St. Thomas (Upper Austria)

St. Thomas
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Grieskirchen
License plate :	GR
Surface:	6.07 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 17 '  N , 13 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '9 "  N , 13 ° 52' 55"  E
Height :	393  m above sea level A.
Residents :	549 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4732
Area code :	07277
Community code :	4 08 26
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Thomas 100 4732 St. Thomas
Website:	www.sankt-thomas.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Lehner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	7th 3 2 1 7th 3 2 1  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 7 FPÖ : 3 GREEN : 2 SPÖ : 1
Location of St. Thomas in the Grieskirchen district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Thomas (also Sankt Thomas ) is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Grieskirchen district in the Hausruckviertel with 549 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Grieskirchen .

geography

St. Thomas is 393 m above sea level in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 2.6 km from north to south and 4.4 km from west to east. The total area is 6.1 km². 9.8% of the area is forested, 82.% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• At the Bäckerberg (3)
• Ebony (14)
• Eppenedt (6)
• Large barley doubles (34)
• Kirnwies (9)
• Lameth (10)
• Naichet (14)
• Oberprambach (50)
• Ramesedt (22)
• Saint Thomas (326)
• Schmidgraben (9)
• Strass (35)
• Wimm (17)

The community consists of the cadastral parish of St. Thomas.

Waters

St. Thomas is drained by the Prambach, which flows into the Aschach near Punzing .

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided by gold and green; above a red square measure that sweeps upwards, below a silver asparagus branch with six leaves and a red fruit core.
The community colors are yellow-green.

history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

St. Thomas was part of the judicial district of Waizenkirchen until 1923 and was added to the judicial district of Grieskirchen after this judicial district was dissolved. At the same time, the community was detached from the Eferding district and part of the Grieskirchen district.

On January 1st, 2019, the communities Michaelnbach , Pollham and St. Thomas began working together in an administrative community .

politics

Mayor is Josef Lehner from the ÖVP.

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 417 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 459 inhabitants. As both the birth balance and the migration balance were positive, the population rose to 490 in 2011.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Thomas (Upper Austria)

• Parish Church of St. Thomas near Waizenkirchen

• Parish singing circle St. Thomas

Established businesses

• Leo's dredging
• Oberstein consumer electronics
• zisco it consulting
• Eferding-Grieskirchen warehouse
• Oberndorfer transports
• Mayr August plastering
• Agricultural products Eschlböck

Personalities

• Franz Fellinger (1865–1940) was Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem , Rector of the Austrian Hospice for the Holy Family and Regent for Austria of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Web links

Commons : St. Thomas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality
• Further information about the municipality of St. Thomas 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. ^ Province of Upper Austria - Geographical data of the municipality of Sankt Thomas .
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 13, 2019 . 
5. ^ Community cooperation: Pötting withdraws and plans with Neumarkt . Article dated December 31, 2018, accessed on January 2, 2019.
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 . 
7. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of St. Thomas, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .