Niederkappel

Niederkappel
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Surface:	22.42 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 28 '  N , 13 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '57 "  N , 13 ° 52' 55"  E
Height :	549  m above sea level A.
Residents :	983 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4133
Area code :	07286
Community code :	4 13 22
Address of the municipal administration:	Niederkappel 48 4133 Niederkappel
Website:	www.niederkappel.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Wögerbauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	9 3 1 9 3 1  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 9 FPÖ : 3 SPÖ : 1
Location of Niederkappel in the Rohrbach district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Niederkappel is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel with 983 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach .

geography

Niederkappel lies at an altitude of 549  m above sea level. A. in the southern edge of the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel . In terms of the spatial subdivision of nature conservation areas, the municipal area belongs predominantly to the Central Mühlviertel Highlands , while the southern section belongs to the Central Mühlviertel Highlands. The extension is 6.2 km from north to south, 6.3 km from west to east, the total area is 22.42 km². Niederkappel is thus in the upper middle range of the municipalities in the district. With 43 inhabitants per km², in 2013 Niederkappel was the municipality with the sixth lowest population density in the district. The municipality extends over an average height of between 500 and 600 meters, in 2001 29.8 percent of the municipality area was forested, 59.6 percent of the area was used for agriculture. In comparison with the federal state of Upper Austria, Niederkappel is less forested than the regional average (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent) or there is more agricultural land (Upper Austria: 49.3 percent). The proportion of other uses (construction areas, gardens, bodies of water and others) is 10.6 percent, well below the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. Neighboring communities are Hofkirchen in the Mühlkreis in the southwest, Putzleinsdorf in the west and northwest, Lembach in the Mühlkreis in the northeast, Altenfelden in the east and Kirchberg ob der Donau in the southeast. In the south, the district border runs to the Eferding district , where Niederkappel borders the municipality of Haibach ob der Donau .

Geology and soils

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan mountain formation in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ). After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary, the crystalline basement was abolished by several 100 meters, causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods . The dominant soil type in the municipality is silicate brown earth. Depending on the slope, there are medium to deep, mature soils that are poor in nutrients but are considered to be profitable due to their balanced water balance. In the case of waterlogging, wet meadows or along rivers, there is also gley that is suitable for grassland management, in higher forest plateau areas there are also podsolization phenomena.

Landscape and vegetation

The majority of the municipal area is made up of a raised hill country with changing equipment of landscape elements, the area mainly sloping slowly from northwest to southeast and is structured by numerous knolls and hollows. This is an agriculturally more or less intensively characterized area of ​​medium altitude, with smaller and larger forest areas also being scattered over the area. For the most part, these are pure spruce stands that are strongly characterized by forestry, and to a lesser extent also sub-areas rich in hardwood (especially beech). In agriculture, mixed arable and grassland farming dominates with a slight focus on grassland. In the south of the municipality are the wooded slopes of the Danube, which are dominated by near-natural, steep hillside forests. Most of these are near-natural oak and hornbeam forests, with spruce-dominated stands on the upper slopes. The area is largely protected as a Natura 2000 area. There is only a settlement here in the narrow valley floor of the Danube. On the eastern border of the municipality is the Kleine Mühl, which has formed steep slope and ravine forests here without settlement. In the southern part of the area there are spruce-fir-beech forests, with ash, sycamore and sycamore elm in the canyon forest areas and oak and hornbeam in the lower areas. The north is dominated by spruce trees. Overall, the near-natural hillside forests of the Danube Valley are of particular importance in terms of nature conservation, whereby endangered species and societies such as green lizards and species-rich sessile oak-hornbeam forests have been able to survive here.

Community structure

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

• Amersdorf (60)
• Village (4)
• Grafenau (17)
• Hair (76)
• Kaindlsdorf (27)
• Klotzing (64)
• Lampersdorf (39)
• Niederbumberg (19)
• Niederkappel (336)
• Oberbumberg (45)
• Raiden (25)
• Romersdorf (32)
• Rumersdorf (48)
• Weikersdorf (73)
• Witzersdorf (118)

history

Early history and Roman times

Finds from the younger Stone Age indicate an early settlement of the community area. In 1935 and 1936, for example, five flat axes from this era were found in the municipality, which were given to the Landesmuseum Linz . Five other stone axes made of porphyrite or serpentinite were found between 1982 and 1985 in Niederkappel, Weikersdorf, Lampersdorf and Klotzing. They are kept in the Niederkappel schoolhouse. From the birth of Christ to around 400 AD, the Danube formed the border between the Romans in the south and the Germanic Marcomanni in the north. After the invasion of the Heruli in 480, the Romans withdrew from the Danube region.

Around 2005 a nearly 5 cm large cut ax was found near Niederkappel, which was researched in 2015. It dates from the Neolithic Age , consists of jade ( nephrite ), possibly from Zederhaus an der Mur, Styria, and could have served as a status symbol.

middle Ages

Bavarian settlers began to settle the Mühlviertel starting from the Danube in the 9th century. Settlement was sparse at the beginning, only around 1100 began the reclamation and settlement of the so-called northern forest, a then almost impenetrable woodland between the Mühl and the Ranna. The land between Illz, Rodl, Bohemian Forest and Danube was donated in 1010 by King Heinrich II. De, Passau Benedictine monastery Niedernburg , whereupon Lower Bavarian noble families settled in this area and led the clearing of ever new areas. Around 1150 the place was first named as "Capella", until 1220 the Bishop of Passau obtained all rights to this area. Although the region came under Austrian sovereignty in the 14th century, it still remained a Passau imperial fief and part of the imperial duchy of the Diocese of Passau. "Chapelle" (Niederkappel) was 1,256 in Ilzstädtischen Parliament (contract) as well as Lembach, Hofkirchen, Putzleinsdorf, Sarleinsbach and Rohrbach mentioned as passauischer court seat, around the same time Ulrich von Capellen the Kappell Castle (now the parsonage Niederkappel) and a Tavern (the former Gasthaus Pühringer) was built. Later owners of the castle were the Raspen and around 1470 the Ruestorfer. The name Niederkappel is found for the first time in 1397 as "Nidern Chappeln" in the documents, whereby the distinction between Ober- and Niederkappel is based on the location of the chapels on the course of the Danube. Seen from Passau, the chapel of Niederkapell was the lower chapel. Around 1400, Niederkappel received a small Gothic church that existed until 1890. Around 1500 the church also built a one-class schoolhouse in the village.

Early modern age

In the middle of the 16th century, the noble family of Rödern acquired the Passau fiefs from the Ruestorfern and with it the castle and the tavern in Niederkappel. Thus, in 1562, Niederkappel became part of the Berg bei Rohrbach rule, where the Rödern had their headquarters. The Rödern remained the owner of these goods until 1764. In the second half of the 16th century, the influence of the Reformation increased in the Upper Mühlviertel and more and more Catholic priests were expelled from the parishes. The Catholic vicar Hans Werndl in Niederkappel, on the other hand, practiced the Protestant faith in 1595 and was appointed as a Protestant preacher by the also Protestant Rödern. At the same time, the high taxes paid by the farmers laid the foundation for social unrest. Werndl moved to St. Peter and became the leader of the rebellious farmers who moved through the western Mühlviertel in July 1595. The actions in the Mühlviertel took place as part of the Second Upper Austrian Peasant Uprising , with the Emperor sending soldiers under Gotthard von Starhemberg to Haslach in the summer of 1597 . He urged the parishes to renounce the Reformation faith and give up their weapons, whereupon the parishes gradually gave up. After Emperor Ferdinand II pledged Upper Austria to Elector Max II of Bavaria, Adam von Herberstorff was appointed governor who drove the Counter Reformation in the Mühlviertel. Between 1624 and 1625 he had all Protestant school teachers and preachers expelled. However, resistance quickly arose against the Bavarian pawnbrokers and in May 1626, after a dispute between farmers and Bavarian soldiers, there was an open uprising against the Bavarians, from which the Upper Austrian Peasants' War developed. On October 8, 1626, the master baker David Spatt from Haibach came to Niederkappel with rebel farmers, who burned down the castle and the tavern. In the same month, however, the imperial troops were able to put down the peasant uprising and Count Rödern had the castle and tavern rebuilt as a result. After there had been no church service between 1626 and 1633, a Catholic vicar resumed his service in 1633. In the following year, however, the plague raged in Niederkappel, which started in Grafenau and killed around 100 people between August and October 1634.

Niederkappel in the 18th and 19th centuries

In 1755, 13 of the 20 houses in Niederkappel burned down in a major fire. Under Emperor Joseph II , the cadastral communities and the land tax cadastre were introduced in the course of a tax reform , with the cadastral communities of Niederkappel and Witzersdorf being created in what is now the municipality. At the beginning of the 19th century, French troops crossed the Mühlviertel three times in 1800, 1805 and 1809, which caused the residents of Niederkappel to suffer great hardships by billeting and caring for the soldiers. Due to Austria's high reparations payments to the French, the church had to deliver three chalices and a monstrance to the emperor, while the cession of part of the Hausrucksviertel to Bavaria, Niederkappel, bordered directly on Bavaria for a time. In the middle of the 19th century, today's political communities were founded, with the communities of Niederkappel and Witzersdorf being established in what is now the municipality of Niederkappel. Together with the surrounding communities, the two communities formed the judicial district of Lembach from 1850 , which became part of the Rohrbach district in 1868. In the second half of the 19th century there were also important investments in the community's infrastructure. A new school building had already been built in 1832, and the first water pipeline was built in 1853. The Fire Damage Insurance Association was founded in 1858 and a post office was opened in 1872. In addition, the volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1881 and the construction of the new parish church began in 1890. In addition, the Raiffeisenkasse Niederkappel was founded in 1894.

Niederkappel from the 20th century

During the First World War, the men of the community served especially in Italy, in the Balkans and on the front against Russia. A total of 51 soldiers were killed in the war. In the interwar period, electrification of the community began in 1925, before a fire disaster struck the community in 1933. A total of 22 houses in 11 villages burned down. When the National Socialists came to power, the communities of Niederkappel and Witzersdorf were combined to form the community of Niederkappel. During the French campaign in June 1940, the first Niederkappler fell at the front in World War II. A total of 95 men from the community were killed in the war. From 1940 prisoners of war were used for forced labor in Niederkappel as harvest workers. First, 28 Belgian soldiers came to Niederkappel in 1940, followed by French, Serbs, Soviet forced laborers and Polish girls. For example, Soviet forced laborers were used to build the dam in Haar. In 1943, 19 children from Wuppertal came to Niederkappel as part of the Kinderland dispatch, followed by nine children from Vienna in 1944 . The advance of the Soviet troops led to the passage or temporary residence of ethnic German refugees from Croatia, Transylvania and Hungary. A total of 680 refugees from Eastern Europe stopped in Niederkappel. Shortly before the end of the war, old and unfit men were called up for the Volkssturm in Niederkappel, where they had to dig protective trenches and were instructed on the bazooka. American troops marched through Niederkappel between May 2 and 5, 1945, and the Mühlviertel was finally declared a Soviet zone of occupation. On August 2, 1945, 60 Soviet soldiers arrived in Niederkappel, who were billeted in the town and only left the town in July 1946. In 1955 the occupying powers withdrew from the Mühlviertel and Austria for good.

The incorporation of Witzersdorf remained in place even after the end of the war and in 1950 the village of Oberbumberg, with the exception of the hamlet of Lehen, and the house in Dorf No. 10 were also reassembled to Niederkappel. In 1957, two houses in the center of the village were demolished, which meant that the passage could be expanded and a park was created. In addition, the local lighting was installed this year. Further investments in the infrastructure were made from the 1960s. Between 1960 and 1963 a new official building was erected, a music hall was built in 1962 and from 1964 the Niederkappeler Bezirksstraße was expanded. In 1967 a post bus route to Rohrbach was set up. By contrast, the construction of the Aschach power plant meant that 15 houses in Grafenau had to be demolished and 123 people relocated. In the 1970s the road network was expanded and asphalted, and the new elementary school was built between 1973 and 1975. In 1975 the new construction of the sports field began, and in 1979 the kindergarten was opened. Further investments in the 1980s related to the construction of a tennis court and an outdoor swimming pool as well as the construction of the funeral hall. The kindergarten was rebuilt from 1990 to 1991.

population

Population structure

In 2013 there were 972 people in the community of Niederkappel, which placed Niederkappel in the lower mid-range of the 42 communities in the district. At the end of 2001 97.3 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the value rose to 99.6 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent) Percent). In 2013, only four foreigners were counted in the municipality, all of whom came from EU countries. A total of 15 community residents were born abroad. In 2001, 96.2 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent), 1.0 percent were without confession, 1.7 percent were of the Islamic faith and 0.2 percent were Protestant.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was roughly the national average. 19.1 percent of the inhabitants of Kleinzell were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8 percent), 61.9 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 19.1 percent, just below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Niederkappel changed as a result, especially in the first two segments. The proportion of people under 15 years of age fell to 15.2 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between 15 and 59 years of age were widowed 6.8 percent and divorced 1.8 percent.

Population development

The population development in the area of ​​the community of Niederkappel between 1869 and 2013 was far below the average compared to the population development of the Rohrbach district. Compared to the province of Upper Austria, the population development was even less pronounced. Overall, the community lost 32 percent of its population between 1869 and 2013. At first, the number of inhabitants fluctuated between 1869 and 1961 in a comparatively narrow range between around 1,250 and 1,450 inhabitants, with the previous high of 1,445 inhabitants being recorded in 1934. Since 1951, the number of inhabitants has gradually decreased from a low level. The population development in the last few decades has been characterized by a high birth surplus and, at the same time, an even higher rate of emigration.

Politics and elections

Municipal council

The municipal council as the highest body of the municipality has 13 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The municipal board consists of three members, with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) being represented on the municipal board after the municipal council elections in 2009 with the mayor and the vice-mayor and thus the absolute majority in this body. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) sends another member.

The strongest parliamentary group in the Niederkappel municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which since 1945 has always achieved an absolute majority of votes and mandates or, for the most part, even had a two-thirds majority. In 1985 the ÖVP achieved its best result to date with 80.3 percent, and in 2009 it recorded its worst result with 62.8 percent. The second strongest party in the Niederkappel municipal council was always the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 1997 , which since 1945 has achieved between 12.5 and 28.9 percent. Up until the mid-1980s, the SPÖ always achieved more than 20 percent of the vote in municipal elections, before falling below 20 percent for the first time in 1985. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) first appeared in the municipality in 1991 and was able to overtake the SPÖ in 1997. After falling to 8.9 percent in 2003, it was able to achieve its best result so far in 2009 with 24.7 percent. The FPÖ also achieved the best result in the Rohrbach district in Niederkappel in 2009. In the last municipal council election in 2009, the ÖVP achieved 62.8 percent or nine seats, the FPÖ received 24.7 percent or three seats and the SPÖ achieved 12.5 percent and one seat.

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . The mayor Rudolf Kehrer (ÖVP), who has been in office since 1995, won the first direct election with 90.0 percent. In 2003 and 2009, Kehrer was re-elected with 80.8 and 78.6 percent respectively. There were no opponents in the three elections.

Mayor since 1850:

Term of office	Surname	Term of office	Surname
1850-1864	Ignaz Plattner	1942-1945	Ludwig Ertl
1864-1867	Georg Pumberger	1945-1949	Franz Mayrhofer
1867-1870	Anton Amerstorfer	1949-1965	Anton Leitenbauer
1870-1906	Josef Pumberger	1965-1985	Karl Streinesberger
1906-1909	Georg Fuchs	1985-1995	Hubert Hackl
1909-1919	Mathias Pumberger	1995-2013	Rudolf Kehrer
1919-1942	Alois Mayrhofer	2013–	Josef Wögerbauer

Other options

As in municipal council elections, the ÖVP also dominates regional elections in the municipality. Until 2003, the ÖVP was able to achieve a two-thirds majority with the exception of one election, and in 1985 it achieved its best result to date with 80.1 percent. Since then, however, the ÖVP has gradually lost its share of the vote. The second strongest party in state elections until 1991 was always the SPÖ, which achieved election results between 10.9 and 27.6 percent. The SPÖ had its best result in 1949, its worst in 1979. The FPÖ did not exceed 3.1 percent in the community until 1985. It was not until the 1991 election that the FPÖ was able to achieve a significant result with 10.9 percent. In 1997 the FPÖ was able to overtake the SPÖ for the first time, and in 2003 it fell to 6.4 percent. In 2009 she was able to achieve her best result to date with 18.5 percent. In the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came in first place with 62.9 percent and its lowest result to date. The SPÖ only got 11.2 percent and had to give up around 13 percent of its share of the vote. The FPÖ achieved their best result to date with 18.5 percent, the Greens came in at 4.3 percent.

coat of arms

On February 16, 1982, the community of Niederkappel determined the design of the community coat of arms and the community colors (red-white-blue). The coat of arms was subsequently awarded by resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government of April 19, 1982 or the municipal colors were approved. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: “ In silver, a red, adjoining St. Andrew's cross, whose oblique left-hand bar is covered with three silver, six-pointed stars; in the base of the shield there is a blue corrugated ledge raised by a blue corrugated bar. “The coat of arms refers to history, religion and the location of the community. The inclined cross symbolizes the Andreas patronage of the parish of Niederkappel, while the three silver stars in the inclined beam are reminiscent of the Lords of Rödern, who owned the chapel in the 17th century. The blue waves in the base of the shield represent the rivers Danube and Kleine Mühl, which border the municipality in the south and east.

Economy and Infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

In 2011, Niederkappel housed 96 workplaces with 260 employees, with 107 people or around 41 percent of employees working in five workplaces in the field of material goods production alone. For example, ÖkoFEN Forschungs und EntwicklungsgesmbH, which employs 400 people worldwide in the field of pellet heating production and is based in Niederkappel, is active in the production of goods . In 2011, agriculture and forestry, with 78 employees (30 percent) at 59 workplaces, was important behind the production of goods, while a maximum of five percent of the people working in Niederkappel were employed in all other sectors.

Of the 525 labor force living in Niederkappel at the end of October 2011, only 0.6 percent were unemployed. Of the 519 people in employment, 132 were employed in manufacturing (25 percent), 70 in trade (14 percent) and 58 in agriculture and forestry (11 percent). Other important sectors were construction with nine percent and health and social services and public administration with seven percent each. Of the 506 employed people in Niederkappel (excluding residents temporarily absent from work), 125 people were employed in Niederkappel at the end of October 2011. 381 or 75 percent had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 49 percent had their place of work in the Rohrbach district and 30 percent in the state capital Linz. The most important commuter communities besides Linz were Lembach im Mühlkreis , the district capital Rohrbach and Sarleinsbach . In return, 107 people commuted to Niedererkappel, 92 percent of whom came from the Rohrbach district. The most important community of origin was Lembach.

Agriculture and Forestry

In 2010 the statistics showed 81 agricultural and forestry holdings for the community of Niederkappel. These included 42 full-time businesses and 35 part-time businesses as well as 4 groups of people. The total number of businesses had fallen by 18 businesses or 18.2 percent compared to 1999, with the number of full-time businesses in particular falling sharply. Compared to the Rohrbach district and the province of Upper Austria, the overall decline was slightly below the average. The decline between 1990 and 1999 was much more pronounced, when the total number of farms had fallen from 132 to 99. The decline in the 1990s had only affected part-time farms, while the number of full-time farms even increased during this period. Overall, the farms in Niederkappel cultivated a total of 1,843 hectares in 2010, with 67 percent of the area being cultivated by full-time farmers and 25 percent by part-time farmers. The average area of ​​full-time farmers was 29.3 hectares, well below the district average (34.7 hectares) or the Upper Austrian average of 33.8 hectares.

