Roitham am Traunfall

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Roitham am Traunfall
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Roitham coat of arms at the Traunfall
Roitham am Traunfall (Austria)
Roitham am Traunfall
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Gmunden
License plate : GM
Main town : Roitham
Surface: 21.02 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 2 '  N , 13 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '31 "  N , 13 ° 49' 21"  E
Height : 424  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,992 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code : 4661
Area code : 07613
Community code : 4 07 15
Address of the
municipal administration:
Community
square 9 4661 Roitham am Traunfall
Website: www.roitham.at
politics
Mayor : Alfred Gruber ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)
11
8th
6th
11 8th 6th 
A total of 25 seats
Location of Roitham am Traunfall in the Gmunden district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Roitham am Traunfall is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Gmunden district in the Traunviertel with 1992 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Gmunden .

geography

Roitham am Traunfall lies at an altitude of 424 m in the Traunviertel. The extension is 6.5 km from north to south and 6.2 km from west to east. The total area is 21 km². 20.5% of the area is forested, 69.5% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 27 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Altmanning (43)
  • Au (39)
  • Auholz (5)
  • Extracted (99)
  • Extra raw (33)
  • Bichlbauer (7)
  • Buhl (15)
  • Deising (58)
  • Edt (11)
  • Edtmayer (8)
  • Hoetzelsdorf (4)
  • Inner raw (35)
  • Kemating (128)
  • Kirnbach (29)
  • Lebl-Roith (14)
  • Magling (19)
  • Mitterbuch (35)
  • Nöstling (11)
  • Oberbuch (77)
  • Palmsdorf (72)
  • Roitham (1014)
  • Sand Alley (21)
  • Stötten (81)
  • Unterpühret (31)
  • Front book (28)
  • Wangham (59)
  • Watzing (16)

The community consists of four cadastral communities (area 2016):

  • Ausserpühret (238.54 ha)
  • Deising (605.64 ha)
  • Kemating (538.09 ha)
  • Roitham (722.51 ha)

Neighboring communities

Riistorf Stadl-Paura Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting
Desselbrunn Neighboring communities
Laakirchen Vorchdorf

Culture and sights

Castle Au an der Traun
The Nikolauskapelle at the Traunfall

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. The Roman Catholic parish church was built in the late Gothic style in 1350. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

In December 2016 the community was renamed from Roitham to Roitham am Traunfall .

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 1,924 inhabitants according to the census. The population rose to 2,001 in 2018. In the last few decades the birth balance has always been positive, but the migration balance has become increasingly negative.

politics

The distribution of mandates since the last municipal council election in 2015 is:

  • SPÖ 11 seats
  • ÖVP 8 seats
  • FPÖ 6 seats

Mayor is Alfred Gruber from the SPÖ.

coat of arms

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Blazon : degraded by red and green, divided by a silver bar broken with a right step; Above under the silver, continuous Traunfall Bridge a silver Kaplan water turbine, below a golden shell. Community colors: green-white-green.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1985. Under the Traunfall Bridge, the turbine and stage symbolize the power plant and the Traunfall itself. The shell as an attribute of St. James the Elder. Ä. stands for the parish patron.

Personalities

Sons and daughters
People related to the community

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
  2. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
  4. Provincial Law Gazette for Upper Austria, No. 99/2016 of December 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2017
  5. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Roitham am Traunfall, population development. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
  6. Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 7th supplement (1984–1987) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 4, 1988, p. 235 f, online (PDF; 7.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at