St. Georgen an der Gusen

market community St. Georgen an der Gusen
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Perg
License plate :	PE
Main town :	Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
Surface:	7.09 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 16 '  N , 14 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '18 "  N , 14 ° 26' 54"  E
Height :	262  m above sea level A.
Residents :	4,262 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	601 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	4222, 4223
Area code :	07237
Community code :	4 11 20
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 12 4222, 4223 St. Georgen an der Gusen
Website:	www.st-georgen-gusen.at
politics
Mayor :	Erich Wahl ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	12 7th 6th 12 7th 6th  A total of 25 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 7 GREEN : 6
Location of St. Georgen an der Gusen in the Perg district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Georgen an der Gusen (also spelled Sankt Georgen an der Gusen ) is a market town in the Mühlviertel in Upper Austria with 4262 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). With an area of ​​7.13 km², it is the smallest municipality in the Perg district .

The place first mentioned between 1220 and 1240 as Amt Sankt Georgen (Officium Sancti Georgi) lies on the Gusen , a left tributary of the Danube . Hauderer Strasse has been the forerunner of Donau Strasse since the 16th century .

geography

The market town of Sankt Georgen is located at the entrance to the Gusental at around 260  m above sea level. A. , the municipality covers an area of ​​7.13 km². The largest extension is 3.3 km from north to south and 4.8 km from west to east.

16.9% of the area is forested, 63.4% of the area is used for agriculture, the rest is used for other purposes. The highest point is in the north of the municipality in the village of Zottmann at 338  m above sea level. A. The Danube passes at the Abzüge-Asten power plant a good 1 km south of the municipal boundary.

The provincial capital Linz is 15 kilometers to the west, the federal capital Vienna 168 kilometers to the east. The next border crossing to the Czech Republic, Wullowitz in the municipality of Leopoldschlag , is 52 kilometers to the north. The state border with Lower Austria is around 11 kilometers away and is crossed on the Mauthausen Danube bridges . To the west it is generally possible to cross the Danube over the Linz Danube bridges, while the road over the Abhaben-Asten dam in the neighboring municipality of Luftenberg an der Donau may only be used by pedestrians and cyclists.

Neighboring communities

	Engerwitzdorf ( district Urfahr area )	Katsdorf
Luftenberg on the Danube		Ried in the Riedmark
		Langenstein

Community structure

The only cadastral community is St. Georgen an der Gusen. The 4  localities (the figures in brackets show the resident population at the time of the 2001 census) are:

• Sankt Georgen an der Gusen  (3175, main town)
• Zottmann  (192)
• Denneberg  (36)
• Schörgendorf  (126) including Am Berg, Bruckmühl and Steg.

These localities are all located directly on the Gusen counting district are St.Georgen adGusen-Süd and St.Georgen adGusen-Nord , which each comprise around half of the municipality.

Landscape and geology

The slopes of today's municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen were in the Tertiary on the shoreline of a sea. Numerous fossils up to 40 million years old have been found in the quartz sand deposits of the place. Sankt Georgen an der Gusen is located in the Untermühlviertel Schollenland, a branch of the granite and gneiss plateau .

The municipality does not border on the Danube, but it only flows a few kilometers southwest of the Abzüge-Asten power plant in the neighboring municipality of Luftenberg an der Donau and southeast of the Spielberg castle ruins in the neighboring municipality of Langenstein . From a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as from the point of view of the use of space, the municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen belongs to three of the 41 natural spatial units of the federal state of Upper Austria , with the greater part belonging to the southern Mühlviertel peripheral locations . The high altitudes on both sides of the Gusen ( Am Berg and Kruckenberg ) are part of the Central Mühlviertel highlands and the southern end of the municipality protrudes into the Linzer Feld , the Danube valley between Linz and Mauthausen.

Waters

The most important flowing water in the municipality is the Gusen , which forms the eastern border of the municipality to the neighboring municipality of Katsdorf in the northeast, then flows through the municipality from north to south and leaves it in the extreme south towards Langenstein. In the north-west the Retzbach reaches the municipality and finally flows into the Gusen shortly after the Knollmühle.

history

The Sankt Georgen market on the Gusen. In the background the Luftenberg

Sankt Georgen and the neighboring communities

The local parishes of Langenstein , Luftenberg , Pürach (incorporated into Luftenberg in 1937) and the market of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen were established as cadastral communities in 1784 and in 1848 as independent political communities. The community property of the market citizens of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was administered independently in the market commune until 1931. The historical ties between the places grouped together in the parish still exist today (common parish church, cemetery, war memorial, clubs, local police). It was not until the strong population growth after the Second World War that the towns began to build their own infrastructure. The following historical explanations therefore largely refer to Sankt Georgen an der Gusen including the two neighboring communities mentioned.

overview

The 1367 as "St. Jörger Pfarr bey der Gusen ”first mentioned parish with the Georgskirche, built around 1190, is still the center of religious life for Luftenberg on the Danube and Langenstein . In the 16th and 17th centuries the parish of Sankt Georgen was Protestant . The Machland peasant movement around Martin Aichinger from Steining had numerous supporters here too. From 1784 the cadastral communities of St. Georgen, Langenstein, Luftenberg and Pürach were established in the area of ​​the parish of Sankt Georgen , and in 1848 they became independent political communities. The market commune, which administrates the common property of the citizens, was completely absorbed in 1931. The Summerauerbahn has been running through the municipality since 1873 . However, the Sankt Georgen train station is located in the municipality of the neighboring municipality of Luftenberg in the village of Abhaben. During the Second World War, Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was the seat of the Mauthausen granite works of the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke Berlin (DEST) and thus the economic command center for the concentration camps in Gusen and Mauthausen . Not far from the center of the village was the second largest underground factory in the Greater German Reich for the serial production of Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters , the first military aircraft with jet engines that could be used in series . The historically determined close connection with Luftenberg and Langenstein was loosened considerably in the second half of the 20th century when they began to set up an independent communal infrastructure with schools, childcare facilities, etc. With the expansion of the Donau Straße, Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, together with Langenstein and Luftenberg, was relieved of the increasing traffic volume. Due to the proximity to the Danube Cycle Path and the Donausteig , tourism is gaining in importance.

Prehistory and early history

The presence of humans can be proven since the older Stone Age . Significant prehistoric finds were made, for example, on the Koglberg, the Frankenberg and the Luftenberg, as well as in the villages of Gusen, Pürach and Schörgendorf. The prehistoric cult site Berglitzl in Gusen is of supraregional importance. Ferry stations over the Danube and salt - transport routes away from the salt road through the Gusental and over the Luftenberg (Luftenberger Steig through today's market area of ​​Sankt Georgen, village of Steg near the village of Schörgendorf) to Bohemia have favored the development of settlements in the area. As the remains of ramparts on Luftenberg and Frankenberg show, the settlements were fortified militarily as early as the La Tène period . From antiquity and into the early Middle Ages , this area contained borders, cultural transition zones and intersections of linguistic sound boundaries that can still be proven today.

Ancient and early Middle Ages

Illyrians and Celts

First Illyrians and Celts lived in the area, and later Germanic tribes . The eastern border of the quadratic Regnum Vannianum mentioned by Tacitus probably ran right through the middle of today's municipality in the 1st century AD along the Gusen (Cusus) .

Romans and Teutons

At the time of the Romans , the Noric Lauriacum was created on the southern bank of the Danube opposite the Gusen Delta, directly on the Noric Limes . Remains of a Roman watchtower are documented in the walls of the Spielberg ruins . After the peace agreement between the Roman emperor Commodus and the Germanic lagoon , the area around Sankt Georgen in the seven and a half kilometers wide demilitarized zone north of the Danube was also added. Until the 8th century, the area of ​​Sankt Georgen was part of the church of Lorch , which was already Christianized in the 3rd century.

In the early Middle Ages to the present market Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was called after the river only Gusen , ( Old High German ) same meaning as cast iron (cast, flood, flood). The river was later called Gvvsin or Gusuna in documents (for example 1125) .

Bajuvars and Slavs

From the 6th century the Bavarians settled in the area, as shown by sword finds in the Gusental and skeletal graves. The Slavic Wends followed around 600 , reminiscent of place names such as Winning , Wienau , Abhaben or Lungitz . Both groups lived next to each other and were absorbed in the East Franconian Empire .

Francs

The founding of the town of Sankt Georgen and the founding of the church on the Frankenberg are attributed to the Franks who, on their campaigns against the Avars in the second half of the 8th century , had to defend the eastern border of their empire, which ran here at that time, from the mouth of the Enns . Place names such as Kruckenberg , Amberg , Staffelberg or Frankenberg show that the Franks used the Frankenberg , which was strategically located at the time, with its ideal overview of the land at the mouth of the Enns and the Riedmark, for their own purposes. From 773 a first parish or mission base was likely to have arisen on the Frankenberg. In 791 Charlemagne had a church built during a stay in Lorch on the Frankenberg. In 811 the Diocese of Passau was assigned the area along the Danube for missionary work, and in 823 King Ludwig the Pious confirmed the possession of the area north of the Danube to the Bishopric of Passau , which at that time was still known as Reoda in terra Hunnorum - i.e. as a cleared or developed area in the Hunnenland. was designated. This is considered the first documented reference to the Riedmark.

The cemetery from the Carolingian era found on the Berglitzl in Gusen serves as evidence of the Christianization of the population by a Bavarian- Franconian church organization . In 1871 the oldest surviving Carolingian sword in Austria was found in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen.

middle Ages

Luftenberger, Babenberger

Steyregg, which is important for Sankt Georgen, is already occupied in 885 as Taberesheim ( Tafersheim , Taversheim). Around the year 900 the nobilis Durinc (the nobleman Durinc) appeared at the village of Luffinperc (Luftenberg) in connection with a property exchange . During this time, the area around Sankt Georgen belonged to the domain of the High Free von Luftenberg with their Luftenberg Castle in the Babenberg margravate Ostarrichi in the northeast of the Duchy of Bavaria . The lords of Gusen, who were also highly free, obviously played an important role in the region in the 12th century, as, for example, in a document from Bishop Reginbert of Passau in 1145, alongside Adelram I of Perg (Adalramus de perge) and Walchun IV of Machland (Walchun de machlant) also a Timo von Gusen (Timo de gusene) was named as a witness. An Eberhard von Gusen (Eberhardus de Gusen) has also come down to us from this period. In 1156 Ostarrichi was raised to an independent duchy ( Privilegium Minus ). The regional court responsible for the Sankt Georgen area from the 13th century onwards was Riedmark , which only lost its importance around 1490.

Parish church of St. George in St. Georgen an der Gusen

The Church of St. George was founded by crusaders who were on the land route along the Danube during the Third Crusade (1189–1192) under Emperor Friedrich I (Barbarossa) . At that time Sankt Georgen comprised nine houses and a church in which mass was read two to three times a year. Documented the place was first from 1220 to 1240 in a princely Urbar of Belligerent Frederick as Officium Sancti GEORGI - that is, as St. Georgen office referred -.

In 1230, Regensburg's cathedral bailiff received Otto III. von Lengenbach the castle Spielberg with all its subjects as a fief . In the land register of the Bohemian King Prszemysl-Ottokar II. (1250–1270) Winning and six houses from Gusen are mentioned as taxable.

Dioceses of Regensburg and Passau, the Styrian Otakars and the first Habsburgs

In 1285 Ulrich II von Kapellen , to whom King Rudolf I von Habsburg (1218–1291) had given the rule of Steyregg as early as 1278 for his decisive intervention in the battle of the Marchfeld , bought St. Georgen from Poppo von Grünburg (Grinperc) including the church. From 1285 until the abolition of the lordship in 1848, the Sankt Georgen market belonged to the Steyregg lordship. Individual areas of today's market town still belonged to other rulers such as Luftenberg and Spielberg as well as the Pulgarn , St. Florian and Garsten monasteries .

The numerous courtyards in the region responsible for Garsten Abbey and the fact that Ulrich II von Kapellen bought his own Sankt Georgen from the Styrian ministerial Popo von Grünburg, are an indication that the area around Sankt Georgen was also under influence until the 13th century the Styrian Otakare lay.

Pulgarn Monastery, Hussites, Hungarian troops

At the beginning of the 14th century, Hans von Kapellen , Ulrich's son, placed the church of Sankt Georgen, together with the churches of Tafersheim (Steyregg) and Frankenberg, under the tithing of the Order of the Holy Spirit that was brought to Pulgarn at that time , but kept the bailiwick over it in front. In 1367 we met the place as St. Jörger parish priest at the Gusen .

During the Hussite Wars (1422–1433), the St. Georgen market was also plundered and largely destroyed by the Hussites . Like Pulgarn, the parish was looked after by the Jesuits around 1468. In 1487 the church was largely destroyed by the Rosenberg troops invading the country from Bohemia and could not be rebuilt until 1538.

Modern times

Reformation and Counter Reformation

From 1490 St. Georgen was also the one of Emperor Friedrich III. so designated Principality of Austria above the Enns . From the beginning of the 16th century, the Hauderer-Straße , a trade route north of the Danube, led through St. Georgen. In 1508 the Jörger von Tollet acquired St. Georgen with the rule of Steyregg. Helmhart Jörger was a fanatical Protestant . According to a map from 1583, the border between the secular Austrian fiefs and the Passau fiefs ran directly along the Gusen River through the middle of today's parish and parish area of ​​Sankt Georgen. Around 1600 most of the Mühlviertel was Protestant and Protestant preachers also worked in the church of St. Georgen. In 1609 the church of St. Georgen was finally transferred to the Jesuits of Linz, because the order of the Holy Spirit, which had become Protestant in the meantime, had been dissolved. The place was completely plundered again in 1610 after part of the Haller's troops had been relocated from Freistadt to St. Georgen in a fraternal dispute between Emperor Rudolf II and King Matthias I of Hungary and fights with Passau troops between Langenstein and Mauthausen took place. 1624 raged in St. Georgen and around Pest . After the peasant uprising in the Hausruckviertel of 1632, Martin Aichinger from Steining (vulgo Laimbauer) also found many followers in St. Georgen and the surrounding area. The battle on the Frankenberg , in which hundreds of his remaining followers, who had withdrawn to the church ruins there at Whitsun 1636 , were massacred by imperial troops under Governor Count Hans Ludwig von Kueffstein and his commander Count Kaspar von Starhemberg, has a profound effect to this day Awareness of the people rooted in and around St. Georgen. In 1653 Baron David Ungnad von Weissenwolf (1584–1599) bought St. Georgen with the possessions of Helmhart Jörger, which had previously been donated as an unyielding Protestant. In 1671 David Ungnad von Weissenwolf increased his sphere of influence in the area around St. Georgens by purchasing the lordships of Spielberg and Luftenberg. In 1665 the church was expanded, with the still existing spacious nave being equipped with columns. In 1669 the Jesuits finally carried out a so-called popular mission in the parish . Since then, the area around St. Georgen has again been largely Roman Catholic .

Market law

Marian column from the 18th century

In 1585, Sankt Georgen was named in a directory of the towns and markets in Upper Austria, and market rights have probably existed for much longer. The Steyregger Urbare of 1583 and 1597 confirm the church days held on Georgi Day . At the end of the 16th century, the church days of the former church on the Frankenberg were moved to St. Georgen on Midsummer Sunday (Sunday Laetare) and on the day of St. John Babtistae . 1689 expanded Helmhart Christoph von Weissenwolf due to a privilege granted by Emperor Ferdinand II. (1619–1637) the rights of the market to hold annual fairs on Midfast Sunday, at Georgi, on the day of John the Baptist, at Jakobi and at Simoni . These fairs were only stopped in the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars (1806–1816). In 1773, Count Franz Josef von Weissenwolf allowed a grain, yarn and cattle market to be held every Thursday , but after a few years it became meaningless again. St. George's market rights are also mentioned in the guild letters of the linen weavers in 1689 and 1709. In the 17th and 18th centuries, St. Georgen was an important weaving village with 33 master craftsmen and their own guild rules . After the decline of this trade, the production of painted farm furniture - the so-called Gusener - experienced a brief boom in St. Georgen from the 1st half of the 19th century . In terms of design and painting, these form the “St. Georgen Group ". The St. Georgen market was also hit by devastating fires in 1678, 1770 and 1848. Most of the documents on the market were burned or lost in the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives in 1944 at the latest. As thanks for the fact that the market was spared when a house burned in 1761, the famous Marian column was erected on the site of this house in 1762.

schools

Johann Georg Dietler, the first schoolmaster (ludimagister) in St. Georgen, was mentioned in 1637 . After the school reforms under Archduchess Maria Theresa (1717–1780), the letter of foundation for the later elementary school was signed on February 28, 1796 . In 1804 the first school building was erected on the site of today's state music school, which was replaced in 1895 by the primary school building, which is still in use today. Nowadays there is a music school , elementary school and a new middle school .

Josephine reforms

After the dissolution of the Jesuits in 1775, Emperor Joseph II moved the church for the religious fund, in 1791 the first secular priest was installed in St. Georgen and in 1795 the rectory that still exists today was built. Under canon law, the area was split off from the Diocese of Passau under pressure from Emperor Joseph II with the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns during the re-establishment of the Diocese of Linz 1783–1785 . From 1784/1785 the cadastral parishes of Sankt Georgen, Langenstein, Luftenberg and Pürach emerged in the area of ​​the parish of St. Georgen and from the area around the market .

