Pöstlingberg (district)

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Linz district Pöstlingberg
Statistical districts of the Pöstlingberg district of Linz
Basic data
political district Linz (L)
Statistical districts Pöstlingberg
surface 7.99 km²
Geographical location 48 ° 19 ′  N , 14 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′  N , 14 ° 15 ′  E
height 539  m above sea level A.
Residents 4826 (as of 1999)
604 inhabitants per km²
Post Code 4040, 4043
Pöstlingberg with pilgrimage basilica

Pöstlingberg is a district and statistical district of Linz . The Pöstlingberg hill of the same name rises 539 m above the left bank of the Danube . The local community of Pöstlingberg was incorporated into Urfahr on May 31, 1919, and Urfahr was incorporated into Linz on the following day.

geography

Geographical location and neighboring communities

The district of Pöstlingberg lies north of the Danube in the west of the Upper Austrian capital Linz . In the north it borders on the neighboring communities of Lichtenberg and Kirchschlag bei Linz , in the east on the districts of St. Magdalena and Urfahr , in the south on the city center district and in the west on the neighboring communities Gramastetten and Puchenau .

Expansion of the district area

The largest continuous extension of the district from east to west is around 4.7 kilometers, from north to south around 6 kilometers. The total area of ​​the Pöstlingberg district is 7.99 square kilometers.

The grassland portion is about 6.57 square kilometers, which makes up about a third of the grassland area of ​​the southernmost district of Ebelsberg .

Important rivers and bodies of water

The Pöstlingberg district is bounded in the south by the Danube river.

history

The former municipal office

The name Pöstlingberg appears for the first time in 1669 on Georg Matthäus Vischer 's map of Upper Austria in the form of “Pößlingberg”, a spelling that was not replaced by today's name until the 19th century.

In 1785 the Pöstlingberg parish was founded , which means that the surrounding parish area was restructured.

In 1875 the municipality of Lichtenberg was incorporated into Pöstlingberg (Lichtenberg became an independent municipality again in 1919 with the incorporation of Pöstlingberg to Urfahr and was known as Lichtenberg near Pöstlingberg until the 1960s ).

The last Pöstlingberg mayor Johann Schöfdoppler (term of office 1893-1919), he was a grocer and postcard publisher, had the villa Schöfdoppler-Casagrande (Am Pöstlingberg 11) built in 1901 by the Munich architect Fritz Hessemer . Schöfdoppler was also the founder of the Pöstlingberg fire brigade. During this time the Pöstlingberg Music Association was founded. The primary school was built in 1901/02, in 1903 the municipal office was built in today's Samhaberstraße 50 by master builder Johann Weixelbaumer (today the fire brigade).

traffic

To relieve traffic, the bus lane on Rohrbacher Strasse coming from Puchenau was also released for cars with three or more passengers. This would save around 270,000 euros in economic terms from 60,000 man-hours of driving time and a reduction in CO 2 emissions .

literature

  • Oskar Dohle: Urfahr from the city to the district 1914–1924 with an overview of the developments, especially from 1945 to 1955. Dissertation . Vienna 1995. In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1997. Linz 1999, entire article pp. 291–352, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Franz Dobusch, Johann Mayr (Hrsg.): Linz - city of work and culture. Gutenberg-Werbering, Linz 1997.
  • City research Linz: Linz 2000. Facts, pictures, graphics. CD-ROM. Linz 2000.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Linz - Politics / Administration - Linz Figures - City Area (with an overview of the current and former statistical districts of Linz that were valid from 1957 to 2013).
  2. ^ Fritz Mayerhofer: Some remarks on the Linz incorporations. In: Museumsverein Lauriacum-Enns (ed.): Festschrift Herbert Kneifel on the 100th birthday. Enns 2008, pp. 115–129, here p. 124.
  3. ^ Franz Pfeffer: Pöstlingberg. On the history of a mountain name. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Year 9, Linz 1955, p. 40f, entire article p. 33–43, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  4. Linz monuments, Villa Schöfdoppler-Casa Grande
  5. ^ FF Pöstlingberg
  6. Musikverein Pöstlingberg
  7. Linz monuments, Pöstlingberg volunteer fire brigade base, former Pöstlingberg office building
  8. Bus lanes free for cars with several passengers - a new Austrian experience. (No longer available online.) Austrian Association of Cities , September 28, 2001, archived from the original on January 2, 2016 ; accessed on January 2, 2016 . 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.staedtebund.gv.at