the seat of Biohort, a manufacturer of garden sheds and tool sheds. In 2001 Neufelden was home to six companies with 20 or more employees. In total, the workplaces census carried out as part of the census showed 80 workplaces with 525 employees (excluding agriculture), 87 percent of which were employees. The number of workplaces had risen by 11 (plus 16 percent) compared to 1991, and the number of employees by as much as 157 people (plus 43 percent). The most important branch of the economy in 2001 was education with six workplaces and 130 employees (25 percent of all employees), followed by manufacturing with nine workplaces and 99 employees (19 percent) and construction with five workplaces and 57 employees (11 percent). Other important sectors were the hotel and restaurant sector, trade and transport. 52 percent of the employees in Neufelden were salaried employees or civil servants, 31 percent manual workers and 11 percent company owners.

Of the 629 economically active people living in Neufelden in 2010, only 3.2 percent were unemployed. Of the 609 people in employment, 119 were employed in manufacturing (20 percent), 67 in trade (11 percent) and 64 in education (11 percent). Other important sectors were health and social services with 10 percent, professional and technical services with 7 percent and the hotel and catering sector with 6 percent of the workforce. Only 5 percent of the employed work in agriculture and forestry. Of the 599 employed people in Neufelden (excluding residents temporarily absent from work), 190 people were employed in Neufelden in 2010. 399 or 67 percent had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 39 percent had their place of work in the Rohrbach district and 37 percent in Linz. The most important commuter communities besides Linz was the district capital Rohrbach. In return, 494 people commuted to Neufelden, 77 percent of whom came from the Rohrbach district. The communities of origin of the inbound commuters were dominated by the community of Altenfelden in front of Kleinzell in the Mühlkreis, St. Peter am Wimberg, St. Martin in the Mühlkreis and St. Ulrich in the Mühlkreis.

Transport and infrastructure

Via Rohrbacher Straße (B 127), which runs through the municipality in the far west, Neufelden is connected to the national transport network. The western municipal area is also accessed through the Neufeldener Bezirksstraße (L 1518), which branches off the Rohrbacher Straße to the east at Altenfelden, runs through the Markt Neufelden and then continues to the municipality of Kleinzell in the Mühlkreis. The Blankenberger Straße (L 1521) leads through the eastern municipality. It leads from the Unterberg district via Plankenberg and Steinbruch to the neighboring community of St. Peter am Wimberg. The community is connected to the public transport network by bus and train connections. In the district of Plankenberg in the valley of the Mühl is the Neufelden train station of the Mühlkreisbahn , through which Neufelden is connected to the state capital Linz. The 230 bus also runs from Linz via Neufelden to the district capital Rohrbach.

The market town is a member of the Mühlviertel long-distance water supply, and all of the water supplied is obtained from this association. At the end of 2009, 83.5% of the population were connected to the public water supply. With regard to wastewater disposal, the market town has operated its own sewage treatment plant since 1987, which was renovated in 2005 by around 1.6 million euros and is designed for 2,500 residents. Due to the topographical conditions, ten pumping stations have to be operated for wastewater disposal. A small amount of wastewater from the municipalities of Altenfelden, Kleinzell im Mühlkreis and St. Ulrich im Mühlkreis is also fed into the Neufelden sewage treatment plant. The removal of residual waste and organic waste was transferred to the Rohrbach District Waste Association at the beginning of 2004, which organizes and carries out waste collection. The nearest waste material collection center and a composting facility operated by a farmer are located in Altenfelden.

education

Neufelden has an elementary school , a secondary school and a polytechnic school in the compulsory school area . In the area of ​​secondary schools there is a higher technical federal college in Neufelden with a focus on mechanical engineering-automation technology and industrial engineering-business informatics. A state music school complements the educational offer. The community kindergarten was run in two groups until the end of the 2008/2009 kindergarten year and is located in the primary school building. At the beginning of the kindergarten year 2009/2010, a third group was set up in the Sparkasse building.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Neufelden

• Catholic parish church Neufelden Hll. Philip and James
• Heimathaus: Neufelden's Heimathaus has been located in the old Fronfeste since 1989. Around 1,200 exhibits are on display over an area of ​​around 250 m². The focus is on handicraft and rural utensils.
• Pürnstein Castle : The castle has existed since 1010 and was a Passau fief. It burned down in 1866 and has been renovated since 1958.
• Blankenberg Castle : built around 1000, some meter-long walls preserved
• Velden Castle
• Partenstein storage power plant with Langhalsen reservoir: Austria's first large-scale power plant, built in 1919/1924

Regular events

• Christmas market: on the Saturday before the third Sunday in Advent, the Christmas market takes place in Kirchengasse every year.
• Fish market: the traditional fish market takes place every year on December 31st. In the Unterberg district, around 60 members of the fishing club offer around 3,500 fish near the old warehouse.
• Music summer: The music summer offers numerous organ concerts in the Church of St. Anna in the Steinbruch district

Personalities

• Herbert Penzl (1910–1995), Austrian-American linguist and philologist (English, German and Indo-Iranian studies), University of Vienna, University of Michigan and University of California, Berkeley (among other places of work)
• Willi Sohm (1913–1974), Austrian cameraman
• Christoph Forstner (1598–1667), Chancellor of the County of Württemberg-Mömpelgard

literature

• Karl Haßleder: History of the Neufelden market. Linz 1908. 337 pp.
• Market town of Neufelden: Neufelden. 1970, 25 pages (overview of the history of the Neufelden market).
• Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria then and now . Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1975, ISBN 3-85028-023-3 .

Web links

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

• Website of the market town of Neufelden
• Peter Grosse: 800 years of Neufelden - history you can touch. 2017/2018, 8-part series on neufelden.at.
• Literature on Neufelden in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
• 41321 - Neufelden. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the community of Neufelden can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Entry on Neufelden in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Topothek Neufelden historical images, located, indexed and dated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Certificate in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
3. ↑ Neufelden 1970, p. 7.
4. ↑ Neufelden 1970, pp. 13-15.
5. ↑ Neufelden 1970, p. 14.
6. ↑ Neufelden 1970, pp. 16-17.
7. ↑ Neufelden 1970, pp. 18-20.
8. ^ Province of Upper Austria municipal council elections in Altenfelden from 1973
9. ^ Province of Upper Austria election results in mayoral elections in Neufelden
10. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 24, 2019 . 
11. ^ State of Upper Austria State election results in Neufelden from 1973
12. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 24, 2019 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Population levels in Upper Austria in comparison by citizenship 
14. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
15. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Statistics Austria community data of Neufelden
16. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Resident population in Upper Austria compared by age group 
17. ↑ ^{a b} Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government (Ed.) : “Audit report by the Rohrbach District Authority on the insight into the management of the market town of Neufelden”, Linz 2011
18. ↑ Higher Technical College Neufelden for Automation Technology and Business Informatics (accessed on December 12, 2009)
19. ↑ Landesmusikschule Neufelden (accessed on August 9, 2009)
20. ↑ Heimathaus Neufelden - down-to-earth craftsmanship and local history ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed December 12, 2009)