Schönegg (Upper Austria)

Schönegg ( cadastral parish, former parish) Cadastral municipality Schönegg (Upper Austria)
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Urfahr-Umgebung  (UU), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Rohrbach
Pole. local community	Vorderweissenbach
Coordinates	48 ° 34 '16 "  N , 14 ° 10' 22"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '16 "  N , 14 ° 10' 22"  E
height	852  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H.	569 (2017)
Building status	218 (2017)
Area  d. KG	10 km²
Post Code	4184
prefix	+ 43/07216
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	47325
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Schönegg was a municipality and is now a cadastral municipality of Vorderweißbach in the upper Mühlviertel ( Upper Austria ). The eponymous town of Schönegg is also located there.

In the area of ​​the cadastral municipality, the municipality of Schönegg existed until December 31, 2017, with the incorporation into Vorderweißbach, the area fell from the Rohrbach district to the Urfahr-Umgebung district , which shifted the district boundaries.

geography

Schönegg lies at an altitude of 852  m above sea level. A. in the northeast of the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel . The community is located on the stone mill on the southern edge of the Bohemian Forest . In terms of the nature conservation spatial structure, the southern Bohemian Forest foothills extend almost over the entire municipality. In the north-east and with small parts in the north-west, the area also forms part of the Bohemian Forest . In the extreme south, the area touches the spatial unit of the Central Mühlviertel highlands . The extension is 4.8 km from north to south, 5.6 km from west to east, the total area is 10.21 km².

In 2001 33.1% of the area was forested, 63.1% was used for agriculture. Compared to the federal state of Upper Austria, Schönegg is slightly less forested than the regional average (Upper Austria: 36.9%) or there is significantly more agricultural land (Upper Austria: 49.3%). The share of other uses (construction areas, gardens, bodies of water and others) is 5.8%, below the Upper Austrian average of 13.8%.

Geology and soils

The landscape of the municipality is a part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range, which 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 . In a narrower sense, the area is part of the granite and gneiss highlands that lie on the arched southern edge of the Bohemian rock massif.

The soil types in the area are in particular Silkiat brown earths (acidic brown and bleached earth soils) over thick to less thick clay covers. These show an increasing podsolization with increasing height and are converted to gley , moor and peat soils when waterlogged. In the case of stronger soil removal is pending rock or the typical grusige Zersatz which is popularly known as "Flinz" to light. It is a weathered layer with a loamy-gritty consistency.

Landscape and vegetation

The area of ​​the cadastral community of Schönegg is a gently sloping hilly landscape with various slopes and exposures, with the Steinerne Mühl representing a striking valley cut. The lowest point of the cadastral community at around 650 meters is on the valley floor of the Steinernen Mühl near the village of Mühlholz, the highest at 975 meters on the forest slope near Schönegg, with the slopes in between being cultivated in a terrace-like manner. The forest areas in the cadastral community are diffusely distributed over the area, predominantly coniferous and coniferous forests with dominant spruce and acid-loving undergrowth (blackberry, bilberry). There are hardly any pure deciduous forests, although hardwoods are found mainly on the edges of the forest (beeches, occasionally English oaks and, in damp locations, ash, black alder and sycamore maple).

Agriculture is focused on grassland management, arable farming is only practiced occasionally. On the other hand, there is hardly any extensive lean grassland, mainly wet meadows and isolated orchards. On the other hand, the area has a high proportion of structural elements such as stone walls and hedges, while the flowing waters are partly continuous and have woody banks on both banks.

Waters

The main body of water in the area of ​​the cadastral community is the Steinerne Mühl, whose catchment area includes most of the flowing waters of Schönegg. The Steinerne Mühl flows from northwest to southeast and leaves the community in a westerly direction. The other bodies of water are predominantly smaller forest or meadow streams, most of which, apart from a few local pipelines and barriers, run naturally. In addition, there are numerous ponds of various sizes and configurations that have a natural to natural design.

Locations in the cadastral community

Population of the localities
place	2001	2011	2017
Guglwald	091	083	092
Koeckendorf	048	055	051
Millwood	044	040	039
Piberschlag	318	289	337
Schönegg	053	051	050

There are five districts in the cadastral community of Schönegg. The main town of the former community is Rotte Schönegg ( 852  m above sea level ), which extends along a road in the northeast of the area. In 2001, however, Schönegg comprised only 24 buildings with one workplace and 12 agricultural and forestry operations, with just ten percent of the population living here. The hamlets of Grubhäusl and Sternhäusl on the Czech border and the wasteland of Gugler to the west of Schönegg are also counted as part of Schönegg.

The largest settlement in the cadastral community is Rotte Piberschlag ( 700  m above sea level ). The Rotte is located in the southeast of the area, with the Rotte extending along Rohrbacher Straße B 38 and north of it. Piberschlag also includes the hamlet Plankenmauer in the extreme southeast of the municipality, the hamlet Hintermühl north of Piberschlag and the Reifmühle east of Piberschlag. In 2001 Piberschlag had 115 buildings, seven workplaces and 41 agricultural and forestry facilities. In addition, more than half of the community residents lived here.

In the southeast of the cadastral community is the Rotte Mühlholz ( 720  m above sea level ), which in 2001 consisted of 16 buildings with 11 agricultural and forestry facilities.

On the western border is the Rotte Köckendorf, which partly belongs to the Afiesl community and also includes the Rotte Kollerhäuser. In 2001, Köckendorf housed 23 buildings in the cadastral community, each with three workplaces and agricultural and forestry operations.

In the northwest, the scattered settlement Guglwald ( 750  m above sea level ) is the fifth district. The village on the Czech border housed 34 buildings with three workplaces and 16 agricultural and forestry facilities in 2001.

history

The place was during the Napoleonic Wars several times a. 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 . In 1938 there were border battles in Guglwald between Freikorps and the Czech military. After the Munich Agreement , the limit to CSR was abolished, one year later the Schönegg community was merged with the Helfenberg, Afiesl and Ahorn communities.

In 1945 the border to CSR was drawn again and the customs office in Guglwald was reestablished, and in 1949 the Schönegg community was reestablished and an administrative association was formed with Afiesl.

The Czechs began erecting the Iron Curtain in 1950 , and the barbed wire fence in Guglwald was not dismantled until 1989. In 1992 the border crossing Guglwald - Přední Výtoň ( Vorder Heuraffl ) was opened for pedestrians and cyclists, in 1994 also for car traffic. Since 2004, the areas on both sides of the border have been partners in the EU .

In 2017, after explorations and a vote among the population , the local council decided to merge with the community of Vorderweissenbach , thereby leaving the Rohrbach district and moving to the Urfahr-Umgebung district . The municipal council dissolved in both municipalities, and until the new election the business was led by a commissioner appointed by the state government .

population

Population structure

In 2013, 528 people lived in the Schönegg community, making the community the seventh smallest of the 42 communities in the district. With 52 inhabitants per km², Schönegg was in the lower middle range of the municipalities in the district in terms of population density. At the end of 2001 94.8% of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8%, Rohrbach district 96.9%), by the beginning of 2013 the value rose to 98.1% (Upper Austria 91.1%, Rohrbach district 96.9%) %) on. In 2013, only ten foreigners were counted in the community, 90 percent of whom came from Europe. A total of 18 community residents were born abroad. In 2001, 94.2% of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church (Upper Austria: 79.4%), 2.0% were without confession and 1.5% were Protestants.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was roughly the national average. 18.8% of the residents of Schönegg were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8%), 62.8% between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 18.4 percent, below the national average of 20.2%. As a result, the average age of the population of Schönegg changed in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 13.8% as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between 15 and 59 years of age increased significantly to 70.6%. By contrast, the proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 15.5%. According to their marital status, 46.6% of the residents of Schönegg were single, 46.4% married, 6.1% widowed and 0.9% divorced in 2001.

Population development

Since the late 19th century, the area of ​​the cadastral community of Schönegg has experienced significantly below-average population growth compared to the federal state of Upper Austria and the Rohrbach district. While the number of inhabitants in Upper Austria almost doubled between 1869 and 2013 or remained practically the same in the Rohrbach district, the number of inhabitants in Schönegg shrank by almost half during this period. Between 1869 and 1900 the population of the municipality had already decreased by a quarter from around 950 to 700 inhabitants. Then the population stagnated until 1939 and then fell again by 30 percent until 1971. In 1971 the lowest number of inhabitants was measured with 496 inhabitants. After that the population went up slightly or stagnated.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the community still had a birth surplus, but this dropped to zero in the 1990s. The migration balance was slightly negative in the 1970s and then balanced again. Since the turn of the millennium, the municipality has again had a birth surplus, which, however, cannot offset the stronger, negative balance of migration.

Economy and Infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

In 2001 Schönegg housed a company with 20 or more employees. In total, the workplaces census carried out as part of the census showed only 14 workplaces with only 71 employees (excluding agriculture), 83% of which were employees. The number of workplaces remained the same as in 1991, the number of employees had increased by 30 people (plus 73%). The most important branch of industry in 2001 was the hotel and restaurant sector with three companies and 25 employees (35% of all employees), followed by manufacturing with three workplaces and 15 employees (21%) and construction with two workplaces and 14 employees (20%). It was followed by education and transportation. 23% of the employees in Schönegg were salaried employees or civil servants, 41% blue-collar workers, 20% apprentices and 15% business owners.

Of the 302 economically active persons living in Schönegg in 2010, only 2.3% were unemployed. Of the 295 employed, 68 were employed in manufacturing (23%), 42 in agriculture and forestry (14%), 28 in construction (10%) and 27 in health and social services (9%). Other important sectors were trade and the accommodation and catering sector. Of the 289 employed people in Schönegg (excluding residents temporarily absent from work), only 73 people were employed in Schönegg in 2010. 216 or 75% had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 46% had their place of work in the state capital Linz, 21% in the Rohrbach district and 18% in the Urfahr-Umgebung district. In return, 84 people commuted to Schönegg.

Agriculture and Forestry

In 2010 the statistics showed 46 agricultural and forestry holdings for the municipality of Schönegg. These included 17 full-time businesses, 25 part-time businesses and four groups of people. The total number of businesses had fallen sharply by 24 businesses or 34% compared to 1999, with the number of part-time businesses in particular falling sharply. In 2010, the farms farmed a total of 797 hectares, with 63% of the area being farmed by full-time farmers and 21% by part-time farmers. At 279.4 hectares, the average area of ​​full-time farmers was lower than the Upper Austrian average (33.8 hectares) or the district average (34.7 hectares).

Transport and infrastructure

Schönegg is accessed by Böhmerwald Straße B 38, which crosses the area in the south from east to west. The Böhmerwald Straße connects Schönegg to Vorderweißbach in the east and Helfenberg in the west. The former municipal water supply supplies the villages of Piberschlag, Guglwald and Köckendorf with water, while in the villages of Schönegg and Mühlholz there are individual water supplies or water cooperatives that are independent of the municipality. Around 87% of the residents are connected to the public water supply. The waste water is mainly disposed of by the Mühltal cleansing association. With the sewage treatment plant in Iglbach, the Mühltal cleanliness association operates the largest wastewater disposal plant in the Rohrbach district, with a connection rate of around 80% to the sewage treatment plant in Schönegg in 2011. At that point, the community's sewer construction program was complete. At the beginning of 2004, the residual waste collection and organic collection were transferred to the Rohrbach District Waste Association, which has been organizing and carrying out waste collection since then. There is also a waste material collection center in the Helfenberg .

Security and Healthcare

The Schönegg volunteer fire brigade was founded on February 7, 1929, and a motorized sprayer was purchased that same year. In 1930 the syringe and depot were consecrated at a founding party. In the municipality of Schönegg, the Piberschlag fire fighting train was founded on October 1, 1951, and was converted into an independent fire brigade on June 1, 1952. FF Piberschlag received a portable pump in 1951 and was able to put its armory and a new motorized pump into operation in 1958. The FF Schönegg built a new fire station in 1977, which was rebuilt or rebuilt in 1998. The FF Piberschlag also had a new fire station built between 1993 and 1995.

The nearest police station is the police station in Helfenberg , the nearest hospital is the Rohrbach regional hospital . You also have to go to the neighboring community of Helfenberg to visit a doctor.

education

In Schönegg there was a single-class elementary school until the end of the 2011/12 school year, but it was temporarily closed in autumn 2012 following an order from the Province of Upper Austria. The communities Afiesl and Schönegg jointly run a kindergarten in the community Afiesl.

Culture and sights

The Maria Rast forest chapel, built around 1700 and renovated in 1836, is a listed building.

monument

The Upper Austrian MKV and ÖCV inaugurated a jointly erected memorial near the Guglwald border crossing on July 1, 1999 to commemorate the Iron Curtain that fell ten years ago.

Politics of the historical community

Municipal council

The municipal council as the highest body of the municipality comprised 13 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The community board consisted of three members.

The strongest faction in Schönegg's municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which since 1945 has always had an absolute majority of votes and mandates or, with one exception, always had a two-thirds majority. In 1949 the ÖVP achieved its best result to date with 83.0%, and in 2003 it recorded its worst result with 61.9%. The second largest party in Schönegg's municipal council was always the SPÖ, which since 1945 has achieved results between 17.0 and 38.1%. The SPÖ had its best result in 2003, its worst in 1949. Apart from the ÖVP and the SPÖ, no other party ran in municipal elections from 1945 onwards.

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with a run-off election in the event of a not absolute majority. Johann Grünzweil (ÖVP) won the first direct election since 1991 with 77.3% in the first ballot against the SPÖ candidate.

Mayor since 1850
Term of office	Surname		Term of office	Surname
1850-1855	Johann Steinecker		1906-1909	Georg Preining
1855-1867	Johann Wimmer		1909-1919	Franz Leitgöb
1867-1870	Franz Leitgeb		1919-1929	Leopold Preining
1870-1873	Josef Traxler		1929-1942	Leopold Preining
1873-1879	Josef Mittermüller		1942-1949	Franz Oberhamberger
1879-1885	Johann Igelsböck		1949-1957	Leopold Preining
1885-1894	Georg Preining		1957-1973	Andreas Kitzmüller
1894-1897	Anton Pils		1973-1991	Friedrich Winkler
1897-1900	Franz Hauzeneder		1991-2009	Johann Grünzweil
1900-1903	Anton Keplinger		2009-2017	Peter Pagitsch
1903-1906	Franz Leitgöb		from 2018	→ Vorder Weißenbach

Other options

As in municipal council elections, the ÖVP also dominates state elections in the former municipality, although the dominance of the ÖVP has declined significantly since 1945. Nevertheless, the ÖVP was able to achieve an absolute majority in Schönegg in every state election. Between 1945 and 1985 the ÖVP achieved results between 68.4 and 81.9%, with 1961 achieving its best result. After it had reached 74.3% in 1985, it only reached 65% in the 1990s and then fell to 59.6% in 2003. As a rule, the SPÖ achieved results of 20% in Schönegg, with its worst result in 1961 with 17.7%. The SPÖ achieved its best election results in 1967 with 30.9% and in 2003 with 35.0%. The FPÖ only achieved a single-digit result in 1985 with 1.2%, but was able to increase to 10.5% in 1991. As a result, however, its result fell again to 4.1% by 2003.

Community finances

The community Schönegg was a so-called "permanent exit community", d. In other words, she has not been able to balance her budget on her own for decades. The household exit in 2009 and 2010 was around 193,000 and 196,000 euros, respectively, and in 2011 around 92,000 euros. The estimate for 2012 showed disposals of around 217,000 euros. To compensate for her deficits, Schönegg received funds from 2009 to 2011 totaling 442,000 euros. The tax power of the municipality in the 2011 financial year was composed of 19% from the municipality's own taxes and 81% from income shares and structural aid. The main sources of income for the municipality in terms of municipal taxes in 2011 were the municipal tax with around 49,000 euros and property tax B with around 37,000 euros. The total debt level at the end of 2011 was around EUR 2.9 million. With this, Schönegg ranks 12th with a per capita debt of 5,308 euros based on the 2011 results in comparison with all 444 Upper Austrian municipalities and took 4th place within the municipalities of the Rohrbach district. This means that only eleven municipalities in Upper Austria had a higher per capita debt than Schönegg.

coat of arms

On August 31, 1969, the municipality of Schönegg determined the design of the municipality's coat of arms and the municipality's colors (red-yellow) by resolution of the municipal council. The coat of arms was subsequently awarded by resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government of January 19, 1970, or the municipal colors were approved.

The blazon of the coat of arms reads:

“A black, upright, red-tongued and armored beaver in gold.” The coat of arms goes back to the “speaking” coat of arms of the Piber zu Piberstein, who cleared and settled the area in the 13th century as servants of the Lords of Wilhering-Waxenberg. The coat of arms was designed by Friedrich Winkler from Schönegg.

literature

• Mühlviertel - Between the Danube and the Bohemian Forest - The Rohrbach district . Rohrbach 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District boundaries are shifting: Schönegg goes to Vorderweißbach in den Nachrichten.at from June 23, 2017, accessed on August 20, 2017
2. ^ Ordinance of the Upper Austria. State government regarding the unification of the communities Schönegg and Vorder Weißenbach , accessed on December 6, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Landscape survey of the community of Schönegg. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems, Uttendorf 2006
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Ortverzeichnis Oberösterreich 2005 p. 280
5. ↑ Report OÖN
6. ↑ ^{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 
7. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 , accessed on October 2, 2013
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Statistics Austria community data from Schönegg
9. ↑ ^{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 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government (Ed.): Audit report by the Rohrbach district administration on the insight into the management of the Schönegg community . Linz 2012
11. ↑ Acta Studentica, Volume 189, September 1999, p. 9
12. ↑ State of Upper Austria Mayor of the municipality of Schönegg since 1850
13. ^ State of Upper Austria coat of arms of the municipality of Schönegg

Web links

Commons : Schönegg, Upper Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 41340 - Schönegg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the community Schönegg (Upper Austria) on the geo-information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .