Rechberg (Upper Austria)

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Rechberg (Upper Austria)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Perg
License plate : PE
Surface: 13.75 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 19 '  N , 14 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '19 "  N , 14 ° 42' 44"  E
Height : 576  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1.006 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 73 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4324
Area code : 07264
Community code : 4 11 17
Address of the
municipal administration:
Rechberg 9
4324 Rechberg
Website: www.rechberg.at
politics
Mayor : Martin Ebenhofer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(13 members)
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A total of 13 seats
Location of Rechberg in the district of Perg
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The parish church
The parish church
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Rechberg is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Perg in the Mühlviertel with 1006 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The place belonging to the judicial district of Perg is about 13.5 kilometers northeast of the district capital Perg , where the seat of the competent district court is also located, and about 40 kilometers east of the provincial capital Linz .

In the 1970s, Rechberg became a holiday and recreation village with a focus on nature tourism through the establishment of the Rechberg swimming lake and the modernization of the local inns (Dorfwirt & Der Goscherte Wirt) . Later, the Rechberg Nature Park was created with the Karl Weichselbaumer observation tower and the Großdöllnerhof was adapted as a museum. The promotion of supraregional cooperation led to the expansion of the Mühlviertel Nature Park , which extends to four municipalities, and integration into the LEADER region of Strudengau .

In 2008, the eleventh Austrian SOS Children's Village was opened in Rechberg, financed by companies in the Perg district and provided with benefits in kind .

geography

Location and surroundings

Rechberg lies at 590  m above sea level. A. in the lower Mühlviertel . The largest expansion is 4.3 km from north to south and 5.8 km from west to east. The municipality covers an area of ​​13.8 km². 39.6% of them are forested, 55.4% are used for agriculture. The highest elevations of the municipality are on the Puchberg in the north of the municipality on the border to Pierbach at 726  m above sea level. A. at the Kragner farm and 696  m above sea level. A. at the Großpammer farm.

Geology, water

The community is located in the Untermühlviertel Schollenland, an extension of the granite and gneiss plateau . From a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as aspects of the use of space, the municipality of Rechberg belongs entirely to the Upper Austrian spatial unit Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland .

Rechberg has a swimming pond created in the 1970s (Rechberg reservoir), which is fed by the Hiesbach and drained via the Hiesbach into the Naarn . The source of the Hiesbach is located south of the Puchberg at an altitude of about 670  m above sea level. A. The catchment area is very wooded. The mouth is on one of the few full water stretches of the Naarn.

The Naarn forms the western border of the municipality. The Naarn valley is part of the Mühlviertel nature reserve in the municipality of Rechberg and is part of the Natura 2000 area Waldaist-Naarn . Other smaller rivers in the municipality are the Hinterbergerbach on the border with St. Thomas am Blasenstein and the Brandstätterbach and Modlerbach on the border with Windhaag near Perg .

The climate in the lower Mühlviertel is shaped by the Atlantic and the location on the northern edge of the Alps. The moist Atlantic air masses, which are mostly brought in from the west, ensure precipitation, which in Rechberg amounts to around 840 mm on an annual average. An accumulation of precipitation was measured in the summer months, followed by the spring months, while the autumn and winter months are usually the driest periods.

The average annual temperature is 8.7 ° C, with the individual monthly values ​​fluctuating between −3 ° C in January and +19 ° C in July. The relative duration of sunshine reaches more than 50% in summer and 30 to 35% in winter due to the often fog-free location.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Hiesbach (93)
  • Holzmann (19)
  • Kemet (16)
  • Kürnstein (49)
  • Puchberg (93)
  • Rechberg (470)
  • Spade (55)
  • Wansch (39)
  • Windischhof (118)
  • Winkl (54)

The community consists of the cadastral municipality Rechberg.

Neighboring communities

Rechberg borders in the north on the municipality Pierbach and in the west on the market municipality Bad Zell , whereby the borders to these municipalities also represent the border to the district of Freistadt . In the east, the municipality of St. Thomas am Blasenstein , in the southeast the market town of Münzbach and in the southwest the municipality of Windhaag bei Perg reach the Rechberg.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Rechberg
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 1.4 2.9 6.7 11.2 16.4 19.4 21.6 21.0 16.9 12.0 5.5 1.7 O 11.4
Min. Temperature (° C) -4.8 -4.3 -1.2 2.4 7.1 10.1 12.1 12.0 8.5 4.6 -0.6 -3.8 O 3.5
Temperature (° C) -2.3 -1.5 1.9 6.1 11.3 14.3 16.3 15.8 11.8 7.4 1.8 -1.6 O 6.8
Precipitation ( mm ) 32 39 54 67 116 126 130 140 98 76 56 46 Σ 980
Humidity ( % ) 67.2 62.2 60.3 56.9 59.1 60.3 59.1 60.2 63.0 67.0 70.3 71.9 O 63.1
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population

Population development
year Residents
1846
1869 594
1880 607
1890 577
1900 583
1910 581
1923 593
1934 580
year Residents
1939 553
1951 521
1961 603
1971 650
1981 649
1991 781
2001 877
2009 931

Population development

The population peaked at 607 people in 1880 and then declined for several decades, with the lowest point being reached in 1951 at 521 people. Since then, the population has been increasing, but it was not until 1971 that the highest mark from the 19th century was exceeded. A strong population growth was only recorded in the last decades of the 20th century.

Population structure by gender, age and education

The municipality of Rechberg had 931 inhabitants on January 1, 2009, of which 491 were men and 440 women.

The rough age structure of the Rechberg population as of January 1, 2009 shows that 70.9% of the Rechbergers are over 15 and under 65 years old. At 19.5%, a little less than a fifth of the population is younger and, at 9.6%, around a tenth of the population is older. The proportion of women in the main group is around 45.2%, while it is significantly higher in the elderly at 56.2% than in the general population.

Of the 643 Rechbergers who were over 15 years old in 2001, 310 or 48.2% are women. 17 Rechbergers, that is 2.7% of those over fifteen, have graduated from a university , technical college or academy , the proportion of women here at 58.8% is significantly higher than that of the population group as a whole. Another 31 Rechbergers, that is 4.9% of the relevant population group, have the Matura , while the proportion of women at 51.6% is slightly below that of the population group concerned. 311 Rechbergers, with 48.4% almost half of those over the age of fifteen, have completed an apprenticeship or vocational secondary school , with 36.0% women. 284 or 44.2% of the Rechbergers only have a compulsory school certificate . About three fifths of them are women.

Origin and language

97.6% of the Rechberg residents were Austrian citizens on January 1st, 2009 and 97.3% were born in Austria. 0.5% of the Rechbergers come from other EU countries, 1.9% from non-EU countries.

The Middle or Danube Bavarian dialect is a Bavarian dialect form that is widespread throughout Upper Austria . The ostösterreichische branch of the middle Bairischen goes to the dialect of the created by the Bavarian Ostsiedlung Babenberg dominion Ostarrichi back.

In the 2001 census, 855 people (97.5%) stated German as a colloquial language, 1 (0.1%) Turkish , 5 (0.6%) Croatian , 3 (0.3%) Hungarian and 7 (0.8 %) %) another language.

religion

In the 16th century, the successors of Ladislaus Prager converted to the Protestant faith and with them the parishes and subjects belonging to the Windhaag rule ( Altenburg , Münzbach, Rechberg, Windhaag). After the counter-reformer Joachim Enzmilner took over the rule , the Protestant pastors were expelled. Those who did not want to return to the Catholic faith lost their possessions and thus the parishes and subjects were catholic again very soon.

In the 2001 census, 835 people (95.2%) stated that they were Roman Catholics , 11 (1.3%) Islamic , 6 (0.7%) Protestant , 2 (0.2%) Orthodox and 2 (0 , 2%) other faiths. 21 (2.4%) of the Rechbergers have not professed any religion.

history

The presence of people in Rechberg has been attested since the Neolithic by the discovery of a flat ax made of dark green serpentine. There is also a shell stone on the rock formation nearby . Therefore, cultic activities on Plenkerberg are very likely.

During Roman times , the area around Rechberg was about fifteen kilometers north of the border of the province of Noricum , which was formed in this area by the Limes and the Danube , already outside the 7.5 kilometers wide buffer zone between the Romans and barbarians . There are no traces of settlement from this time in the area of ​​the municipality of Rechberg.

The linguistic influence of the Slavic and Baier settlement activity in the 7th and 8th centuries has been preserved in the names of farms and places. The area around Rechberg was originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria and belonged to the Avarsmark from the 9th century .

At the time of the Babenbergs Rechberg was in the margraviate or later in the Duchy of Austria in the Riedmark in the area of ​​the Lords of Perg . The oldest documented mentions were made around 1209 with a church in Rechberg , which was called the Pierbach branch church. The place was connected to the Saxenegg rule for many centuries , with the castle being largely demolished as early as 1438. In 1493 the rule came to Greinburg . Since Rechberg belonged to the Windhaag rule from 1525 , it can be assumed that the parish was Protestant in the 16th and early 17th centuries . Under the counter-reformer Joachim Enzmilner , Rechberg became an independent parish in 1656 and was incorporated into the Dominican convent of Windhaag from 1673 to 1782 . The pastors came from the Dominican monastery in Münzbach .

In 1782 Rechberg became a cadastral municipality and from 1848 an independent municipality. Rechberg has been a municipality in the state of Upper Austria since 1918.

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 and Rechberg belonged to the Soviet occupation zone until 1955 .

In the 1970s, with the construction of the Rechberg reservoir, the community began to develop into a holiday and recreation village, which was continued with the creation of the Rechberg Nature Park and later the Mühlviertel Nature Park. Since then, the population has also grown significantly.

politics

Municipal council

In municipal council elections , the ÖVP has had an absolute majority of votes and mandates since 1945, with the proportion of votes ranging between 86.7% (1949) and 96.8% (1973) of the votes cast. The rest of the voting shares always went to the SPÖ , as no other parties were candidates. Mayor is Martin Ebenhofer from the ÖVP.

mayor

The following people were mayors in Rechberg:

  • Thomas Ruspekhofer (from 1850 to 1861)
  • Kajetan Killinger (from 1861 to 1864)
  • Mathias Lengauer (from 1864 to 1867)
  • Anton Nenning (from 1867 to 1884)
  • Johann Kern (from 1884 to 1913)
  • Josef Primetshofer (from 1913 to 1946)
  • Michael Schwaiger (from 1946 to 1949)
  • Johann Primetshofer (from 1949 to 1955)
  • Johann Strasser (from 1955 to 1967)
  • Karl Weichselbaumer (from 1967 to 1988)
  • Josef Bauernfeind (from 1988 to 2003)
  • Johann Thauerböck (from 2003 to 2014)
  • Martin Ebenhofer (since 2015)

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms awarded by the Upper Austrian provincial government in 1978: divided by red and blue by a golden wavy bar; at the top three golden balls, one behind the other. The community colors are red-yellow-blue.

The golden balls, which can also be interpreted as coins, are used as a mark of St. Nicholas , the patron saint of the parish church. The bathing lake symbolized in the base of the coat of arms emphasizes the validity and economic importance of Rechberg as a tourist community and recreational village.

Awards for the community (selection)

  • Recreational village rating (1971)
  • Austrian Prize for Environment and Site Maintenance (1975)
  • Most beautiful village in Upper Austria (1985)
  • Austrian Prize for Environment, Culture and Site Maintenance (1990)
  • Youth-friendly community and bicycle-friendly community in Upper Austria, Austrian “Model Community” award for private business management (1994)
  • Environmental protection award Upper Austria, youth-friendly municipality Upper Austria (1995)
  • 1. Upper Austria Nature Park Municipality (1996)
  • Environmental award for the Rechberg Nature Park and Woldrich herb grower (2002)
  • Nature Park of the Year and Environment Prize for Nature Park Rechberg (2003)

Culture and sights

The 400 year old Großdöllnerhof

Buildings

On the Plenkerberg is the lookout tower named after Karl Weichselbaumer with a view of the Alpine foothills and the Alps.

Natural monuments

Natural Monument Schwammerling

Part of the Mühlviertel Nature Park with the following natural monuments is located on the territory of the municipality :

The Naarn valley is designated as a landscape protection area and Natura 2000 area Waldaist-Naarn in the municipality .

sport and freetime

A number of associations have been founded in the municipality of Rechberg to meet the cultural needs of the regional population. The Großdöllnerhof is a quaint, four-hundred-year-old Mühlviertler Dreiseithof, in which a permanent exhibition on folk medicine and superstition as well as changing special exhibitions are shown.

The Union Rechenberg was founded in 1971 and operates the sections football, curling, skiing, women's gymnastics, tennis and table tennis. The first football pitch was in the Naarn valley and opened in 1975. In 1998 Rechberg received a new leisure facility with two tennis courts, eight stick lanes, two soccer fields and a clubhouse.

Rechberg is known regionally for its bathing lake, which is used for swimming in summer and as an ice surface in winter.

Several hiking trails have been signposted in Rechberg:

  • Weg Puchberg, six kilometers, about three hours
  • Mushroom path, four kilometers, about an hour and a half
  • Way Schartmühle, three kilometers, about an hour
  • The nature park path, seven kilometers, about three and a half hours

The 56-kilometer-long nature park path (cycle route 30 according to the Upper Austrian state government), signposted as part of the Rad-KulTOUR, leads to Rechberg. Starting from Perg, the tour leads back to Perg via Rechberg, Bad Zell, Schwertberg and Au an der Donau.

Rechberg is located on the oldest signposted mountain bike (MTB) route in Austria, which connects the communities of Windhaag near Perg, Allerheiligen, Bad Zell, Rechberg, Pierbach and St. Thomas am Blasenstein over a length of 32 kilometers.

SOS Children's Villages

In 2008, an SOS Children's Village for three families with up to 5 children and a children's living group was opened in Rechberg . A maximum of 22 children can be accommodated in the village. Two semi-detached houses with a total of four residential units, one semi-detached house as a community house for therapy, administrative and other community purposes as well as a playground, parking spaces and path network were built on a floor area of ​​5,500 m². The property has biomass heating. The funds for the construction and maintenance of the children's village as well as a large number of contributions in kind are provided by the companies in the Perg district.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Rechberg mainly local and regional companies and public institutions are based, which mainly serve the local supply.

In the municipality there are two power plants of the Perg electricity company (Toitschmühle and Schartmühle), the power supply was initially provided by the Pierbach electricity cooperative and, since the early 1960s, by Linz Strom .

The municipality of Rechberg is one of 18 municipalities in the LEADER region of Strudengau .

Rechberg is a tourist municipality. Overnight stays in the 1970s were still a maximum of 10,000 overnight stays, increased in the 1980s to just over 20,000 and reached a peak in 1991 with 22,598 overnight stays. Since then, the number of overnight stays has fluctuated between 12,000 and around 20,000, with a downward trend in the 2010s.

Employment situation

On January 1, 2001, 115 people were employed in Rechberg. Of the 386 employed people living in Rechberg, 289 commuted to their workplaces outside the municipality, while 18 people commuted to their workplace in Rechberg at the same time.

180 Rechberger jobs are located in another municipality in the Perg district, mostly in Perg and Schwertberg, and 91 outside the Perg district in Upper Austria, mostly in Linz-Stadt. The remaining jobs are in other federal states. 11 people from the Perg district and 7 people from another Upper Austrian district or another federal state work in Rechberg.

In 2001, 13.8% of the Rechbergers worked in agriculture and forestry, 40.4% in industry, trade and construction and 45.5% in the service sector. In 1981 the proportion of those working in agriculture and forestry was 39.8%. 47.8% of the jobs in Rechberg were in agriculture, 6.1% in industry, trade and construction and 46.1% in the service sector. In 1981, 77.5% of jobs were still in agriculture and forestry.

Traffic situation

The next stops and train stations of the Donauuferbahn are in Perg at a distance of 15 kilometers. Only buses are available for public transport in Rechberg, with connections to the district capital. A large number of inbound and outbound commuters depend on their own vehicle. The next motorway connections are in the west in Sankt Valentin , Enns and Asten with a journey time of around 45 minutes and in the east in Amstetten and in Ybbs an der Donau with a journey time of around one hour. For commuters, the expansion of the road network that has taken place over the past few decades means a significant improvement. Particularly noteworthy is the connection to the Naar valley.

Infrastructure

The power supply for the municipality of Rechberg is provided by Linz AG . There is a local volunteer fire department established in 1902. In Rechberg there is a two-group Pfarrcaritas kindergarten for children who are not yet of school age , which follows a nature-pedagogical approach in accordance with its mission statement, and there is a nature park elementary school for children of school age . The possibility of attending secondary schools, a lower secondary school, the polytechnic course or the middle and higher schools is possible in the district of Perg and in the neighboring municipality of Bad Zell in the district of Freistadt .

Personalities

Persons connected to Rechberg

  • Joachim Enzmilner (1600–1678) had the rectory and church rebuilt in the 17th century
  • Georg Grüll (1900–1975), historian, born in Rechberg
  • Herbert Hiesmayr (1940–2016), St. Thomas am Blasenstein, academic painter, local researcher, cultural advisor for the municipality of Rechberg, co-author of the Rechberger Heimatbuch
  • Leopold Josef Mayböck , Schwertberg, local history researcher, archival curator of Upper Austria. Landesarchivs, co-author of the Rechberger Heimatbuch

Honorary citizen

Honorary citizenship is the highest award given by a municipality for a personality who has made outstanding contributions to the well-being or reputation of the place (the year of the award is given in brackets):

  • Anton Nenning, Mayor (1892)
  • Rudolf Hanl, senior teacher and director (1937)
  • Franz Rienmüller, District Captain (1951)
  • Alois Leitner, pastor, consistorial councilor (1957)
  • Pilshofer, community doctor, medical councilor (1957)
  • Johann Blöchl , Deputy Governor (1965)
  • Johann Strasser, Mayor (1968), in 1969 he was awarded the Golden Medal for services to the Republic of Austria
  • Erwin Wenzl , Governor (1971)
  • Karl Weichselbaumer , Mayor, Member of the State Parliament (1988), holder of the Golden Medal of Honor of the Province of Upper Austria since 1998, Consultant of Upper Austria since 2001. State government
  • Josef Ratzenböck , Governor (1991)
  • Karl Grünner , Deputy Governor (1991)
  • Karl-Albert Eckmayr , Deputy Governor (1992)
  • Fritz Hochmair , Deputy Governor (2000)
  • Josef Bauernfeind, Mayor (2009)
  • Franz Hiesl , Deputy Governor (2009)
  • Josef Honeder , parish provisional in Rechberg (2012), school educator, church historian, director of the Petrinum Linz

Honorary ring bearer

The following people were awarded the Rechberg Ring of Honor (the year of the award is given in brackets):

  • Walter Endrich, District Captain (1971)
  • Baumgartner, civil servant (1971)
  • Schönherr, civil servant (1971)
  • Herbert Paplham, civil servant (1971)
  • Karl Weichselbaumer , Mayor, Member of Parliament (1973)
  • Josef Krenner, civil servant (1980)
  • Rupert Hartl , Deputy Governor (1980)
  • Albert Leibenfrost , Provincial Councilor (1989)
  • Friedolin Gscheidlinger, civil servant (1992)
  • Hermann Buchberger, Vice Mayor, Elementary School Director (1992), in 2009 he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria
  • Alois Peböck (1997)
  • Heinrich Neuhauser, City Council (1998)
  • Josef Bauernfeind, Mayor (2004)
  • Johann Leonhartsberger, City Councilor (2004)
  • Friedrich Jahn, Head of Office (2005)

literature

  • Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 .
  • Municipality of Rechberg: Heimat Rechberg - More than just stones. Heimatbuch, Rechberg 2009

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Kohl: The lifeless nature . Upper Austrian provincial exhibition <1988, Kefermarkt>; Upper Austria. In: Helga Litschel; Province of Upper Austria, Office of Upper Austria. State government, culture department. (Ed.): The Mühlviertel: Nature, Culture, Life / Upper Austrian State Exhibition 1988, May 21 to October 30, 1988 in Weinberg Castle near Kefermarkt. Event from the state of Upper Austria. tape 2 . Province of Upper Austria, Office of Upper Austria. State government, Culture Department , Linz, DNB  551827696 , p. 41 ff .
  2. ^ Office of the Upper Austrian provincial government, nature conservation department (ed.): Raumeinheit Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland (= nature and landscape. Guiding principles for Upper Austria. Volume 16). Linz 2007 ( PDF; 5.4 MB ).
  3. Klaus Berg, Clemens Gumpinger, Simonetta Siligato: Defense register of the Naarn and its tributaries. Water protection report 42nd Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Surface Water Management Department, Linz 2009, p. 71 ( PDF; 2.8 MB on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
  4. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  5. Statistics Austria: Population development of Rechberg (PDF)
  6. ^ Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality of Rechberg, population status and structure PDF
  7. Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality of Rechberg Education PDF
  8. a b c Statistics Austria table: A look at the municipality of Rechberg Demographic data PDF
  9. ^ Gottfried Schindlbauer: Natural & cultural landscape of the municipality of Rechberg. In: More than just stones. Home Rechberg. Rechberg 2009, p. 21.
  10. Leopold VII, Duke of Austria and Styria, confirms the abbey Baumgartenberg's named properties and the freedom granted to the Cistercian order from any other than princely, free reign . In:  Upper Austrian document book . Volume 2, No. CCCLX, Baumgartenberg, January 31, 1209, p. 517 (“prediola iuxta rechperc”).
  11. Provincial history of Upper Austria
  12. Homepage Mühlviertel Nature Park
  13. Homepage of the Großdöllnerhof
  14. MTB mountain bike route Mühlviertel ( Memento from June 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  15. ^ Homepage of the SOS Children's Village Rechberg
  16. Strudengau region
  17. View of the municipality of Rechberg, commuters by commuting destination , (PDF)
  18. Province of Upper Austria, regional database , (PDF) ( Memento from December 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )