Laakirchen

Borough Laakirchen
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Gmunden
License plate :	GM
Surface:	32.46 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 59 '  N , 13 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '58 "  N , 13 ° 49' 27"  E
Height :	441  m above sea level A.
Residents :	9,843 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	303 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4663
Area code :	07613
Community code :	4 07 11
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 4663 Laakirchen
Website:	www.laakirchen.at
politics
Mayor :	Fritz Feichtinger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (37 members)	14th 11 9 3 14th 11 9 3  A total of 37 seats SPÖ : 14 ÖVP : 11 FPÖ : 9 GREEN : 3
Location of Laakirchen in the Gmunden district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Laakirchen is a municipality in the Gmunden district in Upper Austria with 9,843 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Gmunden .

geography

Laakirchen is 441 m above sea level in the Traunviertel . The extension is 7 km from north to south and 7.7 km from west to east. The total area is 32.4 km². 11.1% of the area is forested, 77.2% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following 11 localities (population in brackets as of October 31, 2011):

• Diethaming (248)
• Kirchham (48)
• Kranabeth (46)
• Laakirchen (4114)
• Lindach (675)
• Oberndorf (191)
• Oberweis (2248)
• Oiling (128)
• Rahstorf (109)
• Schweigthal (147)
• Stötten (1514)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Diethaming, Kranabeth, Laakirchen, Lindach, Oberweis, Ölling, Schwaigthal and Stötten.

Neighboring communities

Desselbrunn	Roitham am Traunfall	Vorchdorf
Ohlsdorf
	Gschwandt	Kirchham

coat of arms

Blazon : a silver wavy bar in red; At the top growing out of the dividing line, three golden, fan-shaped ears with two leaves, at the bottom a silver mill wheel. The community colors are red and yellow.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1967. The wave bar represents the Traun, the ears of wheat represent agriculture in the region and the mill wheel represents the paper industry.

history

In 1996, during archaeological excavations in the Laakirchen cemetery, parts of a villa rustica from the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD were uncovered.

The first written mention of Laakirchen was in 1165 as Lochchirchen . The name is made up of the Old High German  lôch ' forest , grove , wood , wood ' or ' alluvial forest ' and kirihha ' church '. The change from loh to lah is typical of today's mountain dialects in the Krems and Almtal valleys.

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 . The construction of today's parish church should have started around 1450 and was completed around 1500.

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. 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 .

On July 9, 1984, the community of Laakirchen was raised to a market town. The Upper Austrian government has decided in its meeting on 22 January 2007, the market town of Laakirchen according to the Upper Austrian church order to the city to rise. On June 7th, 2007 the solemn city elevation took place with a four-day festival and events.

politics

Mayor is Fritz Feichtinger from the SPÖ.

The last municipal council elections took place in 2015. The SPÖ achieved 38.51% (−7.33%), followed by the ÖVP 30.41% (−3.16%), the FPÖ 23.26% (+5.92%) and the GREEN N 7 , 82% (nk) of the vote.

Sports

The largest associations are ASKÖ Steyrermühl, ASKÖ Laakirchen and UNION Laakirchen.

The ASKÖ Steyrermühl is the oldest club in Laakirchen and consists of the sections soccer, tennis, gymnastics, archery, table tennis, badminton and darts.

Population development

The growth in recent years is based on a positive birth balance and a positive migration balance . In the years from 1991 to 2001 in particular, there was a very high level of immigration.

Town twinning

•  Obertshausen , Germany , since 1972
•  Gemona del Friuli , Italy , since 2000

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Laakirchen

Pond fed by the moor behind the Badhäusl

• Gmös mud bath: The Gmös mud bath is one of the few Alpine foothills in Upper Austria . It emerged from a death ice hole after the Mindel Ice Age . In 1987 the Gmöser Moor with an area of ​​3.4 hectares was declared a nature reserve by the state of Upper Austria . Since then, one can observe rare animal and plant species in an idyllic circular route. In 2002 the almost 100-year-old health resort became the setting for an episode of the television series Schlosshotel Orth .

One of the exhibition rooms of the papermaking museum

• Austrian Paper Makers Museum: The museum was built in 1997 in the old factory halls of the Steyrermühl paper mill (1868–1988) and the event space occupies an area of ​​3,300 m². The main attractions are a handcraft where you can even make paper and a fully functional replica of the world's first paper machine - by Nicolaus-Louis Robert, patented in 1799. The papermaking museum was the venue for the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 2008 "Salzkammergut". The papermaking museum includes a fire brigade museum with exhibits that are over 100 years old and show the development of the six Laakirchen fire brigades, and a printing museum on the history of printing.

Valentine's Church with central column and organ gallery

• Horse-drawn railway Budweis – Linz – Gmunden , Europe's first continental railway line
• Parish church St. Valentin , Gothic hall church with central column
• Lindach Castle , Upper Austria's first sugar factory
• Oberweis Castle
• Expositurkirche Steyrermühl

Economy and Infrastructure

Two paper mills, four metal processing companies, as well as several commercial enterprises form the economic backbone of the community. Laakirchen is the largest industrial community in the Gmunden district and the second largest in southern Upper Austria.

traffic

The A1 western motorway (on the northern edge of the municipality) has the Lindach (-Nord and -Süd) motorway stations on both sides at 212 km and the Laakirchen exit at 213 km with a truck stop and a central warehouse for the Lidl discount .

The Westbahn has a larger train station in Attnang-Puchheim, 17.5 kilometers by road (13.5 km via a small road) from Laakirchen, closer (11.5 km) is the Schwanenstadt train station. At 8.5 km, the Gmunden station of the Salzkammergut Railway is roughly closer .

Laakirchen is located on the Trauntalbahn Lambach – Gmunden , which has only been used in freight traffic since 1988. The state road B144 also connects Lambach with Gmunden and runs right through the Traun, except for the connection in Lambach. The tourist cycle route Traunradweg runs 85 km from Gmunden to Asten (on the Danube) and in Laakirchen near the banks of the Traun and to the Traunfall .

Former rafting company

Historically (until 1911) only little wood was loosened on the Traun near Laakirchen, compared to the tributaries Ager , Vöckla and Alm , because salt mining in Hallstatt and salt extraction by boiling in Ebensee required a great deal of wood above. The Traunfall, which lies shortly after Laakirchen, was bypassed by a canal (from 1552). 17 km down the Traun, Stadl-Paura was an intermediate storage facility for salt in "Stadeln" and a place for building flatter rafts and ships for the onward journey on the here shallower, ramified Traun to the confluence with the Danube east of Linz. From here salt went north and wood in larger rafts down the Danube to Vienna and Budapest .

Established businesses

• Laakirchen Papier AG (part of the Heinzel Group ) - paper
• UPM-Kymmene Steyrermühl GmbH - paper
• Steyrermühl group - paper
• Voith Paper Rolls GmbH & Co KG - paper machines
• Carvatech Karosserie- und Kabinenbau GmbH (formerly Swoboda Seilbahnbau)
• Automobile Swoboda
• Automobile Mairhuber
• Linsinger Austria Maschinenbau GmbH
• Miba AG - place of foundation, corporate headquarters and plain bearing plant; other plants in the area, including Miba Frictec (friction linings) immediately north of the municipality in Roitham am Traunfall
• BEMA Holding GmbH - conglomerate
• DVD Personnel - Temporary Employment

education

• Paper maker museum since 1997
• Training center for the Austrian paper industry

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Karl Eder (1889–1961)

Professor of Modern History and Rector of the University of Graz was born on September 10, 1889 as the son of a schoolmaster in Lindach, municipality of Laakirchen. He was ordained a priest in 1912 , studied at the University of Innsbruck, and obtained a doctorate in theology and philosophy. In 1948 he became professor for modern history at the University of Graz. He dealt with studies about the Reformation period and religious schism and wrote numerous books. Karl Eder died on May 1, 1961 and was buried in Gmunden. Since 1966 memorial plaque on the house where he was born, the old elementary school in Lindach.

• Franz Keim (1840–1918), poet and writer

Born on December 28, 1840 in Alt-Lambach, he came to Lindach at the age of twelve, because his father bought Lindach Castle with its brewery, inn and farm. The family later moved to Gmunden. Keim was still very attracted to the landscape around Gmunden and Laakirchen later on, which numerous visits prove. The eminent poet and writer expressed his longing in his poem "s'Traunstoan-Hoamweh".

• Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915–2000), Austrian Federal President from 1974 to 1986

Born on March 20, 1915 in Niederkappel . The Kirchschläger family moved into a workers' barracks on the Aichberg in Steyrermühl in the Laakirchen community in 1917. Father Johann Kirchschläger found work in the Steyrermühl paper factory as a railway foreman and later as a weighmaster. Rudolf Kirchschläger's mother died in 1918 and was buried at the Laakirchen cemetery. The future Federal President spent six years of his childhood in Steyrermühl, which he remembered for the most part as a good time, as he emphasized on later visits to Laakirchen. The Kirchschläger family moved to Rosenau am Hengstpass in 1920.

• Franz Plasser (1893–1970), member of the state parliament and national council , member of the state council

Franz Plasser was born in Steyrermühl on September 10, 1893, the son of a factory worker. At the age of 14 he had to earn his living as a factory worker. His political career began in 1919. He was later appointed as a member of the National Council and chairman of the “Technische Union” trade union. In 1945 Franz Plasser was elected as a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and in 1949 regional councilor in the welfare and housing department. In all of his functions he was also very committed to the concerns of his home parish of Laakirchen. He died on October 1, 1970.

• Julius Schulte (1881–1928), architect

Julius Schulte was born on May 4, 1881 in Steyrermühl as the son of the director of the Steyrermühl paper mill . Attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1909 architect in the Linz City Building Department, 1921 freelance architect, from 1926 university professor at the Technical University in Graz. Some of his buildings were: workers' home in Steyrermühl, residential building Wolfstrasse 5, Laakirchen, Laakirchen municipal office and Linz main post office, Gmunden brewery, Urnenhain and fire hall in Linz, numerous residential buildings in Linz, Ebensee secondary school. The bridge at the Traunfall was built according to his preliminary design.

• Leopold Sonntag (1807–1877), member of the first Austrian Reichstag

Leopold Sonntag, Hansmayr in Lindach, was born in Lindach, municipality of Laakirchen, in 1807. He was appointed to the first Austrian Reichstag as one of 16 members from Upper Austria. As a farmer's representative, he was a loyal supporter of the peasant liberator Hans Kudlich. He died in 1877 as a migrant on his farm in Lindach.

• Leopold Wolf (1899–1964), member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and member of the national council

Born on June 19, 1899 in Vienna, he came to Steyrermühl in 1922, where he found employment as an unskilled worker in the Steyrermühl paper mill. He worked as a social democratic shop steward and was appointed to the Laakirchen municipal council in 1929 and a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament in 1931 . After the end of the war, he worked actively on building up the workers' organization as well as in the community and in the Steyrermühl paper mill. In 1945 he was elected as a member of the National Council, to which he belonged until 1962. He died on July 15, 1964.

• Monika Forstinger (* 1963), 2000–2002 Minister of Infrastructure

Born in 1963 in Schwanenstadt , elementary and secondary school in Laakirchen, engineer and university assistant (BOKU Vienna), later FPÖ politician, member of parliament in Upper Austria; today a management consultant

• Peter Mitterbauer , President of the Federation of Industry
• Karl Neuwirth (1932–2016), member of the National Council
• Walter Schübler (* 1963), biographer and literary scholar

literature

• Anneliese Köstler: Laakirchen - History and Perspectives of a City. Ed. Stadtgemeinde Laakirchen, 2008, 455 pages (city chronicle, around 1400 partly colored illustrations, available from the Laakirchen municipal office).

Web links

Commons : Laakirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry via Oberweis Castle to Burgen-Austria
• Further information about the municipality of Laakirchen can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria, register census from October 31, 2011
2. ↑ Stiftsurbare Upper Austria 2, 92, No. 19
3. ↑ Laakirchen . In: Isolde Hausner, Elisabeth Schuster, Commission for dialectology and name research: Old German name book: the tradition of place names in Austria and South Tyrol from the beginnings to 1200. Part 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989, p. 636, Sp. 2 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
   in detail: K. Eder: Explanation of the place name Laakirchen. In: Skg.-Ztg. 16 (1909), No. 14, p. 17.
4. ↑ cf. P. Benedikt Pitschmann OSB: P. Matthias Höfer v. Kremsmünster u. his etymological dictionary (1815). Part II. In the yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association 115a, p. 201 (full article p. 199–210, PDF on ZOBODAT , p. 3 there): “Buschwald Loh, Laa or Leo ”.
5. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Laakirchen, population development. Retrieved March 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ http://www.papiermuseum.at Österreichisches Papiermachermuseum Laakirchen-Steyrermühl, website of the museum
7. ^ Alfred Sohm: The ship's museum in Stadl-Paura. The importance of the Traun as a shipping route. 2006, 3 pages ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).