Pühret

This article explains the community in the Hausruckkreis, for other locations see Pühret (disambiguation) .

Pühret
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Main town :	Moosham
Surface:	6.53 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 2 '  N , 13 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '49 "  N , 13 ° 42' 25"  E
Height :	440  m above sea level A.
Residents :	625 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	4800, 4690
Area code :	07674
Community code :	4 17 28
Address of the municipal administration:	Atzbacher Strasse 23 4690 Schwanenstadt
Website:	www.puehret.ooe.gv.at
politics
mayor	Johann Schlachter ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	6th 4th 3 6th 4th 3  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 6 SPÖ : 4 FPÖ : 3
Location of Pühret in the Vöcklabruck district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pühret is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 625 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

Pühret lies at an altitude of 440 m in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is from north to south 4.3 km, from west to east 2.7 km. The total area is 6.5 km². 15.4% of the area is forested, 75.4% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

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

• Elderly (167)
• Ennsberg (124)
• Fiefdom (146)
• Moosham (126)
• Pühret (49)
• Schlierberg (13)

coat of arms

Blazon : Under a silver shield head with iron hat division (six green iron hats) in green a silver birch branch with three leaves and two hanging catkins. The municipality colors are green-white-black.

The coat of arms awarded in 1981 explains the name of the community with the birch branch, which means "birch grove". The iron hats represent the six localities.

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

The community was part of the Schwanenstadt judicial district until the end of 2004 and became part of the Vöcklabruck judicial district on January 1, 2005.

politics

For cost reasons, Pühret has joined forces with the neighboring communities of Pitzenberg , Rutzenham and Oberndorf near Schwanenstadt to form an administrative community. The joint municipal office is in Oberndorf. In the course of this cooperation, a joint building yard for the four communities was also built, which is housed in Rutzenham. On the basis of an initiative review of the savings potential, the State Audit Office recommended in 2015 that the four municipalities should be merged.

With the 2015 election, the municipal council with a total of 13 members has the following distribution: 6 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.

mayor

• since 2007 Johann Schlachter (ÖVP)

Population development

In 1991 the community had 550 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 573 inhabitants.

Web links

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

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41728 - Pühret. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• More information about the municipality of Pühret on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 6th supplement (1980-1983) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 3, 1984, p. 247, online (PDF; 8.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at