St. Veit in the Mühlkreis

St. Veit in the Mühlkreis
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Surface:	16.33 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 28 '  N , 14 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '6 "  N , 14 ° 9' 50"  E
Height :	686  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,247 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	76 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4173
Area code :	07217
Community code :	4 13 37
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Veit iM 3 4173 St. Veit im Mühlkreis
Website:	www.st-veit.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayoress :	Elisabeth Rechberger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	13 4th 2 13 4th 2  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 13 FPÖ : 4 SPÖ : 2
Location of St. Veit im Mühlkreis in the Rohrbach district
View from the Waxenberg castle ruins to St. Veit
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Veit im Mühlkreis (also Sankt Veit im Mühlkreis ) is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel with 1247 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach .

geography

St. Veit im Mühlkreis lies at an altitude of 686  m above sea level. A. in the east of the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel . In terms of the nature conservation spatial structure, the southern part of the municipality belongs to the Central Mühlviertler Hochland spatial unit , while the northeastern part of the southern Bohemian Forest foothills . The extension is 9.3 km from north to south, around 3.0 km from west to east, the total area is 16.33 km². St. Veit im Mühlkreis is in the middle of the range of municipalities in the district. With 74 inhabitants per km², the municipality was again in the upper third of the municipalities in the district in 2013. The municipality extends over an average height of 600 to 700 meters, with the highest point of the municipality on the eastern slope of the Hansberg at around 840 meters. The lowest point is around 520 meters in the southern municipal area. In 2001, 27.2 percent of the municipal area was forested, 66.7 percent of the area was used for agriculture. In comparison with the federal state of Upper Austria, St. Veit in the Mühlkreis is significantly less forested than the regional average (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent) and there is significantly more agricultural land (Upper Austria: 49.3 percent). The proportion of other uses (construction areas, gardens, bodies of water and other) is 6.2 percent, well below the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. Neighboring communities are Helfenberg in the north, St. Johann am Wimberg in the west, Niederwaldkirchen in the south-west, Herzogsdorf in the south and south-east and Oberneukirchen in the east (both districts of Urfahr-Umgebung ).

Geology and soils

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan mountain formation in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ). After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, the crystalline basement was abolished by several 100 meters during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary , causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods , which filled the hollow forms of the relief and solid rock (predominantly granite and gneiss) only stood on the heights or flanks of incised valleys. What remained was a hull landscape with a flat, wavy relief and gentle slope and hilltop shapes. In addition to the Hansberg in the west, whose eastern slope lies in the municipality, the western slope of the Schallenberg in the north of the municipality also extends over 800 meters above sea level.

The starting material for soil formation are igneous rocks such as granites (Mauthausener and Weinsberger granite), dike rocks (pegmatites, aplites, etc.) and shell rocks (pearl gneiss, basic mixed gneisses, slate gneisses). The soils are generally light, poor in base and acidic. Agricultural areas usually have medium-sized, moderately dry or deep lime-free soils that are well supplied with water and consist of rocky brown soils made of fine-grained silicate rock (Mauthausen granite, pearl gneiss) or of coarse-grained silicate rock (Weinsberg granite or porphyry gneiss). The sandy-loamy rock-brown soils are only partially interspersed with individual larger stones. Pseudo-gleyed loose sediment brown soils and relict pseudogleye can also be found on the leveled areas. Furthermore, there are in wells and trenches through groundwater and slope water influenced gleyed unconsolidated sediment brown earth and Gleye . In addition, there are lime-free gley soils in the valley area of ​​the streams.

Landscape and vegetation

The municipality of St. Veit can be divided into four landscape areas. In the extreme north is the wooded southern slope of the Schallenberg, whereby there is a closed forest area with predominantly spruce monocultures with a deciduous forest edge. Settlements are only available as islands. Just like the extreme north, the area of ​​the Kleiner Rodltal that adjoins it in the south is also part of the “Southern Bohemian Forest Foothills”. The Rodltal extends from the south of the Schallenberg along the eastern border of the municipality to the south. The area has a slightly hilly structure and altitudes between 560 and 710 meters. The area has a small proportion of forest with predominantly coniferous forests; intensive grassland management with a focus on mowing dominates agriculture. The moist and wet extensive grassland is limited to a few remaining areas. In the center of the municipal area is the settlement-dominated St. Veiter hill country, which also belongs to the southern Bohemian Forest foothills. The sub-area has a strong relief and ranges from 560 to 840 meters above sea level. Characteristic for the area are the large forest areas, which can be found especially on the more steep slopes. Here, too, it is mainly coniferous forests, while intensive grassland farming with isolated arable farming predominates in agriculture. The settlement structure is characterized by the largely closed settlement core of the main town St. Veit. In the south of the municipality there is an intensively used meadow and arable land belonging to the Central Mühlviertel highlands, which extends between 520 and 690 meters above sea level. There are only smaller coniferous forests here, while grassland that is intensively used in agriculture dominates with isolated agriculture.

Waters

The most important body of water in the municipality is the Kleine Rodl , which rises in the north of the municipality on Schallenberg and forms almost the entire eastern border as well as parts of the southern border of the municipality of St. Veit. The Kleine Rodl drains its catchment area towards the south, taking in some less important streams on its way. The Sauladbach rises in the neighboring municipality of St. Johann am Wimberg and in parts forms the western border of the municipality before it flows into the Kleine Rodl. The running waters in the area of ​​the municipality of St. Veit are hardly influenced or regulated by river engineering and run in the forest or with mostly continuous woodland.

Districts of the municipality

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

• Grubdorf (78)
• Grubdorf Settlement (25)
• Haslhof (75)
• Kepling (191)
• Koenigsdorf (0)
• Rammerstorf (44)
• Rechberg (63)
• Schindlberg (20)
• St. Veit im Mühlkreis (670)
• Windhag (52)
• Woegersdorf (29)

history

Originally under the feudal sovereignty of the Passau bishops, the place was several times during the Napoleonic Wars . a. occupied by Bavaria . Since 1814, the place finally belongs 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.

Originally, the community was part of the Neufelden judicial district from 1850 , but after its dissolution it was added to the Rohrbach judicial district on January 1, 2003.

→ St. Veit Castle

population

Population structure

In 2014, 1212 people lived in the municipality of St. Veit in the Mühlkreis, placing St. Veit in the middle of the 42 municipalities in the district. In terms of population density, the municipality with 74 inhabitants per km² was in the upper third of the municipalities in the district area. In 2001, 99.6 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), until the beginning of 2013 the figure remained at 98.1 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent) ) remains high. In 2013, only 23 foreigners were counted in the municipality, all of whom were citizens of a European country or two-thirds belonged to an EU country. The 39 citizens of the municipality who were not born in Austria were all born in a European country. In 2001, 96.5 percent of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent), 2.2 percent were without confession, 0.4 were Protestant.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was roughly the national average. 18.8 percent of the residents of St. Veit were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.2 percent), 62.9 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 18.3 percent, below the national average of 20.2 percent. As a result, the average age of the population of St. Veit changed in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 16.2 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between 15 and 59 years of age increased significantly to 68.5 percent. The proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 15.3 percent. According to their marital status, in 2001 46.0 percent of the residents of St. Veit were single, 45.7 percent married, 6.2 percent widowed and 2.1 percent divorced.

Population development

The population of the community of St. Veit shrank by 23 percent between 1869 and 1939. While 1294 people lived in St. Veit in 1869, in 1939, after a continuous shrinking process, there were only 999 people. As a result, the population development stagnated until the beginning of the 1960s, with the lowest population level being recorded in 1961 with 988 inhabitants. From the 1960s onwards, the number of inhabitants began to rise again, which in 2013 again exceeded the 1200 inhabitants mark. The population growth since the 1970s has been based primarily on the positive birth balance , although there was slight emigration in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, however, both the birth balance and the migration balance were positive. The positive birth balance persisted even after the turn of the millennium, while the migration balance has been almost balanced since then.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council, as the highest body of the municipality, has 19 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The municipality board consists of five members.

The 2015 election resulted in the following:

• Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 13 seats
• Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 4 mandates
• Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 2 mandates

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . The mayor Franz Hehenberger (ÖVP), who has been in office since 1985, won the first direct election with 78.0 percent against the SPÖ candidate. In 2003, too, the result of 87.1 percent against the SPÖ candidate was clear. Hehenberger was replaced in 2007 by his party colleague Elisabeth Rechberger, who was confirmed in office in 2009 with 88.9 percent and in 2015 with 87.3 percent.

