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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Upper Austria | |
| Political District : | Rohrbach | |
| License plate : | RO | |
| Main town : | Rohrbach in Upper Austria | |
| Surface: | 37.94 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 34 ' N , 14 ° 0' E | |
| Height : | 605 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 5,219 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 4150 | |
| Area code : | 07289 | |
| Community code : | 4 13 44 | |
| NUTS region | AT313 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
City square 1–2 4150 Rohrbach-Berg |
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| Mayor : | Andreas Lindorfer ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (Election year: 2015) (31 members) |
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| Location of Rohrbach-Berg in the Rohrbach district | ||
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 Rohrbach seen from the Lanzerstorf district |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Rohrbach-Berg is a municipality in the Upper Mühlviertel and the administrative seat of the Rohrbach district with an area of 37.94 km² and 5219 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).
The municipality was created on May 1st, 2015 through the merger of the previously independent municipalities of Rohrbach in Upper Austria and Berg bei Rohrbach , after a majority vote in both formerly independent municipalities in a referendum on October 19, 2014.
Rohrbach was founded around 1200 at the crossroads of medieval trade routes and served as a rest stop before crossing the Bohemian Forest . This brought prosperity to the citizens and the granting of market rights, which were first mentioned in documents in 1320. Rohrbach gained importance as an administrative center from 1749 as the seat of the district office and from 1849 as the location of the district administration and district court .
From the 1960s, the infrastructure was expanded to include the entire Rohrbach district, and in 1986 the Upper Austrian provincial government elevated the market to the district's only city status.
geography
location
The city of Rohrbach and the town of Berg that has grown together with it are located 45 kilometers northwest of the state capital Linz , 10 km south of the state border with the Czech Republic and 21 km east of the state border with Germany in the Upper Mühlviertel . The easily accessible location on old traffic routes on a flat foothill of the Zwischenmühlrücken favored the development of the central administrative center of the region.
The municipal area covers an area of 37.94 square kilometers.
The highest elevations are on Michaelsberg (also Krienerberg ) and the mountain above Andexling, each about 749 m above sea level. A. The lowest point is at the mouth of the Froschbach in the Große Mühl at 490 m above sea level. A.
Geology and waters
The municipality of Rohrbach-Berg belongs to the granite and gneiss plateau , the Austrian part of the Bohemian Massif and from a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as aspects of the use of space to the Upper Austrian spatial unit Zentralmühlviertel highlands . The area around Rohrbach is a plateau-like hull landscape that merges into a hill country with forest crests to the west of the city. The subsoil consists mainly of Schlieren granite and pearl gneiss . A larger sprinkling of diorite can be found near Götzendorf near the municipality border with Sarleinsbach and Oepping.
The Poeschlteich is the largest standing body of water in Rohrbach and one of the oldest fish ponds in the region. The largest flowing body of water in the municipality is the Große Mühl , which runs in the east on the municipality border with St. Oswald , Lichtenau and Haslach . In addition, the community area is traversed by other streams, for example the Lanzerstorferbach, the Froschbach, the Almesmühlenbach or the Gierlinger Bach.
City structure
The municipality Rohrbach-Berg is divided into five cadastral communities , whereby the cadastral municipality Rohrbach coincides with the former municipality of Rohrbach , the cadastral communities Berg, Steineck, Hundbrenning and Frindorf formed the municipality of Berg bei Rohrbach . The municipality of Rohrbach has been a municipality since 1986; this name was transferred to the merged municipality of Rohrbach-Berg.
The largest districts of the municipality are the eponymous and merged places Rohrbach and Berg. There are also another 30 towns (population as of January 1, 2020):
- Arbesberg (49)
- Autengrub (14)
- Mountain (948)
- Fraundorf (31)
- Frindorf (54)
- Baby boy (139)
- Gattergaßling (30)
- Greed (10)
- Gintersberg (12)
- Gollner (103)
- Pit (31)
- Harrau (38)
- Hauzenberg (20)
- Hehenberg (65)
- Back ring (27)
- Dog Branding (74)
- Katzing (56)
- Keppling (54)
- Krien (39)
- Lanzerstorf (137)
- Marching (50)
- Newborn (89)
- Nosslbach (87)
- Perwolfing (59)
- Reith (52)
- Rohrbach (2518)
- Scheiblberg (87)
- Schoenberg (22)
- Sexling (214)
- Game management (19)
- Steineck (48)
- Wall Pubic (43)
Neighboring communities
Rohrbach-Berg borders in the north on Aigen-Schlägl , in the east on St. Oswald , Lichtenau and Haslach , in the southeast on Auberg , in the south on Arnreit and in the west on Sarleinsbach and Oepping , which all belong to the Rohrbach district .
climate
The nearest state climate stations are in Kollerschlag ( 725 m above sea level ), Reichenau ( 685 m above sea level ) and Aschach ( 282 m above sea level ).
The temperature in Rohrbach-Berg fluctuates over a year between a minimum of −27.7 ° C and a maximum of 36.3 ° C. A light morning frost is possible as early as September. Rohrbach has no inversion weather conditions and has an average of 121.4 frost days , 40 ice days , 29.3 summer days and 2.9 days over 30 ° C = hot day . The average annual rainfall is around 760 mm. The average snow depth is 48 cm with a maximum of 70 cm. The duration of the snow cover ranges between 4 and 107 days.
Rohrbach and Berg have been a Climate Alliance partner community since 1999 and refer to their own activities to continuously reduce greenhouse gas emissions, for example in the areas of energy, transport and agriculture.
history
Name development
The name Rohrbach etymologically indicates a formerly swampy area that was drained for the establishment of the settlement. The Rohrbach led from today's Poeschlteich through swamp overgrown with cattails to the Fischbach. These cattails can also be found in the city's coat of arms. The place name was Rorebach around 1200 , in the 13th century Rohrbach , Rorpach or Rarbach , in 1413 the place was referred to as Rorbach and in 1562 as Rorwach . It was not until much later that the pipes through which the stream flows today were laid in the ground.
The Simplex Berg refers to the mountain known today as Maria Trost Berg, at the foot of which is the village of Berg.
In the Mühlviertel dialect, the place name is Reowá . The first syllable of the name Reo is based on the Bavarian word Reo or Rea , which generally no longer exists in this form today. The second syllable was weakened from -bach to -wa .
middle Ages
At the beginning of the Middle Ages, today's municipality of Rohrbach, west of the Große Mühl , belonged to the Duchy of Baiern , which became a province of the Franconian Empire under Charlemagne from 788 . The present urban area was settled in the 11th century, as the salt roads Goldener Steig and Via Regia crossed here, on which salt was transported from Hallein via Passau and from the Salzkammergut via Linz to Bohemia . Other trade routes led from the former Danube ports of Obermühl in today's municipality of Kirchberg ob der Donau , Landshaag in the municipality of Feldkirchen an der Donau and Niederranna in the municipality of Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis via Rohrbach to Bohemia. This is how the first rest and refreshment facilities for the haulers and carters were created . The route from Obermühl via Rohrbach was the shortest connection between the Danube and the Vltava in this area.
At the beginning of the 13th century, the place was planned by 44 original citizens, with which the rest area could develop into a market place. This establishment of the place was probably the work of the Falkensteiners from the Falkenstein Castle , who needed a base south of the Bohemian Forest . More detailed information on the origins of the place has been lost.
Rohrbach was in the sphere of influence of the Diocese of Passau , whereby the religious center of the pastoral care area was in parish churches in the Mühlkreis . In 1303 Rohrbach became its own Passau parish, which however a few years later, in 1319, was added to the Premonstratensian canons of Schlägl Abbey , which was founded as a clearing monastery in 1207 and 1218 . During the period in which Austria was formed from the 10th century, the area west of the Große Mühl was not yet part of the Babenbergs . It was not until the 14th century that the Austrian rulers succeeded in expanding their dominion to this region. Although the area was Austrian sovereign territory, it was at the same time a Passau imperial fiefdom and part of the imperial duchy of the Diocese of Passau. As a result, jurisdiction in the Velden Regional Court in this area was exercised by a Passau regional judge. The situation was only resolved in 1765 by a contract between Maria Theresa and the prince-bishopric and the extent of today's Upper Mühlviertel was determined.
Rohrbach was first referred to as a market in 1320 and a schoolmaster was recorded in 1373. The document that originally granted market privileges was burned in the Hussite Wars in 1427. The Hussites destroyed the whole place including the parish church. It was not until 1459 that Duke Albrecht renewed the market rights, which included two annual markets and a weekly market. Over time, the weekly market developed into the most important cattle market in the upper Mühlviertel, as the sale of cattle was one of the main sources of income for the rural population, who made up around 80% of the total population in the area. During the heyday, around 1300 head of cattle were offered for sale every Monday.
The townspeople lived from trade and handicrafts, as the agricultural areas with an average of 2.3 hectares of land were too small for the conditions at the time and could not be expanded. Due to the tradition as a resting place and overnight stay, there were an above-average number of innkeepers and craftsmen among the citizens up to the 19th century, and a bourgeois beer brewery is mentioned as early as 1320.
Commercial activity ensured the prosperity of the citizens. An important source of income in the late Middle Ages and early modern times was the trade in salt from Salzburg and Bavaria, until the people of Freetown claimed the right to profitably export the salt to Bohemia as a monopoly. From 1547 onwards, Bohemia was supplied exclusively with salt from the Salzkammergut. The salt trade via Rohrbach came to a complete standstill from 1570 when Freistadt obtained a ban on all roads in Obermühlviertel for the salt trade from the governor and only the route via Freistadt could be used for salt transport.
The first written mention of the name Berg goes back to the year 1231 when a Henricus de Monte was mentioned as a witness of a contract between the Bishop of Passau and Witiko von Prčice and Blankenberg . He belonged to the noble family of Perger, who were the counts on the mountain until the line died out in 1541. The legacy went to the Rödern family, who ruled Berg Castle near Rohrbach until 1743 .
Modern times to the end of the 19th century
In addition to the weekly market, the trade in oxen from Hungary to Bavaria was an important source of income. Rohrbach was located on a supraregional trade route that was heavily frequented in the 15th and 16th centuries and provided the necessary capacities at rest stations, overnight accommodation and adjustment options as well as feed supply. North and south of the Danube, up to 100,000 head of cattle were driven to Nuremberg and Frankfurt every year . In the course of the 17th century this source of income dried up.
On May 17, 1626, the Upper Austrian Peasants' War broke out south of the Rohrbach in what is now Lembach . The farmers came to Rohrbach via Sarleinsbach and recruited numerous men for the farm army. On May 27th and September 1626, Rohrbach and the neighboring Berg Castle were temporarily occupied by farmers. At the beginning of winter the war was over. From 1662 to 1705 Passion Play took place in Rohrbach.
The linen trade , the heyday of which was around 1700, replaced the ox trade as a source of income. In the following decades this branch of the economy lost its importance again. While ten canvas dealers were still buying products in 1793, there were only four left in 1807. After the decline in linen production around 1820, leather production and leather goods production rose . In 1852 Josef Poeschl employed around 400 people in his leather goods factory. Furthermore, around the middle of the 19th century, hops were grown in the area around Rohrbach and traded with them.
In the 17th century there was a citizens' drawer and a hospital drawer for archiving purposes in the town hall in Markt Rohrbach, another archive room in the church tower and a manual register with the respective market judge . Large parts of the archive material were lost due to poor management. A reorganization took place from 1904 to 1910.
The large number of markets without an urban center was characteristic of the Upper Mühlviertel. Every major rulership wanted a market and there were even markets with a fortification, like Haslach . Even in 1780 Rohrbach was only the fourth largest market, after Haslach (140 houses), Neufelden (85) and Sarleinsbach (79). The decisive factor for Rohrbach's preference for the settlement of administrative offices is likely to have been the central location under the mentioned markets in the Upper Mühlviertel.
In 1749 one of the new district offices was set up in Rohrbach and from 1788 there were mayors in place of market judges, who were assisted by a certified syndic and councilors for the administration of justice in the village and in the adjacent markets. However, this Josephinian jurisdiction soon dissolved again.
During the Napoleonic Wars , Rohrbach was occupied several times by soldiers from Bavaria , among others . On May 9, 1809, an estimated 6,000 French soldiers moved to Rohrbach and looted the market. The weathercock on the roof of the town hall, which was previously located at the top of the church tower, bears witness to this. At that time Rohrbach was described as a market with 60 houses and a brewery.
During the weekly market, beer sales dominated, which was an important source of income for the market in the 17th and 18th centuries. Around 1850, 15 hosts served 2,500 to 3,000 hectoliters of beer. The Rohrbacher municipal brewery at Rohrbach 3, today Stadtplatz 16, first mentioned in 1636, was leased in the 19th century and later sold. The brewery existed until 1966.
A medical district established around 1815 initially had its center in Neufelden. District doctor Franz Kühn was resident in Rohrbach as early as 1818 and was the only trained medical practitioner responsible for around 60,000 residents. The construction of a hospital was discussed by the local council as early as 1863, but it was not implemented until 1982.
In 1837 the market built its first sewer system. From 1840 a postal connection with Linz started operations and a post office was set up. In 1867 a telegraph office was opened.
In 1849 Rohrbach became the location of the district court, district authority and kk tax office ( tax office ). The place was able to assert itself in this respect against the important competitor Haslach .
At the beginning of the 1870s, the local savings bank was established, from which the Sparkasse Mühlviertel-West developed. On October 17, 1888, when the Mühlkreisbahn station opened in the neighboring municipality of Berg, it was connected to the Austrian rail network. The planned expansion of the railway to Bohemia and Bavaria no longer came about. From 1889, the Mühlviertler Nachrichten, a newspaper produced in Rohrbach, was published.
20th and 21st centuries
The first cinema was built in 1906 and there was electric light from 1914, with the electricity being generated by the company's own power plant at the Teufelmühle site on the Große Mühl in the municipality of Auberg .
During the First World War , the city counted 137 dead and missing. In 1920, as in many other municipalities in Upper Austria, emergency money was introduced. In 1922, Rohrbach got the district's first secondary school, the Bürgerschule, and in 1926 the last major fire broke out in the local area. The subsequent renovation of the houses shaped the current appearance of Rohrbach. The weekly market was discontinued during the First World War, new establishments in 1921 and 1936 failed.
In 1938 the previously independent municipality of Frindorf was dissolved and most of the municipal area was added to the municipality of Berg (a small remainder went to Arnreit ).
After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1941 the market tried to become a district town. On April 30, 1945, American soldiers reached Rohrbach. Around ten houses were damaged by shells during the fighting. After the end of the war, Rohrbach was initially in the area of the American occupation zone. From August 1945 the whole of the Mühlviertel was occupied by Soviet troops for ten years and Rohrbach was the seat of the district command .
From the mid-1960s, Rohrbach became a school location. Between 1963 and 1987, middle and higher schools, a commercial vocational school, a regional music school and a nursing school were gradually opened.
In 1964, in addition to the Teufelmühle site that went into operation in 1914, another power plant was built at the Iglmühle site on the Große Mühl in the municipality of Arnreit , and in 1977 the two power plants, including the power grid, were sold to today's Energie AG .
On March 24, 1986, the Upper Austrian provincial government elevated the market town to the status of the only town in the district, the celebration of the town elevation was on July 5, 1987. The Linz operetta composer Igo Hofstetter dedicated the Rohrbach town march to this occasion .
In 1989 a medieval earth stable was discovered by chance during construction work on Schlosserhügel. It is located around 300 meters west of the town center and the finds of medieval pottery are now kept in the Upper Austrian State Museum.
After the closings in 2002, the only district court in the district remained in Rohrbach. In 2002 the Museum Sinnenreich opened in the Poeschl Villa, in 2003 the new AquaRo outdoor pool and in 2004 the Centro culture and event center . Between 2004 and 2008, the state hospital was gradually enlarged and modernized.
In the autumn of 2014, after a phase of discussions, referendums were held in Berg and Rohrbach that had the topic of amalgamating municipalities. In the vote on October 19, 2014, 89.28% voted in Rohrbach and 58.06% in Berg for a merger of the two communities. This then became a reality on May 1st, 2015; the two mayors Andreas Lindorfer and Josef Pernsteiner resigned from their offices and the community was headed by a government commissioner until the state elections in autumn 2015 .
population
Development and structure
By amalgamating the municipalities, Rohrbach-Berg became the most populous municipality in the district with 5219 residents.
In 1746 the Rohrbach district had 444 inhabitants. At the beginning of the 19th century, fewer than 1,000 people are likely to have lived in what is now the municipality of Rohrbach. In 1846 the number of inhabitants was given as 1008.
In 1869, 1242 people lived in the municipality. The number of inhabitants hardly changed until 1939; Rohrbach only recorded steady population growth since 1951. At the 2001 census , Rohrbach had 2,353 inhabitants and on December 31, 2008, the municipality had its highest population of 2,505. In relation to the number of inhabitants, Rohrbach is the smallest of the eight cities in the Mühlviertel.
At the 2011 census, the proportion of residents who were 60 years of age and older was 17.6% while 19.4% were under 15 years old. The proportion of the female population was 52.9%.
Of the 2111 residents of Rohrbach, who were older than 15 years in 2012, 13.1% (Berg 9.2%) had completed a university or a related institution ( university , technical college or academy ) as the highest education and 14.1% (Berg 11.1%) have passed a Matura . 43.6% (Berg 44.5%) have an apprenticeship qualification or a vocational middle school . 29.2% (Berg 35.1%) of the relevant population group have compulsory school as the highest degree.
Origin and language
The German dialect, which is commonly spoken in the Rohrbach area and in western Upper Austria, is West Central Bavarian . In 2011, 95.2% of Rohrbach residents said that German was their colloquial language. 1.1% spoke Turkish , 0.8% Bosnian , the rest other languages.
In 2011, the proportion of the population in Berg who reported German as their colloquial language was 97.5%; around 0.7% speak Croatian in everyday life, around 0.2% each in Turkish and Hungarian ; the rest is in other languages.
The proportion of Rohrbachers with foreign citizenship was 5.9% in 2011, below the average in Upper Austria. 1.1% of the Rohrbach population had citizenship from Bosnia and Herzegovina , 0.9% from Turkey and 2.0% from other countries in the world. In 2001, around 6.9% of Rohrbachers were born abroad.
In Berg, 95.0% of the population had Austrian citizenship in 2011, the largest group of people without Austrian citizenship came from the EU (3.8% of the population), followed by people from former Yugoslavia (excluding Slovenia) or Turkey with 0.7%.
religion
In the 2001 census, 2,141 people (91.1%) stated Roman Catholic as their religious denomination, 78 (3.3%) Islamic , 30 (1.3%) Protestant , 7 (0.3%) Orthodox and 95 (1st , 4%) other faiths. 71 (3.0%) Rohrbachers have not professed any religion.
In Berg's 2001 census, 95.5% of the population claimed to be Roman Catholic, followed by 0.8% Islamic citizens and 0.5% Protestant; 2.6% of the population are people without religious beliefs.
The Roman Catholic parish Rohrbach belongs to the dean's office Altenfelden and also includes areas in the neighboring political communities.
Besides the Catholic parish church and the parish hall, there are no other religious meeting rooms in the municipality. The members of the Evangelical Church belong to the Evangelical Parish of Linz- Urfahr.
politics
Mayor, municipality and city council
The municipal council and mayoral elections take place every six years together with the state elections (as in Rohrbach and Berg before). Before the merger, the ÖVP had consistently held an absolute majority of votes and mandates in both municipalities since 1945 , while the SPÖ took second place in each case. The FPÖ has been a candidate since 1973, and between 1991 and 2003 the citizens' list Lebendiges-Rohrbach-Berg (LRB) was represented in the local council, which reached over eleven percent in the two elections in 1991 and 1997. The LRB citizens' list was accepted by the Greens in 1999 , and in the 2003 election the Greens immediately took third place. In Berg, too, the list of Lebendiges Rohrbach-Berg appeared in 1991 and 1997 and then went into the Greens in 1999; here, too, the Greens immediately jumped to third place. The FPÖ has been a member of the Berger municipal council since 1991 and was last in fourth place.
The Rohrbacher and the Berger municipal council each consisted of 25 members. After the merger, the council had to grow to 31 members due to the size of the new congregation. The council, elected from the ranks of the local councils, consists of seven people, including the mayor and the vice mayor.
In Berg, the composition worked analogously. The last two mayors before the municipal consolidation were Andreas Lindorfer (ÖVP) in Rohrbach and Josef Pernsteiner (ÖVP) in Berg. After the merger, both mayors resigned and Peter Pramberger from the office of the Upper Austrian provincial government took over the municipal business as commissioner, before Andreas Lindorfer (ÖVP) was elected first mayor of the merged municipality in the municipal council and mayoral elections that took place in autumn 2015.
The 2015 municipal council election resulted in the following results, with a turnout of 80.8%:
| Final result of the 2015 municipal council election | ||||
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| Eligible voters | 4,285 | |||
| voter turnout | 80.82% | |||
| be right | % | Mandates | ||
| Votes cast | 3,463 | 31 | ||
| Invalid | 108 | 3.12% | ||
| Valid | 3,355 | 96.88% | ||
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| ÖVP | 1.923 | 57.32% | 19th | |
| SPÖ | 604 | 18.00% | 5 | |
| FPÖ | 431 | 12.85% | 4th | |
| GREEN | 397 | 11.83% | 3 | |
Andreas Lindorfer (ÖVP) emerged as the winner of the mayoral election in 2015. He prevailed against Andreas Hannerer from the SPÖ and Ulrike Schwarz from the Greens . The turnout was also 80.8%.
| Final result of the 2015 mayoral election | |||
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| Candidates | Political party | be right | % |
| Andreas Lindorfer | ÖVP | 2,045 | 63.69% |
| Andreas Hannerer | SPÖ | 772 | 24.04% |
| Ulrike Schwarz | Green | 394 | 12.27% |
coat of arms
The old Rohrbach coat of arms serves as the coat of arms of the municipality of Rohrbach-Berg. The municipality colors - black and green - were also adopted by Rohrbach.
The Rohrbach market coat of arms was awarded by Emperor Maximilian I on March 12, 1512 . The original certificate has been lost, the oldest confirmation of the coat of arms dates from 1573 and is signed by Emperor Maximilian II . The first evidence of the coat of arms is a seal on a file from 1571 with the inscription * SIGILVM * RORBACH . When the city was raised in 1986, the coat of arms remained unchanged. Blazon :
- "In green on a black, blue wavy shield base, three black cattails with two black leaves each."
The municipality colors are black and green and the motif symbolizes the place name.
Former coat of arms Berg bei Rohrbach
Blazon:
- "Divided by red and green by a silver sloping bar covered with a black, eight-spoke wheel."
The church colors were red-white-black. The coat of arms of the municipality of Berg bei Rohrbach was adopted in 1982 by the municipal council and the Upper Austrian provincial government. The red-white-green diagonal division is reminiscent of the Passau ministerial family of the Perger, named after their headquarters near Rohrbach. The wheel is taken from the Count's coat of arms of the Rödern, who, following the Perger family, belonged to the Berg rule from 1541 to 1753. The wheel can also be seen as a symbol for the predominantly agricultural structure of the community.
Town twinning
Rohrbach maintains a twinning relationship with the Nicaraguan city of Bonanza . Rohrbach finances three teachers to promote the local school system and supports the organization HORIZONT3000 . Berg has had a partnership with the Bavarian municipality of Berg near Neumarkt in Upper Palatinate since October 1998 .
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Rohrbach has a systematically laid out town center with a rectangular street square that was created from an originally larger square with a church in the middle. As early as the 13th century, the church square and the cemetery were separated and the building and the cemetery disappeared behind a row of houses. This is made clear by the streets that lead to the former square. To this day, only the 75 meter high church tower dominates the cityscape.
- The Rohrbach parish church is slightly elevated northeast of the town square. A parish church was mentioned in a document in 1303, around 1450 a late Gothic church was built in the course of the reconstruction after the Hussite Wars. Today's baroque new building was erected around 1700, whereby the late Gothic church tower was retained. The building is a four-bay, baroque wall pillar church. The church is considered one of the most important baroque buildings north of the Danube and is dedicated to the Apostle James . The Anna chapel stands south of the choir. This is the former crypt chapel of the Counts of Rödern from Berg Castle, also built around 1700. The church is located on the Jakobsweg section, which leads from Český Krumlov via Schlägl Abbey to Passau.
- As the seat of rule on the mountain, Berg Castle near Rohrbach was built by Erasmus von Rödern in the 16th century. However, only the farm yard, part of the manor house and a round tower of the surrounding wall remain of this castle. Nothing remains of the castle on the mountain, which was built in the Middle Ages, it was looted and destroyed in 1626 during the Upper Austrian Peasants' War.
- The town hall of Rohrbach is a two-storey renaissance building that was built at the end of the 16th century and has a renaissance portico on the ground floor, which used to be the market hall for butchers. The town hall has a barrel vaulted passageway from the town square to the church.
- In the 17th century the baroque pilgrimage church Maria Trost was built at the top of the mountain , where the castle on the mountain used to be. The founding legend says that the church was built by Theodorich von Rödern as thanks for the fact that the Swedes had spared Berg in the Thirty Years' War . The church has been owned by Schlägl Abbey since 1913 .
- The late Baroque Trinity Column on the town square, which is atypical for the Mühlviertel, forms its distinctive end. It was built in 1743 by order of Anton Martschläger. The depiction of the Trinity carved in stone stands above a high base with volutes on the sides. On the side is the figure of Maria Immaculata , who is surrounded by angels floating on clouds.
- The Poeschl Villa was built in a country house style in 1922/23. The single-storey building has a dominant hipped roof and a monumental porch on pillars. Since 2002 the villa has been used for cultural events, as a seminar center and as a museum (world of the senses). In the 11,000 square meter park there is the former market fountain from 1831 and a tabernacle pillar marked with the year 1697. The numerous old trees in the park make it a recreational area for the Rohrbachers.
Museums and gallery
- The book printing museum shows how printing works were created 100 years ago. The activities of a typesetter, book printer and bookbinder are shown. Visitors can take an active part in the creation of a book.
- The Villa Sinnenreich is a museum for all the senses, which was designed in 2002 by professors and students from the art college in Linz and is located in the Poeschl Villa. On an exhibition area of 400 square meters, it is all about the perception of all five senses. The exhibits invite you to try out and experiment.
- The Rohrbach district gallery serves as an exhibition space for artists from the district and offers an overview of their artistic work.
- In Berg there is the Mühlkreisbahn-Museum with the presentation of the history of train stations of the Mühlkreisbahn . The highlight of the exhibition is the Aigen locomotive, which was used on the line until 1910.
Cultural center and regular events
- The Centro culture and event center, which opened in 2004, has a floor space of 556 square meters, can accommodate up to 800 people and can be used in a variety of ways for trade fairs, balls, weddings and meetings.
- There is a weekly farmers' market between the beginning of April and the end of November . The town band, founded in 1880, organizes an annual spring concert with a Kirtag. The Rohrbacher Messe , first held in 1949, is held every two years, alternating with the city festival. The annual city run is carried out by the sports union. At the beginning of September, the Berger Kirtag is held for the patronage of the Maria-Trost-Kirche.
sport and freetime
The AquaRo outdoor swimming pool has been in existence since 2003 and is the district's largest outdoor adventure pool . Nearby there are several tennis courts, a volleyball, boccia and inline skating facility as well as the football stadium, which was built in 1987 and has various facilities for athletes. The district sports hall, built in 1979, has a 45 x 27 meter playing area and 600 spectator seats.
The Rohrbach / Berg Sports Union, founded in 1946, is the city's largest sports club with around 900 members. In the first few years he focused on gymnastics (Olympian J. Eisner) and swimming , while later soccer and fistball became more important.
In the 2008/09 season, the Union Rohrbach / Berg fistball team played in the highest Austrian league.
The soccer team Sportunion Kirchberger Rohrbach / Berg has been playing in the Upper Austrian League, the fourth highest division in Austria, for several years and was thus the most successful soccer team in the Mühlviertel in the 2008/09 season.
There are numerous hiking trails in the vicinity of the city, the most important of which is the Jakobsweg section from Český Krumlov via Schlägl Abbey to Passau. Rohrbach-Berg is crossed by the Mühltal cycle path leading from Schlägl to Obermühl an der Donau.
Economy and Infrastructure
Employment and income
Rohrbach-Berg is the economic center of the district: In 2012, Rohrbach provided jobs for 2,984 people living outside the community, while 549 Rohrbachers worked outside the community. The greater part of in-commuters come from the Rohrbach district, while the majority of out-commuters commute to Linz. In Berg looks different due to the traditionally agricultural structure: In 2012, 1,036 residents commuted to work outside Berg; the majority of them (654) commuted to a municipality within the district and here mainly (336) to neighboring Rohrbach. In the same year, a total of 429 people commuted to Berg.
For commuters, the expansion of the road network in the direction of Linz meant a significant improvement.
In 2011, 1.69% of those employed in Rohrbach were employed in agriculture and forestry , in Berg the proportion was 6.98%. In 2011, 24.12% were employed in industry and construction , and 27.6% in Berg. In 2011, 73.89% worked in the service sector in Rohrbach and 65.03% in Berg.
The average gross income of working in Rohrbach employment amounted in 2006 to EUR 1,486 per month and well below the Upper Austrian average of 1,779 euros. In the district comparison, Rohrbach took 17th place (penultimate). While the male employees earned 1,876 euros, the female workers earned less than 1,032 euros. Including the out-commuters, an income of 1741 euros is achieved, which roughly corresponds to the Upper Austrian average income. In the district comparison, the men were in 11th place, while the women were in last place in 18th place.
traffic
In Rohrbach, Rohrbacher Straße B 127 and Böhmerwald Straße B 38 cross two state roads with priority. The closest connection to the Mühlkreis Autobahn A 7 is 47 kilometers away in Linz .
A railway station for the Mühlkreisbahn has existed in Berg since October 1888 . The journey to Linz Urfahr train station in the provincial capital of Linz takes around an hour and 26 minutes by train, and the same route takes around an hour by bus.
Starting from the bus station Rohrbach is a network of bus services in the framework of the Upper Austrian Transport Association of the Postbus be maintained. There are links to the other villages of the district Rohrbach and the district Urfahr environment and to Linz. Cross-border connections exist to Wegscheid in Bavaria .
Established businesses
Rohrbach-Berg is the location of numerous specialist shops and service providers as well as the state hospital with other health care facilities. The city offers jobs for numerous commuters from neighboring communities.
- The largest employer in the city is the state hospital with 567 employees.
- Weber Bau GmbH , active in the construction industry, has 130 employees, was founded in 2000 and is one of the top 500 companies in Upper Austria.
media
No local daily newspaper is published in Rohrbach-Berg. There is an increasing expansion of regional reporting by the daily newspapers Oberösterreichische Nachrichten and Oberösterreichische Kronen Zeitung, which appear in Upper Austria .
With the Rohrbacher TIPS ( Top Infos Plus Service ) a free regional newspaper appears weekly across the district . This medium belongs to Tips Zeitungs GmbH & Co KG and 100% of J. Wimmer GmbH, which has a majority stake in the daily newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten. The current edition is also available on the Internet.
Since the beginning of 2009, the free, small-format Bezirks Rundschau has been appearing as the successor to the large-format weekly newspaper Rohrbacher Rundschau . In addition, the Rundschau on Sunday is a third free regional newspaper for Rohrbach. The last two media are owned by Moser Holding .
Public facilities
As the capital of the district of the same name, Rohrbach is the seat of the district administration , the district court , the tax office Freistadt-Rohrbach-Urfahr, the Upper Austrian regional health insurance fund, the labor market service , the economic chamber, the chamber of labor and the chamber of agriculture . The district secretariats of the political parties are also located in the municipality.
A regional road maintenance department is responsible for the former federal roads as well as the state and district roads. The city is also the location of the district police headquarters with an attached police station .
In the municipality, which was founded in 1873 provide volunteer fire brigade Rohrbach im Mühlkreis and the volunteer fire department Perwolfing for fire protection and general assistance.
The Rohrbach weather station is located next to the secondary school and is operated by ZAMG .
education
The city of Rohrbach has developed into the district's school and training center since the 1960s. Rohrbach has an elementary school , a secondary school and a polytechnic school in the compulsory school sector . The offer at middle and higher schools ranges from a federal high school and federal high school to a federal commercial academy and commercial school, a higher education institution and technical school for business professions up to a nursing school.
Adult education offers from adult education centers, WIFI and BFI as well as a state music school complement the educational offer. A newly built city library has been available to the parish since 2005 .
Health and social
The district office of the Red Cross with around 100 employees looks after Rohrbach and the surrounding communities.
The regional hospital in Rohrbach, which opened in 1982, has 213 beds and two institutes and is owned by Upper Austrian Health and Spitals AG (GESPAG). It comprises the five specialist departments of surgery , gynecology and obstetrics , internal medicine , paediatrics and adolescent medicine , and trauma surgery .
In addition to the hospital, Rohrbach has several doctors and dentists available for medical care. Most of the doctors have their ordination in the medical center .
Personalities
Honorary citizen of the city
- Josef Poeschl, June 7, 1867
- Friedrich Count Montecuccoli , January 17, 1885
- Leopold Gruber, June 27, 1886
- Rudolf Poeschl, September 3, 1902
- Franz Enzinger, May 30, 1930
- Heinrich Lego, July 31, 1948
- Cajetan Lang, April 27, 1951
- Rudolf Reumüller, May 1, 1954
- Lelio Spannocchi , February 11, 1956
- Wilhelm Poeschl, December 3, 1957
- Heinrich Gleißner , January 5, 1963
- Josef Mohl, September 4, 1969
- Gerhard Possart , October 10, 1980
- Rupert Hartl , October 10, 1980
- Wilhelm Gruber, September 3, 1982
- Josef Ratzenböck , July 5, 1987
- Josef Stöby, June 15, 1993
- Josef Oyrer, November 15, 2002
- Alois Hötzendorfer (1918–1995), Federal Councilor and Mayor of Berg
- Johann Hötzendorfer (1873–1947), member of the Reichsrat
- Ulrike Schwarz (* 1958): social worker and member of the state parliament since 2003
sons and daughters of the town
- Georg Lindorfer (* 1962), set designer at home and abroad
- Heinz Möseneder (* 1946), academic sculptor and teacher at the federal high school in Tanzenberg / Deutsch-Griffen, Carinthia
- Ignaz Nößlböck (1881–1945 in Graz), Austrian historian
- Adolf Wagner von der Mühl (1884–1962 in Vienna), Austrian sculptor
- Rudolf Poeschl (1897–1979 in Vienna), leather goods industrialist and chamber official
- Alois Reiter (* 1933), writer and organic gardener
- Roman Sandgruber (* 1947), Austrian historian and head of the Institute for Social and Economic History at the Johannes Kepler University Linz
- August Kirschner (* 1943), composer
Other personalities
The following personalities have a connection to Rohrbach-Berg:
- Erwin Buchinger (* 1955 in Mauthausen), regional councilor in the Salzburg regional government (2004–2007), social minister in the Gusenbauer I cabinet (2007–2008), spent childhood and youth in Rohrbach
- Franz Gumpenberger (* 1943 in Lichtenau im), lawyer, moderator and local researcher
literature
- Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 .
- Stadtgemeinde Rohrbach (Ed.): Rohrbach - from the market to the city. Festschrift for the town elevation on July 5, 1987. Rohrbach 1987.
- Historical bibliography in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Web links
- 41344 - Rohrbach-Berg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Further information on the municipality of Rohrbach-Berg can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
- Entry on Rohrbach in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
Unless otherwise stated, the history section is based on the commemorative publication on the town survey from 1987 (see literature) and the information provided in the exhibition in the town hall's town history room.
- ↑ a b Upper Austria room unit: Central Mühlviertel highlands (PDF; 1.2 MB).
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ ZAMG: Klimadaten von Österreich 1971–2000 , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ^ Rohrbach-Berg. In: klimabuendnis.at . Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ^ The basis of the history section is: Stadtgemeinde Rohrbach (Ed.): Rohrbach - from the market to the city. Festschrift for the town elevation on July 5, 1987 . Rohrbach 1987; as well as the information offered in the exhibition in the city history room of the town hall.
- ^ Karl Rehberger : The Church Development of the Mühlviertel , in: Das Mühlviertel, Nature, Culture, Life, Contributions to the Upper Austrian State Exhibition in 1988 in Weinberg Castle near Kefermarkt, Linz 1988, p. 283.
- ^ Siegfried Haider : History of Upper Austria. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 , p. 89.
- ^ Karl Rehberger: Historical development of the Mühlviertel from 1500 to 1790 , in: Das Mühlviertel, nature, culture, life, contributions to the Upper Austrian State Exhibition in 1988 in Schloss Weinberg near Kefermarkt, Linz 1988, p. 289ff.
- ↑ a b Upper Austria - An overview of the breweries. In: brautopo.webnode.at. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Walter de Gruyter: Archives in the German-speaking area, Minerva handbooks, 2nd edition 1974, Berlin 1974, p. 839.
- ↑ Ignaz Nösslböck: Inventory of the Marktkommunearchiv Rohrbach in Upper Austria , in: Mitteilungenen des kk Archivrat. 1, 1914, pp. 1-60.
- ^ Igo Hofstetter (1926–2002): Works sorted by genre. In: Klassika - The German-language classical pages. Markus Hillenbrand, accessed on July 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Josef Weichenberger: The Erdstall at the locksmith's hill in Rohrbach. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 1999, issue 4, p. 289ff.
- ↑ Announcement of the results of the Rohrbach referendum in Upper Austria 2014. (PDF; 57.6 KB) In: Website of the municipality of Rohrbach in Upper Austria. October 19, 2014, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on December 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Announcement of the results of the Berg bei Rohrbach referendum 2014. (PDF; 55 KB) In: rohrbach-berg.at. October 19, 2014, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on March 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Between melancholy and awakening, volksblatt.at ( Memento from May 6, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Thomas Fellhofer: As of May 1, there are two new churches in Rohrbach. In: nachrichten.at. April 28, 2015, accessed April 19, 2018 .
- ^ Kurt Klein (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Upper Austria Part 2, Rohrbach , S. 46 ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]).
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- ↑ a b c 2001 census: demographic data (pdf; 10 kB).
- ↑ 2011 census: resident population (pdf; 10 kB).
- ↑ 2011 census: resident population (pdf; 10 kB).
- ^ Municipal council elections percentages - Rohrbach in Upper Austria. As of 2009. In: www2.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Results of the elections of September 27, 2015. (PDF; 209 KB) In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Rohrbach district review : A new mayor with two black Vizes , accessed on October 24, 2015.
- ^ Province of Upper Austria, regional history: coat of arms of the municipality of Rohrbach , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ^ City of Rohrbach-Berg, worth knowing, city information. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Jakobsweg (s) in Upper Austria. In: pilgerwege.at. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Association of Upper Austrian Museums: Homepage , accessed on April 29, 2009.
- ^ Members. In: union.rohrbach.berg. Archived from the original on August 12, 2018 ; Retrieved on November 22, 2018 (The content of the original page is not persistent. The information in the article is based on the archived version.).
- ^ Chronicle of the Union Rohrbach / Berg. In: union-rohrbach-berg.at. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Austrian Fistball Association: 1. Men's Bundesliga , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Census from May 15, 2001. Employed commuters by commuting goal. Municipality: Rohrbach in Upper Austria (41330). In: statistik.at (pdf; 14 kB).
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Census from May 15, 2001. Employed commuters by commuting goal. Municipality: Berg near Rohrbach (41308). In: statistik.at (pdf; 14 kB).
- ↑ Province of Upper Austria, regional database, basic statistical data and key figures: Economic affiliation, livelihood concept ( memento from December 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on May 7, 2009.
- ^ Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor: Situation of workers in Rohrbach ( Memento from December 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf).
- ↑ Annual report 2013. Upper Austria. Gesundheits- und Spitals-AG, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; accessed on August 10, 2014 .
- ↑ TMG: Leading Companies in Upper Austria ( Memento from April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 29, 2009.
- ^ Rohrbacher TIPS: Current issue .
- ↑ Provincial Police Department Upper Austria: Rohrbach , accessed on May 14, 2015.
- ^ Fire Department City of Rohrbach: Home page , accessed on April 29, 2009.
- ↑ ZAMG measuring network: Weather stations , accessed on August 10, 2014.
- ↑ eduhi: Rohrbach District , retrieved on April 29 of 2009.
- ↑ Rohrbach City Library. In: rohrbach-berg.at. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ^ LKH Rohrbach: Hello in the regional hospital Rohrbach! , accessed April 29, 2009.
- ^ Doctors in Rohrbach. In: apotheke-rohrbach.at . Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- ↑ The names of the honorary citizens to date are exhibited in the city history room in the Rohrbach town hall.
- ↑ Alois Reiter. In: bibliothekderprovinz.at . Retrieved June 4, 2020.
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