St. Stefan am Walde

St. Stefan am Walde ( village , former municipality) Ortschaft Katastralgemeinde St. Stefan am Walde
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Rohrbach  (RO), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Rohrbach
Pole. local community	St. Stefan-Afiesl
Coordinates	48 ° 34 '6 "  N , 14 ° 6' 8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '6 "  N , 14 ° 6' 8"  E
height	807  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	199 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	16 km²
Post Code	4170
Statistical identification
Locality code	11244
Cadastral parish number	47322
Monument to the origin of the Church of St. Stefan
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

St. Stefan am Walde (also Sankt Stefan am Walde ) is a village and cadastral community in the municipality of St. Stefan-Afiesl in Upper Austria in the Rohrbach district in the upper Mühlviertel with 186 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2018). The responsible judicial district is Rohrbach in Upper Austria . On January 1, 2019, the previously independent municipality was merged with Afiesl to form the new municipality of St. Stefan-Afiesl.

geography

Sankt Stefan am Walde is located at an altitude of 807 m in the upper Mühlviertel. The extension is 4.7 km from north to south and 5.9 km from west to east. The total area is 16 km². 33.8% of the area is forested, 61.3% of the area is used for agriculture.

history

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 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.

Former parish

The municipality comprised the following 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Dambergschlag (69)
• Gmain (5)
• Haid (39)
• Herrenschlag (84)
• Inside punch (28)
• Oberafiesl (7)
• Upper (13)
• Oberriedl (84)
• Preßleithen (18)
• Raiden (74)
• Sankt Stefan am Walde (199)
• Sub-level (31)
• Unterriedl (147)

Municipal council

The strongest parliamentary group in the St. Stefan municipal council has always been the ÖVP, which since 1945 has always achieved an absolute majority of votes and mandates and usually even achieved a two-thirds majority. Since 1945 the ÖVP recorded election results between 65.5 and 80.6 percent, whereby the ÖVP achieved its best result in 1961, its worst in 1949. The second strongest party in the municipal council of St. Stefan has always been the SPÖ since 1945, with the SPÖ since 1945 Results came between 17.7 and 34.5. In 2015, the FPÖ ran for the first time in the community. With 12.19 percent, these reached the municipal council straight away.

mayor

Mayor since 1850:

Term of office	Surname	Term of office	Surname
1850-1858	Joseph Hinterhölzl	1919-1924	Johann Atzlesberger
1858-1862	Joseph Rechberger	1924-1929	Franz Piermayr
1862-1870	Jakob Scheiblhofer	1929-1938	Anton Hehenberger
1870-1876	Josef Leibetseder	1938-1945	Franz Engleder
1876-1879	Mathias Riedl	1945-1946	Josef Kloiböck
1879-1894	Josef Leibetseder	1946-1949	Josef Hetzmannseder
1894-1897	Josef Winkler	1949-1967	Markus Pürmayer
1897-1906	Johann Hetzmannseder	1967-1991	Josef Kitzmüller
1906-1909	Leopold Anzinger	1991-2003	Franz Engleder
1909-1911	Josef Leibetseder	2003-2014	Franz Anzinger
1911-1913	Johann Hetzmannseder	2014-2018	Alfred Mayr
1913-1919	Georg Mayr

coat of arms

The municipality of St. Stefan determined the design of the municipal coat of arms and the municipality colors (yellow) by resolution of the municipal council on November 4th, 1968. The coat of arms was subsequently awarded by resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government on May 17, 1971, or the municipal colors were approved. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: “ Divided; Above, in gold, a blue ax with a black handle placed at an angle; below, in green, three silver, two-to-one, irregularly shaped stones. “The ax in the coat of arms stands for a legend that has to do with the founding of the parish church. When the construction of the parish church was unsuccessful, Saint Stephen came out of the forest in the form of a carpenter and asked the builders to build the church there in the forest where the ax he had thrown lies. The stones in the lower part of the coat of arms stand for the local and parish patron who was stoned in Jerusalem. The design of the municipal coat of arms comes from Gerhard Hirnschrodt from Linz.

Population development

Personalities

• Jakob Pawanger (1680–1743), master builder, was born here.

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. ↑ State Law Gazette
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Province of Upper Austria ( Memento of the original from December 24, 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. Local council elections in St. Stefan am Walde from 1945 
5. ^ Province of Upper Austria Mayor of the municipality of St. Stefan Walde since 1850
6. ^ State of Upper Austria coat of arms of the municipality of St. Stefan am Walde

Web links

Commons : St. Stefan am Walde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Background information on the story
• 41335 - St. Stefan am Walde. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of St. Stefan am Walde can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .