Perg

This article describes the town of Perg in Upper Austria; for other meanings of the same name, see Perg (disambiguation) .

Borough Perg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Perg
License plate :	PE
Surface:	26.46 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 15 '  N , 14 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '1 "  N , 14 ° 38' 1"  E
Height :	250  m above sea level A.
Residents :	8,837 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4320
Area code :	07262
Community code :	4 11 16
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 4 4320 Perg
Website:	www.perg.at
politics
Mayor :	Anton Froschauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (37 members)	19th 8th 7th 3 19th 8th 7th 3  A total of 37 seats ÖVP : 19 FPÖ : 8 SPÖ : 7 GREEN : 3
Location of Perg in the district of Perg
Parish church of Perg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Perg is an Upper Austrian municipality in the lower Mühlviertel on the northern edge of the Machland with 8,837 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

The city is located 35 km east of Linz and 7 km north of the Danube on the Naarn at 250  m above sea level. A. , has been the administrative seat of the district of Perg since 1868 and the location of the district court of Perg . As early as 1269, King Ottokar II of Bohemia granted the citizens of Perg market rights .

Perg owes its name to the Lords of Perg , the economic importance from the 14th century onwards, among other things, to the millstone crusher and the potter's guild . Due to several devastating fires, only the parish church from the 15th century and the soap boiler house from the 16th century remain from the site of the Middle Ages and early modern times .

Since 1938, the municipality has consisted of the original Perg market and the municipalities of Pergkirchen and Weinzierl, which were independent until they were incorporated . In the 19th and 20th centuries, Perg developed into an economic, administrative, medical, school and leisure center for the Perg district. In 1969, the Upper Austrian provincial government raised the market to a town. Due to the above-average population growth from the second half of the 20th century, Perg became the largest city in the Mühlviertel in terms of population .

Due to the connection to the Danube Cycle Path , tourism gained economic importance in the 1990s. Perg has been on the Austrian-Bavarian long-distance hiking trail Donausteig since 2010 and has its own Danube circuit with the Kugelmanderlweg.

geography

Location and surroundings

Preschnitzer-Höhe (Preschmitzer-Höhe), highest elevation in the municipality 415 m above sea level. A.

The area of ​​the municipality of Perg covers an area of ​​26.46 km². The greatest expansion is 8.1 km in east-west direction and 6.3 km in north-south direction.

The provincial capital Linz is 35 km to the west, the federal capital Vienna 150 km to the east from Perg. The next border crossing to the Czech Republic, Wullowitz in the municipality of Leopoldschlag , is located north of Perg, 55 km away. The district of Perg borders Lower Austria to the east and south. In the east is the border between Upper and Lower Austria at a distance of 30 km near Hirschenau in the municipality of St. Nikola an der Donau . In a southerly direction, the route to Lower Austria leads over the Danube bridges in Mauthausen and Grein as well as the restricted traffic road of the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power station .

The highest peaks are in the village of Lehenbrunn north of the Preschnitzer property (Preschmitzer) at around 415  m above sea level. A. at the municipal borders with Münzbach and Windhaag and in the village of Lanzenberg (around 407  m above sea level ) near the municipal border with Allerheiligen . The lowest points of the municipality with less than 240  m above sea level. A. are located southeast of Perg in the village of Auhof am Naarn Canal in the direction of Arbing .

The municipal area is located on the one hand in the fertile Machland plain and on the other in the Untermühlviertel Schollenland, an extension of the granite and gneiss plateau .

Perg does not border on the Danube , but it only flows a few kilometers southwest and south of the neighboring communities of Naarn and Mitterkirchen in Machland .

From a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as aspects of the use of space, the municipality of Perg belongs to 3 of the 41 spatial units of the federal state of Upper Austria . All localities and parts of the municipality in the plain are in the Machland spatial unit . A small part of the Perger municipality in the villages of Lehenbrunn, Weinzierl and Lanzenberg belongs to the Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland spatial unit . Between the two above-mentioned spatial units lies the southern Mühlviertel peripheral area , which includes the partially densely populated, south-facing slopes of the municipality. The border between Machland and the southern Mühlviertel region runs from Aisthofen via Weinzierl, Zeitling , Perg, Thurnhof , Auhof and Tobra along the roads on the edge of the plain.

geology

Rock samples of crystal sandstone and Perger granite

The part of the Perger municipality in the Untermühlviertel Schollenland consists of basins that are lowered along fractures and that are partly filled with paleogenic sea ​​and river deposits. In between, clumps have been preserved. The resulting large height differences in Perg range between 250 and 415 m. The change from wide valleys with narrow rocky breakthrough valleys requires a subdivision of the area into small landscapes. The most agriculturally usable soils are found in the younger deposits.

The mountainous area in the north of the municipality represents crystalline basement and consists of granite , while in the south of the municipality this basement forms a relatively shallow basin of the type of a young sedimentary basin . In the area around Perg you can find the older, coarse-grained Weinsberg granite as well as the younger, medium- to fine-grained Mauthausener and Perger granite . The kaolin mined in Weinzierl is one of the weathering products of the basement in the municipality of Perg . From the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic , the area was mainland, after which large parts of the country sank below sea level and became the seabed. Therefore, in Perg, for example, in the Ratgöbluckn stables, sea ​​sand deposited on granite can be found. In it have fossils such as shark teeth, fish scales or bones of manatees (cranial part of a manatee: Metaxytherium pergense ) were obtained. In the last part of the geological modern age, the crystalline basement rose again and crystalline sandstone emerged , which was used in Perg for millstone production.

Granite , sandstone and kaolin are particularly usable raw materials in the municipality today , which is why mining in granite and sandstone quarries and kaolin mining played an economic role, especially in Perg and the surrounding area in the last few centuries.

The area of ​​the municipality located in the Danube plain of the Machland lies in the plain at 240 to 260 m and is one of the lowest areas of the Mühlviertel . The gradual drop to the Danube along clear erosion margins results in corresponding ecological differences that depend on the surface layers and their soils, the frequency of flooding and the depth of the almost closed groundwater body. Perg has been free from Danube floods since historical times. The frequent floods in the Perger Au , which occasionally also affect the urban area of ​​Perg, are due to the floods of the Naarn and its tributaries. The foot zones of the massive waste in particular are among the preferred settlement zones in Perg. The basin location with the temperature-favored, south-exposed slope foot of the massive edge is a former wine-growing zone that was revived at the beginning of the 21st century.

Waters

The Naarn flows from north to south through the municipality, first in a narrow, deeply cut breakthrough valley and in the Machland in the regulated bed of the Naarn Canal. Perg is bordered by the Aist in the west in the village of Aisthofen and partly by the Tobrabach in the east in the village of Tobra .

Other rivers in the municipality are draining into the Aist Aisthofnerbach, and draining into the Naarn streams Zeitlinger Bach, Hinterbach, Thurnhofbach (in the headwaters called Lampl Bach), (hereinafter referred to as the upper reaches Pergkirchnerbach) Auhof Bach and Tobrabach (in the upper reaches Kropf Mühlbach or Altenburger Bach or Modlerbach called). To the south and south-east of Perg, the Naarn and its tributaries were regulated in the Perger Au in the 18th and 20th centuries. The Thurnhofbach and Auhofbach brooks, which have their source in the municipality of Perg, still flow into the artificially created Kleiner Naarnkanal, which is the only tributary that feeds the Tobrakanal, which flows into the Große Naarn.

The Tobrabach, which rises near the Kloiber farm in the municipality of Windhaag and is initially called Modlerbach or Altenburgerbach or Kropfmühlbach, reaches the municipality of Perg near Altenburg (municipality of Windhaag) near the Kropfmühle and initially forms the border between Perg and Münzbach as well the confluence of the Falkenauerbach the border between Perg and Arbing. It has a catchment area of ​​47.8 km² and has been mapped over a length of 17.3 km. In the village of Tobra the brook was channeled, south of the railway bridge the Tobra Canal is diverted on the right side. The Tobrabach is piped from the diversion area over a length of 200 meters, changes direction about a kilometer downstream from the village of Tobra at an almost right angle and then forms the border between Arbing and Mitterkirchen.

The standing waters in the municipality are on the one hand artificially created ponds, mostly extinguishing water ponds or fish ponds in the vicinity of localities, for example in Pergkirchen, and on the other hand groundwater accumulations in abandoned quarries and open-cast mining areas that are largely left to natural succession , for example the former mill quarry Kerngraben or the Weinzierl kaolin mining area, which has been largely closed for years.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, as in previous centuries (see main article Perger Au ), Perg was affected by flood disasters. In July 1954 and August 2002, when the water levels were sometimes higher than in 1954, there was considerable flooding by the Naarn and its tributaries, caused by prolonged rainfall in the hinterland. In particular the Naarnalstrasse had to be extensively renovated because of the flood damage in 2002/03; the Naarn valley was not continuously navigable for a long time. Major damage was caused, for example, to the power stations and penstocks of the Perg power station .

Urban structure and land use

In gray on a yellow background: location of the city and the localities in the municipality of Perg

The Perg market, which has existed since the 13th century, became a cadastral municipality in 1784 and a market municipality in 1848. Since the incorporation of November 1, 1938, the municipality of Perg has consisted of the areas of the local communities of Markt Perg, Pergkirchen and Weinzierl . The existing structure in cadastral communities was retained. In 1946 there were efforts to reverse the incorporation of Pergkirchen. In a referendum, however, 85% of Pergkirchen's residents were in favor of staying with Perg.

The three formerly independent municipalities are divided into the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• The cadastral community (KG) Perg with an area of ​​7.61 km² includes the narrower local area of ​​Perg (6209) and the village of Kickenau (9).
• The KG Pergkirchen with 10.95 km² consists of the villages Auhof (132), Dörfl (54), Karlingberg (193), Lehenbrunn (152), Mitterberg (190), Pergkirchen (397), Thurnhof (258) and Tobra (216 ).
• The villages of Aisthofen (246), Lanzenberg (300), Weinzierl (188) and Zeitling (293) are located in the 7.88 km² KG Weinzierl area .

The local names Markt, Obervormarkt, Untervormarkt, Hainbuchen, Kropfmühle and Pasching are still in use colloquially, but are no longer used as the official local or street names of Perg.

The total area of ​​the city is divided as follows:

Almost five sixths of the Perger municipal area consists of agricultural and forestry areas, with agriculture accounting for 65.35% and forests for 17.39%. The remaining areas are divided into 0.97% water areas, 1.8% building areas, 7.78% gardens and 6.71% other areas.

Neighboring communities

Perg is surrounded by seven parishes, all of which belong to the district of Perg. In the north, the municipality of Perg borders the municipalities of Allerheiligen and Windhaag , in the west and northwest on the market town of Schwertberg and in the south and southwest on the market town of Naarn . Mitterkirchen is located south of Perg. To the east of Perg, the area of ​​the municipality of Arbing and the market town of Münzbach connects to that of Perg.

In the villages of Karlingberg and Lehenbrunn, the settlements of the city of Perg border directly to the north on residential areas of the municipality of Windhaag. In the village of Tobra, a settlement belonging to the municipality of Arbing extends to the municipality's border in the east. The village of Aisthofen meets a residential area of ​​the municipality of Schwertberg on the northern edge.

climate

The closest climate stations are in Allerheiligen ( 542  m above sea level ), Amstetten ( 318  m above sea level ), Linz ( 263  m above sea level ) and Pabneukirchen ( 595  m above sea level ). Their data form the basis for the descriptions of the climate in the three room units relevant for Perg.

The annual mean air temperature in the hill country is 8 to 9 ° C and in the plain 10 ° C. The coolest month is January with average temperatures of −1.5 to −2.1 ° C and the warmest July with an average temperature between 17.7 and 18.8 ° C. The precipitation is between 700 and 800 mm per year both in the Machland plain and on the slopes of the Untermühlviertel Schollenland. Winds come most frequently from the west, second most frequently from the east.

In the Heimatbuch of 1933 the climatic conditions in the market Perg were described:

The Perg market is in a very protected location; the mountains in the west keep out the harsh westerly winds, as do the mountains to the north from the cold north winds. Since the landscape is open towards the south, towards the Machland, the warm south winds can approach unhindered. In the Naarn Valley, the temperature in winter is lower than in the plain. However, the place suffers in late autumn and early spring from the strong Danube fog, which often penetrates into the place.

Average temperatures for Perg Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Temperature ( ° C ) -2.2 -0.5 2.6 7.6 12.1 15.5 17.8 16.5 13.2 8.2 3.0 -0.9 O 7.8 Source: Average temperatures in Perg, documented in 1933

Particularly wet, hot and dry summers and particularly mild winters are listed there as far back as the 11th century. On February 11, 1929 - 30 ° C and on January 25, 1834 + 14 ° C could be measured in Perg.

The municipality of Perg has been a Climate Alliance partner city ​​since 2001 and can refer to a number of its own activities aimed at solving global environmental problems. Examples of local measures include, in particular, the promotion campaigns for energy-saving measures by private households, the connection of public buildings to the district heating network of the local district heating plant, the use of waste heat from the combined heat and power plant in the Machlandbad and awareness-raising measures.

population

Population development

At the beginning of the 19th century, around 2000 people lived in what is now the municipality of Perg. In 1809 the number of houses was given as 320.

In 1851 Perg, including the two later incorporated cadastral communities of Pergkirchen and Weinzierl, had 2,313 inhabitants. By the beginning of the Second World War , the population rose to 3512. Since the 1950s it has grown significantly faster than that of the Perg district and the state of Upper Austria .

Population structure by gender, age and education

The city of Perg had 8,388 inhabitants on January 1, 2018, of which 4,109 men and 4,279 women, making it the largest city in the Mühlviertel in terms of population, followed by Freistadt . Of the municipalities in the Mühlviertel, only the municipality of Engerwitzdorf had more inhabitants than the municipality of Perg on the reference date .

The rough age structure of the Perger population is available as of October 31, 2012 and shows that 69% of Perger are over 15 and under 65 years old. Around a sixth of the population is younger (16.1%) and around a seventh of the population is older (14.9%). While the proportion of women in the main group roughly corresponds to the proportion of the entire population, it is already well below the proportion of the entire population at 49.3% for the younger population and well above the proportion at 56.9% for the older population.

Of the 6,981 Pergern who were over 15 years old in 2015, 727, that is 10%, have a degree from a university , technical college or academy . Another 876 Pergers, that is 13% of the relevant population group, have graduated . 3,307 Perger, with 47% almost half of those over fifteen, have completed an apprenticeship or vocational secondary school . 2071 or 30% of the Pergers only have a compulsory school certificate .

Origin and language

Origin and language of the population of Perg shows the following development between the census of May 15, 2001 and the register census of October 31, 2011: (2001 values ​​in brackets, revised): 90.1 (91.2)% of Perg's inhabitants are Austrian Citizens and 86.5 (89.9)% were born in Austria. 2.5 (0.8)% of Perger come from other EU countries, 7.3 (9.3)% from non-EU countries.

The Middle or Danube Bavarian dialect is a Bavarian dialect form that is widespread throughout Upper Austria . The ostösterreichische branch of the middle Bairischen goes to the dialect of the created by the Bavarian Ostsiedlung Babenberg dominion Ostarrichi back.

religion

In the 2001 census, 6,057 people (85%) stated that they were Roman Catholics , 512 (7.2%) Islamic , 114 (1.6%) Protestant , 62 (0.9%) Orthodox and 95 (1.4%) %) other faiths. 289 (4.1%) Perger have not professed any religion.

The Deanery Perg of the Catholic Diocese of Linz was founded in 1974. The dean is elected from among the pastors of the deanery. Pastor Konrad Hörmanseder, the pastor of Perg and Pergkirchen, has been dean since September 2010. This was the first time since the dean's office was founded that the dean came from one of the two parishes in the municipality. The church contribution office responsible for the entire district of Perg is housed in the Perg parish building. The pastoral care room Perg includes the parishes of Allerheiligen, Münzbach, Perg, Pergkirchen Rechberg and Windhaag within the Perg deanery.

→ Main article : Deanery Perg

The Catholic parishes of Perg and Pergkirchen are located in the municipality of Perg . The parish of Perg extends in the north beyond the area of ​​the municipality of Perg. Part of the municipality of Allerheiligen belongs to the cadastral municipality of Lebing and of the municipality of Windhaag the village of Kuchlmühle and most of Karlingberg belong to it. Aisthofen belongs to the parish Schwertberg. The boundaries of the parish of Pergkirchen largely correspond to those of the cadastral parish of the same name.

In Perg, in addition to the Catholic churches in Perg and Pergkirchen, there are meeting rooms for the Christian community (free church), Muslims and Jehovah's Witnesses . The members of the Protestant Church belong to the parish of Enns . The Muslims have founded several local cultural associations in Perg, including the ALIF (Integration and Culture Association - Perg Egitim Merkezi (PEM)) and the Perger Alevi Kültür Dernegi (Perger Alevi Culture Association - PAKD). The latter began in July 2013 in the west of Perg the establishment of a club house with around 900 square meters of usable space on a 2600 square meter area, where around 100 people can meet regularly and up to 250 people at major events.

The Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross ( Sisters of the Cross ) have had a base in Perg since 1891. The last remaining nun in Perg was in charge of the kindergarten of the Perg Kindergarten Association in Friedhofstrasse until mid-2010.

history

→ Main article : History of the city of Perg

Primeval times and antiquity

In the village of Weinzierl , an Ice Age hunting station from the late Paleolithic (around 30,000 years ago, Aurignacien ) was moored in the 1990s . The presence of humans in the Neolithic is proven by various finds of stone axes and their fragments from the period between 5000 and 1500 BC. The discovery of residential pits and a pottery kiln from the Hallstatt period (600 BC) in the village of Auhof near Perg is significant .

During Roman times , the area around Perg lay north of the border of the Noricum province on the Limes of the Roman Empire - which was then formed in this area by the Danube - within a 7.5 km wide buffer zone between Romans and barbarians . The Roman fort Adiuvense ( Wallsee ) and the Roman military camp Lauriacum ( Enns / Lorch ) were within sight. There are no traces of settlement from this time in the area of ​​the municipality of Perg.

middle Ages

Coat of arms of the Lords of Perg (based on a sketch by Leopold Josef Mayböck )

Mitterberg castle ruins, once the largest castle complex in the Mühlviertel

After the Migration Period, Bavaria and Slavs settled in the Perg area at the same time . Both peoples left traces in the names of places and houses. Finds of grave goods from the burial ground discovered near Auhof from the 7th and 8th centuries AD prove the transition from paganism to Christianity that took place there at this time .

From the 9th century the area belonged to the Avarmark . The manor in the village of Aisthofen in the area of ​​the cadastral community Weinzierl was the center and administrative seat of the so-called Regensburger Luss for centuries . In the second half of the 10th century, the Babenbergs were entrusted with pacifying the Danube march. The Machland was part of this mark, which is considered the heartland of Austria and extended from the Erlabach east of the Enns on both sides of the Danube to west of the Vienna Woods. Leopold I became margrave in 976 and in 996 the name Ostarrichi (Austria) was first mentioned for this area.

The writing verifiable history of today's village and cadastral Pergkirchen began with the appearance of the lords of Perg and Machland starting around 1050. Already in 1088 was consecrated the church of St. Martin in Pergkirchen that in 1142 the parish Pergkirchen was. Margrave Leopold III. , the saint, had his first marriage to a daughter of the Lords of Perg around 1100.

The Vogtburg of the Lords of Perg stood above the early Perg settlement on the Dollberg hill. The Mitterberg fortress of the Lords of Perg in the area of ​​Pergkirchen, like the Perg Castle, fell to the Babenbergs no later than 1191 after the Lords of Perg died out . Mitterberg was developed into the largest castle complex in the Mühlviertel and was the second largest castle in what is now Upper Austria after Schaunburg Castle (Hartkirchen municipality) . From 1278 to 1491 Mitterberg was the seat of the Machland district court.

The village of Perg was founded by the Babenbergs , and their citizens received market rights as early as 1269. In the medieval market of Perg the citizens, including the important guilds of millstone breakers , stonecutters and stoners , played an important role.

The Habsburg sovereign Rudolf I subordinated the market of Perg to the great rule of Freistadt . The independence was retained, but the approval of the sovereign rule had to be obtained for fundamental decisions and the citizens of the market had to pay an annual fee to the respective landlords.

As early as the 11th century, routes of the Way of St. James led via Perg from Bohemia ( Budweis  - Neumarkt im Mühlkreis  - Schönau im Mühlkreis  - Perg) and from Moravia ( Kautzen  - Zwettl  - Altmelon  - Nöchling  - Perg) and then on to Asten . A Jacob's chapel was first mentioned in Perg in 1416.

Modern times

16th to 19th century

Water network of the Naarn at the time of the failure flood (1755–1938)

The parish of Perg was created in 1542 by separating it from the old parish of Naarn, a Jacob's chapel or Jacob's church with a first Perger cemetery was built around the church.

The Reformation played no special role in the Perg market . There were no Protestant pastors in the parish of Perg . From 1609 on, preachers and Lutheran schoolmasters were employed in place of Catholic schoolmasters. Leonhard Lanß, a citizen of Perg, the father of Thomas Lanß , who later became a professor at the Collegium Illustre in Tübingen , was probably a Protestant , as he sent his son to the Evangelical Landscape School in Linz in the early 1590s .

The parish of Pergkirchen belonged to the Windhaag rule in the 16th century . Since the Vogtherr, Friedrich von Prag, was Protestant, he probably appointed Protestant pastors in Pergkirchen from 1558 or 1574. These had a considerable influx from near and far churches as there were few pastors in the area.

In 1624 all Protestant preachers and schoolmasters had to abdicate and leave the country. The Perger and Pergkirchner were made Catholic again .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the Machland was repeatedly crossed by enemy formations. In 1805, French troops under General Édouard Adolphe Mortier set up a camp in Perg, among other places. In 1809, Württemberg soldiers marched through the Mühlviertel, associated with billeting and looting. The area around Perg was temporarily a theater of war. General Scheibler set up his headquarters in Perg with Austrian troops.

After the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire , the common property of the Perg citizens was transferred to the market commune of Perg . Most of the land was divided among the owners of the town houses. In 1958 the market commune was dissolved. The market town of Perg took over its obligations, the buildings and individual pieces of land.

From the middle of the 18th century until shortly before the Second World War , many people were busy with the failure flood on the Naarn for about four weeks in spring . See also main article: Perger Schwemmplatz .

20th and 21st centuries

Main square of Perg around 1930

Perg secondary school around 1931

City registration certificate 1969

From the events of the First World War it is reported that a large part of the bells of the parish churches in Perg and Pergkirchen as well as the Perger Kalvarienbergkirche had to be delivered as raw material essential for the war effort , as well as a large part of the horses that were put into military service. The food supply in Perg was also catastrophic, and reserve hospitals were set up for the care of the wounded and looked after by the community doctor.

After the war, the communities and localities in what is now Perg had emergency money printed. In the inter-war period, public building projects such as the construction of the secondary school and the fire department store took place in Perg. The gymnastics club built a new gym.

On March 12, 1938, the German Wehrmacht invaded Austria. A smaller unit of the German military also made a stop in Perg. In Perg, too, the referendum resulted in almost complete approval of the annexation to the German Reich due to the lack of alternatives . From the Anschluss until May 8, 1945, Perg belonged to the Upper Danube Gau . The integration started immediately. This was connected with currency exchange, censorship, dissolution of parties and associations and other measures. By merging the cadastral communities of Pergkirchen and Weinzierl with the market town of Perg on November 1, 1938, the city of Perg reached its present-day expansion. Perg became the district capital. In Perg, the Reich Labor Service was entrusted with regulating the Naarn and draining the floodplains, but work stalled again due to the war. During the war, reserve hospitals were again set up in Perg. Instead of the men and boys in the war, women and girls were increasingly used for work assignments. Perg was not affected by targeted bombing raids. There was a risk of emergency drops in the course of aerial battles on the approach to Linz. A total of 197 soldiers died in Perg and Pergkirchen.

In 1945 Perg was briefly in the American zone from May 5, 1945 and in the Soviet zone from May 9, 1945 to 1955 . The immediate post-war period was marked by the dissolution of the Mauthausen concentration camp and the associated flows of refugees, insufficient supplies and the subsequent normalization with the first free elections in Austria.

After the Second World War, but especially after the withdrawal of the Soviet occupation troops in 1955, Perg developed into an important economic, administrative, medical, school and leisure center in the Perg district. This was associated with an above-average increase in the number of inhabitants has more than tripled since 1851, as well as brisk residential construction activity in all three formerly independent communities.

The reasons for the above-average development are far-sighted planning and the continuous residential and school building activity after the Second World War with the simultaneous development and expansion of the infrastructure. Examples are the local development plan from 1948, the first residential buildings in 1953 and numerous school buildings, initially in the area of ​​compulsory schools, and later also in the area of ​​middle and high schools.

700 years after obtaining market rights, Perg was elevated to a town by the Upper Austrian provincial government in 1969.

In 2002 Perg was hit by a double flood with catastrophic flooding both on the Naarn and its tributaries and considerable damage to roads, bank reinforcements, power plants and penstocks.

politics

Market judges and market commune

→ Main article : Market commune Perg

Perg was founded in the last decades of the Babenberg era at the end of the 12th or first half of the 13th century. The rectangular shape of the main square gives clues to the founding time.

After the granting of market rights in 1269, a judicium (market court) for Perg was notarized in 1280 . The names of the market judges are only known for the period from 1566 to 1848.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the market judges were given the function of mayor, who was assisted by a syndic. The last Perger market judge, Karl Gabessamb, was the first mayor of the independent market town of Perg from 1848 to 1855.

The archive of the market municipality of Perg is incomplete. In addition to the confirmations of market privileges by the sovereigns and the market register with copies from the 16th to 19th centuries, the documents still available contain, in particular, almost all court records from 1603 to 1800.

Mayor, municipality and city council

Mayor Anton Froschauer

→ Main article : List of personalities of the city of Perg

The municipal council and mayoral elections take place every six years together with the state elections. In 1945 the ÖVP achieved an absolute majority, followed by the SPÖ and far behind the KPÖ . From 1949 the SPÖ was the strongest party and in 1955 it achieved an absolute majority. The electoral party of the Independent (WdU) received around 1/6 of the votes in 1949, the Communists and Left Socialists had insignificant shares of the vote. The ÖVP has been the strongest party in Perg since 1961 and obtained an absolute majority of votes and mandates from 1967 to 1985 and from 2003. The SPÖ, as the second strongest party until 2015, achieved voting shares between 18.9 and 42.3%, the Freedom Party between 5.1 and 21.2%. In 2015 it replaced the SPÖ as the second strongest party. In 1991 and 1997 the Citizens' List of Committed Pergers (BEP) stood as a candidate and also provided a city council with four seats each. The Greens ran for the first time in 2015 for the Perger municipal council and received 3 council seats with 10.15% of the vote.

The 2015 municipal council election with a turnout of 78.4 (2009: 81.2%) produced the following result:

Party / political grouping	voting share	Verän- alteration	Seats on the local council	Verän- alteration	Seats on the city council
ÖVP	49.8%	-5.54%	19th	+1	5
SPÖ	18.87%	-14.43%	7th	-3	2
FPÖ	21.17%	+ 9.81%	8th	+ 5	2
GREEN	10.15%	+ 10.15%	3	+ 3	0

The Perger municipal council consists of 37 members, six more than in the previous elections. Mayor is Anton Froschauer (ÖVP), who took over the office from his retired predecessor Hermann Peham (ÖVP) in 2007. In the direct mayor election 2009 Anton Froschauer (ÖVP) was confirmed in his office with almost 66% of the votes and in the mayor direct election 2015 with more than 75%.

City finances

In 2014, the municipality of Perg had total income of EUR 20.1 million and total expenditure of the same amount. The largest sources of income were the income shares from the financial equalization with 6.2 million euros and the municipal tax with 4.5 million euros. With 1,453 euros, Perg had the greatest financial strength per capita in the Perg district after Schwertberg and was 33rd out of 444 municipalities in Upper Austria.

The community debt per capita was 1,432 euros; Perg was 20th out of 26 municipalities in the district and 277 out of 444 in Upper Austria.

Debt level of the city of Perg since 2001
Sources: offenerhaushalt.at/Perg

Town twinning

Perg has had a town partnership with Schrobenhausen , a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in Germany , since 1989 . The foundation of the partnership is historical. In 1704, in the middle of the War of the Spanish Succession , the master rope maker Martin Neugschwendtner from Perg contributed to protecting the city of Schrobenhausen from war damage.

coat of arms

Blazon :
“In red on a black three-mountain, a silver unicorn standing on the middle and rear dome .”
The city colors are red-white-black.

It is not known when the market or today's town of Perg received its coat of arms. For the first time in 1432 there was talk of a coat of arms with the characteristics known today. The meaning of the unicorn in the city arms is unclear. On the occasion of the town elevation in 1969, the governor of Upper Austria notarized the resolutions passed by the Upper Austrian provincial government on April 21, 1969 at the request of the Perger municipal council. The document contains the survey of the city, the authorization to use the name city municipality and to continue using the previous coat of arms as well as the approval of the city colors.

Culture

See also:  List of listed objects in Perg

Buildings worth seeing

Kalvarienbergkirche, a landmark of Perg

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The parish church of Perg from the 15th century is the oldest building in Perg on the main square.

The soap boiler house (Hauptplatz 11) from 1563 is something special with its stucco decorations and the bay window on Perger Hauptplatz. The Hofer-Haus (Hauptplatz 21) shows similar stucco decorations and a curved gable .

The Perger town hall (Hauptplatz 4) is much younger. It was built in the Wilhelminian style (Wiener Ringstrasse style) after a major fire in 1876. The old elementary school (Linzerstrasse 20) and the former Hotel Waldhör (Herrenstrasse 28) still show the neat Wilhelminian style. Likewise the Reichmann-Haus (Hauptplatz 1).

The former Perger secondary school (Linzerstrasse 18). Designed by the architect Mauriz Balzarek , it is already oriented towards modern architecture. The Villa Reindl (Bahnhofstrasse 12) was also designed by Mauriz Balzarek.

The Erdstall Ratgöbluckn , an outdoor area of ​​the city museum, is a corridor system that may have served as a refuge and hiding place. It is classified as a cultural asset worthy of protection according to the Hague Convention .

The Scherer-Mühlsteinbruch (near house Mühlsteinstrasse 40), also an outdoor area of ​​the city museum, is a unique handicraft monument.

The Steinbrecherhaus (Mühlsteinstraße 43), renovated in 2007 for museum purposes, gives an insight into the way of life of the Perger Mühlsteinhauer. The millstone museum shows preserved millstones and the Meisinger mill transferred here.

The Kalvarienbergkirche from the 18th century. It is a landmark of Perg. It is surrounded by the Perg cemetery.

The Mitterberg castle ruins north-east of Perg and on Thurnhofbach was once the largest castle in the Mühlviertel. Foundations and remains of walls can still be found hidden in the forest.

The Auhof castle in the nearby village Auhof east of Perg is an old noble residence. The castle building, which was expanded and rebuilt in 1882, is inhabited. Older historical facilities surround everything.

The Thurnhof moated castle in the nearby town of Thurnhof, east of Perg, was an old noble seat. The preserved medieval residential tower is remarkable.

The parish church of Pergkirchen northeast of Perg. An early medieval castle church of the Lords of Perg and Machland once stood there .

Small monuments are distributed throughout the city. The pillory with the year 1583, the plague column from 1681 and the Karbrunnen from the 17th century are located on Perger's main square .

Several castle cemetery stones and a main castle cemetery stone mark the boundaries of the old castle truce, where the force of the market judges once ended. Some of these stones were preserved. A wayside cross (memorial column) west of Perg on Hauderer-Straße (B3c Alte Donaustraße) marks the place where convicts were handed over to the high court of the Schwertberg rule. This high court stood not far from the Galgenhäusl ( Weinzierl-Süd N ° 15 and 16) a little higher up next to the street.

Memorial plaques on buildings commemorate Federal Chancellor Johann Schober , Diocesan Bishop Josephus Calasanz Fließer and Martin Neugschwendtner, the savior of Schrobenhausen (Germany), as well as the composer Anton Bruckner and his Perger prelude.

Museums and galleries

Heimathaus Stadtmuseum Perg, in the foreground a millstone from a Perger sandstone quarry

The Heimat- und Museumverein Perg , founded in 1967, runs the Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg . The open-air museum facilities Mühlsteinbruch Scherer , Erdstall Ratgöbluckn and Steinbrecherhaus , which have been listed since 2009 , are also looked after .

The focus of the exhibition in the Heimathaus is on the display collections on the stone and millstone industry, the kaolin mine near Weinzierl , the excavations on the burial ground near Auhof and ceramic finds near the Mitterberg castle ruins . The permanent exhibition Kätes Puppenwelt with over 400 exhibits has existed since 2004 .

Oldy-Kai is the name of a private museum that shows old radios, gramophones, tape recorders and two-wheeled nostalgia.

Johanna's gallery mainly exhibits works by contemporary regional artists.

The theater group Perg organizes picture and photo exhibitions in the gallery in the armory.

Cinema, theater, puppet theater, music, literature, photography

Culture armory in Perg

Several venues are available in Perg for regional events, including the district sports hall and the cultural arsenal. Occasionally, suitable events take place in the town parish church of Perg , in the Perger Kalvarienbergkirche and in the parish church of Pergkirchen outside of the religious celebrations.

There has been a cinema in Perg since 1923 , originally with 365 seats. Today it consists of a smaller hall with 40 and a larger one with 118 seats. The cinema finally closed on Easter Monday 2012.

Theater performances, lectures, exhibitions, concerts and readings offered by individuals and by local associations and educational institutions, such as the music associations Stadtkapelle Perg and Pergkirchen which Perger theater group led by Gerhard Pilz (actor) and the successful international choir competitions choir which, according painter .

Perger Kasperl : In the 1970s, Helga and Robert Wandl founded a puppet theater with the aim of creating a constant children's program for the Perger children. Since then, one of the 40 puppet stories written by the actors has been performed on a regular basis, and the ensemble now includes 50 hand puppets . The Perger Kasperl acts with a lot of wit and skill and always non-violent. Gerald Kreuzer heads the Perger Puppenbühne, which goes public almost monthly with a puppet theater performance in the culture armory. Individual actors on the puppet stage participated in Puppet episodes recorded by ORF , which are repeatedly broadcast as part of the children's program Puppet Theater (TV program) .

The Perger Carnival Guild was founded in 2004. The Perg and Machland Lions clubs, the Perg Rotary Club, and the Kiwanis regularly hold fundraisers .

Since 2005 , a book exchange, literary circles, a reading competition, the free alphabet soup and a poetry slam have been taking place under the motto Perg Reads Reading Days in April . The city has been participating in international bookcrossing since April 2011 and has set up 14 rest areas as official bookcrossing zones for the wandering books.

The focus of the Perg City Library, which was founded in 1954 and has been awarded the seal of quality of the Adult Education Forum Upper Austria (EBQS) since 1999 , is fiction and literature for children and young people . For some years now, in addition to conventional books, newspapers and magazines, audiovisual media and games, including computer games, have also been available to borrow.

Further, no longer existing or no longer public lending libraries were operated by private, public and parish organizations. The libraries of the Perger schools offer a considerable range of media.

Members of the photo club VHS-AK Perg have been successful several times with internationally award-winning photographs. The club repeatedly provides national champions in various disciplines of competitive amateur photography .

Natural monuments

In the nature conservation book of the Upper Austrian provincial government, a red beech at Auhof Castle and a Torba oak in Auhof are listed as natural monuments .

Perger nature experience spaces

In 2013, seven stations were set up north of the city center, which were connected by a four-kilometer circular route to the Perger nature experience spaces . The ecological and geological conditions can be viewed on site. Display boards provide information on the flora and fauna .

Sports

District sports hall Perg

On the Naarn there is a forest pool as a recreational facility, which was built as a bathing establishment in 1881 and renovated in 1954 and 2008/09. The area is used by the Waldbad 69ers Dome Club, for beach volleyball and the Kneipp-Aktiv Club. The property is owned by the Perger Beautification Association, founded in 1879, which has leased the area to the municipality on a long-term basis.

The Machland bathing world consists of an indoor pool, open almost all year round, and an outdoor pool with a total water surface of 1140 m². A fitness and wellness club, a massage institute and the practice of a therapeutic masseur are connected. The first Perger swimming club is based in the Machlandbadewelt.

The district sports hall opened in 1983 in the school and leisure center consists of three gyms and is suitable for sports and cultural events. On weekdays they use the neighboring schools for physical education. The district sports hall also houses the Perger youth center run by a preservation association with the support of the municipality of Perg.

The gymnastics club Perg 1897 handles the gymnastics in its own gym with two gyms and has also leased the adjacent tennis hall. The Perger sports clubs, which offer various sports for their members in numerous sections, have, among other things, the Machland Stadium and a six-hole golf course. The sports clubs of the city of Perg with athletes who are successful at the state and federal level and partly also internationally include the gymnastics club Perg 1897, the shooting club Perg, the 1st Perger swimming club , the DSG Union Perg and the ASKÖ Perg .

A skate park and several marked cycling and hiking trails are further options for sporting activities.

Perg is always the venue for national sporting events, for example:

• The gymnastics club Perg 1897 organized the first Gau youth meeting of the Turngau Upper Austria in 1972 and in 1997 was the organizer of the 35th ÖTB-Jahnwanderung and host of the Upper Austrian state championships in apparatus gymnastics. The sixth Upper Austrian regional youth gymnastics festival of the Austrian Gymnastics Federation took place in Perg in 2008 and in 2010 Perg was the venue for the Turn10 national championship of the Austrian Association for Gymnastics .
• The Perg 1897 gymnastics club hosted the 1981 European fistball championship . Due to the fact that the fistball team stayed in the state league A, Austria's top division, several fistball championship and fistball friendship games took place in Perg in the 1970s on a national and occasionally international level.
• The 26th Rotary Cycling World Championship was held in Austria for the first time in 2010. The venue was Perg. The Rotary Clubs Enns, Gallneukirchen and Perg acted as organizers .
• In 1994 Perg hosted the military world championships in parachuting with participants from 32 nations.
• In 2010 the Upper Austrian state swimming championships took place in the Machland bathing world in Perg. The host was the 1st Perger swimming club . 260 swimmers from 17 clubs took part, including four Olympic participants. There were 1067 individual and 48 relay entries to look after.

Regular events

Festival area of ​​the Mühlviertel Children's Games

From June to August, as part of the music summer, concerts of various musical styles take place on the main square and at other venues. Perg Jam in the center (since 2005) and folk music at the Steinbrecherhaus (since 2007) are examples of this. Especially for families, the parish of Perg has been organizing the Mühlviertel Children's Games in the park near the old elementary school (Hauptschule 1) since 1976 , and the festival has been taking place in Bahnhofstrasse since the construction of another school building; From the mid-1980s until it was abolished due to strict security requirements, the municipality held the Pergfest in the city center in August ; The district ÖVP has been organizing the Vinum since 2000, a wine festival with more than 100 winemakers from all national wine regions. In autumn, the sports clubs hold the Perger Sparkasse Half Marathon . The musical Christmas market is held with an extensive supporting program as a stand market and sales exhibition in the parish hall.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality of Perg, together with the neighboring market town of Schwertberg, is the economic center of the district. The town of Perg is one of 24 communities in the LEADER region Perg-Strudengau .

employment

The number of workplaces rose by 37.7% to 449 between the last two censuses in 1991 and 2001. The number of workplaces increased by 18% to 5126 in the same period. In 2015, 748 workplaces were registered in Perg, which provided a total of 7,097 jobs .

In 2001 Perg provided jobs for 3,496 people living outside the municipality, while 1,660 Perger worked outside the community. The greater part of the in-commuters come from the district of Perg, likewise the majority of the out-commuters remain within the boundaries of the district. For commuters, the expansion of the road network and the expansion of regional rail traffic in recent years means a significant improvement. Examples of the measures implemented in recent years are the construction of the Perg bypass and the Münzbach feeder as well as the construction of the Ennsdorf loop and the use of modern train sets between the Perg district and the state capital.

The structure of employment has changed as follows:

Between 2001 and 2015, the proportion of people working in agriculture and forestry hardly changed at around 2% of the total number of people employed in Perg. On the other hand, the share of people working in industry , trade and construction fell again significantly from around 44% in 2001 and amounted to 32% in 2015, while the share of people working in the service sector rose to 65% by 2015. The employment rate in the Perg district was 47.6% in 2006, higher than the Upper Austrian average and had further improved to 54% by 2015.

traffic

Overview map of Perg including road and rail connections

The Donauuferbahn and the Donau Straße B 3 open up the Perg district in a west-east direction. State roads lead to the surrounding towns and the neighboring districts and regions.

Road links

The closest junctions to the West Autobahn are in the west at St. Valentin , Enns and Asten , in the south in Oed and Amstetten West , and in the east in Ybbs on the Danube , whereby the journey time in the west and south is an average of 20 minutes and in the east approximately Takes 40 minutes.

Since 1999, Perg has been bypassed on the newly constructed section of Donau Straße between the junctions Perg West in the village of Furth (community of Schwertberg) and Perg Ost in the village of Auhof. Further junctions are Perg Zentrum and Perg Süd. As the B 3c, the former B 3 is still through the town and runs from the Perg West junction in an eastward direction to the intersection with the Münzbach feeder shortly after the city center.

Simultaneously with the opening of the new B 3, the Perger east bypass was opened to traffic. At first it only served as a connection between the old and the new B 3 and mainly took up traffic from the Naar valley. The Münzbacher feeder part 2 was opened to traffic on November 30, 2008 after a 17-year planning phase and a two-and-a-half year execution phase.

Train and bus connections

Perg train station, a few hundred meters from the city center

Perg is located on the Donauuferbahn from Mauthausen to Grein, which was opened in 1898, and has a stop in the village of Aisthofen , a train station near the city center, which can be reached via Bahnhofstraße, and the Perg Schulzentrum stop on Machlandstraße with an attached Park & ​​Ride facility .

Trains run to the east to Grein Stadt, St. Nikola-Struden and Sarmingstein, and to the west to St. Valentin or Linz Hauptbahnhof. There is a connection to the long-distance train network of ÖBB via the St. Valentin and Linz Hauptbahnhof stations .

Due to cost-saving measures, the Sarmingstein - Emmersdorf an der Donau route was only used in summer by the Strudengau and Wachau tourist adventure trains running between Linz and Krems an der Donau via the Ennsdorf loop and finally stopped in 2010.

The Ennsdorfer Loop has been in operation since December 11, 2005. It is used daily by several trains on the Linz Hauptbahnhof - Sarmingstein route, which only stop at selected stations and stops. There are also trains to St. Valentin.

There are bus connections to Enns and Linz as well as to places in the districts of Perg and Freistadt from various stops in the municipality of Perg .

Inner-city bus connections have existed since December 9, 2007. It is an extension of the existing regional bus traffic with a ring bus system. For the time being, use with vouchers is free. Due to the irregular travel times, however, the offer is hardly used.

Bike paths

13.3% of all paths in Perg are cycle paths that open up the most important destinations such as the school center, leisure center, town center, train station and peripheral settlements. They are marked by multi-purpose strips on the lanes and on the map. 60% of the one-way streets in the city are passable for bicycles in both directions. Bicycle boxes are available at the train station.

media

The weekly Machländer Volksbote was published in Perg from 1895 to 1929 .

The daily newspapers in Upper Austria report on the local events, in particular the Upper Austrian News and the Upper Austria edition of the Kronenzeitung .

With the Perger TIPS a free regional newspaper appears weekly . It belongs to Tips Zeitungs GmbH & Co KG and 100% of J. Wimmer GmbH, which has a majority stake in the daily newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten. Since the beginning of 2009, the small-format free newspaper Bezirksrundschau has been published as the successor to the large-format weekly newspaper Perger Rundschau .

The CDA publishing house , which publishes computer magazines in Austria and in German-speaking countries, is based in Perg .

The official gazette of the city of Perg is published four times a year at the beginning of each quarter under the title Perger Gemeindezeitung , the parish gazette of the parish of Perg as well as the information sheets of the political parties also appear approximately quarterly.

In Perg, all Austrian broadcasting programs can be received digitally ( DVB-T ), via the Astra satellite system and via cable ( Liwest ), as well as the radio programs of the ORF and private radio stations, which are also broadcast analogue. The private television stations Mühlviertel TV and LiveTV broadcast from Freistadt and Gallneukirchen for the Mühlviertel in various local cable TV networks and partly on the Internet. These are programs that are broadcast several times and renewed weekly. LT1 is a private TV broadcaster that can be received digitally terrestrial (DVB-T) via antenna and, with LT1 Mühlviertel, offers a regional program for the Mühlviertel. The half-hour program is repeated several times and renewed daily. Austria24 TV was a regional TV broadcaster founded in 2013 based in Perg, which could be received digitally via DVB-T , in cable TV networks in the Perg district and via the Internet. The operation was stopped after a few years.

Authorities, courts and other institutions

District administration Perg

Perg is main area in the same district seat of a district administration , a District Court , the tax office perg-Kirchdorf-Steyr and of district offices of the Upper Austrian Health Insurance, the employment service , the Commerce , the Labor and agricultural chamber . The district secretariats of the political parties are located in an official building belonging to the municipality of Perg. A regional road maintenance department is responsible for the former federal roads as well as the state and district roads.

There has been a post office in Perg since 1849, and other areas such as telegraph service, postal checks, telephone and fax were gradually set up. The post office has been in different buildings on Herrenstrasse since it opened and has been housed in its own building on Dirnbergerstrasse since 1967.

The district police command and a police station share a building on Linzer Straße. The Perg gendarmerie was set up in 1869 and also had to perform the tasks of a district gendarmerie command.

Energy and infrastructure

Kegelschmiede power station of the Perg power station

Perg is mainly supplied with electricity by the municipality's own Elektrizitätswerk Perg GmbH, which works closely with Linz AG . Natural gas comes from the Upper Austria pipeline network. Ferngas AG, Linz, into the Perger households. District heating has been supplied by the local operator of a biomass district heating power plant , Bioenergie Perg GmbH, since 2008 . The drinking and industrial water supply is the responsibility of the public water association group water supply Perg and the surrounding area with storage tanks in the municipality. The sewer system , the garbage disposal, a waste material collection center as well as waste paper and waste glass collection points are also municipal matters. The sewage treatment plant is located outside the settlement areas in the south of the city. The local farmers operate a composting site.

Cable TV , telephone and Internet are offered through LIWEST , but the majority of the residents are equipped with satellite reception systems and have landline or mobile phone connections from various providers.

The Perg volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1873 on the initiative of Karl Terpinitz . Fire-fighting equipment was already in place on the market before and every homeowner had to own and maintain fire-fighting equipment. In 1874 the first team cars with the associated hoses and ladders were purchased, followed by the inauguration of the armory on Töpferweg in 1933. After the war, the vehicle and equipment park was gradually modernized. In 1994 the new fire station in the operations center was handed over to its intended use.

The Pergkirchen volunteer fire brigade has been in existence since 1905 and has its own fire department store on the edge of the village square in Pergkirchen.

Euregio Bavarian Forest, Bohemian Forest, Regional Transport Donauraum Perg, the district waste association Perg with a waste material collection center in Perg, the clean holding associations and the long-distance water association are involved in the supraregional cooperation for the provision of infrastructure.

education

"Old elementary school", the oldest school building in Perg still in use as such

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The city of Perg has developed into a school and training center in the 20th century:

Perg has one elementary school each in Perg and Pergkirchen, two secondary schools (new middle school) and a polytechnic school . The offer at middle and higher schools ranges from a federal upper level Realgymnasium to a federal commercial academy and commercial school, a higher education institution and technical school for business professions to a higher technical federal teaching institution.

Facilities for adult education ( adult education center and Catholic educational institute as well as WIFI and BFI ) and a state music school complement the educational offer.

There are private childcare facilities for preschool childcare. There are crawling rooms of the Perg Kindergarten Association and, since 2017, the Upper Austrian Relief Organization, a parent-child center of the Kinderhaus association, childminders of the Aktion Tagesmütter Oberösterreich association, the Grand Service of the Upper Austrian Catholic Family Association , three kindergartens of the Perg Kindergarten Association and, since 2017, the Upper Austrian Relief Organization , a kindergarten of the association Spielwerkstatt Unteres Mühlviertel, all with financial support from the municipality of Perg.

Health and social

District retirement home Perg of the social welfare association Perg. The building shown was demolished in 2010 and a new home was built at the same location.

Medical care for the district is concentrated in Perg. The catchment area of ​​numerous Perger specialists partially extends to the entire district. The nearest hospitals are in Enns (closed in 2013), Steyr, Amstetten and Linz.

The Perg Red Cross was founded in 1914 by the Perg fire brigade command as a medical department and an ambulance was purchased. After the Second World War, offices were initially in the Reichmann House and later in the town hall. The new building in Gartenstrasse was opened in 1960 and the disaster relief train was founded in 1963. In 1994 the new office in the operations center with the premises of the local office, the emergency doctor base and the district secretariat of the Red Cross could be occupied. Since September 1, 1989, people in need in Perg have been provided with hot meals by the Red Cross every day with meals on wheels . In 1990, the Mobile Elderly Care Service was launched. Emergency assistance for the needy and refugee support has existed since 1992. Since 2013, the emergency medical service (HÄND) has also been housed in the Rotkreuz Center.

A social counseling center with a social medical base of the Red Cross has existed since 1994. The family and social center (FAMOS) as well as a youth coordination center and youth service center of the Upper Austrian provincial government have existed since 2001.

The senior citizens' home of the social welfare association of the Perg district in Severinstraße with a few care-friendly units was opened in 1984. From 1989, double rooms were gradually converted into single rooms and single rooms on the ground floor were converted into nursing rooms. In 1997 the home had 94 senior and 27 nursing homes; however, it no longer complies with the current standards, so that from 2012 an operating license will no longer be issued for it. The pension system is supplemented by residential facilities and facilities for home nursing as well as meals on wheels.

Companies

Perger Technology Center

Capatect building materials industry in Perg

In Perg there is a technology center with a focus on construction technology and construction management. Start-up companies and young technology companies from the production and service sectors are supported. In addition to operational advice, the start-up assistance includes the provision of inexpensive office space and the shared use of the infrastructure. The building has a gross floor area of ​​3400 square meters.

In order to secure and further develop the companies in the region and thus to maintain jobs, Perg is a member of the regional business association Machland together with Arbing, Klam, Mitterkirchen and Saxen . Together with 14 other associations of this type, it is responsible for the joint development, opening up and marketing of business locations under the name of Intercommunal Business Settlement (INKOBA). In Perg there are 27.3 hectares of commercial space available for the creation of technology parks (as of March 2009).

In 2009, the mayors of the communities of Perg, Arbing and Baumgartenberg, with the involvement of INKOBA, created the Machland Perg business park, which has a potential of 100 on non-contiguous areas along the Danube Street and the Danube Bank Railway in the area from Perg west of the technology center to Baumgartenberg east of the existing industrial companies Hectare is to create around 1000 new jobs in large companies over the next ten years. All municipalities in the district are to be involved in the project.

Perg is the seat of the Habau Group, which it claims to be one of the five largest construction companies in Austria with a total of around 2800 employees, including around 1100 in the main company in Perg, as well as GLS, which is also active in the construction industry, with 160 employees and the Krückl company with 150 employees.

Also based in Perg are the market leader for construction paints in the chemical industry, the Synthesa Group, with around 700 employees throughout Austria, including around 300 in the parent company in Perg. In 2012, the company invested € 12 million in the construction of an insulation material factory in Perg.

In addition, the Petschl Group, which is part of the transport industry, has its headquarters in Perg. The company's location was relocated to the neighboring municipality of Naarn in Machland in 2015.

The brand company Manner , which is world-famous for its Manner cuts and belongs to the food and luxury food industry , employed around 80 people in Perg and produced its products in the largest waffle oven in the world in Perg. The plant was closed in spring 2016.

The forklift manufacturer Bulmor industries (formerly TERRA-Technik), which emerged from Maschinenfabrik Schöberl (Jumbo), employs around 135 people in Perg and is strongly export-oriented. Sideloaders, multi-way sideloaders and ambulift vehicles are developed and produced at the Perg location.

The wholesale and retail company Tobias Altzinger, which has been important for decades for the local economy as well as for local supply in the Lower Mühlviertel, Waldviertel and Mostviertel and has its own fleet of vehicles, has lost its importance due to the restructuring in the retail sector that can generally be observed in Austria. The owners have leased part of the properties in Perg for the creation of shopping centers in the city center and south of the city.

In addition to the local small and medium-sized businesses, numerous supraregional retail businesses are represented in Perg, with businesses being concentrated in the city center (main square and adjacent shopping streets) as well as along Naarner Strasse and especially in the shopping centers in the south of the city.

Mining

Kaolin mining in Weinzierl since 1952

Drum mountain at the entrance of the Naar valley

Founded in 1922 and in Schwertberg -based mining company KAMIG - Austrian kaolin and mining industry stock company - has the administration, a portion of the kaolin processing settled and the kaolin deposits due to the existing rail link there in Aisthofen. After adapting the business operations and reducing the number of employees by more than 500 in the 1960s to around 60 employees (as of 2009), the stock corporation was converted into a limited partnership. In Weinzierl is a smaller Kaolinlagerstätte that in since 1952 open pit is mined. The kaolin is transported from the quarries to Aisthofen via pipelines up to eight kilometers in length.

In Perg there are several granite quarries of the granite works Anton Poschacher, founded in 1839 by Anton Poschacher (industrialist, 1812) , now Poschacher Natursteinwerke , Mauthausen, of which only one is still in operation in Naarnalstrasse on the right bank of the Naarn. The so-called Mauthausner granite and Perger granite are mined. The Perger granite quarries were part of the largest granite works of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and part of the Mauthausen stone industry in the second half of the 19th century . Mauthausen granite was also mined in Perg .

Millstones were made from sandstone in Perg for centuries . At the end of the 19th century, sales of natural millstones fell sharply, which is why some millstone producers set up the First Austrian Factory Company for the production of German millstones to Perg Fries, Burgholzer and Comp. was founded for artificial stone production. Noble plaster was later made from the sandstone. The company was sold to Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke in the 1990s , is now called Capatect Baustoffindustrie GmbH and is a sister company of the Synthesa Group, also located in Perg .

Agriculture and Forestry

In 1999 there were 118 agricultural and forestry holdings in Perg, cultivating an area of ​​2,658 hectares. Of these, 48 were  full-time businesses with 1,468 hectares, 65 part-time  businesses with 1,073 hectares and 4 businesses of legal entities with 117 hectares. An agricultural and forestry business in Perg cultivates an average of 22.7 hectares, with the full-time farms having to work 30.6 hectares and the part-time farms 16.5 hectares. As everywhere at the district and state level, both the number of farms and the cultivated agricultural and forestry areas have decreased compared to the previous survey time in 1995. The number of full-time farms and the areas cultivated by them have increased at the expense of the part-time farms. In 1999, Perg employed 356 people in agriculture and forestry, 311 of whom were family-owned, of which 52 were fully employed. 153 worked in agriculture with less than 25% of their working time, the remaining 106 between 25 and 99%.

tourism

Hotel Waldhör, the only 4 * hotel in Perg

Historically, Perg has been known as a summer resort since the 19th century . In the first half of the 20th century there were efforts to encourage the influx of summer visitors , especially in the interwar period . Bathing in the Naarn , in the swimming school, in the Kuchlmühle and below the wood floodplain, as well as hiking in the Stephaniehain and car trips into the hinterland through the romantic Naar valley to Königswiesen and further into the Waldviertel were advertised as attractions .

Perg is involved in tourism in the region in the museum region Donauland Strudengau in the Mühlviertel as well as in holidays in Upper Austria and cycling in Upper Austria on a national level.

Many restaurants offer their services along five in Machland and the hills of Rechenberg called RadKulTOUR of marked routes.

In the tourism year 2011 (November 2010 to October 2011) a total of 16,453 overnight stays with an average of 1.7 days were recorded in the city. 39% of the overnight stays were accounted for by domestic guests, with visitors from Upper Austria with 32% having the largest share, followed by Styria with 14% and Vienna with 11%. Among the foreign guests, the guests from Germany with around 46% were far ahead of those from the Netherlands with around 10% and from Italy with around 8% of the overnight stays by foreigners.

The overnight stays are mainly for cycling tourism ( Danube cycle path ) as well as business travelers and seminar participants. The statistics only include commercial accommodation establishments. Compared to previous years, there was an increase in the number of overnight stays of around 10% in 2011, which means that the decline of 9% in 2010 was almost entirely made up for.

There are 50 beds in a four-star hotel, 8 beds in a four-star private accommodation, 129 in three three-star inns and 45 in three non-categorized country inns.

The connection to the Donausteig brought another revitalization of tourism from 2010 . In this context, the local hiking trails and the Kugelmanderlweg have been signposted as the official Danube circuit.

Personalities

Maria Berger, long-time member of the European Parliament, now a judge at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg

See also : List of personalities of the city of Perg

The municipality of Perg has made a number of personalities honorary citizens or given them rings of honor or other decorations . Honorary citizens, for example, were the priests Karl Mayr († 1963) and Franz Auzinger († 2007), who had been pastors in the Perg parish for many years.

Perger, who were active in state politics, are the member of the state parliament and for a time also the regional councilor of Upper Austria, Josef Dirnberger (mayor of the market in Perg from 1910 to 1934) and the member of the state parliament Josef Waidhofer (mayor of the market and later of the city of Perg from 1961 to 1985 ). Perger Franz Hiesl (Perg municipality council since 1979) was a member of the state parliament from 1985, regional councilor from 1995 and deputy governor of Upper Austria from 2000 to 2015. Karl Grienberger , who was born in Perg, was provincial governor for a short time in 1884 in the Crown Land of Austria ob der Enns (today: Upper Austria), while Josef Schlegel, who was head of the court in Perg from 1902 to 1909, was governor of Upper Austria from 1927 to 1934.

The Pergern active in federal politics include the three-time Federal Chancellor, Foreign Minister, Vienna Police President and first President of Interpol , Johann Schober , Maria Berger , Member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 2009, interrupted by her function as Minister of Justice in the Gusenbauer I cabinet and since October 2009 judge at the ECJ , and the long-time mayor of Schwertberg, Kurt Gaßner, who was born in Perg, as member of the National Council.

Successful Perger athletes were among others the Olympic participant in Beijing in 2008, David Brandl (swimming), and the Olympic participant in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004, Bernd Wakolbinger (rowing).

The highest ecclesiastical dignitary from Perg was the Catholic diocesan bishop of Linz, Josephus Calasanz Fließer .

Günther Maria Garzaner (1951–2015) and Ernst Reinhard Schöggl (* 1948), two Austrian writers related to Perg, are members of the Austrian PEN Club .

literature

• Eduard Straßmayr : The archive of the market commune Perg in Upper Austria , Linz 1909.
• Florian Eibensteiner and Konrad Eibensteiner: The home book of Perg, Upper Austria , self-published, Linz 1933.
• Gustav Brachmann: On the fire history of the Perg market , in: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter, magazine for art, culture, economy and homeland maintenance, owner, editor and publisher: Mühlviertler Künstlergilde in Upper Austria. Volksbildungswerk, Volume II, Edition 7/8, pp. 16–18, Linz 1962 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
• Rudolf Zach: Perg today, the economy, Perg in the mirror of history , in: Stadtgemeinde Perg (editor): Perg, Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey 1969, Linz 1969.
• Stadtamt Perg (publisher): 25 years of the city of Perg, chronicle from 1969 to 1994 , Perg 1994.
• Franz Moser: Museum educational documents Stadtmuseum Perg for working with schoolchildren in the museum , Perg self-published by Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg, Perg 1993.
• Heinz Steinkellner, Erwin Hölzl, Martin Lehner, Erwin Kastner: Our home, the district of Perg , association for the publication of a district homeland book Perg - communities of the district of Perg (publisher), Linz 1995 and 1996.
• Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 .
• Franz Moser and 10 other authors: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 , publisher: Heimatverein Perg and Stadtgemeinde Perg, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5 .
• Eckhard Oberklammer: District Perg - Art and History , Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85499-826-6 , p. 156 ff.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Mountain in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Entry on Perg in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• More information about the municipality of Perg on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Official website of the municipality of Perg
• State of Upper Austria - community information
• 41116 - Perg. Community data , Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

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