In 1834 the cemetery that had previously been laid out around the church was relocated to its present location as the New Cemetery.

Napoleon

During the Napoleonic period (1805-1806 and 1809) St. Georgen suffered a lot from the billeting of French, Bavarian and Austrian troops. Epidemic diseases spread rapidly. Some so-called French crosses still remind of this in the region.

Railway construction, market commune

In 1873 the Summerauerbahn from Linz to Budweis was opened with the train station near the market in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen. Economic impulses for the market resulted primarily from the local recreational tourism of the Linz population. In 1896 an advance cash association was founded as a forerunner of the later Raiffeisenbank, in 1897 the establishment of a local branch of the Social Democratic Party and in 1898 a children's custody of the parish, which was under the spiritual direction of the Sisters of Mary until 1979.

A lively cultural and club life developed in the interwar period. Worth mentioning is the historical novel The Confession of Ambros Hannsen , written by the teacher Eduard Munninger , in which reference was made to the peasant uprising under Martin Aichinger . In 1934 Munninger founded the First Reich Kapellmeisterschule in St. Georgen.

Third Reich, Soviet occupation

Building of the former DEST administration headquarters

After Austria was " annexed " to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, Sankt Georgen was part of the Upper Danube Gau . In the early years of the war, the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (DEST) in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was chosen as the headquarters of the Mauthausen granite works and expanded into an economic command center for the operation of the Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps . In the years 1941–1943, the Greater German Reich built a siding between the Sankt Georgen train station and the Gusen concentration camp. Under the camouflage name B8 Bergkristall , the second largest underground factory in the Greater German Empire for the serial production of Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter aircraft was set up not far from the town center from the beginning of 1944 . The associated SS command staff B8 was also in Sankt Georgen. Sankt Georgen and the concentration camps in the area were liberated by American troops on May 5, 1945, with the major involvement of the ICRC envoy Louis Häfliger . These were followed in August 1945 by Soviet occupation troops who used the so-called German property located in Sankt Georgen for the benefit of the USIA and only handed it over to the Republic of Austria in 1955.

Second half of the 20th century

The industrial companies established in Linz during the Second World War led to a rapid increase in the population in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen from the 1950s. In 1950, a secondary school was set up in a former DEST kitchen barrack , which in 1962 moved to the building that is still in use today. In 1964/1965 the municipality of Langenstein was removed from the school district , and in 1970 the municipality of Luftenberg. Until 1965, the St. Georgen registry office was also responsible for the residents of the Langenstein community. In 1974, Sankt Georgen became the location of a music school , which in 1978 was taken over by the state of Upper Austria as a regional music school and has branches in Steyregg , Mauthausen and Ried in der Riedmark .

population

Population development
year Residents 1851 1869 1,089 1880 1,128 1890 1,129 1900 1,326 1910 1,434 1923 1,324 1934 1,396	year Residents 1939 1,429 1951 1,795 1961 2.148 1971 2,805 1981 3,093 1991 3,236 2001 3,529 2010 3,619

Population development

In the middle of the 19th century, almost a thousand people are likely to have lived in the municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen. By the beginning of the Second World War , the population rose to 1,429. Since the 1950s, this has grown significantly faster than that of the Perg district and the state of Upper Austria .

Historical records from the St. Georgen an der Gusen market go back to 1481, where 22 houses are listed. The place grew strongly by the standards of the time, because 37 houses were listed in 1583, 47 in 1626, 93 in 1809 and 97 in 1825. At the end of the first quarter of the 19th century, 640 people lived in the market. Of the surrounding villages that now belong to Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, 132 inhabitants are listed in Schörgendorf in 1869 and 83 in Zottmann.

Population structure by gender, age and education

The market town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen had 3,619 inhabitants on January 1, 2010, of which 1,764 men and 1,855 women.The rough age structure of the Sankt Georgen population as of January 1, 2010 shows that 67.1% of Sankt Georgen residents over 15 and under 65 Years old. At 14.8%, around a seventh of the population is younger and, at 18.1%, a little more than a sixth of the population is older. While the proportion of women in the main group and among the younger population is 50% below the average for the total population, it is significantly higher among the older population at around 60%.

Of the 2,909 Sankt Georgeners who were over 15 years old in 2001, 1,491 or 51.3% are women. 182 Perger, that is 6.3% of those over fifteen, have graduated from a university , technical college or academy , the proportion of women at 42.9% is well below that of the population group as a whole. Another 277 Sankt Georgeners, that is 9.6% of the relevant population group, have the Matura , with the proportion of women at 49.4% only slightly below that of the population group concerned. 1,454 people from Sankt Georgen, or 50%, are exactly half of those over the age of fifteen, have completed an apprenticeship or vocational secondary school , with 40.8% women. 996 or 34.2% of St. Georgen residents only have a compulsory school certificate . More than two thirds of them are women.

Origin and language

96.6% of the residents of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen are Austrian citizens and 92.9% were born in Austria. 2.6% of Sankt Georgen were born in other EU countries, 4.8% in non-EU countries. The Middle or Danube Bavarian dialect is a Bavarian dialect form that is widespread throughout Upper Austria . The ostösterreichische branch of the middle Bairischen goes to the dialect of the created by the Bavarian Ostsiedlung Babenberg dominion Ostarrichi back. In the 2001 census, 3,372 people (95.6%) reported German as a colloquial language, 63 (1.8%) Turkish , 19 (0.5%) Croatian , 34 (1.0%) Bosnian , 7 (0.2 %) %) Serbian , 6 (0.2%) Hungarian , 7 (0.2%) Czech , 21 (0.6%) another language.

religion

In the 2001 census, 3,026 people (85.7%) stated that they were Roman Catholics , 122 (3.5%) Islamic , 29 (0.8%) Protestant , 8 (0.2%) Orthodox and 20 (0 , 6%) other faiths. 324 (9.2%) of the residents of Sankt Georgen have not professed any religion. The Roman Catholic parish of Sankt Georgen is part of the Pregarten dean's office and, in addition to the municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, also extends to the municipalities of Luftenberg an der Donau and Langenstein . The common parish affiliation that has grown over time resulted in a close connection within the region, not only with regard to the religious center. The pastor of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen is Martin Füreder.

See also : List of parishes in the Pregarten deanery

politics

The market commune administered by the market judge was unanimously transferred together with its assets to the market community on December 27, 1931, which since then has officially shown Saint George in the market coat of arms. The traditional fairs were limited to Georgi and Simoni. On April 2, 1951, the Upper Austrian provincial government granted permission to hold a stallion and cattle show at Georgi, which, however, lost its importance in the 1960s.

The municipality belongs to the judicial district of Perg . The competent district court is in Perg .

Community representation

Local council: The local council consists of 25 councils and meets five to seven times a year. The community board consists of seven members.

Distribution of seats since the municipal council election 2015:

• 12 seats in the Social Democratic Party of Austria  (SPÖ)
• 7 mandates of the Austrian People's Party  (ÖVP)
• 6 mandates The Greens - The Green Alternative  (GREEN)

In the municipal council elections in 1945, the SPÖ received 49.4% of the vote, only slightly more than the ÖVP, which achieved 49%. The KPÖ got 1.5% of the vote. After the extraordinary voting ratio in the municipal council election in 1949 with 85.4% ÖVP and 14.6% SPÖ share, the ÖVP achieved an absolute majority in 1955 and 1961 with 55.9 and 52.2% of the votes, respectively, while the SPÖ only 40 , 5 or 39.6% of the vote. The KLS came to 3.6 and 3.4% in these years. The FPÖ ran for the first time in 1961 and received 4.8% of the vote.

Mayor: Erich Wahl of the SPÖ has been mayor since 2007. He received 61.3% of the vote in the mayor's direct election in 2009.

Since 1967, the SPÖ's share of the vote has been higher than that of the ÖVP. The percentage values ​​of the SPÖ fluctuate between 49.5% (1997) and 64.2% (2003), those of the ÖVP between 30.9% (1985) and 48.9% (1967). The SPÖ only missed an absolute majority in 1967 and 1997. The FPÖ's voting shares range between 1.3% (1967) and 10.6% (1997). In 1973, 2003 and 2009 the FPÖ did not stand as a candidate for the municipal council. Other groups achieved a considerable share in 1985 with 10.6% and in 1991 with 6.7%. In their one-off candidacy in 1997, the Greens received 8.5% of the vote.

List of mayors

• Johann Derntl (1850 to 1855)
• Franz Sterneder (1855 to 1858)
• Georg Peterseil (1858 to 1861)
• Johann Sturmair (1861 to 1867)
• Sebastian Gusenleitner (1867 to 1870)
• Franz Peterseil (1870 to 1873)
• Johann Schöfl (1873 to 1876)
• Georg Peterseil (1879 to 1882)
• Josef Moser (1882 to 1894)
• Johann Brückler (1894 to 1910)
• Franz Seidl (1910 to 1919)
• Franz Geiblinger (1919 to 1933)
• Ferdinand Huemer (1933 to 1934)
• Leopold Hauser (1934 to 1942)
• Rudolf Wiesmayr (1942 to 1945)
• Franz Schaup (1945 to 1946)
• Franz Koblika (1946 to 1949)
• Johann Hattmannsdorfer (1949 to 1967)
• Josef Kobilka (1967 to 1979)
• Johann Hackl (1979 to 1994)
• Rudolf Honeder (1994 to 2007)
• Erich Wahl (2007 to date)

coat of arms

Blazon : "In Gold of St. George on a silver, red bridled and saddled, jumping up Ross, in blue Gurtpanzer, the spiked helmet sullied with a silver and a red ostrich feather, the silver lance into the jaws of the green one, left facing, tongued red and pushing armed dragons lying on the ground, looking up. " Any existing evidence about the origin of the market coat of arms was destroyed by fire in 1848. The new award took place in 1951 by the Upper Austrian provincial government. According to A. Winkler (1876), the design of the coat of arms was made by Franz Lehrer from Linz.

Founding of the coat of arms: The dragon slayer St. Georg is the namesake of the place and patron saint of the parish.

Community finances

In 2009 the municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen had a total income of 12.5 million euros and total expenditure of 13.4 million euros. The largest sources of income were the income shares from the financial equalization with 2.4 million euros and the municipal tax with 304 thousand euros. With a financial strength of 808 euros per capita, Sankt Georgen ranks 10th in the district and 265th out of 445 municipalities in Upper Austria. The community debt per capita was 1,229 euros; Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was ranked 24th out of 26 municipalities in the district and 348th out of 445 municipalities in Upper Austria.

Promotion of culture and sport

Since 1990, the municipality of Sankt Georgen has been awarding a prize for achievements in the field of culture and sport . Since 1995 there has been a culture and a sports prize. The winners were published on the municipality's website.

Town twinning

Empoli, coat of arms

• Empoli in Tuscany , Italy : There has been a twinning with the city of Empoli since 1997. Young skilled workers from the local glass factory were deported at the beginning of the Second World War and had to work under inhumane working and social conditions for the Bergkristall project in the Gusen concentration camp. Many of them were killed. Thetown twinning, initiatedon the occasion of memorial ceremonies of the survivors at their request with the participation of Rudolf Haunschmied , aims to break down the boundaries in the mind such as racism and xenophobia through cultural activities across borders. The partnership has so far been implemented several times through student, artist and cultural exchanges.

Capital of the municipality

Sankt Georgen on the Gusen ( Main place a market town ) village
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg  (PE), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Perg
Pole. local community	St. Georgen an der Gusen
Coordinates	48 ° 16 ′ 16 "  N , 14 ° 26 ′ 50"  E
height	262  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	3921 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	744 (2001)
Post Code	4222 St. Georgen an der Gusen
Statistical identification
Locality code	10228
Counting district / district	St.Georgen adGusen-Süd, St.Georgen adGusen-Nord (41120 X [000,001])
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Municipal seat is market Sankt Georgen an der Gusen . The place is located about 12 kilometers southeast of the city center of Linz , 14 kilometers west of Perg . It is located on the southern edge of the municipality, where the Gusen enters the Linzer Feld, about 5 km above its confluence with the Danube, at around 260  m above sea level. A. Height.

The village includes about 740 buildings with about 3200 inhabitants and thus includes 90% of the community population. The local area extends north to the Knollmühle location . The station to the south-west, which is already in Luftenberg , and the Stacherl settlement to the south-east, which belongs to Langenstein, do not belong to the community .

Neighboring towns and cities:

Knierübl  (O) Groebetsweg  (O) (both gem.  Luftenberg a. d. D. )	Zottmann  (O)	Denneberg  (O) Kruckenberg ( O  Blindendorf ,  Gem.Ried i. D. R. )
Statzing  (O, Gem.  Luftenberg a. D. D. )		Kirchberg Frankenberg  (O, both in  Langenstein )
Station settlement Winding down  (O, both according to  Luftenberg a. D. D. )		Stacherlsiedlung  (O, Gem.  Langensteinenstrasse )

Economy and Infrastructure

The number of workplaces in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen rose by 36.2% to 128 between the last two censuses in 1991 and 2001. The number of workplaces rose by 46.2% to 760 in the same period. Sankt Georgen an der Gusen offered 2001 jobs for 475 people living outside the municipality, while 1,301 people from Sankt Georgen worked outside the community. The greater part of the inbound commuters come from the district of Perg, while the majority of the outbound commuters commute to other districts of the state, in particular to the city of Linz.

In 2001, 0.9% of the employed people in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen were employed in agriculture and forestry . In 2001 32.5% were employed in industry , trade and construction . The proportion has decreased significantly compared to 1991 and 1981 respectively, while the proportion of people working in the service sector has increased. In the market town of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen there are more than 80 businesses that primarily serve local supplies. The entrepreneurs have joined forces in the Business Development Association 4222, which is responsible for joint advertising, joint appearance on the Internet, organization of joint events, the sale of joint shopping vouchers and the representation of joint interests.

Sand mining has been in operation in Sankt Georgen since 1929. The extraction of quartz sand (Linz sands, formed by sea deposits and the weathering of the crystalline rocks of the Bohemian masses) is important for the construction industry and glass production, as well as in the plastics industry. According to the Mineral Raw Materials Act 1999, the Sankt Georgen quartz sand is classified as a non-mountainous mineral raw material. The Krempelbauer quartz sand works St. Georgen Hentschläger operates four quartz sand pits in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and Engerwitzdorf.

In 1999 an operations center was opened, where the following facilities are housed:

• local fire department
• Red Cross (Sankt Georgen an der Gusen office with catchment area Steyregg, Luftenberg, Langenstein, Sankt Georgen, Mauthausen, Katsdorf and Ried in der Riedmark)
• Police (local office Sankt Georgen with catchment area Luftenberg, Sankt Georgen, Langenstein and Katsdorf)
• youth Center
• Rehearsal room for the music association

The market town operates a farmyard that is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of water supply and sewage disposal, waste disposal, road construction and maintenance, building maintenance measures, cemetery work, maintenance of green spaces and playgrounds as well as maintenance and laying work for cable TV and the Internet and nine employees employed.

The cable network 4222 has existed since 1982 and supplies not only the municipality of Sankt Georgen but also the town of Abhaben. In addition to the usual TV and radio programs, a separate information channel has been offered since 2000, internet via LIWEST ​​since 2000 and landline telephony since 2006.

The voluntary fire brigade Sankt Georgen an der Gusen was initially founded as an association in 1897, until it came under the jurisdiction of the municipality in 1938 and has since been run as a public corporation.

The communal burial and cemetery administration of the market community is responsible for the multi-congregation cemetery, where the dead of the communities Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, Luftenberg an der Donau and Langenstein, as well as, due to the parish affiliation, also the deceased of the locality Frankenberg of the community Ried in der Riedmark and the village of Weingraben in the municipality of Engerwitzdorf will be buried.

Energy-and water supply

Sankt Georgen an der Gusen is supplied with electricity by Linz AG. Natural gas enters households via the pipeline network of OÖ Ferngas AG, Linz. District heating has been supplied since 2008 by the local operator of a biomass district heating power plant , Biowärme Gusental, via a pipeline network several kilometers long. The water supply of the market community is an essential part of the Lower Gusen water association, which also manages the association systems for the communities of Langenstein, Ried in der Riedmark and Engerwitzdorf. The main well and a smaller spring outlet in vineyards feed five elevated tanks, of which around 1200 cubic meters of water are made available to households every day. The wastewater was initially disposed of in the market town's sewage treatment plant, which was built in the 1970s, and the large-scale Asten sewage treatment plant was connected from the mid-1990s.

traffic

There is a stop for the Summerauerbahn in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen . The Sankt Georgen train station, only about one kilometer southwest of the bus stop, is located near the center of the village, but is already in the municipality of Luftenberg an der Donau in the village of Abhaben. There are bus routes along the Danube towards Linz and into the Mühlviertel. Until the expansion of the Donau Straße with the bypasses of Langenstein, Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and Luftenberg, the B 3 ran through the center of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen. Today it is run as L569  Pleschinger Straße .

