Pergkirchen

Pergkirchen ( village ) ; locality
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg (PE), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Perg
Pole. local community	Perg
Coordinates	48 ° 14 ′ 41 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 38" E
height	335 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	397 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	73 (2001)
Post Code	4320
prefix	+ 43/07262
	Statistical identification
Locality code	10187
Counting district / district	Pergkirchen (41 116 003)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Pergkirchen ( cadastral community )
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg (PE), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Perg
Pole. local community	Perg
Coordinates	48 ° 14 '41 " N , 14 ° 40' 38" E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '41 " N , 14 ° 40' 38" E
Building status	373 (2001)
Area d. KG	10.95 km²
	Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	43215
Counting district / district	Pergkirchen (41 116 003)
	Overview of the villages of Pergkirchen (outside the urban area, east of the Naarn)
	former municipality up to 1938 ; inhabitants / building status of the KG: 1402/404 (2001) ; Source: STAT : place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

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The village of Pergkirchen is a village in the Lower Mühlviertel and the larger of the three cadastral communities of the municipality of Perg in the district of Perg with an area of 10.95 square kilometers and about 1,304 and 1,445 inhabitants (2001 and 2011 census).

Pergkirchen, an independent political community from 1850 to 1938 , owes its name to the Lords of Perg , whose own church was consecrated to St. Martin in 1088 .

In the area of the Pergkirchen parish, which was created in 1142 when it was separated from the old parish of Naarn , the tax and cadastral parish of Pergkirchen was established in 1784 under Emperor Joseph II, and became an independent parish after the revolution of 1848 . Efforts after the Second World War to reverse the merger with the market town of Perg on November 1, 1938, failed because of a referendum in which 85% of the population voted to stay with Perg.

Despite the administrative affiliation to Perg, Pergkirchen is still an independent parish with a church and cemetery as well as parish groups. The existing village structure with an elementary school, its own kindergarten, its own volunteer fire brigade , its own music club, its own sports club, etc., has also been maintained and expanded.

geography

Parish Church of Pergkirchen

Neighboring cadastral communities

Highest elevation around 415 m above sea level. A. north of the Preschmitzer property (Preschnitzer)

The area of the cadastral community Pergkirchen includes the localities Auhof , Dörfl , Karlingberg , Lehenbrunn ( Forndorf-Lehenbrunn , Karlingberg-Lehenbrunn ) , Mitterberg , the main town Pergkirchen , Thurnhof and Tobra .

It is bounded by the cadastral communities Perg, Altenburg in the municipality Windhaag bei Perg , Münzbach , Arbing , Langacker in the municipality Mitterkirchen and Baumgarten in the municipality Naarn .

One third of the area of the cadastral community lies on the level of the Machland and two thirds in the hilly landscape and is 10.95 square kilometers (65% arable, 30% meadows and 5% forests; as of 1930). The terrain is around 240 to around 415 m above sea level. A. only slight differences in altitude. The hill north of the Preschmitzer (Preschnitzer) property on the borders of Windhaag and Münzbach is the highest elevation in the Pergkirchen cadastral community and at the same time in the entire Perger community area.

Geologically, the area falls into three of the 41 spatial units of the federal state of Upper Austria . The areas on the plain in the localities of Thurnhof, Auhof and Tobra are part of the Machland spatial unit . The villages of Dörfl, Karlingberg, Lehenbrunn-Karlingberg and Pergkirchen as well as the hill areas of Auhof, Thurnhof and Tobra belong to the southern Mühlviertel outskirts . Only a very small part of Pergkirchen in the village of Lehenbrunn-Forndorf near the borders with Windhaag and Münzbach belongs to the Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland spatial unit .

The flood transfer canal of the Tobrabach, the Auhofbach and the Thurnhofbach drain into the small Naarn Canal, which flows into the Naarn . The Tobrabach is channeled together with other tributaries to the south-east via Arbing, Baumgartenberg and Saxen via the Mettensdorfer Mühlbach and the Schwemmnaarn into the Danube .

Climatic data related to Pergkirchen are not collected, the climatic conditions correspond to those of the Machland or the southern Mühlviertel outskirts, depending on the location.

history

Coat of arms Lords of Perg

Mitterberg castle ruins on an engraving by Clemens Beuttler 1673

City arms of Perg

Finds of flat and pierced axes made of serpentine suggest the presence of people in the area of the former municipality of Pergkirchen (in the Tobrabach valley and on the loess level on the edge of the Machland) as early as the Neolithic (around 3500 years BC).

Other finds (some residential pits and a pottery kiln) date from the Hallstatt period (around 600 years before Christ) and were found during systematic excavations in 1965 and 1967 on the local mountain of the Klammbauernhof in the village of Auhof. An extensive processing of the finds was carried out by the Perg Heimatverein, which exhibits them in the Heimathaus-Stadtmuseum Perg .

The Celts in the pre-Christian centuries and the Romans in the first post-Christian centuries left no traces of settlement in Pergkirchen, although the Danube, which, as the Limes, formed the northern border of the Roman Empire , the Roman fort Adjuvense ( Wallsee ) and the Roman military camp Lauriacum ( Enns / Lorch ) were in sight.

Slavs first came to the Lower Mühlviertel during the migration in the 6th century . Some stream, field and house names (for example Tobra, Pregarten, Preschmitzer (Preschnitzer) and Tobatslehner) remind of this people today.

At the same time as the Wende, or not much later, the Bavarians began to take possession of the land north of the Danube . Most of the house and field names in Pergkirchen, which are mostly derived from personal names, come from these.

There are no written sources from the beginning of settlement to the founding of the church in the 11th century. The excavation of a grave field with 130 graves including grave goods and a pagan burial place on the local mountain of the Klammbauernhof in the village of Auhof prove the presence of the old Slavic farmers alongside the Baierisch-Franconian population.

Until the end of the 12th century, Pergkirchen belonged to the sphere of influence of the Lords of Perg and Machland . They settled in Pergkirchen in the second half of the 11th century and built their own church, which was consecrated to St. Martin in 1088 and became a parish church in 1142.

Further information on the history of the church and the parish of Pergkirchen can be found in the main article Parish Church of Pergkirchen .

After the Lords of Perg died out, their property in Pergkirchen, especially Mitterberg Castle , fell to the Babenbergs . The Machland Regional Court was established there from 1225 and remained there until it passed to the Greinburg Regional Court in 1491 . From 1661 to 1850 Pergkirchen belonged to the Windhaag district court . Further information can be found in the main article Burgruine Mitterberg .

A decree of Emperor Joseph II made Pergkirchen a tax and cadastral community in 1784. In 1823 Pergkirchen (cadastral parish and parish) belonged to the Baumgartenberg district commissariat and was a tax municipality. After the revolution of 1848 Pergkirchen became an independent municipality.

On November 1, 1938, the municipality of Pergkirchen was amalgamated with the market town of Perg. After the Second World War , efforts were made to reverse the incorporation, but 85% of the population decided in a referendum to stay with Perg.

Since the 1960s, building activity has started in various parts of the cadastral community and has led to above-average population growth.

population

Population development

year	Residents
1781
1788
1809	528
1869	620
1930	551
1951	734
1961	663
1971	702
1981	867
1991	892
2001	1,304

year	Houses
1781	90
1788	87
1809	82
1869	89
1930	90
1951	129
1961	133
1971	155
1981	220
1991	240
2001	373

The information on the numerical development of Pergkirchen is incomplete. After completion of the settlement in the 11th / 12th From the 18th century to the 18th century, around 400 people were likely to have lived there in around 90 houses, although the population was temporarily lower due to the plague in the 17th century. The number of houses and residents of some Pergkirchner villages from 1823 is known ( Auhof and Thurnhof ). The information in the adjacent table with regard to the development of the number of inhabitants in the 19th and 20th centuries is partly imprecise because it is unclear whether all localities were always taken into account. For example, the number of houses and residents of Thurnhof is sometimes given separately (houses / residents 1869: 12/81, 2001: 58/204). Around 1930 the community had 551 inhabitants in 90 houses.

At the time of the 2001 and 2011 census, there were 1,304 and 1,445 people living in the localities of the Pergkirchen cadastral community. Of these, Auhof 116 and 126, Dörfl 79 and 54, Karlingberg 177 and 204, Lehenbrunn 151 and 156, Mitterberg 146 and 172, Pergkirchen 267 and 303, Thurnhof 204 and 216 and Tobra 164 and 210 respectively .

The growth of the population after the Second World War is primarily based on the development of building sites combined with the construction of single and two-family houses in Lehenbrunn ( Poschachersiedlung , Karlingberg-Lehenbrunn , Forndorf-Lehenbrunn ), in Dörfl and Pergkirchen as well as in Auhof and Thurnhof .

politics

Municipality, mayor

Motif "Martinskirche in Pergkirchen" on an emergency bill from the Pergkirchen community

In 1848 Pergkirchen became an independent municipality. Until the passing of the municipal law of May 5, 1862, as well as the municipal ordinance and electoral ordinance of April 28, 1864, the members of the parish council and the parish committee were appointed or confirmed by the government, only then could the parishes be constituted.

In the 1920s, like many others in Upper Austria, the municipality of Pergkirchen issued emergency money.

The list of the mayors of Pergkirchen (1848 until the incorporation after Perg 1938) can be found in the list of Perger personalities .

Regardless of the incorporation into Perg, the independent club life established in Pergkirchen during the years of independence continues. Measures for village maintenance and renewal contribute to the fact that the village structures are maintained or further expanded.

Culture and sights

Renovated plague column from 1684 in Dörfl near Pergkirchen

The year 1897 was the founding year of the Pergkirchen Musikverein, when Georg Kaindl, vulgo Haseneder (* 1870, † 1932), was Kapellmeister at that time and until his death in 1932. The uniform and re-establishment in the post-war period took place in 1950 (association register January 19, 1951). Stefan Lampl has been chairman since 2018. The Raiffeisenkasse building, which is no longer needed, served as the first music home from 1969, and in 1996 the old elementary school was adapted for rehearsals.

In Pergkirchen, the following buildings and monuments are listed in accordance with Section 2a of the 1999 Monument Protection Act by ordinance of December 31, 2005:

Pergkirchen rectory
Catholic parish church of St. Martin with the cemetery
Plague column

Another notable building in the cadastral community is Auhof Castle .

→ Descriptions of buildings in Pergkirchen can also be found in the main article: Buildings in Perg .

See also: List of listed objects in Perg

Sports

The Diocesan Sports Community Union Pergkirchen, founded in 1981 (register of associations May 12, 1981) has a sports field and runs the football, athletics, stick sports, tennis, table tennis and volleyball sections. The chairman is Gerhard Dahedl.

Economy and Infrastructure

Fire station of the volunteer fire brigade

In 1900 a local Raiffeisenkasse (credit cooperative) was founded in Pergkirchen, although for decades the counter was only operated on Sundays. In 1967, the cooperative moved its headquarters to the center of Perg, where the banking operations were rapidly expanded and the name was changed, initially to Raiffeisenkasse and later to Raiffeisenbank Perg. In the following years, almost all Raiffeisen banks in the Perg district gradually joined Raiffeisenbank Perg.

In the area of Pergkirchen, apart from local supply companies (grocery, interior decorating company), a nationally known distributor for sacred art and utensils and a magazine publisher, no notable business operations have been established, so that a large part of the resident population commute to their workplaces if they are employed.

The first ordinances and rules of conduct to combat the risk of fire in the Pergkirchen area were issued by the then Windhaag lordship in the Taidingbuch (court book) as early as 1553. In 1786, under Emperor Joseph II, the fire regulations for Austria above the Enns were issued. In 1905 the Pergkirchen volunteer fire brigade was founded, the armory of which is located on the edge of the village square.

Incidentally, Pergkirchen is integrated into the urban infrastructure of Perg.

The Donauuferbahn runs through the area of the cadastral community . The stop in the village of Auhof was closed on the occasion of the construction of the Perg Schulzentrum stop.

Supraregional road connections are in the south the Donaustraße B3 in the villages of Auhof and Tobra and the Münzbacher Landesstraße, which initially runs near the western edge (as a Münzbacher feeder) and then on the northern edge of the cadastral community. The former section of the old B3 leading from the Münzbacher feeder to the Perg Ost connection to the B3 has been taken over by the municipality of Perg as a municipal road.

Pergkirchen is integrated into the inner-city ring bus service of the city of Perg, with several daily bus connections between Perg center and Pergkirchen.

education

Elementary school

Pergkirchen elementary school

In the Pergkirchner Pfarrurbar a school in Pergkirchen was first mentioned in 1553 . Not all the names of the schoolmasters are known yet. From the 17th century until 1870 you were also sacristans and probably also organists in the parish church of Pergkirchen.

According to Josef's register , in 1786 the Pergkirchen school had properties with a size of 32/64 yoke and six fathoms as a house garden and 4/64 yoke and eight fathoms as anger. At that time, an annual amount of 16 quintals of hay and four quintals of grummet could be brought in from both properties.

In 1859 the school in Pergkirchen was rebuilt under schoolmaster Jakob Lanz and it was in the same building in 1930 or until the new construction in 1994. During the term of office of Mayor Peham the elementary school Pergkirchen was rebuilt.

In 2008 65 children in four classes attended school and were taught by 8 teachers. The headmistress was Ilse Kögler from 2001 to 2013. Before that, Wolfgang Karigl was director of the school for 32 years. Georgine Wagner has been running the school since 2013.

Public child care

Public preschool childcare began in Pergkirchen on October 5, 1992 with the establishment of a kindergarten group in the rented former vicarage of Pergkirchen, with the Perg kindergarten association, which manages two other kindergartens and a crèche in Perg, acting as the provider. For ten years one group was led in the morning and one in the afternoon. Starting in 2002, an all-day kindergarten group was run in the old rectory and in the nearby rented premises of a commercial building.

Pergkirchen has had its own, newly built kindergarten building since 2004, which fully meets the requirements of a modern kindergarten and can accommodate up to three kindergarten groups. The Pergkirchner children are brought to the kindergarten in the morning from assembly points in the individual villages with kindergarten buses and back to the assembly points at lunchtime. The opening times of the facility are determined by mutual agreement with the parents.

literature

Georg Grüll : Pergkirchen, contributions to the history of a village. In: Heimatgaue . Journal for Upper Austrian history, regional and folklore. Edited by Dr. Adalbert Depiny . 11th year, 3rd and 4th issue, Linz 1930, pp. 121–168 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
Rudolf Zach : Perg in the mirror of history. In: Stadtgemeinde Perg (editor): Perg. Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey 1969, Linz 1969.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Grüll 1930, p. 121.

^ DORIS: Machland map

^ DORIS: Map of southern Mühlviertel outskirts

^ DORIS: Map of Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland

↑ Grüll 1930, p. 122ff.

^ Benedikt Pillwein: History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy ob der Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg. First part, The Mühlkreis, Linz 1827, PDF .

↑ Table population development of Pergkirchen according to the Ortlexikon Oberösterreich PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oeaw.ac.at

↑ Statistics Austria residents by location (PDF; 8 kB).

^ Rudolf Zach : Perg in the mirror of history. In: Stadtgemeinde Perg (editor): Perg. Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey in 1969. Linz 1969, p. 69f.

^ Rudolf Zach: Perg in the mirror of history. In: Stadtgemeinde Perg (editor): Perg. Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey in 1969. Linz 1969, p. 62.