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coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Steyr-Land
License plate :	SE
Surface:	53.29 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 1 '  N , 14 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '18 "  N , 14 ° 24' 32"  E
Height :	298  m above sea level A.
Residents :	6,640 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4451
Area code :	07252
Community code :	4 15 06
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Platzl 9 4451 Garsten
Website:	www.garsten.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Anton Silber ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (31 members)	19th 5 4th 3 19th 5 4th 3  A total of 31 seats ÖVP : 19 SPÖ : 5 FPÖ : 4 GREEN : 3
Location of Garsten in the Steyr-Land district
View from the Dambergwarte
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Garsten is a market town with 6640 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria in the Steyr-Land district . The place is best known for the former Garsten Abbey , which is now the Garsten prison .

geography

Garsten is 298 m above sea level in the Traunviertel on the edge of the Eisenstadt Steyr . The extension of the market town is from north to south and 10.7 km from west to east. 39% of the municipal area is forested, 51.4% is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 20 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Buchholz (243)
• Christkindl (496)
• Garsten (2206)
• Garsten North (453)
• Kraxental (239)
• Lahrndorf (502)
• Muhlbach (315)
• Muhlbachgraben (57)
• Oberdambach (180)
• Pergern (140)
• Pesendorf (345)
• Rosenegg (120)
• Saass (447)
• Sand (120)
• Sarning (131)
• Schwaming (78)
• Sonnberg (46)
• Tinsting (49)
• Unterdambach (453)
• Unterlaussa (20)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Garsten, Lahrndorf, Mühlbach, Oberchristkindl, Pergern and Unterdambach.

Neighboring communities

Sierning	Steyr
Aschach an der Steyr		Ortisei near Steyr
	Ternberg	Laussa

history

Garsten is mentioned for the first time in the records of the Synod of Mistelbach in 985. In 1082 the monastery was founded as a collegiate monastery by Ottokar I , a Traungauer . Under his son Ottokar II , Benedictines from the Göttweig monastery were appointed in 1107 with the famous first abbot and Saint Berthold von Garsten . This was decisive for the further political and cultural development.

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 Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau and was incorporated into Steyr on July 10, 1938.

After 1945 , Upper Austria was restored. 1958 the community was raised to the market . Population development: In 1991 the municipality had 6,071 inhabitants according to the census , in 2001 it had 6,506 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Garsten

• Garsten Parish Church : Collegiate church of the former Garsten Benedictine Abbey; Begun in 1677 under the Italian master builder Pietro Francesco Carlone , completed by his sons Carlo Antonio Carlone and Giovanni Battista Carlone . Baroque design u. a. by Kremser Schmidt .
• Garsten Abbey : Former Benedictine Abbey: an abandoned Baroque abbey. The builder was Pietro Francesco Carlone, completed by Jakob Prandtauer after his death . Today the monastery serves as a prison.

Economy and Infrastructure

Garsten is the seat of the broadcaster RTV Regionalfernsehen Oberösterreich .

traffic

Garsten station is on a section of the Rudolfsbahn .

From 1889 to 1982 Garsten was the starting point of the narrow-gauge Steyrtalbahn , which has been running on a daily basis since 1985 as a museum train, but only from Steyr Lokalbahn station (route km 2.7) and only to Grünburg .

politics

mayor

Mayor is Anton Silber from the ÖVP. His predecessor Franz Steininger (ÖVP) resigned from office in November 2008 after 25 years.

coat of arms

Blazon : split between blue and red; on the right a silver, erect, red-armed and horned, fire-breathing panther; a silver bar on the left. The community colors are blue and white.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Augustin Reslhuber (1808–1875), Benedictine abbot, scientist, politician and popular educator
• Karl Kokesch (1905–1959), politician
• Paulus Winkelbauer (1932-2008), Cistercian abbot (was born and buried here)

Personalities related to the community

• Johann Karl von Reslfeld (1658–1735), baroque painter, died in Garsten
• Klaus Pohl (1883–1958), actor, died in Garsten

literature

• Karl Mayer: Garsten. A livable community between tradition and new beginnings. Moserbauer Verlag, Ried im Innkreis 2006.
• Karl Ramsmaier, Waltraud Neuhauser: Hard days, dark times: the Nazi era in Garsten 1938–1945. Denkmayr publishing house, Linz 2006.
• Karl Mayer: Garstner farms . Self-published (Bauernschaft Garsten), Garsten 2017.

Web links

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

• Further information about the municipality of Garsten can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Official homepage of Garsten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Diocese of Linz: Chronicle of the Garsten Parish, accessed July 6, 2018
3. ^ Province of Upper Austria: History and Geography - 1938 , accessed on July 6, 2018
4. ↑ Mayoral elections 2015: Result of the Steyr-Land district ( Memento from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Garsten Mayor retires on ORF November 6, 2008, accessed on February 19, 2009.
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria, coat of arms of the municipality of Garsten. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .