Schörfling am Attersee

market community

coat of arms Austria map

Basic data

Country: Austria

State : Upper Austria

Political District : Vöcklabruck

License plate : VB

Surface: 23.21 km²

Coordinates : 47 ° 57 ' N , 13 ° 36' E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '50 " N , 13 ° 36' 2" E47.947222222222 13.600555555556 512

Height : 512 m above sea level A.

Residents : 3,480 (January 1, 2020)

Population density : 150 inhabitants per km²

Postal code : 4861

Area code : 07662

Community code : 4 17 37

NUTS region AT315

Address of the
municipal administration: Marktplatz 32
4861 Schörfling am Attersee

Website: www.schörfling.eu

politics

Mayor : Gerhard Gründl ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)

10

7th

5

3

10 7th 5 3

A total of 25 seats

SPÖ : 10
ÖVP : 7
FPÖ : 5
GREEN : 3

Location of Schörfling am Attersee in the Vöcklabruck district

Schörfling with Kammer Castle in the foreground

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schörfling am Attersee is a market town in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 3480 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The responsible judicial district is Vöcklabruck.

geography

Schörfling am Attersee is 512 m above sea level. A. Höhe in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 7.7 km from north to south and 5.9 km from west to east. The total area is 23.23 km².

The total area of the municipality is divided as follows:

Community structure

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

Fantaberg (85)
Chamber (466)
Market Forest (22)
Moss (80)
Niederham (61)
Oberhehenfeld (842)
Schörfling (1702)
Steinbach (52)
Sulzberg (129)
Woerzing (41)

Neighboring communities

	Lenzing
Seewalchen am Attersee		Aurach am Hongar
Berg in the Attergau	Weyregg am Attersee

history

Early history

Schörfling is located on the north bank of the Attersee. For the prehistoric settlement of the Attergau, the remains of the pile dwelling cultures on the lake, dating from around 3750 BC. Originated from significant testimonies. The slow Christianization of the area is likely to have begun in the late period of the Roman Empire , which was established by the capture of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum in 15 BC. BC had pushed its borders to the Danube.

Flavia

A local legend tells of a Roman patrician who owned a country estate on the Attersee on the site of today's Kammer Castle. When his daughter Flavia was in Rome for education, she came into contact with Christianity. When she returned home, Flavia did not want to renounce her new faith, so her father had her naked forged on a boat and the ager drifted off. At the confluence of the Traun and Ager rivers, the girl was saved by shepherds. Today the market and monastery coat of arms of Lambach , which shows Flavia in the ship, still reminds of this legend .

middle Ages

In the 6th century AD, during the migration of peoples, Bavarian settlers penetrated into what is now Upper Austria, which subsequently became the core area of the Bavarian tribal duchy. Like many other places in the area, Schörfling has a name of Bavarian origin. Since the 7th century Christianity spread among the Bavarians , proclaimed by the remaining Christian communities from the Roman period and by missionaries from the Franconian Empire and Ireland. In 748 , Duke Odilo founded the Mondsee Monastery to consolidate the Christian religion and to serve the development of the country . When Charlemagne deposed Duke Tassilo in 778, all ownership naturally fell to the Franks, the Aterhofen domain (today's Attersee) became a Franconian crown property. Schörfling 803 was first mentioned in writing as "sceroluingen" in a deed of gift for the convent.

Schörfling was under the parish of Altmünster until 1200. The exact founding date of the Schörflinger parish has not been passed down, but it can probably be assumed for the 12th century, which saw the extensive expansion of the parish organization in the then responsible bishopric of Passau . In 1221 the parish came as a fief to the powerful Schaunberger family , who ruled the Attergau from the neighboring Seefeste Kammer. A pastor named Konrad von Schörfling is mentioned for the first time in 1260. In 1383 the "church loan from Schirflingen" came to the House of Habsburg , which 200 years later ceded it to the Khevenhüller family.

In the late Middle Ages, the place had gained economic importance; In 1499 it was raised to the market and the population grew steadily. But life in Schörfling was also characterized by rural unrest back then. The peasants , some of whom still lived in serfdom , rebelled against their landlords , as their economic situation deteriorated noticeably.

reformation

The inhabitants of Schörfling hoped for a way out of their plight from Martin Luther's Reformation movement . The congregation therefore joined the new teaching at times. In the course of the Counter-Reformation , however, the patron saint, Franz Christoph Khevenhüller, appointed a Catholic clergyman, and the parish returned to its old creed. With the revitalized devotion to Mary and the erection of a Loreto chapel at the parish church, Schörfling developed a new deep Catholic life of faith, and in the 17th century even became a destination for pilgrimages that only ended in the Enlightenment (1787). At that time there was also a major restructuring in the church sector. In 1785 the Austrian Danube lands, which had belonged to the Diocese of Passau for more than 1000 years, were separated from the mother diocese and assigned to the newly established regional dioceses; The Diocese of Linz was created for Upper Austria . When the deaneries were reorganized, Schörfling became the seat of a deanery that still includes 11 parishes today.

Population development

In 1991, according to the census, the municipality had 3,059 inhabitants, in 2001 it had 3170 inhabitants.

politics

The municipal council consists of 25 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: SPÖ 10, ÖVP 7, FPÖ 5, and GRÜNE 3.

mayor

since ? Gerhard Gründl (SPÖ)

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms : In blue on a green three-mountain, a silver tower with a black open arched gate, above a red-white-red shield and three adjacent shooting holes and three red-roofed battlements; on both sides of the tower above the Dreiberg a silver, blue undulating water.

The market coat of arms was awarded to Schörfling in 1567 by Emperor Maximilian II . The tower with the binding shield refers to Kammer Castle, which was then sovereign property. The waves symbolize the location on the Attersee.

Community partnerships

Wanfried in Hessen , Germany

Culture and sights

Castle Chamber

Gustav Klimt : Path in the Park of Schloss Kammer, 1912

Villa Oleander, 2007

Kammer Castle : Once located on an island, the massive, rectangular, three-story building now “only” stands on a peninsula. Two low side wings enclose a courtyard. The first owner is Haidfalk von Chammer in 1165. From 1200 a fortified fortress arose here, which belonged to the Schaunbergers and, as their fiefdom, became the center of the Attergau. Later ownership changed to the Wallsee, Habsburg and Khevenhüllers. The connection to the island was filled up, the castle was transformed into a palace. Until the beginning of the 90s, the castle was owned by the Jeszensky , who also managed the adjacent Meierhof. At the end of the nineties ownership changed to the former Olympic dressage champion ( Moscow 1980 ) Sissy Max-Theurer , who renovated the ruin of the castle.
Parish church Schörfling : Originally the first Christians in this area wanted to build the church in Hainbach (former parish Schörfling, today Aurach). But overnight the cornerstone was gone. So a new foundation stone was cut and set. But even that was no longer in the ground the next morning. When that happened a third time, the cornerstone was loaded onto an ox cart. The team of oxen were given free rein. They stopped at the highest point in Schörfling. The Schörflinger parish church was built at this point. The parish church of St. Gallus is a tall, late Gothic building with three central pillars. It is said to have been built by Stefan Wultinger; Much earlier, however, monks from St. Gallen had built a church here. On the first central pillar there is a late Gothic relief of St. Nicholas. At his feet is a coat of arms with crossed oar blades, which identifies him as the patron saint of boatmen and raftsmen. The late Gothic entrance hall was redesigned to become the main entrance of the church in the Baroque period. On the right wall of the entrance hall there is a death shield of Freiherr von Egg und Hungersbach. The death shield is richly decorated and bears the inscription: "Here the Wolgeborn was buried here, Volckhart Freyher zu Egg ... and the Windischen March, who died on December 24th in 1608." The affixing of death shields next to epitaphs goes back to the Middle Ages and was reserved for the nobility. In the confessional age this custom increased because it was not possible - especially in smaller churches - to erect a high grave for every nobleman. The death shield grew out of the Germanic custom of putting dead weapons in the grave or hanging them on the grave. Instead of the battle shield, the disk-shaped death shield was created around 1400.
Loreto Chapel: The Loreto Chapel was built in 1638. Around the actual sanctuary on the western edge of the parish church was a closed cloister, which again formed a chapel over and around the Gnadenkapelle, which burned down in 1787 and was not rebuilt afterwards. The chapel contained the cult object of the statue of Maria Loreto.

Gustav Klimt theme trail: Gustav Klimt's discovery of the Attersee as a refuge for the summer resort began in the summer of 1900, almost 50 years after the first tourist impulses in this region. In the years 1908–1912 he was a guest in the Villa Oleander in the Kammer district. During this time the artist created 11 landscape paintings with motifs from the Attersee. The Villa Oleander was built in 1879 by the then owner of Schloss Kammer , the last Countess Khevenhüller , and rented out during the summer months. From the boathouse of the villa the artist painted a. a. Chamber Castle in four different versions. On a hike on the Gustav Klimt themed trail, which runs along the promenade in Kammer-Schörfling and in Seewalchen, visitors get an overview of Klimt's life and work as well as the motifs of his work in the vicinity of his summer domiciles Villa Paulick and Villa Oleander on the north shore of Lake Attersee .
Gustav Klimt Center : On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the Art Nouveau artist, the Gustav Klimt Center opened on July 14, 2012 in a prominent location on the Schlossallee in Kammer-Schörfling, which was painted by the artist. The Klimt Center with its shop and café has since established itself as an attractive meeting point for regional visitors and international guests. The multimedia exhibition with its own cinema, multimedia touchscreens and a Salzkammergut panorama in cooperation with the Filmarchiv Austria documents Gustav Klimt's work and life as a "summer visitor" in the years 1900–1916 as well as the social ones in a varied compilation of original and facsimile objects Cultural tourism at the turn of the century on the Attersee and in the imperial and royal seat of Vienna. The permanent exhibition focuses on biographically formative and artistic milestones in the life and work of the artist: family, women, scandals, eroticism, summer holidays and worthy commissions. In addition, the unique location of the Klimt Center, located directly on the lime tree avenue of Schloss Kammer, is a particular theme, because only this motif of the castle park alone inspired Klimt to six landscape paintings.

Regular events

On the weekend after St. Gallus Day , October 16, there is an annual Kirtag , the Gallus market.

economy

The convenient location on the western autobahn favors the settlement of companies. Two business parks are available for this.

traffic

Road: The Westautobahn runs through the municipality of Schörfling , here at km 232 there is a semi-junction from and towards Vienna . (The nearby Exit 234 Seewalchen serves both directions.) The Seeleiten Straße branches off from the Attersee Straße in Seewalchen and leads via Schörfling along the east bank of the Attersee towards the south to Unterach , where it joins the Attersee Straße again.
Railway: The Kammer-Schörfling station is the end point of the Kammererbahn from Vöcklabruck to Schörfling. The end point was withdrawn by around 500 m in April / June 2014, whereby the direct connection to the lake was lost, but the crossing of the Seeleitenstrasse was saved and the connection to the bus stop was established immediately.
Bus: A bus line connects Schörfling with Vöcklabruck, Attnang-Puchheim and Schwanenstadt.
Ship: During the summer season, Attersee-Schifffahrt ships dock at the Kammer mooring.

Baths and bathing areas

Pile dwelling village Kammer - Manfred Gebetsroither outdoor swimming pool, Seestrasse
Seebad Schönauer Schörfling - Attersee Bädercard, Dr.-Hauttmann-Straße 9
Schörfling-Surfplatz, bathing area of the federal forest
Schörfling-Schlosspromenade, bathing place of the federal forests
Agerbad Stabauer, river bathing area on the right bank of the Ager, Lederergasse

education

Personalities

People related to the community

Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), painter, representative of Viennese Art Nouveau
Richard Teschner (1879–1948), painter, graphic artist, sculptor and puppeteer, member of the Wiener Werkstätte
Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), actress, had owned the Dorschvilla since 1938 . The Käthe-Dorsch-Weg in Schörfling is named after her.

Sons and daughters of the church

Michi Gaigg (* 1957), director of the L'Orfeo Barockorchester and director of the Donaufestwochen

Honorary citizen of the community

Josef Wenger (1840–1903), founder of the Schörfling Volunteer Fire Brigade and the Beautification Association

literature

Klaus Petermayr: Schörfling. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .