Schwertberg

market community

Schwertberg

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Basic data

Country: Austria

State : Upper Austria

Political District : Perg

License plate : PE

Surface: 18.79 km²

Coordinates : 48 ° 16 ' N , 14 ° 35' E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '18 " N , 14 ° 35' 0" E48.271666666667 14.583333333333 268

Height : 268 m above sea level A.

Residents : 5,321 (January 1, 2020)

Population density : 283 inhabitants per km²

Postal code : 4311

Area code : 07262

Community code : 4 11 24

NUTS region AT313

Address of the
municipal administration: Municipality of SchwertbergSchacherbergstrasse 3
4311 Schwertberg

Website: www.schwertberg.at

politics

Mayor : Max Oberleitner ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(31 members)

15th

11

3

2

15th 11 3 2

A total of 31 seats

ÖVP : 15
SPÖ : 11
FPÖ : 3
GREEN : 2

Location of Schwertberg in the Perg district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Schwertberg is a market town in Upper Austria with 5321 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The place is in the district of Perg in the lower Mühlviertel , about 20 km east of the provincial capital Linz .

The competent district court of the municipality belonging to the judicial district of Perg is located in Perg, 6 km away .

Schwertberg at night

geography

Schwertberg is 268 m above sea level in the Mühlviertel. The extension is 5.5 km from north to south and 6.4 km from west to east. The total area is 18.7 km². 32.1% of the area is forested, 53.5% of the area is used for agriculture.

Near the village of Lina is the Weltstein elevation, which is accessible by hiking trails .

Districts of the municipality

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Schwertberg (9.70 km²) Windegg (9.08 km²)	Aiser (R) Aisting (R) Furth (R) Am Dachsberg (Sdlg) Doppl (ZH) Hochreith (ZH) Josefstal (R) Lina (R) Obenberg Loitzenberg (W) Schwertberg (M) Poneggen (D) Unterjosefstal (E) Windegg (R) Gastall (R) Winches (D) Bridge field (W)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

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

Aiser (120)
Aisting (442) including Furth
On the Dachsberg (63)
Doppl (130) including Hochreit
Josefstal (29)
Lina (114)
Obenberg (15) including Loitzenberg
Schwertberg (3827) including Poneggen
Unterjosefstal (7)
Windegg (260) including Gastall
Winches (314) including footbridge

The localities are divided into further districts.

Neighboring communities

	Carrying wine
reed		All Saints Day
Mauthausen	Naarn	Perg

history

On November 25, 1287, "Swertberg" was first mentioned as a forum (= market) in a document from Duke Albrecht I. At that time the place belonged to the Regensburg lordship of Windegg, which was owned by Leuthold I von Kuenring . Between 1357 and 1570 the market was called "Schwerdberg" and was then named Schwertberg under the new owner Hans Tschernembl .

In 1715 and 1822, Schwertberg was in flames, almost the entire market was destroyed. During the Danube flood in 2002 , the market town was badly affected by the flood-carrying Danube tributary Aist . The construction work took more than a year.

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 . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place. Schwertberg played an essential role in the Nazi war crime of the Mühlviertel hare hunt . Found refugees from the Mauthausen concentration camp were shot in the courtyard of the community office that still exists today. The most famous resistance fighter from Schwertberg is Anna Langthaler , who hid two Russian prisoners of war, Mikhail Rybtschinskij and Nikolai Zimkolo, on her farm for three months. Her daughter Anna Hackl , winner of the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria, tells of her experiences at schools and commemorative events as a contemporary witness.

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms: In black over a golden three-mountain, a silver, slanted sword. The municipality colors are green-white-green.

Partner municipality

Germany Germany : There has been an official partnership with the Bavarian community of Schiltberg since 1987 .

politics

Mayor is Max Oberleitner from the ÖVP.

Resident development

From the first few years after the Second World War, the appearance of the town changed to a great extent. Now building is not only busy in the market center, the rows of houses also extend further out into the plain, occupying ridges and flanks. In 1995 the core of the community had more than 600 buildings (around 1930 there were 200), not including peripheral areas.

Of the 1100 buildings in the entire municipality, only around 300 are more than 50 years old. Between 1961 and 1971 alone, 200 houses were built.

In 1991 the community had 4532 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 5164 inhabitants.

Source: Statistics Austria

Culture

In 1965 an open-air stage was set up in the abandoned quarry on the Aiser by the amateur theater group Schwertberg, now the Aiser-Bühne Schwertberg association . More than 2,400 events have been handled since it was founded, including the performance of 60 plays and 30 fairy tale games.

The Meierhof Schwertberg Culture Center has been located in the Meierhof, which is part of the Schwertberg Castle, since 2012 . The program includes exhibitions of contemporary art, readings, concerts, film screenings and workshops.

Attractions

Schwertberg Castle : first mentioned in 1327; on the outskirts of Schwertberg
Poneggen Castle : first mentioned in the 13th century; a former castle at the western entrance to the village
Windegg castle ruins : built in the 12th century, renovated in the 1980s on a private initiative (Association of the Windegg Working Group ); north of the place

Economy and Infrastructure

Schwertberg is the headquarters of the Austrian Kaolin and Mining Industry Aktiengesellschaft (KAMIG) , the largest kaolin mining company in Austria. The plant is located in Kriechbaum-Weinzierl and includes the communities of Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis , Perg , Schwertberg and Tragwein . In 2004, 16,345 tons of pure kaolin were extracted from opencast mining or mining.

Established businesses

The main plants of two large, internationally active companies are located in Schwertberg:

Engel-Maschinenbau , a manufacturer of injection molding machines
Hödlmayr International AG, specialized in automotive logistics

Personalities

Honorary citizen

2018: Gerhard Merckens, entrepreneur and community politician

Sons and daughters of the church

Karl Ludwig Diernhofer (1895–1980), veterinarian and university professor
Ludwig Engel , founder of the mechanical engineering group Engel
Franz Moser (1901–1975), farmer and politician, councilor and deputy mayor, member of the National Council (1945 to 1949),
Anna Hackl , b. Langthaler, old farmer
Johann Hödlmayr (1928–2011), entrepreneur
Adolf Kloska (1920–1964), sculptor
Josef Netwald (1813–1873), first editor-in-chief of the Linzer Tages-Post
Friedrich Schmiedl (1902–1994), rocket pioneer and the inventor of rocket mail
Julius Strnadt (1833–1917), founder of Upper Austria. State Archives
Norbert Graf Thürheim , defender against the Turks in Hungary, fell in 1788
Countess Constantine Thürheim , wife of Prince Andreas Rasumofsky
Ludovika Countess Thürheim-Thiron (1788–1864) landscape and portrait painter, writer ( memories from Austria's big world )
Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl (1567–1626), Protestant leader in the Thirty Years War
Bernhard Zeller, robber baron at Schwertberg Castle, was executed in 1521

Web links

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

Entry on Schwertberg in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
Further information about the community of Schwertberg can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
41124 - Schwertberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Leopold Josef Mayböck : The field names in the village of Lina. In: Windegger stories. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. Part II 31st edition, May 2009 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
↑ A look at the community of Schwertberg (PDF; 35 kB).
↑ Kultur Zentrum Meierhof Schwertberg , accessed on October 18, 2015.
↑ https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/muehlviertel/Gerhard-Merckens-zum-Ehrenbuerger-von-Schwertberg-ernannt;art69,2913975 , accessed on April 30, 2019.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Leopold Josef Mayböck : The field names in the village of Lina. In: Windegger stories. Bulletin of the Windegg working group in the Schwertberger Kulturring. Part II 31st edition, May 2009 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

[3] A look at the community of Schwertberg (PDF; 35 kB).

[4] Kultur Zentrum Meierhof Schwertberg , accessed on October 18, 2015.

[5] ttps://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/muehlviertel/Gerhard-Merckens-zum-Ehrenbuerger-von-Schwertberg-ernannt;art69,2913975 , accessed on April 30, 2019.