St. Willibald

This article explains the community, for other meanings see St. Willibald (disambiguation) .

St. Willibald
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Schärding
License plate :	SD
Surface:	14.51 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 22 '  N , 13 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '39 "  N , 13 ° 41' 7"  E
Height :	455  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,103 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	76 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4762
Area code :	07762
Community code :	4 14 21
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Willibald 21 4762 St. Willibald
Website:	www.sankt-willibald.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Jobst ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	9 6th 3 1 9 6th 3 1  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 9 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 3 GREEN : 1
Location of St. Willibald in the Schärding district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Willibald (Sankt Willibald) is a municipality in the Austrian state of Upper Austria in the district of Schärding in the Innviertel with 1103 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Schärding .

geography

St. Willibald lies at an altitude of 455 m in the Sauwald . The extension is 4.7 km from north to south and 6 km from west to east. The total area is 14.5 km². 28.3% of the area is forested, 62.8% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

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

• Aichet (144) with Kalchdobl
• Antlangkirchen (101) including Hub, Oberbubenberg and Sankt Jakob
• Thick (33)
• Geiselham (43)
• Geizedt (110)
• Kleinpireth (9) including the undergrowth
• Oberantlang (27)
• Patrichsham (43)
• St. Willibald (377)
• Wamprechtsham (216) including Geizedt

The parish consists of the cadastral parishes of Aichet and Geiselham.

coat of arms

Blazon : In green a silver sloping bar covered with a red wavy bar ; above a silver, left upper corner , covered with three blue, upright diamonds, below two golden arrows diagonally one above the other. The municipality colors are green-white-black.

history

The area was settled as early as the Celtic and Roman times. The area has been Bavarian since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria . In 777, "fluenta Antalanga" (Antlangbach) is documented, the village of Aichet is mentioned in 1110 for the first time. Only for the year 1489 is the village called "sand Willbald". The municipality came to Austria in 1780 after the Treaty of Teschen and the Innviertel (then Innbaiern ) . During the Napoleonic Wars briefly royal Bavarian again , the community has been part of Austria ob der Enns since 1814 and has shared its history since then.

Until the end of 2002, the community belonged to the Raab judicial district , after its dissolution it was assigned to the Schärding judicial district.

politics

Mayor is Josef Jobst from the ÖVP .

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1,130 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,139 inhabitants. Due to emigration, the population decreased to 1,123 in 2011 despite a positive birth balance.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Willibald

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Willibald

• Catholic parish church St. Willibald : A late Gothic two-aisled hall church and former pilgrimage church with a largely neo-Gothic interior. The baroque bell chamber was added to the church tower in 1733.
• Catholic branch church St. Jakob

Web links

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

• Community website
• Further information about the community of St. Willibald can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
3. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 13, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community xxx, population development. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .