St. Georgen im Attergau
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market community St. Georgen im Attergau
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Upper Austria | |
| Political District : | Vöcklabruck | |
| License plate : | VB | |
| Surface: | 15.58 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 56 ' N , 13 ° 30' E | |
| Height : | 540 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 4,455 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 4880 | |
| Area code : | 07667 | |
| Community code : | 4 17 34 | |
| NUTS region | AT315 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Attergaustraße 21 4880 St. Georgen im Attergau |
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| Mayor : | Ferdinand Aigner ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members) |
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| Location of St. Georgen im Attergau in the Vöcklabruck district | ||
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 The town center as seen from the balloon |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a market town in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 4455 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .
geography
St. Georgen im Attergau is 540 m above sea level. A. in the Hausruckviertel . The extension is from north to south 4.3 km, from west to east 7.2 km. The total area is 15.5 km², 18.1% of the area is forested, 65.8% of the area is used for agriculture. The municipality is traversed by the Dürren Ager from south to north . The highest point is the Buchberg at 808 m above sea level. A.
Districts of the municipality
The municipality includes the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Aich (30)
- Alkersdorf (156)
- Bergham (29)
- Book (43)
- Kogl (357)
- Koenigswiesen (29)
- Lohen (227)
- Lohened (181)
- St. Georgen im Attergau (2980)
- Thalham (351)
- Thern (72)
coat of arms
Blazon : “A silver, green, wavy shield base in blue, covered with a red bar; Above it is a silver, tinned, red roofed and golden crossed round tower, on the wall of which Saint George is painted on a natural-colored (brown) horse jumping up to the left, red bridled and saddled, in blue armor, the spiked bonnet tipped with a white and a red ostrich feather , a green, red-tongued and armed dragon lying on the ground, resisting dragging the golden spear into the throat. "
The community colors are red-white-blue.
The market coat of arms was awarded by Emperor Maximilian II in 1565 . It shows with St. Georg the parish patron and namesake of the place. The tower stands for the rule of Attersee, which was moved from Attersee to St. Georgen (Kogl Castle) in the 15th century .
history
Early days
In the Bronze Age the Attergau area was inhabited by Celts. The latest excavations on the Buchberg and in Baum, municipality of Berg, bear witness to this . In the 4th century BC The area becomes part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum.
With the conquest of the Celtic Empire in 15 BC BC by the Romans the area of the Attergau becomes part of the Imperium Romanum. Christianity also came to the province of Noricum through the Roman soldiers, businessmen and colonists. St. Severin (482 AD) plays an important role in spreading the faith. The area remained part of the Roman Empire until 488 AD ( Roman Empire , Late Antiquity ).
middle Ages
Around 550 the Bavarians settled the country and made the remaining Celto novels subject to tribute. The Bavarians cleared the land and founded many villages. They founded individual farms, hamlets and villages with names consisting of the personal name plus -ing (en) or -heim , such as Pabing, Rixing, Engljahring. The Bavarians shaped the rural structure of the country, some of which still exist today. Around the year 1000, a second wave of settlement came from Baiern. The places got their names, their dialect and the pagan customs still have their typical regional colors. The formation of the -ing names was completed by around 1100.
The Bavarian dukes from the Agilolfinger dynasty divided the area populated in this way into new administrative units such as the Traungau (Wels), the Attergau (St. Georgen), the Mattiggau (Mattighofen) and the Rottgau (Passau). During this time the localities Roith, Reuth, Reith, Brandstatt, Lohen, Lichtenberg, Katterlohen, Innerlohen were founded.
The name Attergau (Attagaoe) appears for the first time in 790. Around the same time, the place with the name Attergaudorf was founded . Only later, after the place got a church consecrated to St. George, was today's name St. Georgen im Attergau coined.
As mentioned above, large parts of the Attergau were initially Bavarian ducal estates . You are after the deposition of Tassilos III. from the house of the Agilolfinger in the year 788 passed as a royal estate directly to the Carolingians . When Charlemagne removed Duke Tassilo in 778, all ownership fell to the Franks. The Aterhofen domain (today's Attersee) thus becomes a Franconian crown property.
In 1007, King Heinrich II founded the Bamberg diocese and gave Bishop Eberhard zu Bamberg the Aterahof or Atergovi ( Attersee Castle ), as the area was then called. The Attergau at that time comprised the lordships of Attersee, Kammer and Frankenburg. It essentially corresponded to today's Vöcklabruck district, with the exception of the Mondseerland. From a political point of view, the Attergau belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria just like the heartland of what is now Austria until 1156. The center of the Attergau was the town of Attersee.
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Until 1120 St. Georgen was subordinate to the Parish Altmünster . In the area of this foundation by the diocese of Bamberg, the parish of St. Georgen was established shortly before 1200.
St. Georgen was nominated as the seat of the court in 1264. The 1000-year-old linden tree still reminds of this today. With the relocation of the Hofmark from Attersee to the Georgskirche in St. Georgen in 1264, the importance of this place was enhanced.
In 1379 the Habsburgs acquired the Bamberg property in the Attergau from the Schaumbergers. The center of power was moved from Attersee to St. Georgen on the higher Koglberg for defense reasons .
In 1463 St. Georgen was made a market. The Simonimarkt and the Shrove Tuesday market are still held today as a commemoration.
The Attergau has been part of the Principality of Austria ob der Enns since 1490 .
Modern times
In 1848 the manors of Kogl and Kammer were abolished and the farmers became free citizens . The modern political communities and districts ( Vöcklabruck ) took over the administration. District courts replaced the patrimonial jurisdiction of the old rulers. St. Georgen was part of the Frankenmarkt judicial district until 2013 .
Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria .
A RAD camp ( Reich Labor Service ) was set up in Thalham during the Nazi era . It served as a refugee camp after World War II and as a lung sanatorium since 1947. Since the 1960s it was again a refuge for refugees from Uganda and later from the Eastern Bloc and the Balkans. Today Thalham is an initial reception center for asylum seekers.
Since 2002 St. Georgen has also been part of the Salzkammergut tourist region .
500 m north of St. Georgen in the neighboring municipality of Berg im Attergau is the state camp of the Upper Austrian Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts , a flat meadow for camping on the left bank of the Dürren Ager , now Scout Camp Austria . It has been equipped with permanent sanitary buildings for a long time. After Aschach an der Mühl (1956), Altmünster (1960), Haslach an der Mühl (1965), the (4th) regional camp took place here for the first time in 1969, and from 1973 (with over 1000 participants) regularly every 5 years, around August most recently in 2013, each for 10 days around August. At the large camp with typically several thousand, including international participants, the youngest are integrated into sleeping bag camps in buildings.
At Scout Camp Austria , near the banks of the Dürren Ager, the High Kix high ropes course has been located at least since 2009 .
Since 2013 there has also been a local boy scout group in St. Georgen.
In 1995 the parish museum was opened; it shows the oldest letter of indulgence in Upper Austria - from 1299.
The KeltenBaumWeg in the Kogel district in the north-west of the municipality is an educational adventure and play area.
The ultra-cycling race Race Around Austria , which has been taking place in St. Georgen since 2009, has started in 2012 .
Culture and sights
- Until 1200 St. Georgen was under the parish of Altmünster. The large church, consecrated to St. George , was built between 1389 and 1406, with the tower initially being built as a defense tower . The nave was added later. At the beginning of the 18th century it got a higher tower with an onion helmet . The quality of the furnishings can be demonstrated primarily by the pulpit and the larger - than - life cross group in the cross chapel, which come from the Guggenbichler workshop . The high altar painting is by Bartolomeo Altomonte .
- The Kogl Castle
- On the Koglberg, St. Georgen's local mountain, you can still see the remains of the walls of Kogl Castle, which was built in 1264 . It was built in place of Attersee Castle.
- The owners were: Chunrad Kuchler, the Wallseer until 1411, the Schaunberger , Ortolph Geymann , the Pollheimer , the Count Khevenhüller . Since the castle has not been inhabited since 1524, it began to decline.
- The current Kogl Castle at the foot of the Koglberg was built between 1435 and 1441 as Neuattersee Castle . Kogl Castle was rebuilt in 1710 according to the plans of the Linz builder Johann Michael Prunner. Since then, the horseshoe-shaped complex has undergone several structural changes. A shady avenue leads from the castle to the market.
- It was formerly owned by Count Khevenhüller and was given to Dr. Pausinger sold. The castle has been owned by the Mayr-Melnhof family since 1872 .
- Celtic tree path on the Koglberg
- A themed hiking trail over a length of 2.5 km (short variant) or 5 km (longer variant), which is intended to bring the life of the Celts closer through information boards and "adventure stations".
Museums
- In this old Mittertenn house , you can see the kitchen, living room, bedroom for the farmers, equipment for laundry care and linen production, a small tailor and shoemaker's workshop and agricultural equipment in the tennis area.
- House of Culture
- Various exhibitions take place in the premises of the converted old elementary school in the village, which was officially reopened as a museum in 2002. Among others on Johann Beer and Erich Wilhelm Ricek . Various finds from excavations of Iron Age graves have also found their place there.
politics
Ferdinand Aigner of the ÖVP has been mayor since 2015.
Population development
In 1991 the community had 3652 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 4015 inhabitants.
Personalities
- Johann Beer (1655–1700), writer and composer
- Franz Xaver von Pausinger (1839–1915), landscape and animal painter
- Richard Jakitsch (1872–1931), sculptor
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929–2016), conductor
- Hans Hollerweger (* 1930), Roman Catholic theologian
Web links
- Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
- 41734 - St. Georgen im Attergau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Further information about the municipality of St. Georgen im Attergau can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Province of Upper Austria: coat of arms of the municipality of St. Georgen iA
- ↑ The basic map of Austria does not contain Koglberg, but Kogl. Furthermore, Kogelberg was occasionally written in the literature: History, geography and statistics in the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg, Volume 3, Linz 1830
- ↑ http://www.scoutcampaustria.at Scout Camp Austria, website, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ http://pfadis.wrneudorf.at/chronik/203-lagerchronik.html 50 years of the scout group Wiener Neudorf. Camp Chronicle. Scouts and Girl Scouts Wiener Neudorf, 2013, accessed November 11, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.pfadis.at/wp/?page_id=83 Scout group Rohrbach-Berg, history. 2015, accessed November 11, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.biorama.eu/landeslageroberosterreichplanet13/ My heart goes boom boom boom, Nicola Raunig August 20, 2013, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ http ://www.mein Bezirk.at/voecklabruck/chronik/13-internat-pfadfinderlager-in-st-georgen-im-attergau-d655958.html 13. Internat. Scout camp in St. Georgen im Attergau. Karl Kernmayer, mein district.at> Vöcklabruck, August 8, 2013, accessed November 11, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.highkix.at Website Highkix, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.ooe.pfadfinder.at/attergau.html A scout group for the Attergau, http://www.ooe.pfadfinder.at , (January 2013), accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.bergfex.at/sommer/st-georgen-im-attergau/highlights/3746-pfarrmuseum/ Freizeittipps St. Georgen im Attergau, Pfarrmuseum, bergfex.at, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Keltenbaumweg, Tourismusverband Sankt Georgen iA / Berg iA / Straß iA - Salzkammergut, website, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.racearoundaustria.at/news/news/article/terminbekanntgabe-2016/ Terminbekanntgabe 2016. www.racearoundaustria.at 2015, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ^ [1] Website of the Heimatverein Attergau. (Retrieved January 13, 2012).
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