Mayor since 1850:

Term of office	Surname	Term of office	Surname
1850-1861	Michael Osberger	1934-1938	Franz Haudum
1861-1864	Kaspar Birngruber	1938	Karl Klapper
1864-1883	Johann Schaubmayr	1938-1945	Leopold Dimml
1883-1886	Leopold Rammerstorfer	1945–1955	Michael Prammer
1886-1889	Mathias Rammerstorfer	1955-1970	Franz Lindorfer
1889-1890	Leopold Rammerstorfer	1970-1985	Michael Prammer
1890-1895	Georg Gerstberger	1985-2007	Franz Hehenberger
1895	Johann Hackl	since 2007	Elisabeth Rechberger
1895-1919	Josef Pühringer
1919-1921	Johann Rammerstorfer
1921-1924	Johann Haudum
1924-1930	Jakob Rechberger
1930-1934	Franz Hofbauer

Other options

As in municipal council elections, the ÖVP also dominates regional elections in the municipality, although the dominance of the People's Party has declined. Nevertheless, the ÖVP has always been able to become the party with the strongest vote since 1945, and before 1985 it even had a two-thirds majority. The ÖVP achieved its best result in 1945 with 83.9 percent, as a result, between 1949 and 1985 it was able to record between 69.6 and 79.4 percent of the votes. After that, however, the ÖVP's share of the vote fell to 58.8 to 63.5 percent, with the ÖVP recording its worst result so far in 2003 with 58.8 percent. The second strongest party in state elections was always the SPÖ, which achieved election results between 15.5 and 25.0 percent. The SPÖ had its best result in 1967, its worst in 2009. The third strongest party was always the FPÖ, which in 1949 as WdU initially achieved 9.9 percent, but subsequently remained below around 4 percent until 1985. Since 1991, however, the FPÖ has achieved results between 8.6 and 15.2 percent. In the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came first with 61.7 percent and its second-worst result to date. The SPÖ only got 15.5 percent and had to give up around 9 percent of its 2003 votes. The FPÖ achieved their second-best result to date with 13.3 percent, the Greens came in at 6.9 percent.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was determined by the municipal council on December 5, 1969, as were the municipal colors. The award of the municipal coat of arms and the approval of the municipal colors determined by the municipal council finally took place by resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government on April 20, 1970. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: Above a blue shield base, inside a gold, six-pointed star, in gold a black, red tongued, standing male with a silver, black ringed collar. The community colors are blue and white. The dog in the municipal coat of arms is reminiscent of a memorial stone on the former Schlossbräuhaus that Siegmund Hager had his dog Delfin put in place in 1612. The dog was already used as a community stamp in the community of St. Veit before 1938, while the gold star in the blue base of the coat of arms stands for the coat of arms of the Steger and their successor, the Hager von Allentsteig, who owned the St. Veit moated castle until 1758. Herbert Erich Baumert from Linz designed the coat of arms.

Economy and Infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

In 2011 St. Veit im Mühlkreis housed 103 workplaces with 258 employees, with only one company employing 20 or more people. The most important employer was the trade with 18 workplaces and 22 percent of the employees, followed by the production of goods with eight companies and 20 percent of the employees and the agriculture and forestry with 36 workplaces and 18 percent of the employees. Of the 629 economically active persons living in St. Veit im Mühlkreis in 2011, only 0.5 percent were unemployed. Of the 623 employed, 110 were employed in manufacturing (18 percent), 102 in trading (16 percent) and 57 in construction (9 percent). Other important sectors were public administration and health and social services with 9 percent each, and agriculture and forestry with 6 percent. Of the 604 employed persons in St. Veit (excluding residents temporarily absent from work), 148 people were employed in St. Veit in 2011. 456 or 75.5 percent had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 52 percent had their place of work in the provincial capital Linz , another 16 percent commuted to the Urfahr-Umgebung district and 11 percent to the Rohrbach district. In return, 79 people commuted to St. Veit.

Agriculture and Forestry

The statistics showed 71 agricultural and forestry operations for the municipality of St. Veit im Mühlkreis 2010. These included 28 full-time businesses and 37 part-time businesses as well as three businesses each of legal persons or associations of persons. The total number of businesses had fallen by 22 businesses or 24 percent compared with 1999, with the number of part-time businesses in particular falling sharply. In 2010, the farms cultivated a total of 1350 hectares, with 69 percent of the area being farmed by full-time farmers and 22 percent by part-time farmers. The average area of ​​full-time farmers was 33.4 hectares, just below the district average (34.7 hectares) or the Upper Austrian average of 33.8 hectares.

Transport and infrastructure

The municipality of St. Veit is essentially connected to the regional transport network by two state roads. The Hansberg Landesstraße (L 581) connects St. Veit with St. Johann am Wimberg in the north, Waxenberg (municipality Oberneukirchen ) in the east and Neußerling (municipality Herzogsdorf ) in the south as well as with Gramastetten . The Hansberg Landesstraße leads in the extreme north of the municipality from the municipality of Helfenberg to the municipality of St. Johann am Wimberg, where the road at Fürling leaves the municipality and then crosses the extreme north of the municipality of St. Veit with the village of Rechberg. The road then reaches the community of Oberneukirchen and the village of Waxenberg, via which the road at the village of Grubdorf-Siedlung in the east leads back to the municipality of St. Veit. The road then leads to St. Veit and reaches the southeast of the municipality via Kepling, where the road leaves the municipality and continues to Neußerling. In the main town of St. Veit, Herzogsdorfer Straße (L 1511) branches off to the west from Hansberg Landesstraße. It leads to the Schindlberg and connects St. Veit with Niederwaldkirchen .

Safety and health

In St. Veit there is a local office of the Red Cross Austria, which looks after the catchment communities St. Veit and St. Johann as well as the majority of the municipality of Oberneukirchen with around 5000 inhabitants and an area of ​​65 km². The local office organizes ambulance, ambulance and taxi ambulances as well as first aid courses, courses for caring relatives as well as training and events. The local office was founded in 1946 as a non-car-driving agency and received its own ambulance in 1954. In July 1998, today's office building was opened. In addition, the social welfare association Rohrbach organizes services in the community such as personal help through care, support and advice for those in need through social services, help in inpatient facilities, cash and material benefits for those in need and help with work.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Veit im Mühlkreis

The listed buildings of the community are all on Schnopfhagenplatz in the center of the community. The parish church consecrated to St. Vitus has Romanesque remains, but is influenced by the late Gothic period and has a late historical interior. The neighboring rectory has elements from the 18th and 19th centuries, while the former elementary school was given its shape by a renovation carried out in 1854. The old office building and the local history museum, which temporarily served as the municipal office, are also listed. The listed Marian column was built on the church forecourt and consists of a column from 1738 and a modern statue of the Virgin.

• Catholic parish church St. Veit im Mühlkreis hl. Vitus
• St. Veit Castle , former moated castle, demolished in 2003

Sports

The sporting interests of the community are organized by the St. Veit Sports Union, which maintains the football, stick sports, skiing, tennis, judo and popular sports sections. The football team of the St. Veit Sports Union will play in the 2nd class north-west, the lowest class of the Upper Austrian Football Association, in the 2014/15 season. The sports union soccer field is located in Schulgasse.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hans Pramer (1882–1943), railroad worker and resistance fighter
• Sieglinde Gahleitner (* 1965), lawyer, member of the Constitutional Court since 2010

Personalities associated with the community

• Hedwig Haudum (1920–1990), composer, local poet and dialect author
• Hans Schnopfhagen (1845–1908), composer, local poet and teacher

Web links

Commons : St. Veit im Mühlkreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41337 - St. Veit in the Mühlkreis. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of St. Veit im Mühlkreis on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

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. ↑ ^{a b c d} Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Landscape survey of the municipality of St. Veit in the Mühlkreis. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2007
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. Population levels in Upper Austria in comparison by citizenship 
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics Austria community data from St. Veit im Mühlkreis
7. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. Resident population in Upper Austria compared by age group 
8. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of St. Veit in the Mühlkreis, population development. Retrieved April 24, 2019 . 
9. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 24, 2019 . 
10. ^ Province of Upper Austria election result in mayoral elections in St. Veit im Mühlkreis
11. ^ Province of Upper Austria Mayor of the municipality of St. Veit since 1850
12. ↑ Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 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. State election results in St. Veit im Mühlkreis from 1945 
13. ^ State of Upper Austria coat of arms of St. Veit in the Mühlkreis
14. ↑ Parish of St. Veit, Red Cross local office
15. ^ Union St. Veit in the Mühlkreis