Vöcklamarkt

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market community Vöcklamarkt
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Surface:	27.44 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 0 '  N , 13 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '11 "  N , 13 ° 29' 7"  E
Height :	488  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,108 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4870
Area code :	07682
Community code :	4 17 47
Address of the municipal administration:	Dr.-Scheiber-Strasse 8 4870 Vöcklamarkt
Website:	www.voecklamarkt.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Six ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (31 members)	17th 7th 5 2 17th 7th 5 2  A total of 31 seats ÖVP : 17 FPÖ : 7 SPÖ : 5 GREEN : 2
Location of Vöcklamarkt in the Vöcklabruck district
The church of Vöcklamarkt
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Vöcklamarkt is a market town in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 5,108 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

Vöcklamarkt is located on the eponymous river Vöckla at an altitude of 488 m in the Hausruckviertel. The extension is 7.1 km from north to south and 8.5 km from west to east. The total area is 27.4 km², 18.2% of the area is forested, 68.6% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

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

• Aier Tents (48)
• Exlwohr (99)
• Gopprechting (23)
• Semolina (55)
• Gründberg (52)
• Haid (126)
• Hainberg (106)
• Hörading (45)
• Hötzing (18)
• Calvary (69)
• Krichpoint (13)
• Landberg (46)
• Langwies (127)
• Maulham (32)
• Moss (38)
• Moerasing (103)
• Mösendorf (377)
• Mosenthal (21)
• Muhlreith (81)
• Redl (56)
• Reichenthalheim (80)
• Rohrwies (37)
• Schmidham (473)
• Spielberg (46)
• Thal (34)
• Unteralberting (17)
• Undergrowth (52)
• Crust (32)
• Vöcklamarkt (2208)
• Walchen (166)
• Walkering (32)
• Waschprechting (79)
• Waschprechtingerberg (256)
• Wies (23)
• Wilding (38)

history

In the area of ​​today's Vöcklamarkt settled since 15 BC. The Romans. They were in this area for 450 years. In the vicinity of the late Gothic parish church, a milestone still testifies to this time. In addition, the foundations of a Roman villa were exposed during excavations in the nearby Haushamerfeld near Pfaffing.

Around 700 the Bavarians took the land, who came to Vöcklamarkt via the Redltal .

The founding of the monastery in the 8th century, especially the founding of Mondsee by the Bavarian Duke Odilo in 748 and the 777 by his son Tassilo III, were of paramount importance for the Christianization and cultural development of the region around Vöcklamarkt . Founded Mattsee and Kremsmünster Abbey .

In 1068, Bishop Altmann mentioned a "Bamberg parish foundation" at this location, and in 1075 Vöcklamarkt was first mentioned in a document as "Vechelsdorf". Vöcklamarkt was part of Bavaria until 1200 . Since 1200 the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria. In 1379 the Bamberg Bishop Lamprecht sold the Attergau , which also made Vöcklamarkt to Duke Albrecht III. came from Austria. In 1457 the choir (high altar room ) of the Gothic parish church of Vekkelsdorf was already completed.

Vekkelsdorf, also Vekklasdorf, market Vöcklamarkt since 1489, had been referred to for centuries as "ain Filial gen Pfäffing", as it appears in 1581 in the Franconian Urbarium. In 1476 Vekkelsdorf is mentioned in the Schotten register of the Schottenstift in Vienna as a parish.

Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns .

Due to its location directly on the notorious Haushamerfeld, Vöcklamarkt was at the center of the peasant wars in the 17th century . The so-called Frankenburg dice game took place there, in which the then governor Adam Graf von Herberstorff had 36 men dice in pairs for their lives on May 15, 1625. The losers were hanged.

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

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a silver wave pole with two blue wave ribbons, accompanied on both sides by a silver, black open tower with a red pointed roof and a golden pommel."

The community colors are green-white-red.

The market coat of arms was awarded by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1560 . It symbolizes the location of the market on the Vöckla, which formed the border between the two large domains of the Attergau, Frankenburg and Kammer .

politics

The municipal council of the market town has a total of 31 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 7 FPÖ, 5 SPÖ and 2 GRÜNE.

mayor

• since 2008 Josef Six (ÖVP)

Population development

According to the census in 1991, the municipality had 4513 inhabitants, 4765 inhabitants in 2001 and 5036 inhabitants in 2003. In 2010 the 5,000 limit was broken for the first time with 5063 inhabitants.

traffic

Vöcklamarkt is the station of the Western Railway and the Vöcklamarkt – Attersee local railway . The place is also on Wiener Straße B 1.

Sports

The football club Union Vöcklamarkt , which was founded in 1946, currently plays in the third-class regional league center .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Vöcklamarkt

Holy grave in the Kalvarienbergkirche, a branch church in Vöcklamarkt

• Walchen Castle , built in 1590
• Preserved tower of Walchen Castle, which was demolished around 1590
• Walkering Castle
• Parish church Vöcklamarkt : The "Dom des Vöcklatales" is not only the symbol of Vöcklamarkt, but also stands for a lively church and religious life. Particularly noteworthy is the ecumenical cooperation between Catholic and Protestant parishes.
• Kalvarienbergkirche: The church is a single-nave church that was built in 1723 by the citizens of the market. It forms the end of a Way of the Cross with five chapels (secrets of the rosary) from the village up to the Calvary. The monumental crucifixion group and the holy grave with a life-size carved Christ made of linden wood and with colorful glass balls are worth seeing. The church is owned by the municipality of Vöcklamarkt.
• Church in Mösendorf: After being completely destroyed in a fire in 1895, the church was rebuilt and consecrated in 1900. The church is dedicated to St. Laurentius and a branch of the parish church Vöcklamarkt. The Laurentius statue on the high altar is from the previous church. The Laurentiuskirche zu Mösendorf is a 1-nave, 3-bay church interior with a 3/8 end and flat barrel vault with a stitch cap. The facade towards Bundesstrasse 1 has a curved gable with a small roof turret with a hood. There are two bells in the church.

Personalities

• Anton Emminger (1890–1962), farmer and politician
• Anton Bachmayr (1904–1993), painter
• Bernhard von Polheim (1456–1504), pastor of Vöcklamarkt 1487–1504, lawyer, canon in various monasteries and monasteries and administrator of Vienna
• Anton Scheiber (1862–1924), medical advisor and community doctor. Monument in the church park with an inscription by the writer Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti
• Johannes Georg Scheicher (born 1746), born in Vöcklamarkt, musician and composer at St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg. Together with Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser he composed the three-part fasting oratorio "Des Kaiser Constantin I Campaign and Victory" on behalf of Salzburg's Prince Archbishop Siegmund Christoph von Schrattenbach .
• Christoph Weiss (1549–1617), born in Vöcklamarkt, wealthy merchant and castle vogt von Wels and owner of Würting Castle . His wife was Felicitas von Alt, a cousin of Salome Alt von Altenau.

literature

• Hans Nussbaumer, market community Vöcklamarkt (ed.): Vöcklamarkt - livable and sustainable . Mission statement of the market town of Vöcklamarkt. Vöcklamarkt 2007 ( PDF , voecklamarkt.ooe.gv.at [accessed on November 30, 2019] as part of the Local Agenda 21 process , decided by the municipal council on February 8, 2007).
• Hugo Jud: History of the market and the parish Vöcklamarkt. Printed by J. Tyll in Vöcklabruck, self-published by the author, 1905.
• Franz Eitzinger: 500 years of Markt Vöcklamarkt 1489–1989 . wmv-Druck, Vöcklamarkt, 1989.
• Friedrich Scheibelberger: Contributions to the history of the market and the parish Vecklamarkt . 1866.
• Anton Wilhelm: History of Vöcklamarkt Pfaffing and Fornach. Macha printing house, Vöcklamarkt, 1975.
• Friedrich Pillichshammer: The cathedral of the Vöcklatals. The parish church “Mariae Himmelfahrt” and the history of the parish “Vekklasdorf alias Pheffing”. Hitzl printing house self-published by the author, Vöcklamarkt, 2019.

Web links

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

• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• 41747 - Vöcklamarkt. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• More information about the municipality of Vöcklamarkt on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Website of the market town of Vöcklamarkt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Franz Hauser, Stefan Traxler (Ed.): The Romans in the Attergau . In: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum in cooperation with the Heimatverein Attergau (ed.): Small series of publications on the cultural history of Upper Austria . tape 1 . Trauner Druck, Linz 2018, ISBN 978-3-85474-338-5 , p. 189 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedrich Pillichshammer: The cathedral of the Vöcklatals. The parish church “Mariae Himmelfahrt” and the history of the parish “Vekklasdorf alias Pheffing” . Vöcklamarkt 2019, p. 227 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Friedrich Pillichshammer : Vöcklamarkt parish church of the Assumption of Mary. Church leaders. Ed .: Parish Vöcklamarkt. 2018.
5. ^ ^{A b c} Hugo Jud: History of the market and the parish Vöcklamarkt . Printed by J. Tyll in Vöcklabruck - self-published by the author in 1905, p. 125 .
6. ^ Province of Upper Austria: Coat of arms of the municipality of Vöcklamarkt
7. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Upper Austria. 5th edition, Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1971.
8. ^ Friedrich Pillichshammer: A baroque ensemble of buildings above the Vöcklatal - the Kalvarienbergkirche in Vöcklamarkt . In: Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus (Ed.): The Bundschuh . tape 20 , 2017, ISBN 978-3-902684-58-5 , pp. 55-58 .
9. ^ Friedrich Pillichshammer: The cathedral of the Vöcklatals. The parish church "Mariae Himmelfahrt" and the history of the parish "Vekklasdorff alias Pheffing". Hitzl printing house self-published by the author, Vöcklamarkt 2019.
10. ↑ Erwin Hainisch: Dehio Upper Austria . 6th edition. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977.
11. ^ Friedrich Pillichshammer: Johannes Georg Scheicher - a forgotten musician from Vöcklamarkt. In: Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus (Ed.): The Bundschuh . tape 22 . Hammerer GmbH, Ried im innkreis 2019, ISBN 978-3-900963-85-9 , p. 43-44 .
12. ^ Ikarus Kaiser: The Salzburg serenade tradition in Mozart's time. A contribution to the memory of the works of forgotten Austrian composers of the 18th century. In: Reinhart von Gutzeit and Leo Dorner for the Anton Bruckner Private University. (Ed.): Qerstand I. Contributions to art and culture. Con Brio Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-932581-73-3 , p. 165-176 .
13. ^ Franz Neudorfer: ... and had money like hay. The life of Christoph Weiss . Ed .: Irmgard Neudorfer, Vöcklamarkt. 2nd Edition. 2009.