St. Oswald near Haslach

St. Oswald near Haslach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Rohrbach
License plate :	RO
Surface:	8.13 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 37 '  N , 14 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '11 "  N , 14 ° 1' 54"  E
Height :	658  m above sea level A.
Residents :	492 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	61 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4170
Area code :	07289
Community code :	4 13 33
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Oswald 18 4170 St. Oswald near Haslach
Website:	www.st-oswald-haslach.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Paul Mathe ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	8th 4th 1 8th 4th 1  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 8 SPÖ : 4 FPÖ : 1
Location of St. Oswald near Haslach in the Rohrbach district
St. Oswald from the southwest in February 2009
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Oswald bei Haslach (also Sankt Oswald bei Haslach ) is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel . The population is 492 (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach .

geography

Sankt Oswald bei Haslach is located at an altitude of 658 m in the Upper Mühlviertel . The extension is 4 km from north to south, 4.2 km from west to east, the total area is 8.1 km², making the municipality the third smallest in the district. In 2001, 68 percent of the municipal area was covered by agricultural land and 26 percent was forested. In addition, building areas, gardens and bodies of water each made up around 1 percent of the municipal area, the rest was accounted for by other areas. Neighboring communities are Lichtenau im Mühlkreis in the southeast, Rohrbach-Berg in the southwest and Aigen-Schlägl in the west. The state border with the Czech Republic runs in the north , with St. Oswald bordering the Okres Český Krumlov .

Geology and soils

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan mountain formation in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous ). After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, during the Alpidic mountain formation in the Tertiary, the crystalline basement was abolished by several 100 meters, causing fractures and faults. Subsequently, sediments were deposited in the Tertiary and Quaternary periods . The municipality itself is characterized by low mountain ranges, with the municipality to the valley of the Great Mühl at 510  m above sea level. A. falls off. While the main town St. Oswald with 658  m above sea level. A. is in the middle of the municipality, the highest point of the municipality is in the north at 750  m above sea level. A. The dominant rocks in the municipality are older, coarse-grained granites of the Weinsberg granite type . It is one of the first masses of magma to solidify during the folding of the mountains, has a typical coarseness and causes a restless landscape character with rapid alternation of peaks and valleys. The type of soil found in the municipal area is silicate brown earth, which is light to very light soils. The quality of the generally nutrient-poor soils depends on the depth and the water supply. The soil type is generally loamy sand or sandy loam, with gley being found in the valley area along the Great Mühl as well as in ditches, hollows, at the foot of the slopes or the like .

Landscape and vegetation

The municipality can be roughly divided into two parts. In the north and northeast there is a more densely populated mountainous region with diverse landscape elements, while in the west and southeast there is a structurally poor agricultural zone. In addition to the main settlement areas, the northern landscape has large, cross-community and closed forest areas that are mainly covered by coniferous forest. In addition, there are small deciduous forest areas and smaller reforestation areas. Furthermore, in this area there is grassland management and arable farming on meliorated areas, with only a few extensively managed grassland remaining. As structural elements, there are additional fruit tree meadows and rows in the area of ​​the settlement margins as well as isolated rows of trees along paths or fields. In the west and south-east of the municipality there is intensive agricultural use, with only a few smaller settlements. As structural elements, there are only minimal residual structures on the outskirts of the settlement in the form of orchards, whereby the land consolidation has led to extensive losses of landscape elements and bodies of water. Large closed forest areas (predominantly coniferous forest) only exist along the Große Mühl, with no small forest areas next to it.

Community structure

Population of the districts

District	2001	2011
Almesberg	064	047
Günterreith	052	054
Laimbach	048	051
Mini yard	050	047
Morau	011	012
Sankt Oswald near Haslach	175	168
Saddling	077	066
Schwackerreith	090	061

The municipality of St. Oswald bei Haslach is congruent with the cadastral municipality of St. Oswald, whereby the municipality is divided into eight districts. The main town of the municipality is the village of St. Oswald. It is located in the east of the municipality at an altitude of 658 meters and is the only district with more than 100 inhabitants. In 2001 St. Oswald comprised a total of 57 buildings. St. Oswald is surrounded by small groups and hamlets. These are the Rotte Almesberg ( 620  m above sea level ) south of St. Oswald, the Rotte Laimbach ( 570  m above sea level ) west of St. Oswald and the hamlet of Morau in the north. In 2001 Almesberg had 18, Laimbach 14 and Morau four buildings. Rotte Schwackerreith ( 570  m above sea level ) is located on Schlägler district road in the southern municipality . In 2001 it comprised 24 buildings and was the second largest district of the municipality. The Rotte also included the Heiligenstein Church, which is located on the other side of the Großer Mühl, and the Furtmühle. The hamlet Minihof ( 560  m above sea level ), to which 12 buildings belonged in 2001, is also located on Schlägler Bezirksstrasse, but in the northwest of the municipality . To the north-east of Minihof there is also the Rotte Sattling ( 570  m above sea level ), to the north the Rotte Günterreith ( 650  m above sea level ). In 2001, Sattling comprised a total of 22 buildings, Günterreith had 15 buildings.

The municipality includes the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Almesberg (48)
• Günterreith (50)
• Laimbach (42)
• Mini courtyard (46)
• Morau (12)
• Sankt Oswald near Haslach (158)
• Saddling (59)
• Schwackerreith (77)

history

The founding of the parish St. Oswald on July 25, 1261 is documented. From 1494 until about the First World War, the place name St. Oswald am Windberg was common.

Originally under the feudal sovereignty of the Passau bishops , the place was several times during the Napoleonic Wars . a. occupied by Bavaria. Since 1814, the place finally belongs to Upper Austria.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria took place.

From 1850, Sankt Oswald was part of the Haslach judicial district , which was dissolved in 1923. Sankt Oswald was subsequently assigned to the judicial district of Aigen . After this judicial district was also dissolved in 2003, the community became part of the Rohrbach judicial district.

politics

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms : Humiliated divided; above in silver a black, left-turned raven with a red ring in its beak, below in blue a silver pole. The community colors are blue and white.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1978 by the Upper Austrian provincial government. The raven is an attribute of St. Oswald for the parish patron and namesake of the place. The silver post refers to the watershed between the North Sea ( Elbe ) and the Black Sea ( Danube ) in the municipality, as well as the salt road that led from the Danube to Bohemia.

Municipal council

The municipal council as the highest body of the municipality has 13 seats and is elected every six years in the course of Upper Austria-wide municipal council elections. The municipality board consists of three members, whereby the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) has two members, the mayor and the vice-mayor, and the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) has one member.

The strongest parliamentary group in the St. Oswald municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which between 1973 and 2009 was always able to achieve an absolute majority of votes and mandates. Until 1985, the ÖVP was the only party that ran in St. Oswald, which is why it provided all municipal councils up to that year. It was not until the municipal council elections in 1991 that a second party ran with the SPÖ. The SPÖ reached 28.5 percent when it first appeared in 1991 and was able to achieve between 37 and 41 percent in the following years. The ÖVP achieved between 1991 and 2009 between 59 and 72 percent. In the last municipal council election in 2009, the ÖVP achieved 59.4 percent or eight seats, while the SPÖ achieved its best result to date with 40.6 percent or five seats.

mayor

The mayor has been determined by direct election since 1997 , with no absolute majority for a candidate in a runoff election . Mayor is Paul Mathe from the ÖVP. In previous direct mayor elections, the ÖVP has always prevailed. Their election results ranged from 82 percent in 1997 to 63 percent in 2003 to only 55 percent in 2009. The Vice Mayor is also provided by the ÖVP.

population

Population structure

In 2013 there were 496 people in the parish of St. Oswald, making St. Oswald the fifth smallest parish in the district. In terms of population density, however, St. Oswald was in the middle of the parishes in the district. At the end of 2001, 98.9 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, Rohrbach district 96.9 percent), by the beginning of 2013 the value had changed to 98.4 percent (Upper Austria 91.1 percent, Rohrbach district 96, 9 percent) hardly. A total of only eight foreigners were counted in the municipality in 2013, all of whom came from Europe. In 2001, 97.5 percent of the population (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent) and 2.1 percent confessed to the Roman Catholic Church .

The average age of the community population in 2001 was below the national average. 21.2 percent of the residents of St. Oswald were younger than 15 years (Upper Austria: 18.8 percent), 63.0 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 15.9 percent, well below the national average of 20.2 percent. As a result, the average age of the population of St. Oswald changed significantly in all segments. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 12.5 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 increased significantly to 74.0 percent. The proportion of people over 59 years of age, however, fell to 13.5 percent. According to marital status, in 2001 53.6 percent of the residents of St. Oswald were single, 39.2 percent married, 4.6 percent widowed and 2.6 percent divorced.

Population development

The community of St. Oswald recorded a negative population development between the late 19th century and the middle of the 20th century, with the population shrinking from around 600 inhabitants to just over 400 inhabitants. The decline in the number of inhabitants was particularly strong between 1880 and 1910, after which there was only a small decrease in population until 1939. As a result, the population of St. Oswald began to increase until 1951, then stagnated in the 1950s and rose again until 1991. In 1991 almost as many people lived in the municipality as in 1869. Since 1991, however, the municipality has again recorded population losses. While the community still had a balanced migration balance in the 1970s and increased in population due to the excess births, emigration began in the 1980s. This was still low in the 1980s and could be more than offset by the birth surplus. In the 1990s, on the other hand, emigration was about as large as the birth surplus. Since emigration has risen sharply since 2001 and the birth surplus was comparatively lower than in the previous decades, the population of St. Oswald has been shrinking again since 2001.

Economy and Infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

In 2001, St. Oswald did not have a company with 20 or more employees. In total, the census of workplaces carried out as part of the census showed only 14 workplaces with 60 employees (excluding agriculture), 82 percent of which were employees. The number of workplaces had risen by five (plus 56 percent) compared to 1991, and the number of employees by 25 people (plus 71 percent). Due to the small number of workplaces, there was no dominant branch of the economy in 2001. 12 people were employed in the education sector, 11 people each in public administration, the hotel and restaurant sector and trade. 55 percent of the employees in St. Oswald were salaried employees or civil servants, 20 percent blue-collar workers and 15 percent business owners.

Of the 305 economically active persons living in St. Oswald in 2010, 5.6 percent were unemployed. Of the 288 employed, 58 were employed in manufacturing (20 percent), 44 in construction (15 percent) and 41 in trade (14 percent). Other important sectors were health and social services with 11 percent, agriculture and forestry with 8 percent and public administration for 7 percent of the workforce. Of the 264 employed persons from St. Oswald (excluding employed residents temporarily absent from work), only 54 were employed in St. Oswald in 2010. 210 or 80 percent had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 27 percent had their place of work in the state capital Linz and 54 percent in the Rohrbach district, with the district capital Rohrbach and the municipality of Haslach an der Mühl being among the most important out-commuting communities. In return, only 26 people commuted to St. Oswald, 85 percent of whom came from the Rohrbach district.

Culture and sights

Artwork by Gideon Koval at the Sankt Oswald border crossing (1999)

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Oswald near Haslach

• Catholic parish church of St. Oswald near Haslach

Honorary citizen

• Franz Gumpenberger (* 1943), lawyer, moderator and local researcher

Web links

Commons : St. Oswald bei Haslach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 41333 - St. Oswald near Haslach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of St. Oswald bei Haslach can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

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. ↑ ^{a b c} Province of Upper Austria: Mapping of natural areas in Upper Austria. Landscape elevation St. Oswald near Haslach. Final report. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2006, pp. 1–42 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Petrus Bayer: History of the parish of St. Oswald near Haslach , 2011, pp. 14-16.
5. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (5th addendum 1977–1979) . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, Issue 3/4, 1980, p. 134, online (PDF; 2.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria (PDF; 209 kB) Municipal council elections in St. Oswald near Haslach
7. ↑ Province of Upper Austria (PDF; 200 kB) Results of mayoral elections
8. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. Population levels in Upper Austria in comparison by citizenship 
9. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population by religion and federal states 1951 to 2001 (accessed on October 2, 2013)
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Statistics Austria community data from St. Oswald near Haslach
11. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. Resident population in Upper Austria compared by age group