St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach

St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Braunau am Inn
License plate :	BR
Surface:	7.19 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 8 '  N , 13 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '30 "  N , 13 ° 1' 10"  E
Height :	488  m above sea level A.
Residents :	421 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	5144
Area code :	07748
Community code :	4 04 35
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Georgen 29 5144 St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach
Website:	www.handenberg.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Wengler ( FPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (9 members)	5 4th 5 4th  A total of 9 seats FPÖ : 5 ÖVP : 4
Location of St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach in the Braunau am Inn district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach (also Sankt Georgen am Fillmannsbach ) is a municipality in the Austrian state of Upper Austria in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel with 421 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community belongs to the judicial district of Braunau am Inn .

geography

Parish church of St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach

St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach lies at an altitude of 488 m in the Innviertel. The extension is from north to south 4.9 km, from west to east 4.3 km. The total area is 7.2 km². 20.8% of the area is forested, 75.% of the area is used for agriculture.

The municipality is traversed by the Fillmannsbach from south to north .

Community structure

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

• Anferding (26)
• Angern (32)
• Brandstatt (5)
• Trees (69)
• Fillmannsbach (70)
• Reichsberg (16)
• Sankt Georgen am Fillmannsbach (89)
• Scrubbing (73)
• Steckenbach (33)
• Wies (8)

The community consists of the cadastral community St. Georgen.

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms awarded in 1985: "In gold, a black, red flame-breathing dragon body with ears spraying red flames." The municipality colors are red, yellow and black.
Symbolic representation of the namesake of the place and patron of the parish, St. Georg as a dragon slayer. The slightly modified form of the dragon's hull, taken from the noble coat of arms of Gottfried Wilhelm Graf Rheinstein-Tattenbach, can also be interpreted as a reference to the beneficiary of the women's intercession chapel in Eberschwang, which was used in 1786 to supply the clergy in the newly founded locality to St. Georgen was relocated.

history

Since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen with the Innviertel (then Innbaiern ). Briefly Bavarian again during the Napoleonic Wars , since 1814 it has finally belonged to 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.

politics

Franz Wengler of the FPÖ has been mayor since November 1st, 2013.

administration

Since January 1st 2007, St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach has formed an administrative partnership with the municipality of Handenberg .

Culture and sights

See the list of listed objects in St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach

• Parish church of St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach

Personalities

• Franz Giger (1856–1937), farmer and politician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The official spelling is specified or shown in the list of the municipalities of the Upper Austrian provincial government on the Internet and on Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality
2. ^ Province of Upper Austria - Geographical data of the municipality of St. Georgen .
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Parish of St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach .
6. ^ Community of St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach & Handenberg .

Web links

Commons : St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Further information about the community of St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .