Strudengau region

The Leader Region Strudengau was in the funding periods 2000 to 2006 and 2007 to 2013 a regional association of 18 Upper Austrian municipalities in the south-eastern part of the Mühlviertel in the district of Perg . For the funding period 2014 to 2020, the number of participating municipalities was increased by 6 to 24 and the name was extended to the Perg-Strudengau region .

More than 36,000 people live in the funding region. The association has its seat in Waldhausen .

structure

The Perg-Strudengau region, organized as an association, employed a full-time manager to coordinate the projects. In particular, local councils from the member communities and other people are represented on the board, as well as in the project selection committee. During the funding period, people responsible for the areas of tourism, nature, culture, renewable energy, agriculture and forestry as well as economy and local supply were appointed.

geography

The LEADER region comprised communities in the three natural and cultural landscapes of Strudengau , Machland and Hügelland of the eastern Mühlviertel.

The part of the region located in the Naarn Valley between Rechberg (Upper Austria) and Allerheiligen belongs to the Natura 2000 area Waldaist-Naarn . A large part of the Mühlviertel Nature Park is located in the region.

From 2008 to 2012, the largest flood protection project in Austria and Central Europe, the Machland dam, was built in the region .

Thus the six southern, were on the Danube located communities Naarn, Mitterskirchen, Baumgartenberg, Saxen, Grein and St. Nikola protected from Danube floods.

Among the twenty-four municipalities in the region are two towns, 16 market towns and six municipalities. In brackets the population as of January 1st, 2020.

Cities Grein (2,910) Perg (8,837) Market towns Bad Kreuzen (2,291) Baumgartenberg (1,789) Dimbach (965) Klam (940) Mauthausen (4,924) Mitterkirchen im Machland (1,716) Münzbach (1,808) Naarn im Machlande (3,708) Pabneukirchen (1,694) Ried in der Riedmark (4,307) Saxen (1,756) Schwertberg (5,321) St. Georgen an der Gusen (4,262) St. Nikola on the Danube (762) St. Thomas on the bladder stone (911) Waldhausen im Strudengau (2,853)

Communities All Saints' Day in the Mühlkreis (1,267) Arbing (1,507) Katsdorf (3,182) Langenstein (2,502) Rechberg (1,006) Windhaag near Perg (1,506)

aims

Logo from LEADER

The merger in the Perg-Strudengau region is part of LEADER in Upper Austria, a program for the development of rural areas from the year 2000 on the basis of the relevant joint initiative of the European Union . The joint measures had the aim of promoting the preservation and further development of rural areas as a functional living space .

The cooperation within the region encompassed all areas and sectors such as agriculture , economy , tourism , culture , village development, regional development, local supply , education , women and youth .

Projects

The projects completed in Upper Austria in the funding period 2007 to 2014 were divided into 16.4% agriculture, 27.4% renewable energy, 19.2% trade, 8.1% tourism, 4.1% village and regional development and restaurants Agenda 21, 3.9% culture, 4.1% rural heritage, nature conservation, forestry, 4.4% vocational training, 3.3% Leader cooperation and 9.1% LAG management. A total of 83.4 million euros were available, with around 8 million euros being allocated to 108 projects in the Strudengau region.The projects of the 2007 to 2014 funding period with the largest funding volume in the individual sub-areas in the Strudengau region were:

• Agriculture: Expansion of fruit processing and storage, Schober Wolfgang, Hopfner Maria, Naarn
• Bioenergy: Bioenergy Baumgartenberg
• Economy / trade: Product improvement and innovation Greisinger Münzbach
• Tourism: Kaolinum theme park, Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis
• Village and urban development: Perger natural habitats
• Nature and culture: redesign of the Strindberg Museum
• Education: Regional qualification program Strudengau
• Cooperations: Donausteig detailed planning, signage and rest areas

Cycle culture tour Danube-Machland-Strudengau

• Museum land Donauland Strudengau

The cycle paths through the Machland and the Strudengau link the cultural assets of the region. In addition to the Danube Cycle Path, a number of other cycle paths have been signposted through the natural and cultural landscape, including the adventure museums:

• Machlandweg
• Museum path
• Danube-Auen-Weg
• Nature park path
• Celtic way
• Five Rivers Way

Strudengau cultural region

• Danube Festival Weeks in Strudengau (Artistic Director Michi Gaigg )
• Sturmmühle cultural center
• Fussfrei - cultural platform in Upper and Lower Austria's Strudengau with various organizers and venues (including):

• Lake Festival Silva Waldhausen
• Gießenbachmühle am Gießenbach at the entrance of the Stillensteinklamm
• Kilian Church in Sarmingstein
• Community Center Sankt Nikola
• Camping site Au an der Donau
• Culture stage Au an der Donau
• Hague Zoo
• Grein City Theater
• Greinburg Castle
• Sankt Georgen asm Walde
• Rechberg

• International summer academy counterpoint for visual and performing arts with the following course locations:

• A-Toll youth center, Amstetten
• Angeleo dance studio in Grein
• Danube stand in Au an der Donau
• EKIZ Grein
• Gasthaus Sengstbratl in Sankt Georgen am Wald
• Atelier Ute Nösterer, Grein,
• Hotel zur Post Danzer in Sankt Nikola
• Celtic village Mitterkirchen
• Gasthof Hader Schlüsselwirt and lake stage
• Waldhausen Abbey
• State Music School Grein
• Greinburg Castle

• Grenzfluss Worldjazz Festival (artistic director Peter Madsen )

• Music workshop at the music school in Grein with

• Kofi Quarshie (African Percussion)
• Herbert Walser-Breuß (brass and woodwind instruments / electronics)
• Mike Mondesir (electric bass)
• Hervé Samb (electric guitar / acoustic guitar / composition)
• Alfred Vogel (percussion / drum set)
• Peter Madsen (piano / improvisation / composition)

• Concerts:

• KDR Society (mozArt, Amstetten )
• Seven Deadly Sins CIA ( Pöstlingberg -Schlössl, Linz)
• CIA Silent film (Seebühne am Nepomukteich, Waldhausen im Strudengau )
• Stelzhamma ( Mitterkirchen swimming lake in Machland )
• Peter Madsen surprise (Gießenbachmühle, Sankt Nikola an der Donau)
• The Dusa Orchestra (Kulturbühne DonAu-Stand'l, Au an der Donau)
• DR.OPIN (Cafe Konditorei Schörgi, Grein)

Strudengau tourist region

• Celtic village Mitterkirchen
• Holzwelten Pabneukirchen
• Münzbach Senses Park
• Kaolinum - mining - museum and theme park in Kriechbaum

Strudengau hiking region

The region has an extensive network of hiking trails with local, regional and national hiking trails. Since 2010 the Donausteig has been running through most of the municipalities in the region. In addition to this, a number of regional and local hiking trails have also received the Austrian hiking seal of approval:

• Outlook tour in Waldhausen im Strudengau
• Enzmilner Kulturwanderweg in Windhaag near Perg and Münzbach
• Honey extractor path in Waldhausen im Strudengau
• Annual cycle path in Allerheiligen in the Mühlkreis
• Ruin Klingenberg S8, St. Thomas am bladder stone
• Machland cultural landscape path in Klam, Saxen and Baumgartenberg
• NaturKulturWeg in Waldhausen im Strudengau
• Nature park path in Rechberg
• Romantiktal-Weg in Pabneukirchen
• Stillensteinklamm in Grein and Sankt Nikola on the Danube
• Stilles Tal, Bad Kreuzen and Pabneukirchen hiking trail
• Devil's Path in Mitterkirchen in Machland
• Well-being path in Dimbach
• Wolfsschlucht in Bad Kreuzen

Strudengau energy region

The communities in the region are committed to the principles of the climate alliance and climate rescue program. The aim is to increase the conversion efficiency of the energy used and to switch to alternative, renewable, renewable and domestic energy sources. The region achieved third place in the 2008 Climate Protection Community competition.

Bioenergy plants were built with public funding as follows:

• Local heating association Arbing
• Eco-energy Bad Kreuzen
• Local heating Dimbach
• District heating Grein
• Local heating Münzbach
• AEM-Agrar Energie Münzbach
• Bioenergy perg
• Biomass heating SOS Children's Village Rechberg
• Biomass Rechberg
• Biomass - solar heating Saxen
• BigPro Eizenau biogas community project
• Biomass St. Thomas on the bladder stone
• District heating Waldhausen
• Bioenergy Windhaag near Perg

media

The following media available in the Strudengau region concentrate fully or partially on the local conditions in the Strudengau region, in the Perg and Mühlviertel districts. The ranges that can be achieved are based on the population in the region.

• Newspapers (weekly local mutations of free newspapers Tips (OÖN) and Bezirksrundschau , daily local pages for the Mühlviertel as an Upper Austrian six locations in the Upper Austrian News )
• Television ( ORF 2 Upper Austria, LT1 , Dorf (TV station) )
• Radio (reports from the region in particular on Radio Oberösterreich , Life Radio , Radio FRO )
• Web TV (Strudengau.tv, blue-danube.tv, sanktnikola.tv, bgb.tv, grein.tv)
• Event photography (Perg scene)

Web links

• Web presence of the Strudengau region concerning 2007 to 2013
• Tips special edition Curse & Blessing (PDF; 7.0 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LAG Strudengau ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
3. ^ Region Strudengau, projects 2007 to 2013, in: Web presence of the Strudengau region
4. ↑ Donausteig summit should attract guests, in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of July 14, 2014
5. ^ Museumsland Donauland Strudengau
6. ↑ Danube Festival Weeks
7. ↑ Free of feet
8. ↑ Strudengau hiking region