Neukirchen (Altmünster municipality)
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Neukirchen ( Rotte ) locality cadastral community Neukirchen |
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| Pole. District , state | Gmunden (GM), Upper Austria | ||
| Judicial district | Gmunden | ||
| Pole. local community | Altmünster | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 52 '28 " N , 13 ° 42' 35" E | ||
| height | 566 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents of the village | 2579 (January 1, 2020) | ||
| Area d. KG | 28.26 km² | ||
| Postcodes | 4813, 4814 | ||
| prefix | + 43/7618 | ||
| Statistical identification | |||
| Locality code | 08601 | ||
| Cadastral parish number | 42144 | ||
| Counting district / district | Neukirchen (40701 005) | ||
 Aerial view of Neukirchen with Traunsee and Traunstein in the background |
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| Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS | |||
Neukirchen , both as a cadastral community and as a village, is part of the Upper Austrian municipality of Altmünster in the Gmunden district with 2579 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). It is located in the north-eastern part of the Salzkammergut and belongs to the Traunviertel in terms of the traditional regional structure of the state .
With an area of 28.26 km², Neukirchen is the largest cadastral community in Altmünster. In it lies a part of the Höllengebirge with some striking mountain peaks and the listed Hochlecken cave .
The center of Neukirchen is located in the upper Aurach valley southwest of Altmünster at 566 m above sea level. A. Neukirchen is the main town in the Viechtau high valley , which gave the town its original name “Vichtaw in Münsterer Pfarr” (first documented mention in 1346). The name Neukirchen has only been in use since 1780.
geography
topography
The KG Neukirchen borders within the market town of Altmünster in the north on the cadastral communities Reindlmühl and Grasberg , in the east on the KG Eben and in the south on the KG Mühlbach.
The KG Weyregg the community Weyregg ranges in the north and the KG Steinbach of the homonymous municipality in the west on Neukirchen approach, the boundary in this area at the same time the border to the in Hausruckviertel located Vöcklabruck is. Neighboring cadastral communities in the south are Mühlbachberg in the community of Traunkirchen and Oberlangbath in the community of Ebensee .
The steep limestone massif of the Höllengebirge separates Neukirchen from the neighboring communities in the southwest and west. The highest elevation Neukirchen is at 1708 m above sea level. A. the Brunnkogel (Neukirchner Kogel). The Hochleckenkogel ( 1691 m ), the Hohe Spielberg ( 1538 m ), the Bischofsmütze ( 1446 m ) and the Klausgrabenkogel ( 1008 m ) also have more than a thousand meters of altitude in the municipality .
The origin of the aura is located in the far west of the cadastral community at 820 m above sea level. A. The Aurach flows through the area first from southwest to northeast, turns north in the village of Neukirchen and leaves the cadastral community at its lowest point along the border to KG Grasberg towards Reindlmühl at about 550 m above sea level. A. Notable tributaries are the Weidenbach and Moosbach from the north and the Zehningbach from the south. The only lake is the Taferlklaussee , created in 1716 by the damming of the Aurachbach .
geology
Geologically, the Aurach valley is part of the flysch zone . The Aurach used to flow not to the north near Neukirchen, but to the east directly to the Traunsee . During the penultimate Riss ice age , the basin of the Traunsee was filled with a much more powerful glacier than during the last ice age . This reached in the north to Ohlsdorf , Ehrendorf and Gschwandt and in the west to Neukirchen. The path to the east of the Aurach was blocked by this tongue of ice and it therefore flowed over the higher valley to the north to the Wessenaurach, with the river bed cutting deep into the valley floor. After the ice retreated, it remained there because the old course of the river was blocked by moraines . The valley east of Neukirchen remained and continues to drain to Lake Traunsee. During the last ice age, the ice only reached as far as Viechtau, where the terminal moraines can still be seen today. As a result, the valley was closed with a moraine wall and filled with rubble and mud up to today's level. This is how the wide, level valley floor was created.
Viechtau
Neukirchen is the main town of Viechtau, a high valley that stretches from the northern edge of the Höllengebirge over the Großalm to the west bank of the Traunsee. It includes the Aurach Valley as far as Reindlmühl and Kufhaus, including the villages of Eben, Gmundnerberg, Grasberg, Mühlbach (all Altmünster municipality) and Mühlbachberg (Traunkirchen municipality). This area is called the inner Viechtau , and the extended Viechtau also includes the Altmünsterer village aftersee and the KG Winkl of the municipality of Traunkirchen.
The Viechtau is a thunderstorm and hail zone with around 25 to 30 thunderstorm days per year. Between 1840 and 1870, numerous hailstones were reported in this area, which completely destroyed thatched and shingle roofs. The thunderstorm wind that occurs like an attack in the Viechtau is called "Viechtau" and causes problems at the Traunsee several times a year. It is a stormy westerly wind that occurs when a high thunderstorm cell stands over the mountains in Neukirchen , cold air sinks and then blows out of the Viechtau through a wind suction onto the lake. The “Viechtauer” caused disasters again and again: Among other things, three salt carts sank on the Traunsee in 1677 and nine fishermen drowned in 1854. Ten people were killed on October 6, 1857 and 15 people were killed on July 31, 1910.
Naming
There are numerous orthographic variants of the name. In the course of time, in addition to the Viechtau, which is common today, there were variants of Fichtau , Führtau , Fürtau , Vichtau , Viechtau , Viehau , Viehau , Viertau , Vietau and Virtau . Also striking are the name variants on -ach , namely Veitach and Viechtach . In his story of Altmünster from 1827, Josef Theodor Fischer speaks out against the derivation of the name from the spruce tree . For him, the only correct spelling is Fürtau , derived from Fürt in the meaning of projection, the front . The Fürtau would therefore be an Au , which is upstream of the high mountains.
According to local tradition, however, the first settlers in this area are said not to have been called Virtauer or Fürtauer , but Viehauer or Viehaurer , because they would have farmed cattle in the Aurach or Taurach. The inner part of the Viechtau is still called d'Aura (after the Aurach, or Taurach) today. According to legend, the cattle taurers are said to have been as strong as bulls ( Latin taurus = bull). However, these explanatory variants have a folk etymological character.
History and population development
| year | Houses | Residents |
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| 1526 | 49 | |
| 1589 | 69 | |
| 1749 | 115 | |
| 1776 | 144 | 843 |
| 1788 | 153 | |
| 1800 | - | 917 |
| 1825 | 166 | 1003 |
| 1846 | 199 | |
| 1851 | - | 1188 |
| 1869 | 201 | 1187 |
| 1880 | 215 | 1126 |
| 1890 | 208 | 1082 |
| 1900 | 211 | 1159 |
| 1910 | 212 | 1215 |
| 1923 | 215 | 1221 |
| 1934 | 241 | 1395 |
| 1951 | 263 | 1548 |
| 1961 | 278 | 1355 |
| 1971 | 342 | 1406 |
| 1981 | 423 | 1471 |
| 1991 | 496 | 1586 |
| 2001 | 536 | 1747 |
Information on the population of Neukirchen (formerly Viechtau) has been available since the 16th century.
"Vichtaw in Münsterer Pfarr" was first mentioned in a document in 1346. Since there was plenty of wood available, people began to manufacture all the objects that were used in the household and in agriculture at that time. The Viechtau became a center of the house industry . According to a report from 1524, the production of wood products had already reached forest-damaging proportions. As this danger persisted, an attempt was made in 1647 in a memorial to abolish the Viechtau wood goods production. An indirect professional ban was issued by severely restricting the allocation of wood to certain groups of people.
The wood goods were made in the family association, with each house having a different specialty. On the one hand, household and agricultural objects were made, on the other hand toys. Brush handles, chipboard boxes , plates , spoons and toys were produced . Most of the products were exported to the Austrian crown lands on salt ships and wooden rafts .
To cover the wood requirements of the saltworks (brewhouse) opened in Ebensee in 1607, wood was felled in the Viechtau, among other places. Most of the men worked as lumberjacks and felled and transported large quantities of firewood to fire the brew pans for salt production. The Aurach and its tributaries were developed as a waterway for transport. In 1716 the Taferlklause was built with the Taferlklaussee , from where a three-kilometer-long water giant led to the large Aurachklause (Nadasdy-Klause named after the president of the Viennese court chamber, Count Mihály Nádasdy von Nádasd and Fogarasföld) below the Großalm.
In 1753, Empress Maria Theresia had a church built in Viechtau, on the one hand to make it easier for residents to attend mass and on the other hand to counteract the spread of Protestantism . From around 1780 the name Neukirchen became common. The period of the French Wars (1790 to 1815) caused a building boom in Neukirchen and the neighboring towns. In total, more than 100 properties were built in Viechtau, 28 of them in Neukirchen. In 1828 166 houses with 1003 inhabitants were counted.
After the revolution of 1848/49 some localities wanted to separate from Altmünster and found independent communities. Neukirchen became independent in 1850, but like Orth was not viable and dissolved again in 1861 by a decision of the Lieutenancy and reunited with Altmünster. The only mayor during the time as an independent municipality was Matthias Wolfsgruber.
In 1922, telephone and electric light were introduced in Neukirchen. Initially there were only six individual telephone lines with a talk time from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Solemnity of All Saints in 1924 at the war memorial, two new memorial plaques were unveiled in Neukirchen. There were 46 dead and nine missing from the parish of Neukirchen. In 1938 a camp of the Reich Labor Service was set up in Neukirchen at the foot of the Kollmannsberg . The work program planned until 1942 provided for soil improvement , construction of freight roads and bank construction.
In August 1951, the Neukirchen Catholic Youth erected a homecoming cross on the Brunnkogel. In April 1971, the primary school building was converted into the main school building and the decision was made to build a new primary school building. Furthermore, the so-called "Rabenwies" was bought by the community in order to establish this typical Viechtauer house as a home.
A partnership with the Niederau district of the German city of Düren has existed since 1971 , based on a relationship established in 1965 between the Neukirchen music association and the Niederau- Krauthausen men's choir .
Culture
| year | execution |
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| 1902 | Replacement of the onion dome with a pointed tower |
| 1923 | electric light |
| 1942 | Renovation of the tower roof |
| 1956-1957 | Interior renovation of the church |
| 1958-1959 | Exterior renovation (mission cross) |
| 1961 | Way of the Cross on the Kalvarienberg (Prof. Sepp Moser) |
| 1964 | Extension to the rectory and the new Joseph Chapel |
| 1965 | Switch to electric bells |
| 1967 | Installation of the church heating |
| 1968 | Exterior renovation |
| 1972 | Interior renovation and redesign, the pulpit was adapted as an ambo. |
| 1984 | Exterior renovation |
| 1985 | Church interior renovation - church window triple glazing and gallery |
| 2000 | last major church renovation |
KG Neukirchen: Nadasky-Klause, Forsthaus-Klausmeisterhaus-Klausstube, Heimathaus Viechtau, Kalvarienbergkirche and Catholic parish church Maria Schnee. Furthermore, the Hochlecken cave has been a listed building since 1969.
Sacred buildings
Parish church Maria Schnee
In the absence of a church in Viechtau, all believers had to go to Altmünster to worship. From the 17th century there were many Protestants in the Aurach Valley who held their services in secret in remote houses. Not infrequently, Catholics also took part because going to church in Altmünster was too far for them. Around 1750 workers and government officials came to Viechtau in search of iron ore. They realized that in winter it was often impossible to go to church as far as Altmünster. So they reported it to the Empress Maria Theresa. In 1753, the court chamber ordered the Salzamtmann von Gmunden to build a church and parsonage in Viechtau.
“... so that the heresies do not / expand further, it was decided to have a church and apartment built in the so-called / Vichtau, where two / mission brothers can live. But not a splendid church should / be built, but such a church that worship can / can be held in it. The building should not cost more than 2000 guilders ... "
The church, completed in 1754, was a simple building with a wooden vault and a roof turret for a bell and was consecrated to the Mother of God "Maria Schnee" on August 5, 1846. From 1757 secular priests worked there. The church and rectory were initially run as a mission station from 1754 to 1787, after which it became an Altmünster branch . From around 1780 the name “Neukirchen” became common for the pastoral care center. In 1798 the sacristy was built, in 1822 the cemetery in the "Liendhalt" and in 1840 the onion dome.
The tower clock was purchased in 1850, and in 1867 Neukirchen had its own vicariate, from 1855 its own cemetery. In 1891 Neukirchen became an independent parish.
The parish received new bells on October 3, 1920 for the three bells of the parish church, the Kalvarienberg and Großalm chapel that were delivered for war purposes on October 20, 1916. In 2012 the Neukirchen parish had 1931 Catholics.
The parish church of Neukirchen near Altmünster (Maria Schnee) has a baroque altar that was brought from Vienna to Neukirchen around 1780 . Next to the current Minorite Church in Vienna there was a small church dedicated to Maria Schnee. Emperor Joseph II had the church torn down because he needed the space for a government building. The altar came to Neukirchen via the Salt Office in Gmunden . The interior shows the figure of Saint Joachim (Father of the Mother of God).
Chapels
- Chess women chapel
- The Schacherin Chapel originally stood diagonally opposite the location chosen in 1959 because of a new street layout from 1800. For a long time the pilgrimage of the woodcutters to Ohlsdorf began from there . The inventory of the chapel included a large picture and statues of Saints Florian and Georg created by Anton Meindl . The old picture was removed on the occasion of the relocation. At the request of an old neighbor from the Sauernwies , the interior of the chapel was designed as a Lourdes grotto . The name Schacherin derives from a "yard in or on a wood", a Schachen. The largest mechanical nativity scene in the community has been installed in the chapel during the Christmas season since 1991. It is a masterpiece with a representation of all rural professions and many moving and rotating parts.
- Flounder Chapel
- On the Grasberg supply road between the houses Mehlgraben (Neukirchen 123) and Schmied in Mehlgraben (Neukirchen 125) there is a chapel, which was built by the owner and master blacksmith Franz Bergthaler (1884–1972) as thanks for the happy return from the First World War .
- Calvary Chapel
- The chapel, built in the neo-Gothic style, has a turret with two bells . The first bell weighing 69 kg was dismantled for the metal collection in October 1916 and bore the following inscription:
“Dedicated by the founders and builders of the Kalvarienbergkapelle Franz and Aloisia Pesendorfer, wood goods dealers in Winterleiten, Neukirchen, Vienna and Budapest. Cast by F. Gössner in Vienna in 1885. - I urge you to pray when the morning wakes up, II And ring the bell for rest when the day's work is done. "
- On the second bell there are images of Mater Dolorosa , Mary with a lily and Mary with baby Jesus, ornaments with flowers, leaves and putti heads. She weighs 43 kg. The last renovation of the chapel took place in 1952. The property rights of the parish were confirmed by a court in 1955, until then the chapel was privately owned .
- Gschwandt Chapel
- The chapel at the "Gschwandt" in Neukirchen was built after a vow made by the wife of Josef Putz (1882–1952) and bears the inscription:
"In gratitude for the happy return from the First World War and in pious memory for posterity - honor of the Mother of God from the everlasting help"
- The miraculous image is a copy of the original from Crete , which is in Rome . One can see the crowned Mary with the crowned Christ Child on her left arm. It is called the Puchheim Madonna because it has been erected there on a side altar since 1870. The chapel was blessed on September 14, 1924 . At that time, the family's children carried an item of equipment into the chapel, which has seating for twelve people. The house is called “In der Gschwandt” (1589, 1716), “Gschwandt” (1826) in old documents and “Auf der Gschwandt” in the Gmunden land register from 1880.
- Weitwies Chapel
- It was first mentioned in a document in 1826 and the name "In der Weitwies" has been entered in the Gmunden land register since 1880. The name refers to an extensive and wide meadow.
- Pichlmann Chapel
- The arbor chapel at the "Pichlmann" farm was built in 1818, but was not blessed until 1839 by the then pastor of Altmünster, Josef Stadler.
- Rabenwies Chapel
- The owner of the house "Rabenwies" built the "Lourdes Chapel" in 1900 as a thank you for the recovery of his seriously ill wife. Aloisia (1858-1931). After the First World War, his brother returned home and together they expanded the Rabenwies Chapel to its current size. In June 1986 the chapel was renovated and the gable roof was replaced by a crooked roof.
Marterl
In 1982 the Altmünster cultural area began to record marterln ( wayside shrines ), crosses and chapels. A complete documentation could not be achieved because of the large number and variety. These martyrs with crucifix, picture of saints and memorials are located in places where the death of an unfortunate person has occurred or express thanks for special events. Some of these beautiful monuments are described and illustrated here:
- Anton-Erber-Martel
- In the Zöhrergraben above the house "In der Schmidin" (Zöhrergraben 3) at the junction Kreuzgraben / Kreutbauer there is a wooden box cross that has been renewed twice since the 1980s and reminds of the "failed shoemaker Anton Erber, who during the flood on September 13th Found death in 1899 along with the child ”, as can be read on the somewhat weathered board.
- Hollerbichl-Marterl
- Hiking trail 2a leads past the house “Hollerbichl”, Kollmansberg 15, which begins at the inn in Örach (“Hintenaus”). Next to the house, between two birches, stands a wooden wayside shrine, which was first erected around 1920 by the then owner Johann Pesendorfer out of gratitude for the safe return from the First World War. In 1992 his grandson renewed the Marterl.
- Weber memorial cross
- Below the “Hahnwirt” house, Kollmannsberg 110, there is a roofed wooden cross with a cut sheet metal figure of Christ crucified. At this point, on February 10, 1881, the 60-year-old Franz Zehetleitner from the "Weber in Örach" had an accident while delivering wood. After the original figure of Christ had already rusted and faded, the current sheet metal cut was made from the original and the cross was renewed.
- Weitmoos-Marterl
- At the junction from the Großalmstraße to the house “Mittleres Weitmoos” in Neukirchen there is a pole picture that goes back to 1789 and stood for a long time next to the Aurach. In the original picture Bloche was shown in flood, probably representing an accident at the Holztrift in the Aurach. In 1921 the Marterl was renewed after the death of "Weitmooser" Leopold Mayr, who had an accident while working with wood in the Traunstein region. By relocating the Großalmstrasse, the Marterl was set up at its current location and, after several restorations, got a new image.
Sacherl
As Sacherl is called the homes of wood products manufacturers, which are typical of the Viechtau. They were designed as single houses with low ceiling heights , some with a basement and made of wood, only the base of the house and walls on the stove side were made of stone to reduce the risk of fire. Their opening on the gable end, the small windows around the living area, the hatches in the utility wing and the deep, hipped roofs gave the houses their typical appearance. Since a large part of the Viechtauer lived from the production of wood products even after the end of the Second World War , a workshop was housed in many houses. The outhouse and fountain were mostly outside the house, as was the case with the farmsteads.
A wooden servitut sticks to most things . It guarantees the homeowners the right to annual purchase of a certain amount of construction , wood and firewood from the forest authorities . The construction timber should be used for repairs to the house, especially on the roof structure , the wood used to replace shingles and boards and as furniture wood. In times of house-industrial production, however, many producers tried to swap construction and armed wood for working wood in order to be able to produce more. The structure of the houses began to suffer, which in many cases served as an argument for the later demolition.
Local museum
On a hill a little above Neukirchen stands the "Rabenwies", a house built in the typical style of the Viechtau. In 1960, eleven people lived in this two-story house. As is customary in such things , they had two or three cows, a pig and a few chickens. A house garden and a potato field provided the bare essentials for the less varied menu. Until 1930, the "Rabenwies-Leut '", in order to earn additional income, went about producing wood products in winter: "Birntrompeterl" and "Pfeifvogerl" (wind instruments for children).
The rooms in the current home correspond to those of the former Rabenwies . Neither walls nor windows were added or removed, only a structural renovation took place. However, the walls were dehumidified, the windows and shutters were grilled, the roof was clad with wooden shingles , the upper floor was clad with wood and the narrow dry balcony was added. The house is surrounded by the always vigorously blooming red pelargoniums . The local folk culture depicted is an example of the history of the timber industry in the 14th century. One focus is home work - carving and turning - which at that time was essential for a living.
For 450 years - until 1979 - the romantic valley was characterized by the production and manufacture of wooden goods and wooden toys, which the Viechtau carvers and turners , sheep and box makers, clip makers and broom makers as far as Russia, Turkey, Romania and Berchtesgaden Country exported. Dock (painted wooden dolls) and wooden spoons are still symbols of the work and living environment of the people in the Viechtau. In 2008 the Heimathaus was part of the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition "Salzkammergut".
- The bird carvers
- In 2003 an old workshop was built true to the original next to the Viechtauer Heimathaus. Old tools are exhibited in it, which are still used today for carving and turning. Fritz Lüftinger, Hans Hofstätter and Georg Diesselbacher work in this workshop, all three are carvers with heart and soul. Lifelike bullfinches, siskins, goldfinches, but also boom wolves, string and fall tops, smokers and other wooden toys are created by their carving knives and turning tools.
- The vestibule
- The entrance to the museum is on the gable end of the house. Here a low door opened into the vestibule. Only a small window let in some light and made orientation possible. The cloakroom was near the front door. Shopping and transport baskets or candles and stall lanterns were also kept in the vestibule, as well as things that were not used immediately on a daily basis. These included the Backmülter with the various equipment for baking bread, the tuff stone for filtering the rainwater or the coffee roaster for the barley and acorn coffee. The vestibule was the room in which the housewife stored food that was to be kept as cool as possible: lard, milk, possibly cheese and bacon.
- The room
- As in other houses, it forms the center of the house as the only heatable room. The oven, which was newly set in the museum with green-glazed Gmund pipe tiles, was used for cooking, roasting and baking, for heating water and as a source of heat. The fixed components of the furnishings also included the parlor table with a corner bench, the sideboard with the key basket hanging over it, various cookware and baking utensils, mugs, jugs, bowls and the Herrgottswinkel with a censer, prayer books, some candlesticks and a kerosene lamp above the table. There are also some carved Viechtauer Vogerln in the room. It was used as a work space for the in-house wood product production. In one corner stood the Heinzelbank , on which the blanks were worked with the various drawing and carving knives, on the floor next to it the baskets and boxes for the wood supplies and raw finished goods. The working and living conditions in this room were extremely bad and harmful to health. The dust released by the woodworking could hardly escape through the small windows, and the toxic fumes from the paints and varnishes made breathing much more difficult. For this reason, another dining area was set up opposite the living room.
Sgraffiti
The sgraffito is a facade decoration in which the drawing is scratched into the still damp plaster layer until the mostly colored scratch surface becomes visible.
- Wolfsgruber - Jagerl in the Alm
- At the Bauhaus "Jagerl in der Alm" in Neukirchen, Großalm 45, was founded on September 27, 1959 in honor of Johann Nepomuk Wolfsgruber, later Father Hofrat Dr. Cölestin Wolfsgruber , the memorial plaque created by the sculptor Sepp Moser (1925–1985) from Neukirchen is attached. The text is by Franz Loidl from Ebensee , the second successor to Father Cölestin at the University of Vienna :
“TO THE MEMORY OF UNIV.PROF.
AND COURT PREDIGATOR DR.P. COELE-
STIN WOLFSGRUBER Kapitular
OF SCOTS PEN VIENNA /
HERE BORN ON 05/11/1848 IN VIENNA
GEST. ON 11/26/1924 THE FRUITABLE
CHURCH HISTORICIAN /
RELIGIOUS ORDER PRIEST
/ IDEAL PROMOTER OF
PRIESTLY VOCATIONS OF THE MOST FAITHFUL
SON OF HIS HOME COUNTRY "
- House Schobesberger
- The north side of the house of the Schobesberger family, Grasberg 94, built in the late 1970s, is adorned with a sgraffito by the sculptor Sepp Moser (1925–1985).
