Saint Aegidi

This article explains the community in Austria, for other meanings see St. Aegidi .

St. Aegidi
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Schärding
License plate :	SD
Surface:	28.64 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 29 '  N , 13 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '0 "  N , 13 ° 44' 0"  E
Height :	599  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,551 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4725
Area code :	07717
Community code :	4 14 17
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Aegidi 10 4725 St. Aegidi
Website:	www.st-aegidi.at
politics
Mayor :	Klaus Paminger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	10 6th 3 10 6th 3  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 10 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 3
Location of St. Aegidi in the Schärding district
View towards the center of the municipality of St. Aegidi from the south.
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Aegidi is a municipality in western Upper Austria with 1551 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). It belongs to the district of Schärding in the Innviertel and is located in the judicial district of Schärding .

geography

St. Aegidi is located at an altitude of 599 m on the eastern edge of the Sauwald forest . The place on an undulating plateau is only 1 km as the crow flies from the Danube , but 320 meters above the river. The extension of the municipality is from north to south 7.1 km, from west to east 7.9 km. The total area is 28.6 km², 36.7% of the area is forested, 58.4% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 37 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Adelsgrub (12)
• Au (35)
• Breitenau (17)
• Village (45)
• Dornedt (10)
• Even (20)
• Edern (70)
• Flenkental (42)
• Fraunhofer (12)
• Grafendorf (20)
• Gruebl (10)
• Gschwendt (53)
• Hackendorf (77) including Kiriau
• Henndorf (20)
• Höllau (67)
• Innerleiten (17)
• Kosslau (55)
• Fiefdom (84)
• Maierhof (26)
• Mittelbach (13)
• Muhlbach (39)
• Oberleiten (39)
• Panwood (22)
• Prunst (11)
• Reisedt (59) including Steinzen
• Riding (35)
• Sagedt (5)
• Showers (66)
• St. Aegidi (259)
• Steinedt (46)
• Rhinestone (10)
• Tullern (58)
• Voglgrub (23)
• Walleiten (67)
• Catfish (45)
• Witzenedt (44)
• Zimmerleiten (32)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hackendorf , St. Aegidi and Schauern.

history

In 1294, St. Aegidi was first mentioned in a document. St. Aegidi was part of Austria over the Enns in the Middle Ages . The Harchheim castle ruins , which were demolished in the middle of the 16th century in favor of the St. Pankratius Church, are also located in the municipality .

From 1810 to 1816 there was a brief membership in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

For the 700th anniversary in 1994, the Upper Austria. With a resolution of April 18, 1994, the state government granted the right to use a municipal coat of arms.

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1592 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1644 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Aegidi

• Parish Church of Saint Aegidi

politics

The municipal council has a total of 19 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 6 FPÖ and 3 SPÖ.

mayor

• 1955–1985 Hermann Stadler (ÖVP)
• 1985–1997 Konrad Sageder (ÖVP)
• 1997–2019 Eduard Paminger (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Klaus Paminger (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided diagonally to the left by red and silver in the curve section; above a silver, growing abbot's staff, below a red wolf's body. The community colors are green-white-red.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1994 by the Upper Austrian provincial government. The abbot stands for St. Aegidius , the parish patron and namesake of the place, but it also reminds of the church affiliation to Engelszell Abbey, which existed until 1788 . The Passau wolf symbolizes the former manorial rule of the Passau Monastery , which is still reminiscent of the boundary stones with its coat of arms.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1985: Hermann Stadler († 1989), Mayor of St. Aegidi 1955–1985
• 1999: Konrad Sageder, Mayor of St. Aegidi 1985–1997
• 2020: Helmut Klaffenböck († 2020), Head of St. Aegidi 1979–2019
• 2020: Eduard Paminger, Mayor of St. Aegidi 1997–2019

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz Fischer (1830–1888), clergyman and politician, member of the House of Representatives 1873–1888
• Christa Ratzenböck (* 1972), mezzo-soprano

Web links

Commons : Sankt Aegidi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Side of the community
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the municipality of Sankt Aegidi can be found on the geographic information system of the state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria, 9th (last) addendum 1992-1996 . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Heft 3, 1996, p. 248, online (PDF; 2.7 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
3. ↑ https://www.tips.at/nachrichten/st-aegidi/land- Menschen / 502179-st-aegidi-hat-zwei-neue- ehrenbuerger , accessed on April 18, 2020.
4. ↑ https://www.parlament.gv.at/WWER/PARL/J1848/Fischer_1.shtml , accessed on July 13, 2020.