Unterach am Attersee

Unterach am Attersee
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	26.11 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 48 '  N , 13 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '25 "  N , 13 ° 29' 30"  E
Height :	477  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,513 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4866
Area code :	07665
Community code :	4 17 45
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 9 4866 Unterach am Attersee
Website:	www.unterach-attersee.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Georg Baumann (ÖVP)
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	10 9 10 9  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 10 SPÖ : 9
Location of Unterach am Attersee in the Vöcklabruck district
Municipal area Unterach: middle right, on the Attersee, the village, behind the districts Au / See am Mondsee, on the left Burgau am Attersee (St. Gilgen). View from Schoberstein (1037 m, Höllengebirge), to the west towards Schafberg (left, 1782 m) with Ackerschneid and Kienbergwand (middle) and Drachenwand / Schober (right) and Hochplettspitz (far right)
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

View from the Attersee

Church in Unterach am Attersee. Gustav Klimt, oil on canvas, 1916, Fritz Böck Collection

Picture of the local railway in front of the Remise, 1907

Unterach am Attersee is a municipality with 1513 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the southwestern part of Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district . It is located at the southern end of the Attersee in the Salzkammergut . The community has been in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck since the judicial district of Mondsee was dissolved on July 1, 2013.

geography

Districts

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

• Au (327) with location on Mondsee , Lake on Mondsee and Au
• Buchenort (281) with Misling and Stockwinkel
• Unterach (905) with Mühlleiten and Unterach

Neighboring communities

Mondsee (border in the lake) Oberwang	Nussdorf am Attersee
Innerschwand (border in the lake)		Steinbach am Attersee (border in the lake)
	St. Gilgen ( Salzburg area )

Origin of name and coat of arms

The place name comes from the Bavarian Untraha "Zwischenwasser" due to its location on Mondsee and Attersee.

Blazon of the municipal coat of arms : "In gold, a blue oblique beams, in a silver fish, accompanied up of a red heart."

The church colors are blue, yellow, red.

Award of the municipal coat of arms and approval of the municipal colors set by the municipal council on November 9, 1979 by resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government of August 25, 1980. The design of the coat of arms comes from Herbert Erich Baumert from Linz.

Coat of arms of the Alt family from Salzburg, related to the Lasser family of Lasseregg and Unterach, based on a glass window and tombstone in the Unterach parish church. The fish also underlines the location of the community on the lake and is reminiscent of fishing as a formerly profitable source of income for the residents. The coat of arms was used in a similar form in the communal stamp and on letter paper in the interwar period without official approval.

history

• Stilt : The municipality remains were one of the youngest Stone and Bronze Age dating stilt houses found the Eastern Alpine stake building culture.
• Rule : In the Middle Ages, the Unterach office belonging to the Kogl rule was here. The Vischmaister - whose name indicates the great importance of fishing - were the lords of Unterach in the late Middle Ages. They were followed by the Lasser von Lasseregg, and in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the noble estate of this family developed into a separate, small ruling district. The castle, which was built around 1560, was heavily modified by renovations in the early 20th century
• Plague time : According to tradition, the plague raged on the Attersee so badly that no one was spared from it. Everyone around the Attersee had died, only Faschinger was still alive. He was desperate about his loneliness. So he lit a fire and looked to see if his mark would be seen. Indeed, it was noticed, and on the other side of the lake, in the Weyregg area , a column of smoke rose. He quickly pushed his boat into the water to get to the other bank. But in the middle of the lake another boat came towards him. Inside was a woman who had been spared the plague alone in Weyregg. And the residents around the Attersee are said to be descended from this couple. Faschinger and Weyreggerin now had to bury all the dead. The place where this supposedly happened is still called misery today . That was because of the fact that the work of burying was so terrible that one of them exclaimed: "Is that a misery!"
• Little Venice : In the past, Unterach could hardly be reached by car or horse. Therefore, because of the bank buildings built on stilts and because of the numerous boats, it was called Little Venice .
• Tram / local train Unterach-See : In the first half of the 20th century, the Unterach – See electric railway connected the shipping traffic from Lake Attersee and Lake Mondsee on Mondsee ( Stern & Hafferl ).

politics

The mayor, Georg Baumann, is provided by the ÖVP.

The municipal council consists of 19 members. The mayor, who has been directly elected by the population since 1997, has the chairmanship. (Exception: appointment of the mayor in 2007 by the local council.) The (one or two) vice mayors are elected by the local council, whereby the division of responsibilities is also determined by the local council.

The municipal council is composed as follows (as of 2015):

• ÖVP: 10 mandates
• SPÖ: 9 seats

economy

• EBEWE Pharma , pharmaceutical company and largest employer in Unterach
• tourism

Ship name

A paddle steamer originally operated by steam from Attersee-Schifffahrt , built in 1870 with a wood-planked hull, was originally called Attersee , from 1872 Franz Ferdinand after the Habsburg Archduke and was renamed after the 1st World War in 1918 at the request of the workers' council on Unterach . The ship was moored on a buoy in the north bay of the lake and a place to land at Schloss Kammer and was scrapped in 1979.

In 1984 a subsequent ship was called Unterach , which was built in 1970 and entered the Attersee in 1984.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Unterach am Attersee

• Parish church (with altarpiece by Bartholomäus Altomonte )
• Unterach Castle
• Lassereck Castle
• Viktor Kaplan 2-lake theme trail circular route via Gut Rochus point over 9 km route with 280 m ascent
• Sweet chestnut forest (exception north of the Alps)
• Egelsee high moor
• Forest nature trail
• Fairytale forest

Events

• Glöcklerlauf ( January 5th )
• Rags ball of FF Buchenort ( Carnival Monday )
• Unteracher cultural summer (various dates)
• Maypole- Setting ( April 30th )
• Car-free bike adventure day Attersee (usually May)
• Mountain mass on the Eisenauer Alm ( Whit Monday )
• Village Festival (June)
• Craft market (July)
• Sea festival with fireworks (usually 2nd Saturday in August)
• Kirtag (Sunday after Bartholomew , usually the last Sunday in August)
• Wanna rock
• Chestnut Festival (usually around the Austrian national holiday )
• Advent market on the main square (beginning of December)

Famous guests and residents

• Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), engineer
• Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), composer and music critic
• Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), painter
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer, pianist and conductor
• Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), poet and politician
• Maria Jeritza (1887–1982), soprano
• Heinz Conrads (1913–1986), actor, conférencier and Wienerlied interpreter
• Georg Danzer (1946–2007), songwriter
• Gusti Wolf (1912–2007), actress
• Johanna Matz (* 1932), chamber actress
• Elisabeth Stiepl (* 1920), actress
• Karl Schwetter (1914–2002), actor and film production manager
• Alexander Jenner (* 1929), Austrian pianist
• Franz Bauer-Theussl (1928–2010), conductor
• Heinrich Schiff (1951–2016), cellist and conductor
• Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (* 1945), Roman Catholic theologian, Archbishop of Vienna since 1995 and Chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference since 1998
• Franz Tewele (1841–1914), actor and theater director

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Unterach at the southwest end of the Attersee

literature

• Alfred Mück, Franz Pölzleithner: Unterach am Attersee Chronicle. Self-published by the community of Unterach in 1990
• Knoll, Mayr, Prix: The Unterach-See electric train. Verlag Johannes Heyn 1995, ISBN 3-85366-791-0 .
• Erich Weidinger: Legends & Fairy Tales from the Attersee. SECESSION LXXXXVIII 1989
• Gustav Klimt : Notebook Unterach am Attersee , Verlag Brandstätter 2001, ISBN 3-85447-980-8 .
• Thomas Bernhard : Die Mütze - 1966 (scene of the story), in: Die Erzählungen , Suhrkamp 1979, ISBN 3-518-02142-7 .

Web links

Commons : Unterach am Attersee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Links on the subject of Unterach am Attersee in the Open Directory Project
• 41745 - Unterach am Attersee. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the community Unterach am Attersee on the geo-information system of the federal state Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Blog Georg Baumann
3. ↑ ÖVP
4. ↑ Viktor Kaplan 2-Lakes Theme Trail ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Not available in 2016 
5. ↑ Wolfgang Tonis: Weg between two lakes salzburg.com, April 29, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016.
6. ↑ Viktor-Kaplan-themed trail atterwiki.at, accessed November 26, 2016.