Salzburg area

location
Basic data
state	Salzburg
NUTS III region	AT-323
Administrative headquarters	Salzburg
surface	1005 km²
Residents	153,492 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	153 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	SL
website	BH Salzburg-Umgebung
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Aerial view of the Salzburg area (Flachgau)

The Salzburg-Umgebung district is a political district in the Austrian state of Salzburg .

With 1,004.79 km² it occupies the main part of the Flachgau , the northernmost of the five districts of Salzburg, but without the provincial capital Salzburg , which has its own statute .

The license plate assigned to the district is SL and stands for Salzburg-Land . It describes the area around the city of Salzburg and is not to be confused with the state of Salzburg , which means the historical and state of Salzburg itself or the state government of the state. The Salzburg-Umgebung district is also not to be equated with Salzburg and its surroundings ; because the latter is ambiguous and includes the city and the rural district or means the city with the more direct or further surrounding area.

geography

The Flachgau includes the Salzburg Basin - the area in which the Salzach leaves the Alps and flows into the Alpine foothills - from the height of the confluence of the Königseeache , further the lower reaches of the Salzach to St. Georgen bei Salzburg and the area east of it, the Salzburg Lake District as well the the Salzkammergut belonging Fuschlsee with the region Gaissau-Hintersee .

The landscape of the Flachgau is dominated by the Untersberg - one of its main summits, the Salzburger Hochthron , which forms the Austrian-German border - with the Watzmann , Göll , Hagen and Tennen Mountains in the background. The eastern, hilly and wooded mountain regions of the Flachgau, that is the eastern foothills of the Salzkammergut mountains , stretch from the Gaisberg to the Zwölferhorn . The ridge of the Haunsberg and the Kolomansberg belong to the flysch zone to the north of it , while the northernmost areas of the Flachgau have the typically undulating, strongly agricultural alpine foreland character. Riparian forest areas can be found along the Salzach .

The district surrounds the state capital almost completely bordered to the north by the district Braunau am Inn , east to the District Vöcklabruck and the district of Gmunden (all three Upper Austria ), on the south by the Salzburg District Hallein , on the west by the Bavarian district of Berchtesgaden and in the northwest to the Traunstein district .

• Large landscapes of the Flachgau
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  Salzburg Basin and Salzburg High Limestone Alps : The Untersberg massif , seen from Salzburg

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  Salzburg Lake District : The Trumer Lakes , aerial view

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  Salzburger Kalkvoralpen : Genneralm , above Osterhorn (in the background), in front of it the Hohe Zinken

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  Salzburg Salzkammergut : Wolfgangsee , with the southern bank of the Salzburg region on the left

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  Salzburg Flysch Pre-Alps : Kolomansberg , Thalgau side

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  Lower Salzach Valley : Salzach near Oberndorf

history

Since the 6th century the area of ​​today's Flachgau belonged to the Salzburggau of the tribal duchy of Bavaria . With the recognition of Salzburg's western border by the Bavarian Duke in 1275, the separation of Salzburg from Bavaria entered its final phase. When Archbishop Friedrich III. von Leibnitz had issued its own regional order in 1328, the Archdiocese of Salzburg had become a largely independent state within the Holy Roman Empire .

The rule of the Salzburg prince archbishops lasted until 1803 in the flat land , which was also known as the land in front of the mountains or the outer mountains , the latter in contrast to the Inner Mountains (Gebirgsgaue Pongau , Pinzgau and Lungau ). In 1803 the archbishopric was secularized and an electoral principality of Salzburg was created under Habsburg rule, with which the Flachgau became worldly property after a millennium. As early as 1805 it came to the Austrian Empire , albeit initially under French occupation, and in 1806, with the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire , the electoral office became obsolete and the country was converted into a duchy. After the area was again under French / Bavarian administration for a short time in the course of the Napoleonic Wars , the city of Salzburg became part of Austria in 1816; the areas west of the Salzach remained as Rupertiwinkel near Bavaria. Salzburg had lost its independence and was quickly attached to the Crown Land of Austria above the Enns as the Salzburg District. When it was upgraded to its own crown land , a state constitution was issued in 1850 , which also brought about new regulations for the state administration and the introduction of municipal regulations.

Until the late 19th century, the area of ​​the later Flachgau formed a unit with today's Tennengau and the Lammertal, which was acquired by the Pongau after 1805 . With the establishment of the Hallein District Commission in 1896 (resolution: 1895), these areas became part of today's Tennengau. At the same time, the name "Flachgau" began to establish itself for the remaining area of ​​the former Salzburggau - based on the names "Pongau", "Pinzgau", "Lungau" and the new "Tennengau" which had existed at least since the Middle Ages.

At least since 2014 there have been plans to relocate the district administration to Flachgau, with the town of Seekirchen am Wallersee having the best chance. Since the merger of the three Flachgau district courts to the new Seekirchen location became known, the plans for a joint location in Seekirchen have become more specific, with construction to start on both buildings at the end of 2020.

The previous district court districts of Neumarkt, Oberndorf and Thalgau are expected to be dissolved on July 1, 2022 and combined in a central district court at the new Seekirchen am Wallersee location and the district administration to be relocated to a new building nearby.

Administrative division

The Salzburg-Umgebung district is now divided into 37  municipalities , including three cities and six market municipalities (the population figures from January 1, 2020 in brackets). The administrative seat of the district is located in the provincial capital Salzburg, which itself does not belong to the district.

local community	location	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	region	Type
Anif		4,243	7.6	558	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Anthering		3,723	25.24	148	Oberndorf	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Bergheim		5,583	15.23	367	Oberndorf	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Berndorf near Salzburg		1,717	14.47	119	Oberndorf	Salzburg Lake District	local community
Bürmoos		4,962	6.94	715	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	local community
Dorfbeuern		1,571	14.62	107	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	local community
Ebenau		1,424	17.17	83	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Elixhausen		3,042	8.35	364	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Elsbethen		5,470	23.96	228	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Eugendorf		7,066	29	244	Thalgau	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	market community
Faistenau		3,094	51.2	60	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Fuschl am See		1,565	21.4	73	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Göming		774	8.78	88	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	local community
Grödig		7,391	23.02	321	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	market community
Grossgmain		2,631	22.82	115	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Hallwang		4,250	13.14	323	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community
Henndorf am Wallersee		4,933	23.51	210	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	local community
Hintersee		468	47.33	9.9	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Court near Salzburg		3,608	19.64	184	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Coupling		3,636	20.9	174	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Köstendorf		2,670	23.12	115	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	local community
Lamprechtshausen		3,989	31.77	126	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	local community
Mattsee		3,392	24.63	138	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	market community
Neumarkt am Wallersee		6,402	36.31	176	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	urban community
Nussdorf am Haunsberg		2,403	35.56	68	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	local community
Oberndorf near Salzburg		5,804	4.54	1278	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	urban community
Obertrum am See		4,901	21.31	230	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	market community
Plainfeld		1,243	5.24	237	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Sankt Georgen near Salzburg		2,989	24.64	121	Oberndorf	Flachgau north	local community
Sankt Gilgen		3,960	98.88	40	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Schleedorf		1,086	10.42	104	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	local community
Seeham		1,907	10.38	184	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	local community
Seekirchen am Wallersee		10,951	50.3	218	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	urban community
Straßwalchen		7,628	44.52	171	Neumarkt near Salzburg	Salzburg Lake District	market community
Strobl		3,641	94.02	39	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	local community
Thalgau		5,971	48.2	124	Thalgau	Osterhorn Group	market community
Wals-Siezenheim		13,404	26.61	504	Salzburg	Salzburg city and surrounding communities	local community

Population development

Personalities

The following were born in Flachgau:

• Franz Braumann (1910–2003), writer
• Burghard Breitner (1884–1956), doctor
• Anton Diabelli (1781–1858), composer
• Christian Felber (* 1972), publicist and author
• Benita Ferrero-Waldner (* 1948), politician
• Ferdinand Klostermann (1907–1982), theologian
• Leopold Kohr (1909–1994), economist and philosopher
• Andreas Maislinger (* 1955), historian and political scientist
• Ernst Märzendorfer (1921–2009), conductor
• Ludwig Paischer (* 1981), judoka
• Franz Scharl (* 1958), bishop

In Flachgau lived and live among others:

• Axel Corti (1933–1993), film director and author
• Paula Fichtl (1902–1989), Sigmund Freud's housekeeper
• Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989), conductor
• Georg Rendl (1903–1972), writer
• Georg Rohrcker (1947–2009), publicist and historian

literature

• Franz Paul Enzinger , Wolfgang Poelzl: The Flachgau. Salzburg's lovely front garden , Salzburg 1987, ISBN 3-7025-0330-7

Web links

Commons : District Salzburg-Umgebung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• District administration Salzburg-Umgebung , official website of the state of Salzburg
• salzburgnet.com , information site on the city of Salzburg, the state of Salzburg and the Salzkammergut
• salzburg- Umgebung.com, tourism website for the surrounding towns of Salzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seekirchen soon to be the district capital? salzburg.orf.at on August 25, 2014; accessed on August 5, 2019.
2. ↑ Bezirkshauptmannschaft finally decided , mein district.at on August 5, 2019; accessed on August 5, 2019.
3. ↑ Reorganization of the district courts in Salzburg ( Memento of August 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Unternehmensservice Portal, accessed on April 17, 2016
4. ↑ District courts in Flachgau: Council of Ministers decides to build a new district court in Seekirchen , www.ots.at on January 12, 2016
5. ↑ Seekirchen becomes the new location for the Flachgau District Court , www.salzburg.com on November 20, 2015
6. ↑ Flachgau District Court in Seekirchen , salzburg.orf.at on November 20, 2015
7. ↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '  N , 13 ° 10'  E