Rohrbach in Upper Austria
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Rohrbach in Upper Austria (former municipality) village  Rohrbach cadastral community |
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| Pole. District , state | Rohrbach (RO), Upper Austria | ||
| Judicial district | Rohrbach | ||
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 '24 " N , 13 ° 59' 30" E | ||
| height | 605 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents of the village | 2518 (January 1, 2020) | ||
| Building status | 608 (2001 ) | ||
| Area d. KG | 6.42 km² | ||
| Post Code | 4150 | ||
| prefix | + 43/7289 | ||
| Statistical identification | |||
| Community code | 41344 | ||
| Locality code | 11186 | ||
| Cadastral parish number | 47320 | ||
| Counting district / district | Rohrbach in Upper Austria (41344) | ||
 Rohrbach seen from the Lanzerstorf district |
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| Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS | |||
Rohrbach in Upper Austria was a municipality in the Upper Mühlviertel and the administrative seat of the Rohrbach district . On May 1, 2015, Rohrbach was merged with the neighboring municipality of Berg bei Rohrbach to form the municipality of Rohrbach-Berg , after a referendum held in both municipalities on October 19, 2014 had yielded a positive result.
- All information relates to the municipality as it existed until April 30, 2015!
With an area of 6.42 km² and 2552 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2015), Rohrbach was the smallest municipality in terms of area and, in terms of population, the fifth largest municipality in the district until the merger with Berg bei Rohrbach.
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 is 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 covered an area of 6.42 km². The greatest expansion was 2.8 km in the east-west direction and 4.8 km in the north-south direction.
The highest point is located south of the village of Autengrub near the municipal boundary to Sarleinsbach at around 685 m above sea level. A. and the lowest point near the Froschbach on the municipality boundary with Berg at 542 m above sea level. A.
Geology and waters
The municipality of Rohrbach 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 Pöschlteich on the former municipality border to Berg is the largest standing body of water in Rohrbach and one of the oldest fish ponds in the region. The area is traversed by several brooks, for example the Lanzerstorferbach and the Froschbach.
Former city structure and land use
The former Markt Rohrbach has been a cadastral municipality with the same boundaries since 1784 and a municipality since 1986 with the districts Autengrub (24), Harrau (37), Lanzerstorf (152), Rohrbach (2108) and Schönberg (29), (population figures from 2001 in brackets ).
The largest share of the area is taken up by agricultural land, which comprises more than 70.8% (Upper Austria 49.3%), 13.8% of the area is forested.
Neighboring municipalities until April 30, 2015
The municipality of Rohrbach was surrounded by the municipalities of Arnreit , Berg , Oepping and Sarleinsbach , all of which belong to the Rohrbach district .
A community merger with Berg to form "Rohrbach-Berg" was fixed after a referendum on October 19, 2014 in both communities produced a positive result. In Rohrbach, 89.9% voted (with a turnout of around 60%) for the union. In Berg (with a turnout of approx. 77%) 58% voted in favor of the union.
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 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 has been a climate alliance partner municipality since 1999 and refers to its 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 Pöschlteich 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.
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.
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 Pöschl 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 and the building was demolished in 1997.
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, more than a hundred years later.
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.
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 soldiers of the 3rd US Army reached Rohrbach. Around ten houses were damaged by shells during the fighting. From August 1945 the entire Mühlviertel belonged to the Soviet zone of occupation for ten years in accordance with the zone agreement of July 9, 1945 . 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 market town was raised by the Upper Austrian provincial government to the only town in the district, the celebration of the town elevation was on July 5, 1987.
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 Pöschl 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.
population
Development and structure
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 was the smallest of the eight towns in the Mühlviertel until it merged with Berg.
In the 2001 census, the proportion of residents aged 60 and over was 17.6%, while 19.4% were under 15 years old. The proportion of the female population was 52.9%.
Of the 1,894 inhabitants of Rohrbach, who were older than 15 years in 2001, 6.8% had graduated from a university , technical college or academy and 17.2% had passed a Matura . 43.4% have completed an apprenticeship or a vocational middle school . 32.6% 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 2001, 95.2% of Rohrbach residents stated German as a colloquial language. 1.1% spoke Turkish , 0.8% Bosnian , the rest other languages.
The proportion of Rohrbachers with foreign citizenship was 4.0% in 2001, 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.
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.
The Roman Catholic parish Rohrbach belongs to the dean's office Altenfelden , also includes parts of the area in the neighboring political communities and has 5,174 believers. 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. Since 1945 the ÖVP has consistently held an absolute majority of votes and mandates, while the SPÖ took second place. 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 went into the Greens in 1999 , and in the 2003 election the Greens immediately achieved third place, which they were able to defend in 2009, while the FPÖ did not run for the municipal council election.
The 2009 municipal council election resulted in the following results, with a turnout of 79.7%:
| Political party | Results 2009 | Results 2003 | Differences | ||||||
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| be right | % | Mand. | be right | % | Mand. | be right | % p | Mand. | |
| total | 1,570 | 79.74% | 1,438 | 80.34% | + 132 | - 0.60% p | |||
| Invalid | 67 | 4.27% | 63 | 4.38% | + 4 | - 0.11% p | |||
| Valid | 1,503 | 95.73% | 1,375 | 95.62% | + 128 | + 0.11% p | |||
| ÖVP | 909 | 60.48% | 16 | 807 | 58.69% | 15th | + 102 | + 1.79% p | + 1 |
| SPÖ | 389 | 25.88% | 6th | 324 | 23.56% | 6th | + 65 | + 2.32% p | ± 0 |
| GREEN | 205 | 13.64% | 3 | 186 | 13.53% | 3 | + 19 | + 0.11% p | ± 0 |
| FPÖ | nk | nk | nk | 58 | 4.22% | 1 | - 58 | - 4.22% p.p. | - 1 |
The Rohrbach municipal council consisted of 25 members. The council, elected from the ranks of the councils, consists of 6 people, including the mayor and the deputy mayor. Andreas Lindorfer ( ÖVP ) was mayor since October 2014 and until the municipality merged with Berg bei Rohrbach to Rohrbach-Berg , while Hans Jörg Oberngruber ( ÖVP ) was vice-mayor .
The former members of the Rohrbach City Council were:
- Andreas Lindorfer ( ÖVP )
- Hans Jörg Oberngruber ( ÖVP )
- Andreas Hannerer ( SPÖ )
- Ing.Gerhard Kraml ( ÖVP )
- Christine Wolf ( ÖVP )
- Reinhard Hacker ( GREEN )
- Renate Günthör ( SPÖ )
The next municipal council and mayoral elections for the new municipality of Rohrbach-Berg took place in autumn 2015 .
coat of arms
The market of arms was on March 12 in 1512 by Emperor Maximilian I granted. 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. The municipality colors are black and green and the motif symbolizes the place name.
Blazon :
- "In green on a black, blue wavy shield base, three black cattails with two black leaves each."
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 .
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.
- The town hall of Rohrbach is a two-storey renaissance building, which 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 the butchers. The town hall has a barrel vaulted passageway from the town square to the church.
- 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 Pöschl 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 Pöschl 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.
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.
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 only indoor swimming pool in the district is six kilometers away in the municipality of Haslach . 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 760 members and, in the first few years, focused on gymnastics (Olympian J. Eisner) and swimming , while today football and fistball dominate. In the 2008/09 season the Union Rohrbach / Berg fistball team plays 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 is therefore 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 is crossed by the Mühltal cycle path leading from Schlägl to Obermühl on the Danube.
Economy and Infrastructure
Employment and income
Rohrbach is the economic center of the district. The number of workplaces rose between the last two censuses in 1991 and 2001 by 37.7% to 449. The number of workplaces rose by 19.7% to 2,760 in the same period.
In 2001, Rohrbach provided jobs for 2,302 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. For commuters, the expansion of the road network in the direction of Linz in recent years means a significant improvement.
In 2001, 2.2% of those employed in Rohrbach were employed in agriculture and forestry . In 2001, 24.2% were employed in industry and construction . The proportion has increased significantly compared to 1991, while the proportion of people working in the service sector has grown only slightly.
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. In addition, the state road L 588 begins in the municipality and leads to Sprinzenstein in the municipality of Sarleinsbach . The closest connection to the Mühlkreis Autobahn A 7 is 47 kilometers away in Linz .
Since October 1888 there has been a train station for the Mühlkreisbahn about one kilometer from the center of Rohrbach in the neighboring municipality of Berg . 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 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.
Agriculture and Forestry
In 1999 there were 35 agricultural and forestry operations in Rohrbach, which cultivated an area of 558 hectares. Of these, 15 were full-time farms with 431 hectares, 18 part-time farms with 112 hectares and 2 legal entities with 15 hectares. An agricultural and forestry business in Rohrbach cultivates an average of 15.9 hectares, with the full-time farms 28.7 hectares and the part-time farms 6.2 ha have to edit.
As everywhere at the district and state level, both the number of farms and the cultivated agricultural and forestry areas have decreased compared to the previous survey time in 1995. The number of full-time farms and the areas cultivated by them have increased slightly at the expense of the part-time farms. In 1999, 87 people were employed in agriculture and forestry in Rohrbach, 78 of them family-owned workers, of which 12 were fully employed. 43 worked in agriculture for less than 25% of their working time, the remaining 32 between 25 and 99%.
media
No local daily newspaper is published in Rohrbach. 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 AG .
The notices of the city office appear three to four times a year.
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. With the district police command , the border police inspection and the police inspection , the city is the location of three police stations.
The Rohrbach volunteer fire brigade , founded in 1873, provides fire protection and general assistance in the municipality .
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 two general practitioners , fifteen specialists , four dentists , a veterinarian and a pharmacy available for medical care. Most of the doctors have their ordination in the medical center.
The Caritas Upper Austria operates a Sozialberatungsstelle in Rohrbach.
Personalities
Honorary citizen of the city
- Josef Pöschl , on June 7, 1867
- Friedrich Count Montecuccoli , on January 17th, 1885
- Leopold Gruber, June 27, 1886.
- Rudolf Pöschl , on 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 Pöschl, on December 3, 1957.
- Heinrich Gleißner , on January 5th, 1963
- Josef Mohl, on September 4, 1969.
- Gerhard Possart , October 10, 1980
- Rupert Hartl , October 10, 1980
- Wilhelm Gruber, on September 3, 1982.
- Josef Ratzenböck , on July 5, 1987
- Josef Stöby, on June 15, 1993.
- Josef Oyrer, on November 15, 2002.
sons and daughters of the town
- Ignaz Nößlböck (1881–1945), historian
- Rudolf Pöschl (1897–1979), leather goods industrialist and chamber official
- Hermann Pfeiffer (1907–1991), Roman Catholic clergyman, President of Caritas Austria
- August Kirschner (* 1943), composer
- Heinz Möseneder (* 1946), academic sculptor and teacher at the federal high school in Tanzenberg / Deutsch-Griffen, Carinthia
- Roman Sandgruber (* 1947), Austrian historian and head of the Institute for Social and Economic History at the Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Georg Lindorfer (* 1962), set designer at home and abroad
- Peter Scharinger (* 1986), judoka
Other personalities
The following personalities have a connection to Rohrbach in Upper Austria:
- 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
- Ulrike Schwarz (* 1958 in Linz), member of the Greens in the Upper Austrian Landtag (since 2003), founded the LRB citizens' list, which was represented in the Rohrbach municipal council from 1991 to 2003, and attended compulsory school in Rohrbach
literature
- Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 .
- Stadtgemeinde Rohrbach (Ed.): Rohrbach - from the market to the city. Festschrift for the city elevation on July 5, 1987 . Rohrbach 1987.
- Historical bibliography for Rohrbach in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
Web links
- 41344 - Rohrbach in Upper Austria. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Further information about the municipality of Rohrbach in Upper Austria 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.
- ↑ DORIS: Rohrbach in Upper Austria , accessed on March 12, 2017.
- ↑ Austrian Map Online: Austrian Map start page
- ↑ a b Upper Austria room unit: Central Mühlviertel highlands. (PDF; 1.2 MB)
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Inhabitants by locality (PDF, 8 kB)
- ↑ "Yes" to the new Rohrbach-Berg community. ORF, October 19, 2014, accessed on October 19, 2014 .
- ^ ZAMG: Klimadaten von Österreich 1971–2000 , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ^ Climate Alliance: Rohrbach , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ^ The basis of the history section is: Stadtgemeinde Rohrbach (Ed.): Rohrbach - from the market to the city. Festschrift for the city 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 ecclesiastical development of the Mühlviertel. In: The 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. Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54081-5 .
- ^ Karl Rehberger: Historical development of the Mühlviertel from 1500 to 1790. In: The Mühlviertel, nature, culture, life, contributions to the Upper Austrian State Exhibition in 1988 in Weinberg Castle near Kefermarkt. Linz 1988, p. 289ff.
- ^ A b Christian Michael Springer: Austrian historical brewery topography. Brewery database , accessed April 26, 2016.
- ↑ Walter de Gruyter: Archives in the German-speaking area, Minerva handbooks, 2nd edition 1974, Berlin 1974, p. 839.
- ↑ Ignaz Nösslböck: inventory of the market municipality archive Rohrbach in Upper Austria. In: Communications of the Imperial and Royal Archives Council. 1 (1914), p. 1 to 60
- ↑ OÖ Geschichte.at, accessed on July 14, 2018
- ↑ Josef Weichenberger: The Erdstall at the locksmith's hill in Rohrbach. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. 1999, issue 4, p. 289ff.
- ^ 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]).
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population and components of population development (download as pdf; 35 kB)
- ↑ a b c 2001 census: demographic data (download as pdf; 10 kB)
- ↑ 2001 census: resident population (download as pdf; 10 kB)
- ^ Parish Rohrbach: Parish Rohrbach - Diocese Linz. In: dioezese-linz.at. November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Municipal council elections percentages: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at , accessed on September 13, 2015.
- ↑ land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
- ^ Province of Upper Austria, regional history: coat of arms of the municipality of Rohrbach , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ↑ Pilgrimage in Austria: The Way of St. James from Warsaw or Krakow from Germany via Ölmütz to Krumau , accessed on January 31, 2010.
- ^ A b Association of Upper Austrian Museums: Homepage , accessed on April 29, 2009.
- ^ Sportunion Rohrbach: Chronicle , accessed on April 29, 2009.
- ↑ Austrian Fistball Association: 1. Men's Bundesliga , accessed on April 28, 2009.
- ^ Province of Upper Austria, regional database, basic statistical data and key figures: Upper Austria . Population since 1869 (csv) accessed May 7, 2009.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Employees by commuting destination (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.
- ↑ Chamber of Labor Upper Austria: Situation of workers in Rohrbach. ( Memento from December 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf)
- ↑ Annual report 2013 ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Upper Austria. Health and Hospital AG
- ↑ TMG: Leading companies in Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2009 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. , accessed April 29, 2009.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality of Rohrbach, agricultural and forestry businesses by type of employment (PDF; 14 kB)
- ↑ Regional database of the state of Upper Austria agricultural statistics - land use. ( Memento from December 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Rohrbacher TIPS: Current issue. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
- ^ Provincial Police Command Upper Austria: Rohrbach. Retrieved April 29, 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Stadtgemeinde Rohrbach: Stadtbücherei , accessed on May 7, 2009.
- ^ LKH Rohrbach: Hello in the regional hospital Rohrbach! Retrieved April 29, 2009.
- ^ Apotheke Rohrbach: Doctors , accessed on April 29, 2009.
- ^ Caritas Upper Austria, People in Need, Social Counseling. Retrieved June 7, 2019 .
- ↑ The names of the honorary citizens are exhibited in the city history room in the Rohrbach town hall.
