Prambachkirchen

market community

Prambachkirchen

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Upper Austria

Political District :

Eferding

License plate :

EF

Surface:

28.72 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 19 ' N , 13 ° 54' E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '55 " N , 13 ° 54' 16" E

Height :

374 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,933 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

4731

Area code :

07277

Community code :

4 05 08

NUTS region

AT312

Address of the
municipal administration:

Prof.-Anton-Lutz-Weg 1
4731 Prambachkirchen

Website:

www.prambachkirchen.at

politics

Mayor :

Johann Schweitzer ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)

12

7th

3

12 7th 3 3

A total of 25 seats

ÖVP : 12
FPÖ : 7
SPÖ : 3
GREEN : 3

Location of Prambachkirchen in the Eferding district

Parish Church Prambachkirchen

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Prambachkirchen is a market town in the Eferding district in the Hausruckviertel in Upper Austria with 2933 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Eferding .

geography

Prambachkirchen is 374 m above sea level in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 9.3 km from north to south and 6.9 km from west to east. The total area is 28.7 km², 12.8% of the area is forested, 76.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 35 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Andrichsberg (11)
Baumgarten (25)
Badger Mountain (42)
Gallham (98)
Gföllnerwald (105)
Large stone pit (64)
Pits (20)
Gschnarret (56)
Hundswies (60)
Mini pit (46)
Long sticks (49)
Mairing (129)
Mittergallsbach (113)
Mitterwinkl (27)
Niederwinkl (25)
Oberdoppl (27)
Obereschlbach (18)
Oberfreundorf (78)
Obergallsbach (61)
Pertmannshub (16)
Prambachkirchen (1191)
Prattsdorf (95)
Reith (21)
Sallmannsberg (42)
Schöffling (54)
Stallberg (28)
Quarry (97)
Taubing (28)
Lower pressure (0)
Under double (60)
Untereschlbach (23)
Untergallsbach (52)
Unterprambach (60)
Uttenthal (77)
Vineyard (35)

The parish consists of the cadastral communities Dachsberg and Gallham.

history

The first traces of settlement in the area, stone axes, stone hammers and hole axes, date from the younger Stone Age (5000 to 4000 BC). The discovery of a thrown thrust weapon made of chert indicates, however, that wandering Ice Age hunters lived in this area in the more recent Paleolithic, in the last Ice Age (70,000 / 60,000 to 20,000 / 15,000 BC).

An important wave of settlement for the area is the immigration of the Baiern / Bajuwaren from the 6th century onwards. Some localities emerged in this oldest period of Bavarian conquest. In the following years the settlement increased in the form of closed village settlements.

The first mention of Prambachkirchen appears in the Passau Traditions II (1190–1204). It is "Prambach". The name goes back to Middle High German brame (thorn bush). At the end of the 11th century a branch of an empire-free sex, the "Prambacher", settled in the area. The most important offspring of the Prambacher was Wernhard III. He became Bishop of Passau in 1285 and founded Engelszell Abbey in 1293. In addition to numerous possessions, he gave the monastery "all of his inheritance in Prambach".

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place 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 connection of Austria to the German Reich on 13 March 1938, the place to "Upper Danube" belonged. In 1945 Upper Austria was restored. Prambachkirchen was part of the judicial district Waizenkirchen until 1923 and was added to the judicial district of Eferding after this judicial district was dissolved.

The fall of a meteorite was observed on November 5, 1932 , a piece of this stone meteorite is in the Natural History Museum Vienna .

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church Prambachkirchen : built in 1524, Gothic building, later baroque, under monument protection

Economy and Infrastructure

education

The Dachsberg grammar school is located in the former Dachsberg castle , a private grammar school of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales .

politics

mayor

until 2008 Franz Tauber (ÖVP)
since 2008 Johann Schweitzer (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

"In silver a red oblique left bar, above it a blue tournament collar obliquely left."

The municipality colors are blue-white-red.
The coat of arms goes back to the coat of arms of the Lords of Prambach. The most important member of this former imperial-free Passau ministerial family, Bernhard von Prambach , founded the Cistercian monastery Engelszell as Passau prince-bishop with a certificate dated March 12, 1293 , which he equipped with his own hereditary properties on the Pram, along with other possessions.