Wals-Siezenheim

Wals-Siezenheim is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria and with 13,404 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) it has the title of “largest village in Austria”, as it is the most populous municipality in Austria that is not a market or town municipality is.

The double community was founded in 1948 from the localities of Wals and Siezenheim. The coat of arms was awarded in the same year. The population rose from around 1,000 to around 11,000 between 1947 and 2001. The village of Wals used to be part of the then independent municipality of Siezenheim, to which Liefering and a large part of Taxhams also belonged.

geography

The municipality is located in Flachgau in the state of Salzburg, to the west of the state capital Salzburg . Almost the entire municipal area can be counted as part of the city of Salzburg, but incorporations have not yet been implemented due to the increasing role of supra-municipal spatial planning in Austria. Only relatively uninhabited parts of the two former communities were incorporated into Salzburg, so that today there are the cadastral communities Wals II and Siezenheim II in the city of Salzburg , and Liefering I in Wals-Siezenheim. Because of its location between the city and the state border, Wals is also referred to as the “ bacon belt community ”.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Wals-Siezenheim

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2.8	5.0	10.1	14.6	19.6	22.6	24.4	23.8	20.2	14.5	7.5	3.4	O	14.1
Min. Temperature (° C)	-5.1	-4.1	-0.6	3.1	7.6	10.8	12.3	12.0	8.5	4.2	0.2	-3.4	O	3.8
Temperature (° C)	-1.2	0.4	4.7	8.8	13.6	16.7	18.3	17.9	14.3	9.3	3.8	0.0	O	8.9

Precipitation ( mm )	64	60	74	86	116	156	155	141	93	74	77	74	Σ	1,170

Source: climate-data.org Measurement period: 1982–2012

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Gois (637)
Kingdom of Heaven (1188)
Käferheim (540)
Kleßheim (84)
Schwarzenberg Barracks (17)
Siezenheim (3056)
Viehhausen (2157) including Eichetsiedlung, Glansiedlung, Haberlander, Laschensky, Moossiedlung, Schaffhauser, Swiss settlement and Viehhausen-strewn settlement
Wals (3758)
Walserberg (895)
Walserfeld (1072)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Gois, Liefering I, Siezenheim I and Wals I.

Today, Wals-Siezenheim is closely connected to the city of Salzburg, belongs to the regional association of Salzburg and the surrounding area and also falls under the broader term Salzburg central area in the Salzburg regional development plan (corresponds to the city region of Salzburg from Statistics Austria , SR040).

There has recently been a conflict with the city over the pyrotechnic store in the former Gois armed forces ammunition depot , which, due to its size, falls under the Seveso II guidelines. It is located in the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim, but due to the climatic conditions, the consequences of an accident would primarily affect Salzburg.

Neighboring communities

Freilassing ( district Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY , DE )
Ainring ( district of Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY , DE )		Salzburg (statutory city)
Piding ( District of Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY , DE ) Bad Reichenhall ( district Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY , DE )	Grossgmain	Grödig

history

Siezenheim has existed since Roman times and got its name from the Roman nobleman Sizo, who had his aristocratic residence in the area of today's Kleßheim Castle. The oldest Christian cultural monument is a stone cross that can be viewed in the Siezenheim parish church. The local chronicler Franz Müller (1976) even dated it back to the year of the Hungarian invasions around 926.

→ Battle of the Walserfeld

→ Memorial to the battle of the Walserfeld

The Catholic parish church of Siezenheim celebrated its 500th anniversary in 2006. It was built in 1506 on the area of the Romanesque predecessor church that burned down around 1500 (built around 1281). The elementary school, a gift from Archduke Ludwig Viktor , marks the 100th anniversary of its existence.

At the time of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany, the Nazi administration detached the current districts of Liefering and Taxham from the municipality of Siezenheim in order to incorporate them into the city of Salzburg.

The establishment of the double community took place in 1948 from the localities of Wals and Siezenheim. The coat of arms was also awarded this year.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is described (emblazoned) :

In blue an elongated white mountain (Untersberg) and in front of it a natural, green, yellow-fertilized pear tree on green ground .

The mountain is the Untersberg (this is stated in the wording of the blazon), the pear tree is the historical Walser pear tree .

politics

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The community council has a total of 25 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 3 ÜBL - non-partisan citizen list, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, 2 Greens, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 4 FPÖ, 3 SPÖ, and 3 Greens.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, 3 Grübl, 3 SPÖ, and 3 FPÖ.

mayor

1947–1972 Franz Brötzner (ÖVP)
1972–1982 Josef Koch (ÖVP)
1982–2013 Ludwig Bieringer (ÖVP)
since 2013 Joachim Maislinger (ÖVP)

economy

Airportcenter : The shopping center in Himmelreich was - until June 2006 - the second largest shopping center or commercial center in the Salzburg agglomeration. In September 2009 a new factory outlet center was completed.

A group around Wiener Städtische Versicherung , which operates the new outlet center together with McArthurGlen , who also built the one in Parndorf , wants to invest 80 to 90 million euros. The new center has a net retail area of around 25,000 square meters.

The parts distribution center of Porsche Holding provides spare parts for the Volkswagen , Audi , Seat , Škoda Auto and Porsche brands in addition to Austria for seven other countries: Slovenia , Croatia , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary , Romania and the Republic of Moldova .

The Schwarzenberg barracks , the largest barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces and one of the largest in Central Europe, are located in Siezenheim .

dm drogerie markt GmbH

Kaindl Flooring GmbH

Austrian Post AG logistics center 5000

Porsche parts distribution center

Hello TV

Miele Ges.mbH headquarters in Salzburg

Culture and sights

Siezenheim parish church

Parish Church of Wals

Kleßheim Castle
Catholic Parish Church Siezenheim Nativity
Catholic parish church Wals hl. George
Catholic branch church dedicated to St. James the Elder in Gois
Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Viehhausen
Roman villa Loig
Memorial to the battle of the Walserfeld near Gois
See also: Directory of all small monuments in the parish of Wals
The bronze sculpture of the pear tree in the roundabout on the federal highway B1 and the Salzburg-West motorway exit became famous for the theft of a pear.

nature

Pear tree on the Walserfeld

Motorway lake (Wals) - the 8-hectare moor lake in the district of Viehhausen, in the northeast of the Salzburg motorway triangle, is a relic of gravel mining for the construction of the motorway (roughly around 1940), today used for fishing and swimming, water lily vegetation. The lake is privately owned and is managed by the leaseholder Heeressportverein Wals, sport fishing section.

religion

Today the community has two Catholic parishes of its own, Wals and Siezenheim (which both also look after smaller areas in the city), the Walserfeld pastoral care center, while the southern areas of Salzburg-St. Vitalis are looked after. All of these facilities belong to the Bergheim deanery (Pfarrverband 5 Großgmain - Salzburg-St. Vitalis - Siezenheim - Wals - Walserfeld ).

traffic

Air traffic: In terms of passenger numbers, Salzburg Airport in Maxglan is the second largest airport in Austria and is directly adjacent to the district of Himmelreich.
Train: Just outside the municipality is the Salzburg Taxham Europark train station .
Bus: Wals is served by lines 1 (EM Stadion), 2 (airport, Walserfeld) and 10 (airport, outlet center) of the Salzburg trolleybus . In addition, the city bus routes 27 (Viehhausen, airport) and 28 (Siezenheim) as well as the regional bus routes 142 and 150 operate.
Road: The Salzburg junction is also located in the Walser municipality , at which the Austrian federal highways A1 Westautobahn to Vienna and Eastern Europe and the A10 Tauernautobahn to Carinthia and Southeast Europe cross. At the border crossing Walserberg (former border crossing Großer Walserberg ) the A1 forms the transition to the German federal motorway 8 (Salzburg - Munich - Stuttgart).

Sports

With the Bundesliga soccer club FC Red Bull Salzburg , Salzburg's most successful soccer club at the moment plays its home games in the Red Bull Arena on the outskirts of Salzburg. This arena with a capacity of 30,000 was also the venue for the 2008 European Football Championship . At that time, however, it was named EM Stadium Wals-Siezenheim.

The AC Wals is a wrestling club. The club's athletes have been fighting for the Austrian championship title for many years.

Ice stock club Wals (EV Wals), large winter and summer hall (8 lanes)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Josef Preis (* 1867 in Siezenheim (then at Liefering); † 1944 there), former mayor of the provincial capital Salzburg 1919–1927 and former member of the Salzburg state parliament
Bartl Brötzner I (born February 13, 1928 in Wals; † September 12, 2015), Austrian wrestler
Franz Berger (born January 24, 1940 in Wals), Austrian wrestler
Christian Haidinger (born March 12, 1944 in Wals-Siezenheim), Benedictine, abbot of Altenburg Abbey and since 2009 abbot president of the Austrian Benedictine Congregation
Bartholomäus Brötzner II (born February 20, 1957 in Wals), Austrian wrestler
Georg Marchl (born January 22, 1964 in Wals-Siezenheim), Austrian wrestler
Anton Marchl (born March 19, 1965 in Wals-Siezenheim), Austrian wrestler
Georg Neumaier (born February 13, 1966 in Wals-Siezenheim), Austrian wrestler

Honorary citizen of the community

Georg Neumaier (1940–2008), economics councilor and long-time deputy mayor of the Wals-Siezenheim community

People related to the community

Johann Georg Kajetan Egedacher , pastor of Siezenheim from 1764 to 1770 and friend of Leopold Mozart
Ludwig Bieringer (* 1943), former mayor of the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim, former politician ( ÖVP )
Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842-1919), Archduke, the youngest son of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and youngest brother of the Austria-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I , in Kleßheim died
Karl Thurwieser (1789–1865), Austrian meteorologist, alpinist and theologian, assistant priest in Siezenheim
Stefan Schnöll (* 1988), politician (ÖVP)

Web links

Commons : Wals-Siezenheim - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Community website
Outline the story of Wals
50338 - Wals-Siezenheim. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Wals-Siezenheim . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ Central location structure and structure according to the LEP ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. (Map pdf, salzburg.gv.at; 1.1 MB)

↑ Stadtregionen 2001 ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. , statistik.at (pdf)

^ Franz Brötzner . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

^ Josef Koch (Wals) . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

↑ Ludwig Bieringer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

↑ Joachim Maislinger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

↑ Communication from Volkswagen Austria ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2008 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. (PDF file; 388 kB)

↑ List of all small monuments in the parish of Wals

↑ http://salzburg.orf.at/news/stories/2717499/ Bronzebirne stolen from sculpture, ORF.at, June 22, 2015.

↑ http://fishing.robi-koch.com/gewaesser/autobahnsee/ Waters: Autobahnsee, Robi's fishing blog, Robert Koch 2010-2014. Retrieved July 6, 2015.

↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 9, 2015 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. The autobahn lake in Viehhausen, Salzachfischer Retrieved July 6, 2015.

↑ See: [1] List of Pastors in Siezenheim, accessed on January 24, 2016.

↑ When Leopold Mozart found out about the death of Johann Georg Kajetan Egedacher on the first trip he took with his son Wolfgang Amadé to Italy, he mentions him in a letter to his wife Anna Maria , who had stayed in Salzburg. In his letter he then suspects that Pastor Egedacher died of dropsy and fire . Leopold Mozart went on to say: I regret him, he was an honest man and an old, well-known and good friend of mine . See: [2] Leopold Mozart's letter of November 17, 1770 from Milan to his wife in Salzburg (accessed April 5, 2014).

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