Saint Martin near Lofer

Saint Martin near Lofer
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Salzburg
Political District :	Zell am See
License plate :	ZE
Surface:	63.58 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 34 '  N , 12 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '0 "  N , 12 ° 42' 0"  E
Height :	633  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,176 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	5092
Area code :	06588
Community code :	5 06 20
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Martin No. 9 5092 Sankt Martin bei Lofer
Website:	www.stmartin.at
politics
Mayor :	Michael Lackner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2019) (13 members)	8th 5 8th 5  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 8 FSO : 5
Location of Sankt Martin bei Lofer in the Zell am See district
View of St Martin
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Martin bei Lofer is a municipality with 1176 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Salzburger Land in the Zell am See district in Austria .

geography

The community is located in the Loferer Land in the Pinzgauer Saalachtal in the Salzburg region. Until the end of May 1923, the community belonged to the judicial district of Lofer , then until June 2017 to the judicial district of Saalfelden . On July 1, 2017, she was assigned to the judicial district of Zell am See .

Community structure

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

• Gumping (56)
• Kirchental (6)
• Orchards (99)
• Sankt Martin bei Lofer (873)
• Wildental (142)

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

• Obsthurn (3,644.35 ha)
• St. Martin (981.93 ha)
• Wildenthal (1,729.14 ha)

Neighboring communities

One of the five neighboring communities is in Bavaria, two in Tyrol.

	Lofer	Ramsau near Berchtesgaden (Bavaria)
Hochfilzen (Tyrol)
St. Ulrich am Pillersee (Tyrol)	Leogang	Weißbach near Lofer

history

The originally Bavarian Loferer Land belonged to the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg from 1228 and came to Austria in 1816. The parish of St. Martin was established in 1850. In 1939 Lofer and St. Martin were merged to form the large community of Lofer. In 1946 it was again divided into three independent communities: Lofer , St. Martin bei Lofer and Weißbach bei Lofer .

coat of arms

Blazon :

"Shield divided diagonally to the left in blue over red, the dividing line covered with a lowered sword with gold rims, accompanied on the right by a golden infel."

politics

The community council has a total of 13 members.

• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 5 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 4 WPS.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 ÖVP, 4 WPS, and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 5 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 3 WPS, 1 TSM, and 1 GREEN.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, and 5 BFS - Alliance for St. Martin from WPS-SPÖ-Grüne-SBG.

mayor

• 1963–1984 Richard Dürnberger (ÖVP)
• 1984-2004 Ernst Demel (ÖVP)
• 2004–2019 Josef Leitinger (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Michael Lackner (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Martin bei Lofer

• Pilgrimage church Maria Kirchental in a high valley above Sankt Martin built according to plans by the master builder Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach between 1694 and 1701
• Parish church of St. Martin near Lofer
• Saalegg castle ruins
• Pass Luftenstein

Natural monuments

• Strohwollner Gorge
• Vorderkaserklamm
• Prax ice cave

Movies

• St. Martin also served as the filming location for the successful TV series Die Alpenklinik .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anton Faistauer (1887–1930), painter
• Toni Dürnberger (1932–1992), mountaineer and explorer
• Sepp Oberkirchner (1932–2018), politician (SPÖ), trade unionist and SPÖ state party secretary
• Franz Martin Wimmer (* 1942), cultural philosopher
• Helmut Schmuck (* 1963), world champion and multiple national champion in mountain running
• Bernhard Leitinger (* 1990), biathlete
• Roland Leitinger (* 1991), ski racer

See also

• Bayerische Saalforste ( forest enterprise of the Bavarian State Forests )

Web links

Commons : Sankt Martin bei Lofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 50620 - Sankt Martin near Lofer. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Saint Martin near Lofer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
• www.stmartin.at , website of the municipality
• Official website of the Salzburger Saalachtal tourist office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
3. ^ Richard Dürnberger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
4. ↑ Ernst Demel . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
5. ^ Josef Leitinger (mayor) . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
6. ↑ The Alpine Clinic in the Salzburger Saalachtal