Schwanenstadt

Borough Schwanenstadt
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	2.58 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 3 '  N , 13 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '19 "  N , 13 ° 46' 33"  E
Height :	389  m above sea level A.
Residents :	4,407 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	1708 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4690
Area code :	07673
Community code :	4 17 38
Address of the municipal administration:	Stadtplatz 54 4690 Schwanenstadt
Website:	www.schwanenstadt.at
politics
Mayor :	Karl Staudinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	11 6th 5 3 11 6th 5 3  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 11 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 5 GREEN : 3
Location of Schwanenstadt in the Vöcklabruck district
Town square with town hall
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schwanenstadt is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 4407 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

View of Schwanenstadt

location

Schwanenstadt is 389 m above sea level in the Hausruckviertel. The extension from north to south is 2 km, from west to east 2.1 km. The total area is 2.6 km². 3.7% of the area is forested, 44.4% of the area is used for agriculture.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities are: Oberndorf near Schwanenstadt , Redlham , Rüstorf and Schlatt

Oberndorf		Schlatt
Redlham		Riistorf

Population development

history

Certificate of indulgence Schwanenstadt

The history of Schwanenstadt goes back to the time of the Illyrians and Celts. They founded a settlement called Tergolape (“Small Market on the Water”) near today's city center . During the Roman colonial period, a post office was built due to its favorable location on the main route Ovilava ( Wels ) - Juvavum ( Salzburg ). Tergolape's final position is still the subject of scientific discussion.

Georg Matthäus Vischer copperplate engraving from Topographia Austriae superioris modernae (1674)

The first documented name for the flourishing place was Suanaseo in 788. The newly designated Schwans market was first mentioned in 1361. On June 26, 1627, the Schwans market was raised to the town of Schwanenstadt after Count Adam von Herberstorff had bought the market for 125,000 guilders. In the following centuries, Schwanenstadt developed more and more into an economic, social, cultural, sporting and educational center.

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 'Austria ob der Enns'. In 1627 the city charter was granted by Adam Graf von Herberstorff . 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 . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place. The community was part of the Schwanenstadt judicial district until the end of 2004 and became part of the Vöcklabruck judicial district on January 1, 2005.

Culture and sights

City gate of Schwanenstadt ; in its current form built or rebuilt in 1909

Schwanenstadt parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Schwanenstadt

• Schwanenstadt local history museum: The local history museum is located in the Pausinger villa. The garden of the Pausinger Villa is located on a Bavarian burial ground that was excavated and scientifically developed in the 1970s. Roman excavation finds could also be recorded. The house was bought and renovated by the municipality and has housed the Schwanenstadt local history museum since May 26, 2007.

The history of Schwanenstadt goes back to the time when the Illyrians and Celts populated the country and founded a settlement called Tergolape ("Small Market on the Water") not far from today's city center. During the Roman colonial period, it became a post office due to its favorable location on the main road Ovilava (Wels) - Juvavum (Salzburg). Many of these finds can be viewed in the Heimathaus.

With the support of the gold bonnet group Schwanenstadt and chairwoman Lisa Berger, the Heimathaus association has succeeded in acquiring a valuable original document from 1290.

This certificate of indulgence of Pope Nicholas IV with 13 seals, issued MCCLXXXX for the parish church "sancti Michaelis archangeli in suans" is of great importance for Schwanenstadt (formerly suans). This is the first written mention of the parish church in Suans .

• Stadtplatz: After devastating fires in the past centuries, some town houses with Baroque and Renaissance facades have been rebuilt.
• City tower : Schwanenstadt's landmark is the city tower at the western end of the city square; in which the city tower gallery is also located.
• Town hall with arcaded courtyard
• Protestant church
• Schwanenstadt parish church : Thechurch consecratedto St. Michael was built in the neo-Gothic stylebetween 1900 and 1902. The church tower has a height of 78 meters. The mighty, 52 m long church building with its pointed helmet tower is the landmark of Schwanenstadt.
• movable fasting crib , the Werkl : is located in the Kalvarienbergkirche. One kilometer north of Schwanenstadt is the parish's calvary church on a small hill. It wasconsecrated as an Apostle Churchby Bishop Albert Schönhofer in 1488and converted into a Calvary Church in 1721. A Way of the Cross leads from the city to the church, whose new, modern pictures were consecrated in 1983. The Lent Crib can only be visited on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Philippsberg Church has housed a folklore rarity in an extension, probably since 1719, which is only accessible in the Kartagen: Amovable fasting nativity scene, the Werkl , is set upabove a holy grave decorated with colorful glass balls. On a small revolving stage, figures about 20 cm tall, carved and painted in the style of the late peasant baroque, pass the viewer on two levels. They reveal the five secrets of the painful rosary. Above this movable part, a relief shows Pilate washing his hands. The "Werkl" is operated by a clock mechanism that gets its power from a heavy weight on the outside wall of the church. It needs to be wound up every 90 minutes.

Regular events

• Horse market: On Whit Tuesday there is an annual horse market on the town square.

Sports

• Artificial ice rink: available in winter
• Tennis hall
• Outdoor tennis courts
• several signposted running routes
• Adventure pool
• sauna
• Ball sports hall

The ÖTB Gymnastics Club Schwanenstadt was founded in 1870. The activities range from mother and child gymnastics to aerobics, apparatus gymnastics and volleyball.

The Schwanenstädter football club SC Schwanenstadt was champion of the regional league middle in the season 2004/2005 and thus played in the second highest Austrian league, the first league . After financial problems, the club sold the license to SC Magna Wiener Neustadt in 2008 .

The Alpine Club Swan City has approximately 1,200 members of the club with the most members in the region Schwanenstadt and offers all kinds of alpine sports.

traffic

Street: Wiener Strasse (B 1) and Gallspacher Strasse (B 135) cross in Schwanenstadt . In 2006, construction began on the bypass road, which opened in 2009 and runs south of the city center. The next motorway junction is Laakirchen-West (formerly Steyrermühl ) on the A1 , about 8 km away.

Bus: There are public bus routes in the direction of Wels and Vöcklabruck, as well as Niedertalheim and Gmunden.

Rail: The ÖBB -Bahnhof Schwanenstadt regional and regional express trains stop the West railway Vienna-Salzburg.

education

• 2 kindergartens
• Elementary school
• 2 secondary schools (focus on sports and music)
• 1 polytechnic school
• 1 music school

politics

In the last municipal council election , Karl Staudinger was elected mayor by the ÖVP. The municipal council consists of 25 members and has been composed of mandates from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election:

• 11 ÖVP - provides the mayor and the 1st vice mayor
• 6 FPÖ - provides the 2nd Vice Mayor
• 5 SPÖ
• 3 PUM - party for environmental protection and humanity

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue on a green, corrugated shield base with two silver, red-armored, swimming swans, a silver, two-tower, tinned gate structure, the openwork arched gate with raised, golden portcullis and open, golden gate wings, the towers with red conical roofs supporting a golden knob . Above the gate there is a red sign with a golden mill wheel and a golden crown of David. The community colors are blue-yellow.

The original market coat of arms, first proven in 1565, showed a standing swan. On the occasion of the town elevation in 1627, the coat of arms in use today was introduced. The gate and towers mark the place as a city, the mill wheel is the main coat of arms of Adam Graf Herberstorff, who obtained city rights shortly after acquiring the Schwans market. The swans stand for the folk etymological derivation of the place name.

Personalities

Honorary citizen:

• Franz Wagner (1872–1956), was the only Schwanenstadt citizen to vote against annexation to Germany in the 1938 referendum
• Berthold Folberth, Protestant Pastor AB
• Rudolf Staudinger (1923–1995), National Councilor, Councilor of Commerce
• Johannes Puchmair (1930–2007), Roman Catholic pastor, consistorial councilor dean i. R.

Sons and daughters of the town:

• Ignaz Parhammer (1715–1786), Jesuit, educator
• Franz Xaver Süßmayr (1766–1803), composer, conductor, student of Mozart
• Carl Holböck (1905–1984), canon lawyer
• Ferdinand Holböck (1913–2002), priest and university teacher
• Rudolf Staudinger (1923–1995), former mayor of the city
• Gotthard Muhr (1939–2013), painter and sculptor
• Norbert Gugerbauer (* 1950), politician
• Herbert Dutzler (* 1958), teacher and detective writer
• Peter Ablinger (* 1959), composer
• Gudrun Harrer (* 1959), journalist, Iraq expert, chargé d'affaires at the Austrian embassy in Baghdad from January 1, 2006
• Hanspeter Mössenböck (* 1959), computer scientist and university professor
• Rudolf Habringer (* 1960), writer
• Harald Raupenstrauch (* 1961), engineer, heat technician and university professor

Honorary Ring Bearer:

• August Froschauer (* 1927), City Office Manager i. R., Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria, former commander of the volunteer city fire brigade, honorary commander of the volunteer city fire brigade and honorary section commander of the Schwanenstadt fire brigade section
• Johannes Puchmair (1930-2007), Roman Catholic. Pastor, consistorial councilor, dean
• Helmut Puffer, chartered accountant , tax and business consultant, general beeid. and court. certified expert , commercial counsel
• Franz Hochreiner, school director, former city councilor and local council

Large gold medal of the city of Schwanenstadt:

• August Froschauer (* 1927), City Office Manager i. R.
• Herbert Dutzler (* 1958), writer
• Franz Froschauer (* 1958), actor
• Ingeborg Kirchschlager, retired community and city councilor D.
• Johannes Linner
• Eduard Kudernatsch, local councilor and city councilor a. D.

literature

• Schwanenstadt then and now - Festschrift for the 300th anniversary; August 1927 ( online )
• Franz X. Weilmeyr: Topographical lexicon from the Salzach district . tape 2 . Oberer, Salzburg 1812 ( online in the Google book search).
• Matthias Koch: Trip to Upper Austria and Salzburg . Solinger, Vienna 1846 ( online in the Google book search).

further reading

• Rudolf Lehr: Schwanenstadt: Moving history - the present worth living in . Self-published by Stadtgemeinde Schwanenstadt, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009090-8 .
• Vlasta Tovornik, Hans J. Hundt: The Bavarian burial ground of Schwanenstadt, Upper Austria . Wagner, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7030-0372-3 .
• August Aichmayr: A piece of Schwanenstadt. Through the ages: poems . Schwanenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901722-00-9 .

Web links

Commons : Schwanenstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Schwanenstatt in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 41738 - Schwanenstadt. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the community of Schwanenstadt 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 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria : Changes to judicial districts , March 26, 2008
2. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Coat of arms of the municipality of Schwanenstadt , accessed on May 18, 2012
3. ↑ Schwanenstadt.News: Gold Medals for Franz Froschauer and Mag. Herbert Dutzler , accessed on January 22, 2018