Oberalm

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Oberalm
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Oberalm (Austria)
Oberalm
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Salzburg
Political District : Hallein
License plate : HA
Surface: 6.39 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 42 '  N , 13 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '0 "  N , 13 ° 6' 0"  E
Height : 452  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,437 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 694 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5411
Area code : 06245
Community code : 5 02 08
NUTS region AT323
UN / LOCODE AT OMB
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Halleiner Landesstrasse 51
5411 Oberalm
Website: www.oberalm.at
politics
Mayor : Hans-Jörg Haslauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2019)
(21 members)

Christian Haslauer (ViceBgm / SPÖ)

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7th
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8th 7th 3 3 
A total of 21 seats


Location of Oberalm in the Hallein district
Abtenau Adnet Annaberg-Lungötz Bad Vigaun Golling an der Salzach Hallein Krispl Kuchl Oberalm Puch bei Hallein Rußbach am Paß Gschütt Sankt Koloman Scheffau am TennengebirgeLocation of the municipality of Oberalm in the Hallein district (clickable map)
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Oberalm
Oberalm
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Oberalm is a market town with 4437 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Salzburger Land in the Hallein district in Austria .

geography

The community is located in Tennengau in the Salzburg region. Oberalm is located directly on the Salzburg-Tiroler-Bahn and can be reached quickly and comfortably from the state capital Salzburg using the S3 line of the Salzburg S-Bahn . The regional bus route 160 runs from Hallein / Bahnhof via Oberalm to Salzburg / Hbf.

Community structure

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

The municipality consists of the cadastral municipality Oberalm I.

Neighboring communities

Puch near Hallein
Hallein ( Taxach municipality ) Neighboring communities Adnet
Hallein

history

The name Oberalm is derived from the pre-Latin Albantha (presumably alpenkeltisch , "Illyrian") and is in river names (supported) from Latin albus , white ', so comfortable in the importance on Almbach ' (see also Upper Albe for Almbach ). Oberalm is one of the earliest populated areas in the area around the Salzach Valley floor, and the area's settlement continuity from pre-Roman to early medieval times is assured.

The place was first mentioned in writing in the 8th century, when Duke Theodo from Bavaria transferred the Salzachgau to St. Rupert for the purpose of settlement and missionary work . The first mention is in the Breves Notitiae (789) - the name Oberalm appears in several passages of text - “ ecclesiam iuxta ripam, que vocatur Albina ” or “ hominum de Albina ” ('people from (Ober) Alm'). This manuscript is kept in the archives of the Archabbey of St. Peter . The monastery owned several farms subject to interest in Oberalm . Oberalm was mentioned as a market town as early as the Middle Ages. Furthermore, several important noble families had their residence in Oberalm - among others at the castles of Kahlsperg and Winkl .

Ludwig Wittgenstein lived for a while in his uncle's villa in the village and worked here on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (published in 1921). The remains of the house, which was in poor condition, were demolished on December 1, 2015, despite protests.

In 1938, with the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany, when large communities were formed everywhere in Austria, Oberalm became part of the city of Hallein on January 1, 1939 ("Groß-Hallein"). After the war, there was already a signature campaign in 1946 to reverse it, which brought a majority of around 85 percent (“Los von Hallein” movement). After lengthy negotiations about the valuable industrial area locations between Oberalm and Hallein, but also with Adnet around the Vorderwiestal , which had come there with the dissolution of Oberalm, as well as after further votes and citizen surveys, the Salzburg state parliament passed the law on 11 June 1952 on the re-establishment of a Market town of Oberalm. The cadastral community Oberalm II , today's Hallein district Neualm, and a border strip near Hühnerau remained with Hallein. The Vorderwiestal came back to Oberalm.

Culture and sights

Parish Church Oberalm (1997) In the foreground the Oberalmer Thaidingtisch
  • Catholic parish church Oberalm hl. Stephan: Gothic sacred building with a remarkable high altar from 1707, late Gothic marble pulpit , crucifix and figures of saints by Johann Georg Mohr .
  • Haunsperg Castle : 14th century, was run as a hotel until 2015, is located right next to the church
  • Kahlsperg Castle : 16th century, today a retirement home
  • Winkl Castle : today the Winklhof Agricultural School
  • Town houses: from the 17th century in the town center
  • Filzhofgütl: The Kulturhaus is a former farm and houses a library.
  • Community center: modern construction
  • Former sexton house, today service apartments for employees of Schloss Winkl
  • Former school building, from 1879, now a private house
  • Wiestal : local recreation area with the Wiestal reservoir

politics

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The community council has a total of 21 members.

mayor

  • 1988–1999 Herbert Struber
  • 1999–2005 Rudolf Schürer
  • 2005–2019 Gerald Dürnberger (SPÖ)
  • since 2019 Hans-Jörg Haslauer (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Oberalm (Austria) Coat of Arms.svg

The coat of arms of the municipality is described as follows :

In the golden field on a green lawn there is a table made of a massive square stone slab of red marble and a wide, also square stone table base of gray color. Behind this table is a green linden tree .

Shown is the Oberalmer Thai Ding table (Schrannenplatz) with Gerichtslinde . The "red marble" is the important marble from Adnet .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities associated with the community

literature

  • Josef Brettenthaler: Oberalm. A Salzburg market then and now . Market town of Oberalm, Oberalm 1978.
  • Aegydius Ausserhofer u. a .: Festschrift. 100 years of independent Oberalm parish 1908–2008. Organ consecration. Renovation of the parish church. Parish Oberalm, Oberalm 2008.

Web links

Commons : Oberalm  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ salzburg.gv.at ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburg.gv.at
  2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. ↑ An etymology to Alm (mountain pasture) can be excluded here, as in the entire Salzburg-Hallein basin, since the place is in the valley. The same applies to Niederalm an der Alm ( Berchtesgadener Ache )
  4. ↑ Biological underwater research group of the University of Salzburg : Historical course of the river Salzach from the Salzachöfen to the mouth of the Saalach - Part 2: Salzburg - Hallein in BUFUS-Info 40/2008, PDF file p. 4–5 of 14 pages, online at bufus. sbg.ac.at
  5. ^ Salzburg.orf.at Demolition of "Wittgenstein-Villa" under Protest, of.at, December 1, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Oberalm celebrated its separation from Hallein 50 years ago. Interesting presentation of regional history by the director of the regional archive, Fritz Koller, in “Our Land” , Salzburger Landeskorrespondenz, March 26, 2002.
  7. ↑ Herbert Struber . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
  8. ↑ Rudolf Schürer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
  9. ↑ Gerald Dürnberger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .