St. Johann am Walde

St. Johann am Walde (also Sankt Johann am Walde ) is a municipality with 2042 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in western Upper Austria , in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel . The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

geography

St. Johann am Walde is 623 m above sea level in the Kobernaußerwald . The extension is from north to south 10.6 km, from west to east 7.2 km. The total area is 40 km². 64.5% of the area is forested, 31.5% of the area is used for agriculture.

Neighboring communities

Höhnhart	Aspach	Mettmach ( District Ried im Innkreis )
Maria Schmolln		Lohnsburg am Kobernaußerwald ( District Ried im Innkreis )
	Lengau	Pöndorf * ( Vöcklabruck district )

^∗ Pöndorf only borders on one point

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 23 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Dobl (124)
Frauschereck (208)
Geiereck (70)
Grubmuehl (92)
High (19)
Klafterreith (163)
Obereck (159)
Peretseck (49)
Raucheneck (39)
Roith (41)
Sankt Johann am Walde (256)
Show mountain (104)
Scherfeck (64)
Schlager (208)
Schnaidt (144)
Cutting edge (51)
Schöfeck (24)
Schwandt (34)
Stixeck (95)
Strass (34)
Warleiten (34)
Wind cord (20)
Winkl (10)

The community consists of the cadastral community of St. Johann.

Population development

As of the census of May 15, 2001, the municipality has 2,064 inhabitants, its highest level since the census began. After that, the birth balance remained positive, but emigration increased sharply, so that the population fell to 2,056 in 2011 and to 2,051 in 2018.

Origin of name

The parish church was built at the end of the 13th century in place of a hunting chapel. It is consecrated to St. John the Baptist , from which arose in the dialect Sailiga (blessed) Hans , today it is called Saiga Hans . The place was then also called St. Johann in der Püchen ( S. Johans in der Puechen , 1580).

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms : Shared; Above in green a golden, obliquely left ax and a golden beech leaf, below in gold three red, two-on-one, wide-brimmed hats. The community colors are green-yellow.

The municipal coat of arms approved by the municipal council on March 4, 1983 was created within a competition in the municipality and approved by the Upper Austrian provincial government on April 18, 1983. The ax refers both to the local saint and to the predominant forestry. The beech leaf commemorates the first mention of the place. The red holiday hats in the lower half of the coat of arms were, according to oral tradition, the distinguishing feature of the first clearing settlers , the Spießmoja farmers .

history

The village arose around the church as early as the 13th century and was the center of an important logging area, as the coat of arms shows.

Since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen with the Innviertel (then 'Innbaiern'). Briefly Bavarian again during the Napoleonic Wars , since 1814 it has finally belonged to Upper Austria. 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.

On August 18, 2017, a tent overturned during a fire brigade festival due to a violent gust of wind, killing two people and injuring several.

politics

The municipal council consists of a total of 25 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 SPÖ , 8 ÖVP , and 6 FPÖ .

mayor

until 2009 Ferdinand Reichinger (ÖVP)
since 2009 Gerhard Berger (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Johann am Walde

Local museum

Parish church St. Johann am Walde : A Gothic building in which the nave was extended by two bays in 1852 and the 37 m high west tower was built. In 1903 a side aisle with five bays was added to the south . The neo-Gothic high altar comes from the workshop of Georg Wagner from Braunau and was built in 1909.
Beandhaus St. Johann am Walde: The Beandhaus is the only museum in St. Johann am Walde. The name is derived from the house name of the previous residents. The museum shows the smallest form of an agricultural unit and impressively shows how difficult life used to be. This museum has been open to the public since 1990.
Spießmoja nature reserve: The 'Spießmoja' nature reserve is named after the first settlers in this area, the Spieaßmoja farmers . It consists mainly of a bog in which many rare bog plants can be found.

Regular events

Frauschereck beer tent: It is organized annually, usually in the last week of August, by the Frauschereck volunteer fire department. It lasts three days, with bands playing on Friday and Saturday (evergreens, popular songs ...) and a morning pint on Sunday, with the Sankt Johann music band providing musical entertainment.
Whitsun festival: Organized by the Unionzweigverein Faustball: A so-called fun tournament takes place on Whitsunday. Clubs from the town and the surrounding area give each other the handle when playing fistball.
Parish festival: framed by the Sankt Johann band, the parish organizes a morning pint, which takes place after the morning mass on the parish square.
Maschkerer: This custom takes place both in Sankt Johann and, five days later, in Maria Schmolln . On December 31st, New Year's Eve, masked passports go from house to house. The folk dance group and the theater association have been making a mess for more than 200 years. In recent years, more and more children's groups have come together in the community to imitate the big mines.

Sports

Ski lift in Peretseck
Sportunion St. Johann am Walde
- Branch club fistball (men: 1 × 2nd regional league + 2 × district league; women: 2 × district league)
- UFC Saiga Hans (2nd class west)
- Table tennis section
- Tennis section
- Alpine skiing section
Golf course

and another 20 clubs

economy

In 2010 there were 114 agricultural and forestry businesses in the municipality of St. Johann am Walde, 52 of which were full-time businesses. In the secondary economic sector, 24 companies employed 171 people, around two thirds of them in construction and one third in the manufacture of goods. In the tertiary economic sector, 61 companies gave work to 215 people. St. Johann am Walde is a commuter community; the 133 inbound commuters were compared to 786 outbound commuters (as of 2011).

education

In St. Johann am Walde there is a school center with two schools and a music school:

kindergarten
Elementary school
New middle school
music school

Personalities

Georg Stempfer (1887–1936), politician ( CSP )

Web links

Commons : Sankt Johann am Walde - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Community side
Further information about the municipality of St. Johann am Walde can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ 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

^ Province of Upper Austria - Geographical data for the municipality of St. Johann am Walde .

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of St. Johann am Walde, population development. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .

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