Saxen

market community

Saxen

coat of arms Austria map

Basic data

Country: Austria

State : Upper Austria

Political District : Perg

License plate : PE

Surface: 19 km²

Coordinates : 48 ° 12 ' N , 14 ° 47' E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '21 " N , 14 ° 47' 29" E48.205833333333 14.791388888889 242

Height : 242 m above sea level A.

Residents : 1,756 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code : 4351

Area code : 07269

Community code : 4 11 23

NUTS region AT313

Address of the
municipal administration: Municipal administration of SaxenSaxen 77
4351 Saxen

Website: www.saxen.at

politics

Mayor : Erwin Neubauer ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(19 members)

8th

6th

5

8th 6th 5

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 8
FPÖ : 6
SPÖ : 5

Location of Saxen in the district of Perg

Markt Saxen southern part

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Saxen is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Perg in the Mühlviertel with 1756 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

The municipality has belonged to the judicial district of Perg since 2003 (previously to the former judicial district of Grein ) and the responsible district court is in Perg .

geography

Saxen lies at 242 m above sea level. A. in the eastern Machland on the Danube . The extension is 5.9 km from north to south and 6.4 km from west to east. The total area is 18.9 km², 23.8% of the area is forested, 57.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 16 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Au (280)
Dornach (126)
Eizenau (19)
Eizendorf (2)
Business park (0)
Hofkirchen (227)
Knappetsberg (17)
Latvians (38)
Oberbergen (5)
Patzenhof (62) including Gschwendt
Reitberg (45)
Saxen (721) including Kirchbichl
Saxendorf (33)
Solar park (0)
Wetzelsdorf (181) including Winkelgraben

The community consists of the two cadastral communities Eizendorf and Saxen.

Neighboring communities

	Klam	Bad crosses
Baumgartenberg		Grein
	Ardagger (Lower Austria)

coat of arms

Blazon :

"In green and a silver shield base, a silver stork, ready to fly, turned left, with black wing covers, an open red beak and red legs."

The municipality colors are green-white-black.

Place name

The place name Saxen , first documented in 823, is of patronymic origin as the founding of a man named Sahso (the popular derivations from the Latin word saxum for rock are not valid). As an ethnonym, the personal name Sahso , "the Saxon" (Germ. Sahsan), refers to a Saxon origin of the founder. From this alone one cannot infer a general settlement of the place by Saxony. However, there were such settlements of Saxons in the Frankish Empire in Carolingian times.

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

timeline

823: in the document Confirmatio Ludovici Pii , King Ludwig the Pious hands over "in saxinam basilicas duas" to the diocese of Passau (together with Ried , Naarn , Ardagger , Wachau , Traismauer etc.)
1111: first documented mention as Sahssinchirchinn
1147: Donation of the parish by Bishop Reginbert von Passau to the Waldhausen monastery
1787: the most devastating fire in the history of Saxen also destroyed all archives in the parish office
1798: The church in Hofkirchen, which was closed in 1784 by Emperor Joseph II

1805: the passage of the French Mertier division triggers the first of a series of violent and fatal epidemics that lasted until 1810

1850: Founding of the communities Saxen, Letten (incorporated in 1875) and Eizendorf (incorporated in 1938)

1869: the post office is opened, which also offers a savings bank service (1883), telegraph service (1902) and telephone service (1909)

1880: Opening of the new, large school building opposite the parish church

1881: first mention of the band Saxen that at the wedding reception of Crown Prince Rudolf airs

1894: the fire brigade association Dornach , which later moves to Saxen, is initiated by the quarry owner Anton Schlepitzka. The Eizendorf fire brigade was founded in 1902, and the Reitberg fire brigade in 1931

1894: Anton Schlepitzka builds the crypt chapel near Dornach, where his wife from St. Nikola, who died in 1892, and 8 relatives from an abandoned Viennese cemetery are transferred

1898: Opening of the Saxen train station on the Danube shore line from Mauthausen to Grein

1922: Engineer Karl Lamberts builds a glass factory which, however , had to cease operations again in 1929 with the global economic crisis

1954: The flood of the century in 1954 leads to the construction of the Dornach pumping station

1962: Since that year the popular white storks have been nesting on the roof of the old elementary school , which in 1980 even found their way into the Saxon coat of arms

1972: the first Saxen sports club, the Turn- und Sportunion Saxen, is founded, and in 1978 the curling club ASKÖ Dornach follows

1980: Market survey on June 2, 1980 by the Upper Austrian provincial government

1997: Establishment of the Strindberg Museum

2002: The floods in Central Europe in 2002 lead to the evacuation of Eizendorf, the emergence of new localities (Eizenau, Wetzelsdorf-West, further Hochfeld in the neighboring municipality of Baumgartenberg) and the construction of the Machland dam

Document mentions

The following first documentary mentions are sorted by date and supplemented with a derivation of the individual place names:

Saxen 823, the settlement founded by a person named Sahso

Saxendorf 1209, 1230, the village near Saxen

Eizendorf 1209, settlement of a person named Itzo

Latvians: 1214 (mention of a Chunradus de Ledden), the place name was derived from the clay layers

Hofkirchen 1230 (reference to a capella in Hofchirchen ), possibly indirect mention in 823 as the second church in Saxen. Unfortunately it is no longer possible to determine which farm the name Hofkirchen referred to

Knappetsberg 1230 (naming a Schroto de Chnapperberge), refers to miners

Goddess 1240

Wetzelsdorf 1315, 1322, settlement of a person named Wetzili

Reitberg 1318, 1380, mountain with several clearings

Au 1353, 1380, one of the many floodplains along the Danube, which was only finally regulated in the 19th century

Froschau 1335, meaningful name for a meadow with many frogs

Dornach 1455, 1490, area with many thorn bushes ( high-rise , the old name of the noble residence Dornach, but was mentioned as early as 1382)

Patzenhof 1634, 1650 (Patzenhauss), 1658, the name refers to the coin Batzen, which appeared in the 15th century, with reference to taxes to be paid in the corresponding monetary value

Oberbergen 1785, Josephine name for several courtyards located there

politics

The municipal council of the market town has a total of 19 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 6 FPÖ and 5 SPÖ.

mayor

1991–2015 Ernst Haslinger (FPÖ)
since 2015 Erwin Neubauer (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Saxental Castle
Catholic parish church Saxen St. Stephen: clearing church from the 9th / 10th centuries. Century, Romanesque main nave from the 12th century, Gothic choir around 1421 (with 2 original Gothic glass panes) and a side nave completed around 1530
Strindbergmuseum Saxen : The museum is dedicated to the Swedish writer August Strindberg (1849–1912); On display is a documentation of the works that were created in Saxen between 1893 and 1896, during which the author stayed several times in Saxen and Klam. The Strindbergmuseum in Saxen is the only museum outside Sweden dedicated to the world-famous author.
Nature information center: Information center operated by the nature conservation association Machland Nord , which provides information on the fauna and flora of the Machland region.
Kulturzentrum Sturmmühle: is a privately owned mill museum with a theme park in Saxen am Klambach, south of the exit of the Klamschlucht, which has been in existence since 2012 and also houses a gallery, a literature cabinet and a guest and accommodation facility. The completely renovated mill was first mentioned in a document in the 16th century, was in operation until the last decades of the 20th century and is still functional.
Klamschlucht with hiking trail

Population development

In 1990 the community had 1606 inhabitants according to the census, then in 2000 it had 1783 inhabitants. Due to the August floods in 2002 and the resettlements that followed, the number of inhabitants was reduced to 1700 and then rose steadily again in the years that followed. In 2010 the community had 1731 inhabitants.

Personalities

August Strindberg 1899, drawing by Carl Larsson

August Strindberg (1849–1912), Swedish writer, stayed in Saxen several times from 1893–1896

Frida Strindberg-Uhl (1872–1943) was briefly married to August Strindberg and lived in Saxen in or near Dornach Castle during this time

Johann Kühberger (1852–1941), farmer in Saxen, deputy member of the Upper Austria Railway Council and the Perg District School Council, Klam City Council, member of the provisional state assembly from November 18, 1918 to May 15, 1919

Friedrich Strindberg (1897–1978), Swedish-German journalist, grew up in Saxen

Josef Leonhartsberger (1907–1995), farmer and politician, chairman of the warehouse cooperative Grein, board member of Warenvermittlung Upper Austria, municipality board and council of Saxen, board member of the Raiffeisenverband Oberösterreich, chamber council of Upper Austria. Chamber of Agriculture, board member of the Baumgartenberg dairy cooperative, member of the state parliament from 1945 to 1949, holder of the silver Raiffeisen badge.

Johann Schmitt (* 1950), tax officer, musician and board member of the brass band, holder of the Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria

Franz Asanger (* 1958), theologian and Germanist , local researcher (Heimatbuch Mitterkirchen . A historical portrait of the Machland community. Published by the market community of Mitterkirchen im Machland, Linz 1999), amateur photographer in the photo club VHS-AK Perg, from 2000 to 2013 head of the Episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum and since then head of the school administration of the Diocese of Linz

Johann Redl (* 1958), car salesman and hobby stuntman

Friedrich Buchmayr (* 1959), author, librarian, Germanist and publicist, deals with Strindberg and designed the Strindberg Museum

Web links

Commons : Saxen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Saxen in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
More information about the municipality of Saxen on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
41123 Saxen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Official website of the municipality of Saxen
Literature about Saxen in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

literature

Franz Achleitner (Ed.): Small home book Saxen. Festschrift for the market survey celebration in 1981. Saxen 1981.
Dehio Handbook : The Art Monuments of Austria, Upper Austria. Volume 1: Mühlviertel. Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 , pp. 800–805.
Benno Ulm : Austrian art monograph. Volume V: The Mühlviertel. Salzburg 1971, DNB 364728698 , pp. 200-202.