Sankt Georgen near Salzburg
Sankt Georgen near Salzburg
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Basic data | ||
Country: | Austria | |
State : | Salzburg | |
Political District : | Salzburg area | |
License plate : | SL | |
Main town : | Obereching | |
Surface: | 24.64 km² | |
Coordinates : | 47 ° 59 ' N , 12 ° 53' E | |
Height : | 403 m above sea level A. | |
Residents : | 2,989 (January 1, 2020) | |
Postal code : | 5113 | |
Area code : | 06272 | |
Community code : | 5 03 29 | |
NUTS region | AT323 | |
UN / LOCODE | AT SGS | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Gemeindeweg 6 5113 Sankt Georgen near Salzburg |
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politics | ||
Mayor : | Franz Gangl ( ÖVP ) | |
Municipal Council : (2019) (19 members) |
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Location of Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg in the Salzburg-Umgebung district | ||
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria |
Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg is a municipality in the Austrian state of Salzburg in the northwest of the Salzburg-Umgebung district with 2989 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).
geography
The community is located in the Salzburg Alpine Foreland on the right bank of the Salzach on the border with Upper Austria and Germany . It is structured in a rural way and consists of several smaller settlements. The community area is largely used for agriculture; there are some forest areas in the border areas with other municipalities. Sankt Georgen is part of the judicial district of Oberndorf .
In the southwest of the municipality, the Salzach forms the municipal and state border with Germany; almost the entire western border with Upper Austria follows the course of the Moosach . In addition to these peripheral rivers, there are also a few smaller streams in the municipality.
In the far north-east, Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg has a share in the Weidmoos , an area now designated as a nature and bird sanctuary, which is located between the Ibmer Moor in Upper Austria and the Bürmoos Moor in Salzburg .
Community structure
The municipality of Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg consists of the following three cadastral municipalities with the associated localities (from north to south; the residents in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Holzhausen
- Krogn (45)
- Helmberg (31)
- Holzhausen (271)
- Seetal (61)
- Roding (78)
- Koenigsberg (34)
- Bridge Wood (26)
- northern, unpopulated part of Moospirach
- St. Georgen
- Moospirach (35)
- Au (48)
- Oiling (40)
- Sankt Georgen near Salzburg (308)
- Irlach (238)
- Eching (1328) including Lettensau
- northern, hardly populated part of Vollern
- Jauchsdorf
- Vollern (277) including Wimpassing and Zeltsberg
- Jauchsdorf (116)
- Aglassing (53)
Neighboring communities
St. Pantaleon (Upper Austria) |
St. Pantaleon (Upper Austria) |
Lamprechtshausen |
St. Pantaleon (Upper Austria) |
Bürmoos | |
Laufen (Bavaria) |
Oberndorf near Salzburg | Lamprechtshausen |
history
Bronze Age settlement remains and an extensive urn cemetery from around 800 BC were found in the municipality. BC and an early Bavarian burial ground from the 6th to 7th centuries. v. Discovered.
The parish church of St. Georgen near Salzburg ad georgii ecclesiam was first mentioned in the Indiculus Arnonis in 789. As a deanery, St. Georgen was given the lower jurisdiction until 1803 .
On July 19, 1997, the German artist Gunter Demnig moved to Holzhausen / St. Georgen two stumbling blocks in memory of the 1940 by the Nazis executed Jehovah's Witnesses Johann Nobis and his brother Matthias Nobis . These were the first two officially approved stumbling blocks after Demnig had started his long-term memorial project in 1995 and had carried out several "unauthorized relocations" of stumbling blocks. The relocation in St. Georgen was initiated by the local founder of the memorial service, Andreas Maislinger , and had the approval and support of the then mayor Friedrich Amerhauser.
In 2009 the mayor of Sankt Georgen and the mayor of the neighboring municipality of St. Pantaleon declared a bridge to the bridge of remembrance. The bridge leading over the Moosach in the immediate vicinity of the former National Socialist work education and gypsy detention camp St. Pantaleon-Weyer is a reminder of the Weyer / Innviertel camp memorial .
coat of arms
Blazon : "In split sign into silver pole, a rotgehörnter fire-breathing green dragon head, left in red a silver cross."
politics
The community council has a total of 19 members.
- With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 2 Independent Voting Community St. Georgen.
- With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 3 FPÖ.
- With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
- With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
- mayor
- 1980–1994 Franz Gangl senior
- 1994–2014 Friedrich Amerhauser (ÖVP)
- since 2014 Franz Gangl junior (ÖVP)
Culture and sights
- Parish Church of St. Georgen near Salzburg
- The community and the museum and culture promotion association run a local museum in the Sigl-Haus . Not far from there is the Georg-Rendl-Haus , which is run by the parish and the church deanery and is also equipped with showrooms . Both buildings commemorate the writer Georg Rendl and cultural events are held at both locations.
- In the early summer of 2004, an artistic wood symposium was held in Obereching for the second time. In the summer of 2013, the Lignum 2013 wood symposium was held in Sankt Georgen . Individual sculptures are set up on the way to the parish church.
- Holzhausen Theater
- Since October 2011, Sankt Georgen has been part of the cross-border tourism region Seelentium , which focuses on gentle and sustainable tourism. The Weidmoos nature reserve is being advertised .
traffic
- Street: Sankt Georgen is located on the Sankt Georgener Landesstraße L 205 from Oberndorf near Salzburg to Sankt Georgen.
- Train: Salzburger Lokalbahn : The Eching, Irlach and Sankt Georgen near Salzburg stops are within the municipality.
Personalities
- Sons and daughters of the church
- Hans Schmidinger (* 1926 in Sankt Georgen; † 2010), President of the State Parliament
- Friedrich Lepperdinger (* 1927 in Obereching), historian
- Andreas Maislinger (born February 26, 1955 in Sankt Georgen), political scientist, founder of the Memorial Service
- Andreas Giglmayr (born February 7, 1984 in Eching); Triathlete, Olympic starter London 2012
- Daniel Niederreiter (born December 21, 1978 in Holzhausen); Triathlon World Champion 2011 Las Vegas
- People related to the community
- Georg Rendl (1903–1972), writer, lived in Sankt Georgen from 1938 until his death
- Franz Scharl (* 1958), Auxiliary Bishop of Vienna, grew up in Obereching
- Karlheinz Schönswetter (1941–2006), artist, lived in Sankt Georgen from the early 1980s until his death
- Karl Zillner (1926–1983), mayor 1964–1967
Web links
- Community website
- 50329 - Sankt Georgen near Salzburg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Sankt Georgen near Salzburg . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ "Stumbling blocks" for reminder ( Memento from July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Press release from Jehovah's Witnesses dated July 17, 1997.
- ↑ Memorial stones for Nazi victims . On: ORF website from August 14, 2006, accessed on May 11, 2011.
- ^ Franz Gangl senior (Schusterwastlbauer) . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
- ↑ Friedrich Amerhauser . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
- ^ Franz Gangl junior (Schusterwastlbauer) . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
- ↑ Heimatmuseum Sigl-Haus ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . salzburg.gv.at
- ↑ Georg-Rendl-Haus ( Memento of the original of October 13, 2007 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. . salzburg.gv.at
- ^ Theater Holzhausen