The strong fragmentation of the agricultural plots led between 1949 and 1974 to a lengthy consolidation of land in the municipality, which reduced the original number of 1544 plots to only 593. The organization of the local farming community is still based on the original two communities, which is why there is a local farming community in Niederkappel and a local farming community in Witzersdorf.

Community finances

In 2013, the community of Niederkappel had income and expenditure of around 1.96 million euros each. Niederkappel earned around 0.89 million euros from public taxes. The municipality received around 0.75 million euros from revenue shares in communal federal taxes and around 140,000 euros from municipal taxes ( municipal tax , property tax B ). In addition, around 245,000 euros came from financial allocations and grants. At 520,000 euros, fees on services such as sewage disposal, waste disposal and water supply were the largest sources of income, with the fees for sewage disposal accounting for the largest share at around 375,000 million euros. Additional income came from the areas of road and hydraulic engineering, transport (195,000 euros) as well as teaching, education, sport and science (77,000 euros, in particular from contributions to the kindergarten). The main expenditure items were community services at 587,000 euros, with wastewater disposal again having the greatest impact at 367,000 million euros. Niederkappel spent 346,000 euros on the municipal administration and the costs of the elected municipal bodies, 278,000 euros went to teaching, education, sports and science (kindergarten, elementary and secondary school), 265,000 euros on road construction, 201,000 euros on social welfare and housing subsidies (Social welfare association levy) and 192,000 euros in the health sector (especially hospital contribution).

With its financial strength (community taxes plus revenue shares in community federal taxes), Niederkappel was only 374th in 2012 compared to the other 444 communities in Upper Austria, whereby the financial strength per capita was 871 euros. With a per capita debt of 3,506 euros or a total of 3.43 million euros, Niederkappel ranked 54th among the most heavily indebted municipalities in Upper Austria in 2012.

Culture and sights

Mühlviertel Cathedral

See also:  List of listed objects in Niederkappel

• Rudolf Kirchschläger Center (museum): A permanent exhibition shows the life and work of the man and politician Rudolf Kirchschläger, who was born in Niederkappel (Grafenau).
• Mühlviertel Cathedral : The Gothic church from 1404–1411 became too small in the 19th century. It wasrebuilt and enlargedfrom 1890 to 1895 in the neo-renaissance style according to plans by Raimund Jeblinger - to become the largest church hall in the Mühlviertel.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915–2000), judge, politician, Austrian Federal President from 1974 to 1986

literature

• Community of Niederkappel (ed.): Heimatbuch Niederkappel. Rohrbach 1992

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Landscape elevation Oberkappel. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2749874/ Jadebeil discovered from the Neolithic Age, orf.at, December 29, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015.
4. ^ Johann Altendorfer (Ed.): 650 years market Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis. Hofkirchen then and now. Marktgemeinde Hofkirchen 1985, p. 15
5. ↑ ^{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 
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Statistics Austria community data from Niederkappel in the Mühlkreis
8. ↑ ^{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 
9. ↑ Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Local council elections in Niederkappel from 1945 
10. ^ Province of Upper Austria election results in mayoral elections
11. ^ State of Upper Austria Mayor of the community of Niederkappel since 1850
12. ↑ Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State election results in Niederkappel from 1945 
13. ^ State of Upper Austria coat of arms of the community of Niederkappel
14. ^ Community of Niederkappel (ed.): Heimatbuch Niederkappel. Rohrbach 1992, pp. 46-49
15. ↑ offenerhaushalt.at
16. ↑ State of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2014 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. Community finances 

Web links

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

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the community of Niederkappel can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Community website