Traunviertel

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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '  N , 14 ° 5'  E

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The Traunviertel (in municipality names also Traunkreis ) is the landscape of the southeast of Upper Austria . It is named after the Traun river , which originally formed the north-western boundary of this part of the country from Upper Austria.

Traditional part of the country

The region is derived from the medieval Traungau .

Since the formation of the political districts in 1868, the quarters in Upper Austria no longer have a legal basis and are purely landscape names. The older district division , which was still based on the old quarters, was replaced.

The south-eastern part of the Traunviertel borders the Tennengau in the south-west, the Liezen district in the south and the Mostviertel in the east .

Transferred to today's administration, the quarter comprises the following political districts :

NUTS breakdown: AT315

In the official statistics of EU guided NUTS headings from is Traunviertel otherwise defined, and is one of five groups of districts (level NUTS: AT -2) in Upper Austria, carries the code AT315and areas comprising Gmunden and Vöcklabruck , was thus reduced and extends further west.

The eastern parts of the traditional Traunviertel form the NUTS region Steyr-Kirchdorf , the north -eastern parts belong to Linz-Wels . This also corresponds to the modern spatial planning concept in which the Upper Austrian central area is singled out as the "fifth" quarter.

history

Originally the area of ​​the Traunviertel, the Traungau , was owned by the Traungau Counts, the Otakare , and until 1254 it belonged to the Duchy of Styria . With the Treaty of Ofen 1254 between Ottokar II. Přemysl and the Hungarian king Béla IV. , The area was separated from Styria and became the heart of what is now Upper Austria.

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See also

Portal: Traunviertel  - overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of Traunviertel

Web links

Wikivoyage: Traunviertel  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For background information on Eurostat's NUTS classification, see Background. NUTS - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics. Eurostat , accessed February 8, 2020 . NUTS classification in direct download (Excel, 527 KB)