Sperken

Sperken ( Rotte ) village
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Perg  (PE), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Perg
Pole. local community	Klam   ( KG  Clam)
Coordinates	48 ° 13 '24 "  N , 14 ° 46' 23"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '24 "  N , 14 ° 46' 23"  E
height	350  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	202 (January 1, 2020)
Post Code	4352
prefix	+ 43/07269
Statistical identification
Locality code	10075
Counting district / district	Klam (41107 000)
Clam Castle, a striking building in the village of Sperken
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

Sperken is a village (Rotte) in the market town of Klam in the Perg district in Upper Austria , with 198 inhabitants (2001 census).

geography

Sperken is 350  m above sea level. A. about one kilometer west and southwest of the center of Klam and extends along the border to the villages of Amesbach, Schneckenreitstal and Schneckenreitsberg in the neighboring municipality of Baumgartenberg . To the north of Sperken is the Klam district of Gauning and to the northeast is the Klam market. In the east, the Klambach and the Klamschlucht form the border.

A municipal road runs through the village from Münzbach to Klam, from which another municipal road branches off to Baumgartenberg.

From a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as aspects of the use of space, Sperken mainly belongs to the Upper Austrian spatial unit Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland .

history

In the village, a plague column above the Klamer cemetery commemorates this disease that prevailed in the area in the 17th century. The residents of Sperken have belonged to the Klam parish since 1784 (previously the Saxen parish ) and were assigned to the Klam school district . In 1869 125 people lived in 21 houses in Sperken.

Between 1896 and 1908, four houses in Sperken were bought by the owner of Burg Clam and most of them were demolished. The area was fenced in and deer were used. Together with those in the neighboring villages of Linden and Gauning, 36 houses in the communities of Klam and Baumgartenberg were affected. As a result of the political and economic changes at the end of the First World War , the zoo was closed again.

The local cemetery, which has existed since the parish of Klam was established in 1784, extends to the Sperken district and was expanded at the end of the 19th century.

Buildings and monuments

The most striking object in Sperken is Clam Castle on one of the highest points in the village ( 357  m above sea level ) together with the associated buildings such as the Meierhof and Burgschenke.

The Leonstein natural monument is located in the Klamschlucht gorge . Also in the Klamschlucht gorge is a sgraffito by Ernst Graner , who was married to the blacksmith's daughter , on the former hammer forge (now an electric power station) .

A plaque on the Grillenberg-Schneiderhaus commemorates the Swedish poet August Strindberg , who lived there from 1893 to 1897.

A chapel with a picture of Leopold Kupelwieser was built over a bründl (lattice fountain) from the 17th century . Villa Belle-Vue was built at the end of the 19th century. The owner, Councilor Vargas, had a crypt chapel set up next to it.

In 1973 Georg Clam Martinic had the giant oak chapel built in honor of the Mother of God from the trunk of the 1000-year-old oak that fell on July 16, 1972 after a storm.

Other small monuments are the Fraundorfer Cross (chapel), the wooden cross with a painted sheet metal body at the Lehner carpenter, and a wooden cross at the beginning of the Melchart Mountain. Below the castle there is a neo-Gothic granite marterl that was erected in 1864.

Events

The Burgwiese below Burg Clam has been the venue for the Clam Concerts with concerts by well-known international artists for several years .

literature

• Josef Lettner: 600 years of the market - 200 years of the Klam parish , Small home book of the market town of Klam, 1984

Web links

Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Office of the Upper Austrian State Government, Nature Conservation Department (Ed.): Volume 16: Raumeinheit Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland , Linz, 2007 (download as pdf; 5.4 MB) ( Memento of the original from December 8, 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. 
2. ↑ Josef Lettner: 600 years market - 200 years Pfarre Klam , Kleines Heimatbuch der Marktgemeinde Klam, 1984, p. 29.