- House by the stream
- The sgraffito on the “Haus am Bach”, Viechtau 25, was created by sculptor Sepp Moser around 1975. The zodiac signs Gemini and Scorpio are shown between the script and the tree of life.
- Kirchenwirt Neukirchen
- In 1981, after the establishment of the inn, Sepp Moser created a sgraffito with the coat of arms of the previous owner "Forstinger", who had acquired the inn in 1854.
- Sgraffiti with guild signs
- Steinmaurer bakery in Altmünster
- House of master binder Rudolf Gaigg
- House of the master shoemaker Alfred Bergthaler
- House of a former geometer, Grasberg 59
Folk culture
Traditional cultural associations
- Volunteer firefighter
- The Neukirchen fire brigade was founded in 1893 and celebrated the founding party on May 23, Trinity Sunday , in which the fire brigades from Altmünster, Pinsdorf , Traunkirchen and Gmunden also took part. The purchased syringe was placed under the triumphal arch and inaugurated by the Altmünster pastor Johann Maria Karlstätter and the pastor from Neukirchen Josef Zinnhobl. On November 15, 1893, the fire brigade had to move out to Josef Höller's house for the first fire operation. In this case, only the dehydrator and some equipment could be brought to safety. The first depot was built in 1894 and enlarged in 1906. In 1951 a new fire station was built (Neukirchen 21), which has housed a waste material collection island since the move to the building opened in Neukirchen 16 in 1993. Sepp Moser's sgraffito could no longer be used in the new building.
- music Society
- In 1839 two musicians from Ebensee came to visit who brought their experiences with them. Enthusiastic about the two, the schoolmaster Ignaz Schatzl founded a "music" with two students. The municipality of Ebensee supported this campaign and sent the first two flugelhorns and music books in order to learn the basics of brass music. It didn't take long before the first five like-minded people found each other and were ready to join the "music". The other instruments were donated by patrons. The first public appearance took place at the Corpus Christi procession in 1840. This day is considered to be the founding date of the association. The association was officially founded with its own statutes and elected board of directors in 1898. Since then, "music" has been an integral part of village life, with the exception of the period from 1938 to 1945 during the reign of National Socialism. In 1960 the music association was equipped with new instruments. It took two years to build the first music hall in Neukirchen. In 1972 the club moved into the new club house, one of the few in the Gmunden district. In the following years, more and more young people learned an instrument. With the Viechtauer costume which entered the chapel on since 1,982th
- Shooting club
- In 1956 there was already a shooting community in the Großalm inn. The owner of the Sägemühle Gasthaus at the time, Franz Schmidjell, founded another shooting club. The first chief rifle master was the tobacco shop operator Josef Gründl, the first cashier was the "Häusl Sepp", who held this office until 1987. The shooting club organizes a number of events, such as the shooting night festival with fireworks (1962 to 1999), hikes, anniversary shooting (30 years shooting club), mountain fairs, shooting balls, since 2002 two-day shooting festival . In 1991 she joined the State Rifle Association and in 1995 she joined the Upper Austria Sports Union. In 1996/97 a modern shooting club was built and opened on May 11, 1997. State-of-the-art sports equipment, computers for evaluation and our own training programs are available to prepare for various competitions. In 1999 the shooters took part in the Upper Austrian Sport Union state championships and won a prize. 2001 was the foundation of the own women's league. In 2002 they won the 44th district championship of the Traunviertel shooting range. In 2007 they won the 49th district championship of the Traunviertel rifle district, which took place on the basis of the 50th anniversary. On May 12, 2002, the shooting club celebrated the founding party of the Neukirchen pillory riflemen with the consecration of the flag.
Regular events
- Epiphany rider
- Since 1959 there has been a special kind of carol singing in the Viechtau for Upper Austria : Every year on January 3rd and 6th, the Three Kings go on horseback through the Aurach Valley, accompanied by their drivers and musicians . The beautifully dressed group (eleven men) sings and plays old nativity and Epiphany songs and in this way collects money for missionary causes in the Third World . The atmospheric festival service in the Neukirchen parish church is a highlight on January 6th.
- Bell ringer day
- On the morning of January 5th, children in imaginative costumes go from house to house and announce their arrival with a loud “Krupf! Krupf! Krupf! ”. That means they want a donut that the housewives bake fresh. In the past, donuts were only baked on Glöcklertag and possibly even in late summer as so-called “Åheiger donuts” after the hay harvest was over. The people are very hospitable towards the bell ringer, some write down how many there were this year. The more, the happier the new year will be. This form of the bell-making tradition is unique.
- The Glöckler run goes back to the Baroque period and was particularly practiced in Bad Ischl and Ebensee.
The Glöcklerlauf takes place on the last Rauhnacht, on January 5th, the night before Dreikönig, and was a so-called Freinacht, in which special rights and freedoms apply. The name “Glöckler” does not come from “Glocke”, but from the Old High German word klockon or from the Middle High German words klocken, köcken for “knock, anpochen” and is only used in folk etymology with the “bells” that the Klöckler (the “knockers “) Bear, brought into context.
Say
- Say to Viechtau
- It is said that the Viechtau cattle breeders were tree-strong. Only he was allowed to marry who could tame a full-grown ox . According to the Traunkirchner parish chronicle, huge skeletons were found during excavations ; this seems to confirm that a great number of people actually lived there. These giants used to be called ruffles.
- When the French broke into the Viechtau, clergymen put the money in a barrel to dump it in the lake and thus protect it from robbery and looting . They consecrated the barrel, but forgot to consecrate the chain to which it was attached under the water. So the devil got hold of the chain and filed it down. The money barrel is said to still be in the lake today, although several people have already tried to lift it.
- Devil church
- Between the Moosbach and Herbstaugraben, southwest of the Hochkreut Wildlife Park in Neukirchen, there is a tangle of rocks that is popularly known as the “Devil's Church”. In terms of name, it could not be a church in the Christian sense. Perhaps this was intended to indicate that the square once served pagan religious purposes, like the so-called dog and Gaiskirchen. When Christianity gained a foothold and replaced the Celtic religion , these places of worship had to be abandoned, they fell into disrepair and were given contemptuous names.
- According to legend, the devil wanted to build a church here in one night. Since he couldn't finish by the time the prayer was rung, everything collapsed again. After a bishop had sprinkled the remains with holy water, the devil finally stopped building. The wild Gjoad is said to have roared over this devil's church. A second legend tells of a farmer who wanted to cut wood near the Devil's Church. He had forgotten that the next day was a women's day ( St. Mary 's Day ), maybe Assumption Day , August 15th. So he didn't find any woodworkers upstairs. He stayed all alone in Sölde , which was often only a temporary solution. When he pine chips would burn, they fired an invisible hand and at the same moment whooped it to four hours away Schafalm in Höllengebirge. Another time three boys had a similar experience on the Hochkreut. They heard a loud whoop on the Schafalm. One of the three boys replied exuberantly, and a new hooter came, this time from a nearby ditch. Again someone let out a whoop. Now it cheered so close that the invisible could only be a few meters away. The three boys realized that it had to be the devil himself. They hurried into the hut and no sooner were they inside than a violent storm arose, which only raged in the immediate vicinity of the hut.
sport and freetime
The alpine Höllengebirge connects the Traunsee with the Attersee . Neukirchen is the starting point for hikes and mountain bike tours.
The mountain hike from Taferlklaussee to the Hochleckenhaus ( 1574 m ) and on to the Brunnkogel ( 1708 m ) takes two hours . The Brunnkogel summit cross is the largest summit cross in Europe. The Grasberg can be climbed both on foot and by bike.
- The alpine pasture area Windlegern
- Loop Neukirchen - Windlegern - Neukirchen, duration approx. 2½ hours.
Personalities
- Josef Ahamer (1874–1968) Forester in Reindlmühl and Neukirchen, honorary citizen of the Altmünster market town with many awards and honors. As an autodidact in painting, he became a member of the Association of Fine Artists.
- Josef Ahammer (* 1935 in Neukirchen; † 2017) was a Roman Catholic priest and from 1982 to 2003 Vicar General of the Diocese of Linz .
- Rudolf Markschläger (1890–1982) was a teacher from 1909 and from 1913 to 1920 senior teacher in Neukirchen. In 1920 he became the first representative of the Salzkammergut to join the National Council. In 1927 he founded the Aurachtal men's choir in Neukirchen , which he headed as choir master until September 1934. The text of the Neukirchen song comes from this time , which is to be sung according to the melody of the Ebenseer song Kleine Häuserl in der Höh .
“Where the Aurach flows through the valley,
there a right little village greets you,
between Bergnan it's nice inside:
that's the place where I came from.
Hoasst Neukirchen in Viechtau,
the wind often blows quite rough:
I always like to stay there,
in Neukirchen, that's ggschmah.
... "
- Friedrich Pesendorfer (1867–1935). He was a man of letters and a secular priest . In 1928 he published a Viechtauerlied in his book Mein Salzkammergut .
“…
Neukirchen is the name of the Viechtauer village,
where people are busy like bees,
How friendly the houses are, with flowers
on the window and white curtains.
The stately school, it immediately warms
my heart for the youth,
The poor cattle dove is rich in children,
The cities are impoverished in children.
... "
- However, for Gertraud Liesenfeld in her book “Viechtauer Ware” (Vienna 1987), these two poems about Neukirchen completely ignored reality and, in her opinion, seem unintentionally cynical.
- Father Cölestin Wolfsgruber (1848–1924), the last imperial court preacher in Vienna, was a native of Neukirchen. In his honor, a street in Vienna's 19th district was named after him.
- Sepp Moser (1925–1985), sculptor, had learned to deal with wood from childhood. His preference was for hardwoods such as oak, plum and nut. But he also created works of stone, e.g. He tried to form eg granite and limestone rocks, but also stone and bronze castings. Painting was also one of his activities. Well-known works: crucifixion group in the chapel of Sierning, large sculpture of St. George on the Schlossbergstiege in Linz, stations of the cross to the Calvary, summit cross on the Traunkirchen Sonnstein.
- Raphael Schauerte , German politician, mayor and firefighter from the twin town Niederau
Infrastructure
traffic
The cadastral community is accessed from east to west via the Großalm state road L 544, which runs along the Aurach. The road branches off from Seeleiten Strasse B 152 at the Attersee and reaches the KG Neukirchen via the Kienbachtal near the Taferlklause. In the village of Neukirchen, the road leaves the Aurach Valley and leads via Eben and Ebenzweier to Altmünster, where it joins the Salzkammergutstrasse B 145, which runs along the Traunsee . From the village of Neukirchen, another road leads with the L 1298 to the Traunsee, where it joins the B 145 in the Viechtau district (municipality of Traunkirchen) .
schools
Up to 1808 all Neukirchen children were educated in the schools of Altmünster. Since it was not possible for many children to attend school in Altmünster, they were taught by the grocer's son and woodworker Johann Schatzl from Vöcklabruck in the private house "Moisenbach". The number of pupils rose rapidly and made it necessary to build a two-class elementary school, which was built in 1815.
In 1920, 100 students were in 3rd grade, making it necessary to split the class. The now five-class school was temporarily housed in the “Zur Sägemühle” inn. In 1935/36, 322 students attended the Neukirchen elementary school and were taught in six classes. The number of children per class was between 41 and 73 students. In the elementary school (annual focus 2012/13 “On the trail of learning”) children are taught in six classes.
On September 15, 1929, lessons began on the Hochkreuth (then spelling "Hochgreith") in the Montessori boarding school with elementary school, kindergarten and middle school built by the Count O'Donnell von Tyrconnel family . This was the first and only Austrian Montessori boarding school at the time. At the opening, the boarding school had six primary school children and three children for the kindergarten. The students came from several European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands. Because of the uneasy political situation in Austria from 1933 onwards and the “ thousand-mark ban ” imposed by Germany , no more children came from abroad and the boarding school had to be closed.
A secondary school has existed in Neukirchen since September 1, 1973, which has been run as a new middle school since the 2009/10 school year. Since April 13, 2011, the New Middle School Neukirchen has had the certificate "Upper Austrian School Innovative". In the NMS, children are taught in eight classes.
Library
The Public Library of the parish Neukirchen and market town of Altmünster possessed at the beginning of 2013, some 150 DVDs and about 2,000 books in the areas of children's literature, biographies, comics, history, life coaching, novels and non-fiction. Seats are available for visitors.
literature
- F. Ahammer: The old minster on the Traunsee: The local community Altmünster in Upper Danube in the mirror of its past. Altmünster community, Gmunden 1939.
- J. Lüftinger: Small monuments in Altmünster, Neukirchen and Reindlmühl: from the memorial cross in the Traunsee to the summit cross on the Brunnkogel. Altmünster community, December 2007.
- K. Rauch, H. Marchetti, J. Lüftinger: Heimatbuch der Marktgemeinde Altmünster. Altmünster municipality 1992.
- G. Liesenfeld: Spoons • Docking • Souvenirs. On the trail of the Viechtau house industry. Home house stories. Vienna 2005.
- B. Pillwein: Geography and Statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns. Linz 1843.
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ^ Upper Austrian News, July 10, 2012
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↑ This also corresponds to the dialect word vür in the meaning before , for example in the following quote:
"'S Vür (ch) ta, Vürtuach: apron / the vürleck: men's apron / Fuader vürgö (b) m: give the animals to eat / vürnehma: take on something."
See J. Lüftinger: Small monuments in Altmünster, Neukirchen and Reindlmühl: from the memorial cross in the Traunsee to the summit cross on the Brunnkogel. 2007, p. 377.
- ↑ The variant Taurach for the river could be related to the root word Tau (e) r- , an old word for mountain, mountains . See J. Lüftinger: From the memorial cross in the Traunsee to the summit cross on the Brunnkogel. In: Small monuments in Altmünster, Neukirchen and Reindlmühl : Altmünster 2007, p. 378.
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