St. Pantaleon-Erla

St. Pantaleon-Erla (also Sankt Pantaleon-Erla ) is a municipality with 2627 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria .

geography

St. Pantaleon-Erla is located on the western border of Lower Austria in the Mostviertel, east of the confluence of the Enns Canal into the Danube. The community was formed in 1971 from the two previously independent clustered villages. The municipality area is 28 km² and 28.92% of the municipality area is forested, the NE border of the municipality is the Danube.

Community structure

Cadastral communities , which are also towns of the same name, are (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Erla (13.76 km², 830 Ew.) Including Breitfeld, Dorf, Engelberg, Klein-Erla, Öttl, Weinberg and Weingarten
St. Pantaleon (14.56 km², 1797 Ew.) Including Albing, Arthof, Marksee, Pyburg , Stein, Stögen and Wagram

In addition to the two localities and the two villages of Klein Erla and Pyburg, there are 13 smaller districts and several individual locations.

Neighboring communities

Mauthausen ( Perg district , Upper Austria )		Naarn im Machlande ( Perg district , Upper Austria )
Enns ( Linz-Land district , Upper Austria ) Ennsdorf
	St. Valentine	Strengberg

Parish name

St. Pantaleon: In 1423 the first documentary evidence of settlement can be found with Sant Pentlian. Another source names the place in 1458 Sand Pantholeen. The term is derived from the patron saint of the church built here, St. Pantaleon.

Erla: The name is originally a water body name meaning "by the river whose bank is overgrown with alders". The place is mentioned for the first time in the years 1090/1104 as "de Herlaha".

history

In ancient times, the area was part of the Noricum province . In the district of Albing are the remains of a Roman legionary camp from the late 2nd century; in the district of Stein, the walls of a cohort fort from the 1st century were found in 2017 . In the district of Ziegelfeld, a Roman brick kiln was excavated in the 1960s. Ancient bricks were found on the Erla in earlier years. The field name, "Ziegelfeld", goes back to these finds. From 1200 to 1400 St. Pantaleon was called Zwieselkirchen and was the seat of a lordship, while Erla had been the seat of a Benedictine monastery from the 12th century, which was dissolved in 1583.

On January 1, 1971, the two political communities of St. Pantaleon and Erla, which were established in 1850, voluntarily merged to form the community of “St. Pantaleon Erla "".

coat of arms

In a silver shield, which is crowned by a shield head showing a red wall and covered with the golden Roman number II, an upright blue hammer with a golden handle, over two blue wavy bars in the shield base, accompanied by two crossing golden ears of corn.

Population development

According to the results of the 2001 census, there were 2,465 inhabitants. In 1991 the municipality had 2,208 inhabitants, in 1981 1,997 and in 1971 1,949 inhabitants.

Community partnerships

Sillé-le-Guillaume : The relationship between the Musikverein Erla and Sillé le Guillaume, near Le Mans, France, resulted in an official partnership between the two municipalities of St. Pantaleon-Erla and Sillé-le-Guillaume in 1990.

politics

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The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 SPÖ and 9 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 SPÖ, 9 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 9 ÖVP and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

until 2015 Rudolf Bscheid (SPÖ)
since 2015 Rudolf Divinzenz (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Pantaleon in Lower Austria

Erla Castle

Parish Church of Erla

Parish church of St. Pantaleon in Lower Austria with a crypt from the 12th century
Erla Castle (former monastery, oldest women's monastery in Lower Austria)
Parish church Erla (former monastery church, built 1121 to 1138)

economy

In 2001 there were 68 non-agricultural workplaces, and according to the 1999 survey there were 84 in agriculture and forestry. The number of people in work at home was 1,185 according to the 2001 census.

After the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant, the second nuclear power plant in Austria was to be built in St. Pantaleon . This power plant was planned to pave the way for a " Ruhr area on the Enns ". A refinery, acrylic plant, and other industries would follow. With the resolution of the “Atomic Lockdown Act” , these plans could no longer be implemented.

societies

Erla Music Association
St. Pantaleon Music Association
Schuhplattler u. Traditional costume club
Village community Erla
The fire department consists of the two volunteer fire departments Erla and St. Pantaleon with a total of around 180 members. Both fire brigades are combined with the Ennsdorf volunteer fire brigade to form the Ennsdorf / St. Pantaleon subsection.
Football club SC St. Pantaleon-Erla

Personalities

Wolfger von Erla (1140–1218), was appointed Bishop of Passau in 1191. Influential man, worked u. a. helped to resolve the conflict with Richard I Lionheart , sponsor of the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide
Joseph Redlhamer (1713–1761), Jesuit, Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and university professor
Josef Leeb (1921–2005), born in Erla , Austrian Kapellmeister , founder of the Lower Austrian Brass Music Association (NÖBV) and the Austrian Brass Music Association (ÖBV). 1st President of the ÖBV.