Pfaffing (Upper Austria)

Pfaffing
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	12.91 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 1 '  N , 13 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '10 "  N , 13 ° 29' 0"  E
Height :	555  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,483 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4870
Area code :	07682
Community code :	4 17 23
Address of the municipal administration:	Pfaffing 2 4870 Pfaffing
Website:	www.pfaffing.at
politics
Mayoress :	Gabriele Aigenstuhler ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	11 8th 11 8th  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 11 ÖVP : 8
Location of Pfaffing in the Vöcklabruck district
View from the Haushamerfeld monument. The village hall at the bottom left. Diagonally to the right above the municipal office with fire department. In the middle above the church with the old rectory. Above right the old people's home.
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pfaffing is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 1483 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

Pfaffing is located at an altitude of 555 m in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is from north to south 5.3 km, from west to east 4 km. The total area is 35.39 km², 31% of the area is forested, 62.8% of the area is used for agriculture.

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

• Ausserreith (54)
• Fischham (52)
• Forsterreith (47)
• Frieding (43)
• Trench (101)
• Hainberg (6)
• Hainleiten (13)
• Hillside Road (62)
• Hausham (50)
• Wooden point (64)
• Kienleiten (42)
• Kropfling (32)
• Maurach (32)
• Mauracherberg (10)
• Mesnerleiten (49)
• Mitterberg (24)
• Nindorf (83)
• Oberalberting (115)
• Oberkogl (4)
• Obermoos (0)
• Pfaffing (123)
• Schneiderweg (0)
• Schweiber (48)
• Sieberer (37)
• Sonnleiten (132)
• Steinberg (18)
• Pond (30)
• Pond path (0)
• Tiefenbach (48)
• Unterkogl (18)
• Weixlbaum (15)
• Weixlbaumerberg (68)
• Ziegelhaid (63)

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a black shield head with three silver dice in bars , each of which shows a black, two on the right and four black eyes on the top, a red sitting squirrel in silver, holding a green pine cone with its front paws."

The community colors are red-white-green.

The squirrel is taken from the coat of arms of the Vorster, an important knight family whose ancestral seat Forsterreith was in the village of the same name. The dice are reminiscent of the Frankenburg dice game that took place in 1625 on Haushamerfeld in what is now the municipality of Pfaffing.

history

From 16 BC Until 450 BC Pfaffing was part of the Roman province of Noricum . During excavations in 2012, the foundations of a Roman villa near the Haushamerfeld were uncovered.

In the 6th century the Bavarians immigrated from the west into the almost depopulated former Roman province. They hiked over the Fornacher Redlbach up to Walligen and Frieding to find ground for their cattle. The Bavarian Bavarians, which were still pagan at the time, came from the orderly state system of their Bavarian dukes from the Agilolfinger family, who had divided the settlement areas south of the Danube into the political units of the Traungau, Atter and Mattiggau.

The Bavarians met the few Roman settlers who had not emigrated in a peaceful manner and in the process got to know not only Roman but also Christian life to a modest extent.

With the foundation of the Mondsee Monastery by Duke Odilo of Bavaria in 748, a large Christian mission area was created that extended into the Attergau. Duke Odilo donated the large forest areas in Attergau and Mattiggau to Mondsee Monastery. The northernmost boundary point of the Mondsee abbey landed as far as the Burgstall in Mösendorf, and rich donations to this monastery also appear in documents from the Pfaffing area.

The first documentary mention in today's municipality of Pfaffing can be found in the "Mondsee Traditionscodex" of the former Mondsee monastery.

It is recorded here that the Bavarian Duke Tassilo III. , he is also the founder of the monasteries Kremsmünster and Mattsee, who donated the village of Forsterreith to the Mondsee monastery in 772, which was part of the crown property of the Bavarian dukes in the large forest area of ​​the Höhnhart (Kobernaußerwald with Hausruck).

Since there is no documentary record for Pfaffing, linguistic research can help: In the Old High German language between 750 and 1100, a full priest and secular priest was called phapho , which translates as Pfaff or priest in New High German.

The settlement names, which were formed with the suffix -ing, expressed with the Bavarians and later with the Franconian kings until the 9th century that they belonged to a site name or to a property name that was associated with a personal name. In the parish Vöcklamarkt / Pfaffing there are twelve place names with the suffix -ing . One of them is Pfaffing, who uses the suffix -ing to indicate that they belong to the place of activity of the missionary secular priests and pastors. As the Synod of Henching (Upper Bavaria) had decided in 772, they lived in a “residence” and not in a monastery like the monks.

Such a "residence" as the seat of Pfaffing could not be located in the Upper Austrian name index research, but it is likely to have been a noble farm and later a farm, from which the parsonage with a Christian place of prayer and worship, a chapel or a church, had developed.

St. Margaretha is the church patroness of the Pfaffingen church. She is one of the 14 emergency helpers and was especially venerated as the patroness of the farmers and their fields.

Historically, St. Margaretha refers to the Frankish missionary work of the Carolingian era.

During the time when the Bamberg bishops were entrusted with the domination of the Attergau and Mattiggau from 1007 to 1379, and the bishops of the Passau diocese were entrusted with church administration, the parish areas were reorganized.

The Bamberg bishops founded new parishes in Vöckla and Mattigtal, which included the two old parishes Pfaffing and Pöndorf with their affiliated or subsidiary churches. The Mattsee Abbey received the patronage right, that was the patronage right.

Vöcklamarkt, at that time Vekkelsdorf, is a Bamberg parish that came to the Diocese of Passau under Bishop Altmann - named as a parish in St. Nikola`s letter in 1068.

The Romanesque masonry of the church in Pfaffing dates from this period and was built between 1050 and 1150. The church and the parsonage in Pfaffing developed into a parish center of a large parish during the time of the Bamberg bishops, when they appointed the Counts of Schaunberg as bailiffs. This is called Pfaffing parish in the manuscript of the Lonsdorf register of the 13th and 14th centuries, which includes the benefices of the Passau bishopric.

The bailiffs were the secular representatives of the bishops of Bamberg, they monitored the freedom of taxation of church property and carried out their own jurisdiction.

In 1289, Count Heinrich von Schaunberg released the church of Pfaffing from the bailiff's duties and in 1290 received the Frankenburg fortress on the Hofberg, which Vöcklasdorf and Pfaffing also owned, as a pledge from the Bishop of Bamberg. The Schaunberger had lent the bishop 800 marks in silver.

Count Konrad von Schaunberg , as bailiff of the Bamberg bishops, granted the parish Widdum Pfaffing Hofmark justice with the lower jurisdiction in 1319. Thus the Pfarr-Widdum Pfaffing was on an equal footing with the secular manors around.

Since 1490 this area has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

The Pfaffing rectory, named as the seat of the clergy as early as 1289 and 1319, remained the rectory of the parish of Vöcklamarkt / Pfaffing until 1941.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 19 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 SPÖ and 8 ÖVP.

mayor

• until 2014 Hildegard Pauzenberger (SPÖ)
• since 2014 Gabriele Aigenstuhler (SPÖ)

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1,266 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,371 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Pfaffing (Upper Austria)

Sports

Pfaffing is home to the UTC Pfaffing - Vöcklamarkt tennis club . The club was founded in 1978, has four outdoor clay courts and has been with numerous teams in the east since it was founded. ÖTV tennis championship represented.

Web links

Commons : Pfaffing, Upper Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41723 - Pfaffing (Upper Austria). Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Pfaffing (Upper Austria) on the geographic information system of the state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (4th supplement 1973–1976) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 1/2, 1977, p. 19 f, online (PDF; 3.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
3. ↑ https://homepage.univie.ac.at/elisabeth.trinkl/forum/forum1212/65hausham.htm