Peuerbach

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Peuerbach (Austria)
Peuerbach
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Grieskirchen
License plate : GR
Surface: 39.36 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 21 '  N , 13 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '44 "  N , 13 ° 46' 27"  E
Height : 390  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,650 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postal code : 4722
Area code : 07276
Community code : 4 08 35
NUTS region AT311
UN / LOCODE AT PRB
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausplatz 1
4722 Peuerbach
Website: www.peuerbach.at
politics
Mayor : Wolfgang Oberlehner ( ÖVP )
Location of Peuerbach in the Grieskirchen district
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Peuerbach, church square
Peuerbach, church square
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Peuerbach is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Grieskirchen district in the Hausruckviertel with 4650 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Grieskirchen .

On November 6, 2016, there was a vote on whether Peuerbach should be merged with the neighboring communities of Bruck-Waasen and Steegen . The majority of the residents of Peuerbach and Bruck-Waasen voted in favor, the majority of the residents of Steegen against. Thus Peuerbach will be merged with Bruck-Waasen. The merged community continues the name Stadtgemeinde Peuerbach .

geography

Peuerbach lies at an altitude of 390  m above sea level. A. in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 11.0 km from north to south and 7.4 km from west to east. The total area is 39.36 km². 10.9% of the area is forested, 79.6% of the area is used for agriculture.

Neighboring municipalities:

Community structure

Since the merger with Bruck-Waasen on January 1, 2018, the municipality now comprises 58 villages, previously 14 (residents as of January 1, 2020):

  • Achleiten (65)
  • Adenbruck (62)
  • Aichet (31)
  • Besenberg (80)
  • Blind person (16)
  • Fire sites (28)
  • Breitau (86)
  • Bruck an der Aschach (160)
  • Book (118)
  • Dunkenedt (11)
  • Eckartsroith (57)
  • Erleinsdorf (29)
  • Trees (13)
  • Freiling (11)
  • Fox Stroke (145)
  • Greinsfurth (23)
  • Gschwendthaus (20)
  • Haargassen (10)
  • Höhenstein (418)
  • Holzleithen (13)
  • Hötzmannsberg (28)
  • Hub (29)
  • Itzling (20)
  • Kastlingeredt (84)
  • Köppensteegen (8)
  • Leithen (15)
  • Mittereibach (16)
  • Mühlbrenning (54)
  • Niederaching (21)
  • Niederensfelden (20)
  • Niederweiding (23)
  • Walnut (12)
  • Oberaching (25)
  • Oberndorf (54)
  • Oberngrub (14)
  • Oberweiding (22)
  • Parz near gates (17)
  • Peuerbach (1628)
  • Pfarrhofheuberg (181)
  • Prambeckenhof (20)
  • Pühret (37)
  • Ranna (27)
  • Ratzling (18)
  • Slate lift (116)
  • Sölden an der Straß (41)
  • Spielmannsberg (38)
  • Staureth (6)
  • Stefansdorf (74)
  • Steingruneredt (33)
  • Wet (135)
  • Thomasberg (51)
  • Untereibach (6)
  • Unterheuberg (76)
  • Untertreßleinsbach (127)
  • Usting (93)
  • Waasen (16)
  • Waasnerau (52)
  • Winkl (17)

The community consists of three cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017):

  • Bruck (1108.22 ha)
  • Peuerbach (1100.87 ha)
  • Waasen (1730.91 ha)

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century . Peuerbach received market rights in 1280. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . The place is best known for its role in the Peasant Wars (1625/26). In the politically and religiously confused period between 1620 and 1660, a large number of Peuerbach exiles left their homeland. During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

In 1995 Peuerbach received city rights.

On January 1, 2018, the municipality merged with the neighboring municipality of Bruck-Waasen .

Population development


Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

train

Peuerbach is the end point of a branch line of the Linz Local Railway .

Street

Peuerbach is located on Eferdinger Straße (B129).

education

Culture and sights

Renaissance portal of the former castle
The storm on Peuerbach - tin figure diorama from the Peuerbach Peasant War Museum
See also:  List of listed objects in Peuerbach

leisure

  • Star movie cinema
  • various pubs and inns
  • outdoor pool
  • climbing hall
  • Ice rink (only in winter)
  • Football / tennis court

Sports

The Peuerbach New Year's Eve run has been taking place since 1997 , one of the busiest road races in Austria, which was held in Natternbach from 1981 to 1996 .

In Peuerbach there are two sports clubs, the Union Peuerbach and the ASKÖ Bruck-Peuerbach.

politics

Due to the merger of the municipalities, the municipal council was dissolved on January 1, 2018. It had 25 members by the end of 2017:

  • 14 ÖVP
  • 4 SPÖ
  • 4 FPÖ
  • 3 greens

The city council had 7 members:

  • 4 ÖVP
  • 1 each SPÖ, FPÖ and Greens
mayor
  • 1850–1855: New Year's Eve Terpinitz
  • 1855: -1855Mathias Lißberger
  • 1855–1864: Karl Mayrhofer
  • 1864–1867: Karl Stöbner
  • 1867–1870: Franz Wezlmayr
  • 1870–1879: Alois Spanlang
  • 1879–1883: Ignaz Starzengruber
  • 1883–1886: Franz Hoflehner
  • 1886–1917: Heinrich Pramendorfer
  • 1917–1938: Josef Heuberger
  • 1938–1945: Alois Trappmaier
  • 1945–1947: Alois Schmidauer
  • 1947–1961: Johann Peham
  • 1961–1990: Rudolf Orthofer
  • 1990–2001: August Falkner (ÖVP)
  • 2001–2017, 2018–: Wolfgang Oberlehner (ÖVP)
  • From January 1, 2018 until the election of the mayor on April 8, 2018, business was carried out on an interim basis by the government commissioner Andreas Wenzl appointed by the state of Upper Austria.
  • On April 8, 2018, the town council and mayor were re-elected after the merger. ÖVP candidate Wolfgang Oberlehner received 43.8 percent of the vote, SPÖ candidate Fritz Peham received 24.3 percent. On April 22, 2018, there was a runoff between the two candidates, in which Wolfgang Oberlehner (ÖVP) prevailed with 52.85 percent of the vote.
Former mayor of Bruck-Waasen
  • 1873–1906: Johann Zehetmayr
  • 1906: -1906Johann Humer
  • 1906–1912: Anton Lugmair
  • 1912–1942: Josef Wohlmair
  • 1942–1945: Alois Trappmair
  • 1945–1946: Alois Schmidauer
  • 1946–1955: Johann Zauner
  • 1955–1967: Josef Aschauer
  • 1967–1984: August Mayrhuber
  • 1984–1997: Rudolf Mayr
  • 1997–2006: Josef Emprechtinger
  • 2006–2017: Peter Sattlberger (ÖVP)

Parish partnership

coat of arms

Blazon (official description) of the municipal coat of arms:

“In blue, a silver, square gate structure with open red gate wings and three battlements with black shooting holes. In the openwork gate opening on a green three-hill starting from the base of the shield, a black raven turned left, a golden oak branch with three acorns in its beak. "

Personalities

literature

  • Julius Strnadt : Peuerbach. An attempt at legal history. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 27, Linz 1868, pp. 1–634, PDF (46 MB) on ZOBODAT

Web links

Commons : Peuerbach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Peuerbach in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Upper Austria: Two municipalities are merging orf.at, November 6, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Ordinance of the Upper Austria. State government regarding the union of the municipalities of Bruck-Waasen and Peuerbach , accessed on December 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  4. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018
  5. ↑ Eberhard Krauß: Expulsion, Flight, Migration: Exiles from Peuerbach in Franconia, Swabia and elsewhere. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2006, p. 135, entire article p. 123–138, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
  6. ↑ MVP. Retrieved June 16, 2017 .
  7. ^ Home page of the municipality of Peuerbach , accessed on January 7, 2018
  8. ↑ orf.at: New mayors: runoff election in Peuerbach . Article dated April 8, 2018, accessed April 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ orf.at: Mayoral elections in three districts . Article dated April 8, 2018, accessed April 9, 2018.
  10. ^ Orf.at: New mayors in Peuerbach and Micheldorf . Article dated April 22, 2018, accessed April 22, 2018.