City of Aist

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Stadt Aist is the name of a project idea for the creation of a rural town in the district of Freistadt in Upper Austria through the merger of the three Mühlviertel municipalities of Hagenberg im Mühlkreis , Pregarten and Wartberg ob der Aist . The city of Aist would have almost 12,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​62 square kilometers.

Project

The creation of a joint administrative unit for the three previously independent municipalities, whose centers are only around two kilometers apart, within the next few years will be discussed controversially and should be decided by a referendum after extensive information has been given to the population . This citizen survey can be carried out independently by each municipality based on a municipal council resolution.

Provided that there are no further such amalgamations of municipalities in Upper Austria, the city of Aist would be the largest city in the Mühlviertel and the Freistadt district in terms of the number of inhabitants and the area. Aist would also be one of the larger administrative units within Upper Austria. Attempts by the three municipalities to cooperate in the building yard and waste material collection center had failed in the past after the pool cooperation was considered an exemplary project in the state of Upper Austria in 2007 .

geography

The location of the communities of Hagenberg , Pregarten and Wartberg to one another forms a triangle with the Pregarten train station as the center. (  Map with all coordinates of the three municipalities at a glance: OSM ) f1Georeferencing

The Feldaist and Waldaist would be essential rivers of a future city of Aist . The projected city would have neighboring communities in the districts of Freistadt ( Tragwein , Gutau , Kefermarkt , Neumarkt im Mühlkreis and Unterweitersdorf ), Perg ( Ried in der Riedmark and Katsdorf ) and Urfahr-Umgebung ( Engerwitzdorf ).

Advocates

The mayor of Pregartner Anton Scheuwimmer (ÖVP) is an important proponent of ideas. Scheuwimmer finds support from Erich Hackl (SPÖ), mayor of the municipality of Wartberg ob der Aist and the Upper Austrian Federation of Industrialists , who advocate amalgamation of municipalities for fundamental reasons.

Friedrich Schneider , economist at the University of Linz , determined annual savings and additional income of 1.4 to 1.6 million euros in administration. A joint business park could bring up to 700,000 euros in local taxes. Bruno Buchberger , head of the Hagenberg software park , assumes that the chances of creating an appealing environment for the students are better if an attractive city is integrated into the central area.

opponent

The mayor of Hagenberg, Kathrin Kühtreiber (ÖVP), appears as opponents of a merger, who sees financial solutions much more in cooperation and no reason for the dissolution of municipalities, so a joint business park is planned with a distribution of tax revenues among the three Communities. In a commentary, the municipal association chairman Helmut Mödlhammer argues against municipal mergers . The Upper Austrian municipality federation president Johann Hingsamer judges the study by Friedrich Schneider as flawed and incomprehensible, instead of additional income in the millions, after the municipal financial equalization there would only be an increase of 200,000 euros. In addition, Hingsamer expects that the next time the financial equalization is adjusted, the additional income from the graduated population key would be reduced to zero and thus another reason speaks against a merger. In addition, Hingsamer cites as an argument that community mergers should be carried out "only with the citizens, not against them".

Further course of the discussion

  • The referendum in Hagenberg on November 27, 2011 resulted in the participation of 74.36 percent of the eligible voters, a rejection of the project with 90.3 percent.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oberösterreichische Nachrichten dated September 2, 2011: Study supports the “Stadt Aist” project, but Hagenberg blocked the query on September 2, 2011
  2. ↑ Information on the press conference  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 93 kB) on November 28, 2007 at land-oberoesterreich.gv.at, accessed on September 5, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at  
  3. ↑ How does successful municipal management work? from December 13, 2010 on iv-oberoesterreich.at, accessed on September 5, 2011
  4. ↑ Business park already on track even without a merger . In Neues Volksblatt from September 15, 2011
  5. ↑ Helmut Mödlhammer: A clear majority of the citizens against the merger. In Kommunal - Official Organ of the Austrian Association of Municipalities 2/2010. ( Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .; PDF; 4.6 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kommunalverlag.at  
  6. ↑ a b Michael Kaltenberger: "Stadt Aist" study with wrong numbers . In Neues Volksblatt, Linz.
  7. ↑ Community researcher does not believe that the city of Aist is already dead as an idea