Sigharting
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Sigharting
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Upper Austria | |
| Political District : | Schärding | |
| License plate : | SD | |
| Surface: | 5.67 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 24 ' N , 13 ° 36' E | |
| Height : | 343 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 824 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 145 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 4771 | |
| Area code : | 07766 | |
| Community code : | 4 14 24 | |
| NUTS region | AT311 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Hofmark 5 4771 Sigharting |
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| politics | ||
| Mayor : | Alois Selker ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members) |
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| Location of Sigharting in the Schärding district | ||
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 Center of Sigharting with the parish church and castle in the background |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Sigharting is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Innviertel with 824 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The municipality belongs politically to the district of Schärding , the responsible judicial district has been the judicial district of Schärding since January 1, 2003 , until this date the place was part of the then dissolved judicial district of Raab . Sigharting is located on the old Poststrasse from Linz to Passau (largely corresponds to today's Eferdinger Bundesstrasse B 129 ), about 60 km west of Linz and about 25 km southeast of Passau. The former moated castle, which is now owned by the municipality and serves cultural purposes, and the parish church, which emerged from the former castle chapel, are particularly worth seeing.
geography
Sigharting is 343 m above sea level. A. in the northern Innviertel, on the southern foothills of the Sauwald . The entire municipal area is part of the Pram valley, and thus naturally belongs to the Inn and Hausruckviertel hill country , which itself is part of the Upper Austrian Alpine foothills . The lowest point in the municipality is 335 m above sea level. A. in the district of Thal near the Grubmühle, where the Pfudabach leaves the community to the west. The 432 m above sea level. A. The highest point of the municipality is on the eastern border of the municipality, north of Loh (district Hacking ).
With an area of 5.66 km², the municipality of Sigharting is the third smallest municipality in the district after Schärding and Mayrhof . It extends from north to south 3 km, from west to east 3.5 km. 12.3% of the area is forested, 77.2% of the area is used for agriculture.
Neighboring communities
The community of Sigharting shares its borders with three other political communities in roughly equal proportions. In the northwest and north it borders on the municipality of Diersbach, in the east on the municipality Enzenkirchen and in the south on the market town of Andorf.
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Districts of the municipality
| Population of the districts | |||
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| District | 1891 | 2001 | January 1, 2020 |
| Sigharting | 432 | 573 | 563 |
| Thal | 29 | 14th | 20th |
| Unterholzen (House No. 4) | ? | 2 | 1 |
| Thalmannsbach | 68 | 100 | 82 |
| Doblern | 28 | 20th | 22nd |
| Grub | 58 | 66 | 82 |
| Loh ( Hacking No. 8-10) | ? | 14th | 11 |
| Subordinate | 27 | 21st | 19th |
| Wormsdobl | 32 | 18th | 24 |
The community Sigharting is made up of the cadastral communities Sigharting and Thalmannsbach. These in turn have the following districts:
- KG Sigharting: Sigharting, Thal, Unterholzen (House No. 4)
- KG Thalmannsbach: Thalmannsbach, Doblern, Grub, Loh ( Hacking No. 8-10), Unterhaigen, Wurmsdobl
The main town of Sigharting has by far the largest population of all districts with over 500 inhabitants. Thalmannsbach and Grub also have over 50 residents, while none of the other districts has more than 25 residents. In the last 100 years only in Sigharting and Thalmannsbach the population increased significantly.
Incorporations
The parish boundary of Sigharting (originated in 1785) deviates on some stretches from the municipality boundary of the place. This led several times to efforts to incorporate these parish parts.
In 1938 the residents of Oberhaigen (municipality of Enzenkirchen) - they had applied for incorporation in vain in 1926 - Kindling and Unterholzen (both municipality of Diersbach) applied for incorporation. With the beginning of the Second World War , this application could no longer be dealt with. In 1950 the town of Oberhaigen again applied for incorporation, but this request was not granted.
Waters
The most important body of water in the municipality of Sigharting is the Pfudabach , a tributary of the Pram , which flows around the center of the village in a large loop. Other notable bodies of water are the Parzer Bach and the Seifriedseder Bach. The former rises as Steinbach near Unterhaigen, takes up the Ritzinger Graben in Thalmannsbach , and flows into the Pfudabach after a run of almost 3 km at the level of Sigharting Castle. The latter, also called Thaler Bach , has its source in the municipality of Andorf and flows into the Pfudabach after about 500 m on Sighartinger municipality in the district of Thal.
geology
From a geological point of view, the municipality of Sigharting lies entirely within the Molasse zone . The most widespread rock is Schlier (Ottnanger Schlier); sandy clay marl (Enzenkirchner sands), loess and loam are also common.
In the past, the occurrences of Schlier and Loam were of local economic importance. There were several so-called marl pits in the municipality , such as the Pfennig pit in Unterholzen, in which the calcareous Schlier was mined as agricultural fertilizer ( liming ) until the middle of the 20th century . The clay deposits, in turn, have been used for brick production since ancient times, which culminated in the first half of the 20th century with the construction of a ring kiln in 1901. This was shut down in 1962 and finally dismantled in 1974.
climate
Since July 1, 1895, Sigharting has had a weather observation station for the hydrographic service of the Upper Austrian provincial government. Since then, records of temperature, rainfall and snow depths have been made with short interruptions. The long-term average annual rainfall is 940 mm per m², the average annual temperature in Sigharting is 7.8 ° C.
history
| Population development |
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| date | Residents |
| 1869 | 716 |
| 1880 | 680 |
| 1890 | 709 |
| 1900 | 706 |
| 1910 | 708 |
| 1923 | 708 |
| 1934 | 678 |
| 1939 | 669 |
| 1951 | 766 |
| 1961 | 678 |
| 1971 | 781 |
| 1981 | 768 |
| 1991 | 861 |
| 2001 | 828 |
| 2011 | 796 |
| 2018 | 848 |
The place Sigharting is on the old Roman road from Lauriacum (Enns) via Lentia (Linz) to Batavis (Passau). This route served the Roman soldiers as a connection and supply route. In 739 Passau became a bishopric. The Siegeharting family already had an ancestral seat in 788 with an associated property in Siegeharting. The Siegehartinger family is mentioned in the tradition books of the Diocese of Passau on the Gut zu Porz estate in 1160.
The place Sigharting is mentioned as Sigihartingen for the first time in the tradition books of the Diocese of Passau around the year 1120 and, like most of the Innviertel, belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria.
In the 13th century came the lords of Pürching in the possession of the Hofmark Sigharting, and Henry was in 1333 I of Pürching by the Bavarian Duke Henry the lower courts on the Hofmark. The Pürchinger family died out in 1632, and the Counts of Tattenbach on St. Martin took over their inheritance. However, they administered the Hofmark from St. Martin.
In the course of the Spanish War of Succession from 1705 to 1714, and after the Treaty of Teschen , Sigharting came to Austria with the Innviertel (then Innbaiern ) . In 1784 the parish Sigharting was founded. In the course of the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied by French troops ( Peace of Schönbrunn ) and handed over to Bavaria on September 29, 1810, together with the rest of the Innviertel, in accordance with the Paris Treaty . During these conflicts of the 18th and 19th centuries, Sigharting was largely spared from acts of war. During the Napoleonic Wars in 1809, the castle was used as a hospital for French soldiers, although it almost fell into flames due to carelessness. There are also some reports of looting by soldiers from this period. According to the agreements at the Congress of Vienna and in particular the Treaty of Munich , the place has finally belonged again to Austria ob der Enns since May 1, 1816 .
The political municipality Sigharting was founded in 1850. It emerged from the two cadastral communities Sigharting and Thalmannsbach, after the plans to form a large community, also consisting of the current communities of Diersbach and Enzenkirchen with a community seat in Sigharting, had failed. On May 24th, 1882 a fire broke out in Sigharting, in which 10 houses in the village were destroyed by flames. On November 11, 1897, the Wurmsdobl district burned down completely with 5 houses. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . The lying in the municipality of Sigharting Panker Villa ( ) belongs to the circle of those objects in the district of Schärding, during the time of National Socialism arisiert were. The dealer Lipot Pauli (= Leopold Paul) Panker (* 1886) lived here with his wife Anna, born in Sigharting, until 1938. Ritzberger (* 1888), who was also the owner of the property. Panker was a baptized Jew and was originally from Mindzent in Hungary. When Anna Panker was evicted from the house, she said “We will travel, but we will bathe in your blood!” After 1945, Upper Austria was restored.
Population development
Since the first reliable censuses in the late 19th century, the population of the community of Sigharting has always been around 700. A slight but noticeable increase began in the 1960s, so that the population has leveled off at around 800 people today. Sigharting has had a negative migration balance since 1991, but this can largely be offset by the positive birth balance.
religion
According to the 2001 census, the following distribution of religious affiliation results for the community of Sigharting: By far the largest proportion of residents, namely 92.3%, are Roman Catholic. The second largest group are members of the Islamic Faith Community (4.7%), followed by people without a creed (1.7%). The other faiths have a total share of 1.3%.
History of the parish of Sigharting
The history of the parish Sigharting goes back to the 18th century. In 1784, in the course of Josephinism , the Diersbach parish was dissolved from the old parish of Taufkirchen , and Sigharting was assigned to this newly established parish. Just one year later, in 1785, Sigharting was founded as an independent parish. The main reasons for this are likely to have been the resistance of the population to the parish to Diersbach, the size of Sigharting and the existing infrastructure (castle chapel, Poststrasse). With the exception of the district of Loh (Hacking 8-10), the newly founded parish comprised the current political community of Sigharting and the districts of Unterholzen and Kindling of the Diersbach parish. In 1786 the parish of the Enzenkirchner district Oberhaigen was attached, and in 1871 the farm Angsüß No. 1/2 (farm name Aichinger, municipality Diersbach). Since the parish of Loh in 1952, the parish area has remained unchanged.
Today the parish belongs to the Andorf deanery of the Linz diocese .
| in office | Surname | Year and place of death |
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| 1785 | Johann Georg Witzmann | † 1816 in St.Martin / I. |
| 1791 | Johann Berger | † 1819 in Zell / Pram |
| 1804 | Martin Schwendinger | † 1814 in Sigharting |
| 1814 | Anton Robert Holzinger | † 1816 in Willishausen |
| 1816 | Benedikt Obermayr | † 1853 in Diersbach |
| 1826 | Johann Nep. Aichinger | † March 21, 1832 in Sigharting |
| 1832 | Vincent Schwediauer | † September 14, 1846 in Sigharting |
| 1847 | Carl Kiederle | † 1903 in Schärding |
| 1859 | Simon Hartinger | † 1906 in Aurolzmünster |
| 1873 | Franz X. Schaffelner | † 1895 in Taufkirchen / P. |
| 1878 | Franz X. Lang | † 1905 in St.Martin / I. |
| 1891 | Konrad Eberhard | † 1940 in Kefermarkt |
| 1906 | Alois Asamer | † 1919 in Hochburg |
| 1910 | Oskar Wimmer | † 1949 in Haselbach |
| 1915 | Karl Kienbauer | † 1939 in Pregarten |
| 1925 | Franz Auleitner | † 1932 in Sigharting |
| 1933 | Karl Bruneder | † 1968 in Grieskirchen |
| 1953 | Karl Gabriel | † 1968 in Bad Mühllacken |
| 1963 | Johann Voggenberger | † February 11, 2008 in Sigharting |
| 1999 | vacant (provisional: Tadeusz Kret) | |
| 2006 | vacant (provisional: Franz Gierlinger) |
politics
The municipal council consisted of 12 members until 1967, and since then 13 members, in accordance with the Upper Austrian municipal code for municipalities with a population of 401 to 1,100.
The ÖVP has always been the strongest party in municipal elections in Sigharting since 1945, and in most cases even had an absolute majority in the municipal council. The second strongest party until the early 1980s was the SPÖ , which was replaced in this role by the FPÖ since the municipal council elections in 1985 .
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| Share of votes | Mandates | Share of votes | Mandates | Share of votes | Mandates | Share of votes | Mandates | ||
| 1945 | 93.4% | 76.5% | 10 | 19.6% | 2 | 3.8% KPÖ | - | ||
| 1949 | 71.4% | 82.2% | 10 | 17.8% | 2 | ||||
| 1955 | 91.8% | 66.6% | 9 | 25.9% | 3 | 5.7% FW | - | 1.8% KLS | - |
| 1961 | 93.8% | 43.7% | 6th | 36.5% | 4th | 19.9% | 2 | ||
| 1967 | 95.6% | 57.9% | 8th | 31.9% | 4th | 10.2% | 1 | ||
| 1973 | 94.1% | 48.8% | 7th | 40.4% | 5 | 10.9% | 1 | ||
| 1979 | 95.9% | 51.6% | 7th | 30.4% | 4th | 18.1% | 2 | ||
| 1985 | 92.1% | 58.4% | 8th | 13.9% | 2 | 27.7% | 3 | ||
| 1991 | 91.7% | 56.7% | 8th | 15.7% | 2 | 27.6% | 3 | ||
| 1997 | 89.3% | 55.3% | 7th | 16.2% | 2 | 28.4% | 4th | ||
| 2003 | 86.1% | 60.6% | 8th | 17.9% | 2 | 21.4% | 3 | ||
| 2009 | 91.1% | 59.9% | 9 | 11.4% | 1 | 18.5% | 2 | 10.2% BZÖ | 1 |
| 2015 | 91.6% | 56.3% | 7th | 8.5% | 1 | 35.2% | 5 |
In the municipal council elections in 2009, 653 citizens were eligible to vote, the turnout was 91.1%. It was the first time that the BZÖ took part in this election and received 10.2% of the votes. This increase was mostly at the expense of the SPÖ and FPÖ, while the ÖVP was almost able to maintain its 2003 result.
mayor
Alois Selker from the ÖVP has been Mayor of Sigharting since October 24, 2008. Deputy Mayor is National Councilor August Wöginger (ÖVP). In the mayoral election in 2009, only the incumbent was eligible, who was able to unite 537 votes, that is 93.07%.
An overview of all mayors of the municipality of Sigharting since 1850 can be found in the following table:
| in office | Surname | address |
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| 1850 | Martin Reitterer | Sigharting 10 |
| 1859 | Georg Wimmer | Doblern 3 |
| 1861 | Matthias Weilhartner sen. | Pit 5 |
| 1864 | Johann Mayer | Subject 2 |
| 1867 | Johann Bruckner | Pit 4 |
| 1870 | Josef Steibl | Sigharting 45 |
| 1873 | Johann Mayer | Subject 2 |
| 1876 | Johann Haslinger | Subject 4 |
| 1879 | Johann Grosspötzl | Pit 8 |
| 1882 | Johann Haslinger | Subject 4 |
| 1885 | Johann Grosspötzl | Pit 8 |
| 1888 | Franz Parzer | Wurmsdobl 2 |
| 1891 | Josef Mayer | Thalmannsbach 1 |
| 1894 | Ferdinand Kalchgruber | Sigharting 40 |
| 1897 | Johann Grosspötzl | Pit 8 |
| 1900 | Johann Mayer | Sigharting 54 |
| 1903 | Josef Mayer | Thalmannsbach 1 |
| 1906 | Matthias Weilhartner jun. | Pit 5 |
| 1909 | Franz Gahbauer | Sigharting 2 |
| 1912 | Johann Mayer | Sigharting 54 |
| 1919 | Franz Hager | Pit 10 |
| 1929 | Johann Mayer | Thalmannsbach 1 |
| 1938 | Johann Stoll | Sigharting 25 |
| 1945 | Johann Jechtenhammer | Sigharting 41 |
| 1948 | Matthias Schmid-Mayer | Sigharting 54 |
| 1961 | Johann Grosspötzl | Pit 8 |
| 1985 | Johann Provost | Thalmannsbach 11 |
| 2008 | Alois Selker | Pit 5 |
coat of arms
Blazon : Humiliated shared ; Above in red a silver lock with a gate porch in the left half of the front and two corner towers, with a black hipped roof over the main building that also covers the porch, black tent roofs over the corner towers, a black, rectangular window in the main and porch and two black, rectangular windows one above the other in the corner towers and a black, round-arched gate in the porch; below in black a golden post horn .
The community colors are red-white-black.
Significance: The representation of the castle represents its importance as the historical center and landmark of the place, while the post horn indicates the location of Sigharting as a post station on the postal route Linz-Passau.
Culture and sights
- Sigharting Castle : Originally a moated castle of the Pürchinger from 1570, later a parish chancellery (1850–1950), elementary school (1837–1970), gendarmerie (1936–1950), today a local museum and cultural center.
- Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius : originally a castle chapel from the 15th century, today's appearance in the 19th century.
traffic
The community of Sigharting is accessed by roads and paths totaling almost 18 km in length. Sigharting's most important traffic route by far is the Eferdinger Bundesstrasse B 129 . It runs along the old connecting route from Linz (approx. 60 km) to Passau (approx. 25 km from Sigharting), or between the Danube and Inn, and was previously called Poststrasse . The B 129 crosses the municipality for a distance of 3.8 km. Other important streets that connect Sigharting with its neighboring communities are Andorfer Straße (a state road) and Kopfinger Straße (a district road).
education
The only school type Sighartings is an elementary school . Its historical roots go back to the year 1779, when the first school building was set up under the new Austrian administration in Sigharting 3. When the parish was founded in 1785, the school was expanded to become a parish school , which was housed in Hofjägerhaus Sigharting 36. In 1837 the primary school finally found a home in Sighartinger Castle. The first classroom was on the second floor on the southeast side. The castle housed the elementary school for 130 years until the school year 1968/69. In the following school year, the new Johann-Ev.-Lamprecht-Volksschule (Sigharting 130), which was newly built a few meters from the castle and is still in use today, was moved into.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Franz Lang, pastor (1891)
- Konrad Eberhard, pastor (1906)
- Alois Asamer, pastor (1910)
- Johann Mayer, Former Mayor (1922)
- Karl Kienbauer, pastor (1925)
- Josef Steibl, Müller (1928)
- Mark W. Clark , American High Commissioner for Austria (1946)
- Franz Petrak, District Captain (1948)
- Heinrich Gleißner , Governor (1949)
- Karl Bruneder, pastor (1953)
- Franz Hager, Former Mayor (1953)
- Wilhelmine Paulmichl, elementary school director (1954)
- Willibald Böhm, Senior Government Builder (1966)
- Rupert Ruttmann , elementary school director (1971)
Sons and daughters of the church
- Matthäus Schlager (born April 10, 1870 in Sigharting; † 1959), Austrian master builder
- Karl Geroldinger (* 1960), trumpeter, conductor, orchestra leader and regional music school director
- Eduard Geroldinger (* 1961), music teacher and musician, since 1996 director of the regional music school in Ried im Innkreis
People related to Sigharting
- Johann Ev. Lamprecht (* 1816; † 1895), local history researcher, fair reader in Sigharting 1861–1888
literature
- Johann Ev. Lamprecht: The old parish Taufkirchen an der Bram (1891) . pro literatur Verlag, ISBN 3-86611-102-9 (new edition 2005).
- Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . Publisher Moserbauer, Mattighofen 1989.
Web links
- Community website
- Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
- Further information about the municipality of Sigharting can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
- Museum project "Sigharting900"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Changes in the administrative structure of judicial districts. (PDF) Statistics Austria, accessed on July 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Johann Ev. Lamprecht: The old parish Taufkirchen an der Bram . S. 232-233 .
- ↑ a b Population census of May 15, 2001 (PDF; 8 kB) Statistics Austria, accessed on July 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 29 .
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 167 .
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 144-145 .
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 68 and 231 .
- ↑ Silvia Rapberger: The history of the Jewish population in Upper Austria , thesis, University of Vienna 2013 ( online ), S. 216th
- ↑ Österreichische Mediathek : Oral History Interview by Roger Michael Allmannsberger with the contemporary witness with Mathilde Pöcherstorfer, Part 8, 2011 ( online )
- ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Sigharting, population development. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Johann Ev. Lamprecht: The old parish Taufkirchen an der Bram . S. 197-198 .
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: The parish church and former castle chapel for St. Pankratius in Sigharting . In: Institute for regional studies of Upper Austria (ed.): Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 19, No. 3/4 , 1965, p. 67–80 ( online (PDF; 1.6 MB) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum).
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 100-101 .
- ↑ Deceased . In: Linzer Diözesanblatt . March 15, 2008, p. 33 ( Online (PDF; 100 kB) [accessed on July 22, 2013]).
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 24-25 .
- ↑ Mayor of the community of Sigharting. State of Upper Austria ooe.gv.at, accessed on July 22, 2013 .
- ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: Upper Austrian municipal coat of arms . Linz 2006, ISBN 3-900313-61-X , p. 262 .
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 176-179 .
- ^ Rupert Ruttmann: Heimatbuch Sigharting . S. 114-121 .
- ^ Eduard Geroldinger , in: Web presence of Regiowiki.at
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