Education and childcare

• Kindergarten of the parish caritas, parent child center Karussell, Kinderfreunde Mühlviertel nature children group, child minders
• Primary school Sankt Georgen an der Gusen: a total of eight school classes
• Polytechnic School Sankt Georgen: since 1997; Langenstein, Steyregg, Luftenberg and parts of Mauthausen, Ried and Gallneukirchen also belong to the Sankt Georgen an der Gusen school district
• The main school Sankt Georgen an der Gusen is called since 2009/2010 new middle school (NMS Sankt Georgen an der Gusen) out
• State Music School Sankt Georgen an der Gusen: The State Music School Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, founded by the municipality in 1974 and taken over by the Province of Upper Austria in 1978, has around five hundred students enrolled in 35 subjects. Including the branches in Mauthausen, Ried in der Riedmark and Steyregg, 850 students are taught by 40 teachers.
• Pupil day care center : A day care center is available for the pupils, where they are looked after outside of the daily school hours as well as during the holidays and other school-free days.

sport and freetime

• Sankt Georgen an der Gusen has sports facilities for football , tennis , athletics , gymnastics and curling as well as a shooting club.
• Outdoor pool : solar-heated outdoor pool equipped with a diving tower
• Aktivpark: The event center called Aktivpark was opened in 2008 and has a sports hall and a multifunctional hall with technology and catering.
• Gusental Cycle Path (R28): On the Danube Cycle Path, which leads past Sankt Georgen an der Gusen in the neighboring communities of Langenstein and Luftenberg, there is a link to the national cycle path network via the Gusental Cycle Path (R28). The hiking trails of the market town were mostly set up and signposted together with the neighboring communities mentioned, u. a. there is also an integration into the Donausteig .
• IVV Fit hiking day: An IVV Fit hiking day held annually at the end of September is one of the regular sporting events in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen.

Culture and sights

Parish church of St. Georgen an der Gusen

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Georgen an der Gusen

• Catholic parish church St. Georgen an der Gusen hl. George
• Heimathaus: Museum

Memorials

• Former work group leader of Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH Berlin (command center of the double camp Mauthausen - Gusen )
• Former tunnel system B8 Bergkristall
• → See also: Buildings of the former Gusen concentration camp in Langenstein (e.g. Jourhaus, SS guard blocks, prisoner brothel, accommodation building, stone crusher, sewage treatment plant, apprentice hall, "cellar construction" tunnel)
• → See also: Audioweg Gusen
• → See also: Memorial Gusen in Langenstein
• → See also: Gusen visitor center in Langenstein
• → See also: Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial

societies

In Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, a number of associations were established , some of which also extended to the neighboring towns of Langenstein and Luftenberg, as long as there were no independent related activities there. Some groupings are listed below as examples:

• Culture (Working group for the preservation of local history , monuments and history St. Georgen / Gusen, Kulturverein Tribüne - Zeitkultur in 4222)
• Music (Sing Aktiv Community, Marktmusik St. Georgen / Gusen, UNIVOICES - The young choir community)
• Children and youth (local groups of Catholic youth , scouts and friends of children )
• Sport ( shooting club , gymnastics and sports club and nature lovers )
• Social (Red Cross St. Georgen / Gusen)

The cultural association Tribüne has existed since 1986, which defines itself as independent of parties and takes a position on current social and cultural developments, promotes artistic and creative discussions on these topics in order to stimulate awareness-raising, critical questioning and action.

people

Honorary citizen:

• Edmund Guggenberger: community and railway doctor

Daughters and sons, people related to the community:

• Josef Berger (1840–1917), Austrian composer and musician
• Rudolf Burger, Austrian artist
• Karl Derntl (1918–1975), Austrian composer and musician, grew up in Sankt Georgen with his musical family
• Martha Gammer , Austrian homeland researcher, secondary school teacher, author, translator, lives in Sankt Georgen and taught at secondary school
• Louis Häfliger (1904–1993), as a delegate of the ICRC, took the initiative to prevent the aircraft factory from being blown up at the end of the Second World War and contributed significantly to the liberation of the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps . The representations in the literature in this context are controversial.
• Rudolf Haunschmied , Austrian homeland researcher and author, grew up in Sankt Georgen
• Hans Dieter Mairinger (* 1943), Austrian sociologist, dialect poet, grew up in Sankt Georgen and lives there
• Eduard Munninger , Austrian pedagogue, author, musician, founder of the order, was a teacher in Sankt Georgen
• Franz Peterseil , Austrian district inspector of Upper Danube, member of the Greater German Reichstag, was born in Sankt Georgen
• Ottmar Premstaller (1927–2018), veterinarian , calligrapher , graphic artist , bookplate expert and publisher , was a veterinarian in Sankt Georgen and lived in the village

literature

• 200 years of the St. Georgen ad Gusen public primary school . Elementary school St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen, 1996.
• 300 years of extended market law St. Georgen ad Gusen - history book . Market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen. St. Georgen an der Gusen, 1989.
• 700 years of the Church of St. Georg in St. Georgen ad Gusen - parish book . Parish St. Georgen / Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen, 1988.
• 700 years of the market - 500 years of the city of Steyregg . City of Steyregg. Steyregg, 1982.
• Heimatbuch Luftenberg an der Donau . Heimatverein and community of Luftenberg an der Donau. Luftenberg on the Danube, 1997.
• Rudolf A. Haunschmied : St. Georgen an der Gusen - westernmost market in the district . In: Our home - The Perg district . Association for the publication of a district homeland book Perg - communities of the district Perg. Perg, 1995, pp. 326–333.
• Eduard Munninger: The confession of Ambros Hannsen . Verlag Blut und Boden. Goslar, 1937.
• Johann Prinz: Langensteiner Heimatbuch . Langenstein community. Langenstein, 1997.
• St. Georgener Heimatblätter.

Web links

Commons : St. Georgen an der Gusen  - Collection of Images

• Website of the market town
• 41120 - St. Georgen an der Gusen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the municipality of St. Georgen an der Gusen can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Entry on St. Georgen an der Gusen in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Georgen an der Gusen Bibliography on St. Georgen an der Gusen in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The official spelling is specified or shown in the list of the municipalities of the Upper Austrian provincial government on the Internet and on Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Inhabitants by locality (PDF; 8 kB).
3. ↑ Hermann Kohl: The lifeless nature . In: Province of Upper Austria, Office of Upper Austria. State government, culture department. Written: Helga Litschel (Ed.): The Mühlviertel: Nature, Culture, Life / Upper Austrian State Exhibition 1988, May 21 to October 30, 1988 in Weinberg Castle near Kefermarkt. Event from the state of Upper Austria. tape 2 . Province of Upper Austria, Office of Upper Austria. State government, Department of Culture, Linz, p. 41 ff . ( Online [accessed February 8, 2014]).
4. ↑ Martha Gammer: The secret salt route to Bohemia , in: 300 years of extended market rights St. Georgen ad Gusen, market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen, 1989
5. ^ Tacitus , Annalen II, 63.
6. ^ Hans Petrovitsch: Legio II Italica , Research in Lauriacum, Volume 13, Society for Regional Studies in Upper Austria, Linz 2006, ISBN 3-902299-04-5 , p. 289.
7. ^ Anton Gnirs : On the history and geography of Bohemia and Moravia in the time of the Roman Empire. Edition Voggenreiter in Verl. Wiss. Archive. Bonn 1976, p. 73.
8. ↑ Lobomir Niederle and Theodor Saturnik: Slovanske starozitnosti, Vol. 2 . Ceska akademie ved a umeni. Burisk a Kohut, Prague 1925. p. 21.
9. ^ Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Tomus 1, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Budapest 1951. p. 189.
10. ^ Peter Wiesinger: The settlement of Upper Austria in the light of place names. In: Baiern and Slavs in Upper Austria. Series of publications by the Upper Austrian Museum Association for Regional Studies, Volume 10, Linz 1980, ISBN 3-85320-225-X , p. 152.
11. ↑ UBOÖ II, 118
12. ↑ Erik Szameit: Carolingian weapon finds from Austria - Part I: The swords . In: Archaeologia Austriaca . Volume 70. Franz Deuticke Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4580-0 , pp. 385-411.
13. ^ Tradition code of the Hochstift Regensburg
14. ^ Leopold Josef Mayböck : The Machländer area and its history. In: Our home - The district Perg. Association for the publication of a district home book Perg - communities of the district Perg, Perg 1995, pp. 40–46.
15. ↑ Rescriptum of a letter of foundation in which Reginbert von Passau by the hand of the bailiff of Duke Heinrich XI. Bavaria confirmed the exchange of goods in what is now Lower Austria to a ministerial of the Passau Church. Archive of the Herzogenburg Abbey. CanReg 0004
16. ↑ Urbar Passau I, p. 274.
17. ↑ Martha Gammer: The Officium Sancti Georgi of the Middle Ages. In: 300 years of extended market rights St. Georgen ad Gusen. Market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen, 1989
18. ^ Michael Premstaller: Local history of the parish of St. Georgen an der Gusen. In: 70 years of the Raiffeisenkasse St. Georgen an der Gusen. St. Georgen an der Gusen 1966.
19. ↑ See also: Leopold Mayböck and Alfred Höllhuber : The sword mountain market and the Windegg castle. Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring, Schwertberg 1987, p. 78ff.
20. ^ Augustin Hirschvogel: Description of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns. o. O., 1583, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
21. ↑ Martha Gammer: St. Georgen - An old weaving place. In: 300 years of extended market rights St. Georgen ad Gusen. Market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen 1989
22. ↑ Martha Gammer: The St. Georgen farm furniture in the 19th century. In: 300 years of extended market rights St. Georgen ad Gusen. Market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen 1989
23. ^ Franz Lipp: Upper Austrian peasant furniture. Krennmayr & Schieriau, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-218-00428-4 , pp. 264-270.
24. ↑ 200 years of the public primary school in St. Georgen ad Gusen . Elementary school St. Georgen an der Gusen. St. Georgen an der Gusen, 1996.
25. ↑ St. Georgener Heimatblätter . Episode 5. St. Georgen ad Gusen, 1988, p. 51.
26. ^ Rudolf A. Haunschmied: To commemorate 1938–1945. In: 300 years of extended market rights St. Georgen ad Gusen. Market town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, St. Georgen an der Gusen 1989, pp. 73–112.
27. ^ Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7440-8 .
28. ^ Statistics Austria: Population development of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen PDF
29. ↑ ^{a b} 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, Sankt Georgen an der Gusen ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [actual.]).
30. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen population development PDF
31. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen Population status and structure PDF
32. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen Education PDF
33. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics Austria table: A look at the community Demographic data PDF
34. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Elections in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen. PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
35. ↑ Coat of arms of St. Georgen adGusen , land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.
36. ^ DORIS: Community finances Sankt Georgen an der Gusen.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
37. ↑ Culture and Sport - Prize Winner Sankt Georgen an der Gusen ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
38. ↑ City partnership Empoli ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Information on the homepage of the municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen.
39. ↑ Province of Upper Austria, regional database, basic statistical data and key figures: workplaces and employees compared to 1991 (PDF; 8 kB)
40. ↑ Statistics Austria: View of the municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen Employees commuting to their destination (PDF; 7 kB)
41. ↑ State of Upper Austria, regional database, basic statistical data and key figures: Employed persons by economic sector  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
42. ↑ Aktivpark - Lust auf Freizeit ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2012 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. 
43. ↑ Description of hiking trails ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
44. ↑ Gusen visitor center
45. ^ Association list Sankt Georgen an der Gusen ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
46. ↑ Homepage Sing Aktiv Community
47. ↑ Festschrift on the occasion of 150 years of market music  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
48. ^ Kulturverein Tribüne - Zeitkultur in 4222
49. ↑ John Starmühler: Louis Haefliger and the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. A consideration of mediated history in Austria after the Second World War. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Vienna 2008. (Diploma thesis)