Oberfeuchtenbach

Oberfeuchtenbach ( village ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Rohrbach  (RO), Upper Austria
Pole. local community	Altenfelden   ( KG  Langhalsen )
Coordinates	48 ° 30 ′ 17 "  N , 13 ° 59 ′ 46"  E
height	572  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	56 (January 1, 2020)
surface	5.58 km²
Post Code	4121
Statistical identification
Locality code	10841
Counting district / district	Altenfelden area (41304 001)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Oberfeuchtenbach is a village in the municipality of Altenfelden in Upper Austria ( Rohrbach district ). The village was inhabited by 47 people in 2001.

geography

Oberfeuchtenbach is a hamlet in the municipality of Altenfelden, which is about 3 kilometers northeast of the market square of Altenfelden. Oberfeuchtenbach can be reached from the center of Altenfelden via Rohrbacher Straße (B 127) and the hamlet of Starling . Neighboring towns of Oberfeuchtenbach are Starling in the east, Unterfeuchtenbach in the south and east and Hölling in the north. A total of 18 buildings were counted for Oberfeuchtenbach in 2001, with 12 buildings having a main residence and 19 apartments or 17 households. Oberfeuchtenbach consists of the hamlet of Oberfeuchtenbach, which is built with three and four-sided courtyards, other scattered four-sided courtyards and the company WWS Wasserkraft (former cardboard factory) on the Great Mühl.

History and population

Oberfeuchtenbach was first mentioned in a document around 1140, with a church consecrated to St. John that was mentioned in a document in 1307 in the town. This was blocked in the course of the Josephinian reforms and was later abandoned. In 1869, 97 people lived in eleven houses in Oberfeuchtenbach. By 1910, the population fell to 83 people, with the village having grown to 13 buildings. Until 1923 the population remained stable and comprised 84 people who lived in 12 houses. For the first time in Oberfeuchtenbach, however, a distinction was made between the hamlet of Oberfeuchtenbach with eight houses and 61 inhabitants and the surrounding four houses with 23 inhabitants belonging to the village. In 1951 a total of 88 people lived in Oberfeuchtenbach, spread across the hamlet with 52 inhabitants and nine buildings and the scattered settlement with five houses and 36 inhabitants. However, the number of inhabitants subsequently fell continuously and in 2001 was only 47 people in 18 houses.

Buildings

Oberfeuchtenbach is mainly home to three and four-sided farms. The three-sided farm in Oberfeuchtenbach No. 6, for example, dates from the third quarter of the 19th century, the Aichbauer (Oberfeuchtenbach No. 8) with its cap vaults in the house floor and stable and the pawlatsche in the courtyard from the middle of the 19th century. The Wagner cardboard factory on the bank of the river bend in the Große Mühl also belongs to Oberfeuchtenbach . While the associated three-storey house with a gable roof and simple, late-historical facade and two-storey veranda was built at the end of the 19th century (around 1897), the actual factory building dates from 1904. The industrial-style multi-storey building cubes were equipped with flat saddle roofs, the facades have plastered roofs and relief arches in exposed brickwork. The so-called old saw comes from the 1940s, the drying floors next to it from around 1910.

With the pilgrimage chapel Maria Poetsch , Oberfeuchtenbach also houses a pilgrimage chapel located at a spring in the forest. In the hamlet of Oberfeuchtenbach itself, there is also the village chapel from the 18th century, which was built over an almost square floor plan. It has a tent roof and inside a square vault. The chapel houses a figure of St. Mary from the fourth quarter of the 19th century, although the display case surrounding it dates from the same period. The Way of the Cross from Mühltalstraße to the village chapel was designed in 1969 with copper reliefs on stone plinths. In addition, next to the Aichbauer farm there is a tabernacle column with images of the Trinity, Mary and the Sacred Heart, the column being marked with the year 1810 . In addition, next to the Dreiseithof in Oberfeuchtenbach No. 6, there is a tabernacle column from the 18th century with glass images of the gracious mercy as well as the saints Georg and Florian.

literature

• Peter Adam, Beate Auer, u. a: Dehio Handbook Upper Austria. Volume 1, Mühlviertel. Verlag Berger, Horn, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3
• Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Upper Austria Part 2, Perg, Ried im Innkreis, Rohrbach, Schärding, Steyr-Land, Urfahr-Umgebung ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Classification according to Statistics Austria
2. ^ Statistics Austria (ed.): Ortverzeichnis 2001. Oberösterreich. Vienna 2005
3. ↑ Peter Adam, Beate Auer, u. a: Dehio Handbook Upper Austria. Volume 1, Mühlviertel. Verlag Berger, Horn, Vienna 2003, p. 31 ff.
4. ^ Kk statistical Central Commission (ed.): Orts-Repertorium des Erzherzogthumes Oesterreich ob der Enns. Based on the census of December 31, 1869 Linz 1871, p. 86
5. ↑ kk Central Statistical Commission (Ed.): Spezialortsrepertorium von Oberösterreich. Edited on the basis of the results of December 31, 1910. Vienna 1916, p. 100
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Directory of Austria. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of March 7, 1923. Vienna 1930, p. 19 Upper Austria
7. ^ Austrian Central Statistical Office (ed.): Local directory of Austria. Edited on the basis of the results of the census of June 1, 1951. Vienna 1953, p. 93 Upper Austria.