Pierbach

Pierbach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Free City
License plate :	FR
Surface:	22.72 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 21 '  N , 14 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '50 "  N , 14 ° 45' 20"  E
Height :	494  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,025 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4282
Area code :	07267
Community code :	4 06 13
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 22 4282 Pierbach
Website:	www.pierbach.at
politics
Mayor :	Richard Freinschlag ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	9 4th 9 4th  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 4
Location of Pierbach in the Freistadt district
Center of Pierbach
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pierbach is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Freistadt in the Mühlviertel with 1025 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Perg .

geography

Pierbach is 494 meters above sea level in the Mühlviertel. The extension is from north to south 5.3 km, from west to east 8.6 km. The total area is 22.8 km². 10.2% of the area is forested, 11.6% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Bergerriedl (55) Hinterhütten (52) Hofnerberg (150) Kleinhöfnerberg (33) Kreuzberg (36) Lindnerberg (26) Meislberg (32)

Muhltal (98) Naarnal (37) including Klaus Niederhofstetten (58) including Ruttenstein Oberhofstetten (70) including Höllberg Pierbach (274) Sonnleitn (104)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hofstetten and Pierbach.

Neighboring communities

Schönau in the Mühlkreis	Unterweißbach
		Königswiesen
Bad Zell	Rechberg	St. Thomas on the bladder stone

history

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

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

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

Until the end of 2002, the community belonged to the judicial district Unter Weißenbach , from 2003 to 2013 to the judicial district Pregarten , and on January 1, 2013 it was assigned to the judicial district Perg .

Population development

In 1991 the community had 989 inhabitants according to the census, then 985 in 2001, and finally 1,009 in 2008.

coat of arms

Blazon (official description of the municipal
coat of arms ): "In black, a silver, lowered and curled drawbar, overlaid by a shield divided diagonally by red and silver in an arched cut." The red and silver shield represents the coat of arms of the chapels , the former lords of the ruin Ruttenstein . The drawbar represents the confluence of the small and large Naarn.
The municipality colors are: red and white

politics

Richard Freinschlag of the ÖVP has been mayor since March 27, 2015 .

Culture and sights

Sign of the Häferlmuseum in Pierbach

See also:  List of listed objects in Pierbach

• Ruttenstein castle ruins : Former castle complex , which was first mentioned in 1160.
• Catholic parish church Pierbach hl. Quirinus: Mentioned in a document in 1150, Pierbach was raised to a parish in 1372. The patronage of the parish has been exercised by the respective owner of the Ruttenstein estate since 1688. The church is a Romanesque / Gothic three-aisled stacked church with a Gothic chancel, church tower and late Gothic side aisles. Inside there are wall paintings from the 16th century. The high altar (crucifixion group) from the vicinity of Meinrad Guggenbichler . The baroque side altars date from 1680, the pulpit from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century. The organ is a work by Herbert Gollini from 1971 (2 manuals, 10 stops). Various individual figures in the church come from the Gothic period (around 1500) or from the 17th century ( Zürn district )
• Augenbründl: A spring located a little outside the village, which in the past was used as a healing spring for eye diseases. The wooden cross originally located there was replaced by a wayside shrine in the 1960s .

traffic

• Road: The municipality of Pierbach is crossed by Königswiesener Straße B 124 in an east-west direction.
• Paths: The center of the village is the starting point for the national hiking and pilgrimage route Johannesweg .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Heinrich Fasching (1929–2014), auxiliary bishop of the diocese of St. Pölten

literature

• Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 .

Web links

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

• Infrastructure in Pierbach
• The eyebrow
• Ruttenstein castle ruins
• Further information about the municipality of Pierbach on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )