Vorderweissenbach

Vorder Weißenbach is a market town with 2674 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria in the Urfahr-Umgebung district in the upper Mühlviertel . Since 2018 it has also included the former community of Schönegg .

geography

Vorderweißbach lies at an altitude of 705 meters in the upper Mühlviertel . The community belonged to the Leonfelden judicial district until 2012 and has been part of the Rohrbach judicial district since January 1, 2013 . The extension is from north to south 10.5 km and from west to east 9.5 km. The total area is 63.2 km². The highest elevation in the municipality is the Sternstein at 1122 m above sea level. A.

Area distribution

Community structure

The area of the municipality consists of four cadastral municipalities (area as of December 31, 2019):

Amesschlag (1,802.96 ha)
Bernhardschlag (2,552.95 ha)
Oberweissenbach (968.17 ha)
Schönegg (1,023.19 ha)

The community is divided into 20 localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

Altenschlag (19)
Amesberg (39)
Ames strike (197)
Bernhardschlag (297)
Brunnwald (70)
Eberhardschlag (87)
Gaisschlag (12)
Vulture Lash (37)
Guglwald ^* (92)
Hinterweißbach (172)
Koeckendorf ^∗ (50)
Mitterbrunn Forest (61)
Mühlholz ^∗ (35)
Oberbrunnwald (57)
Ortschlag (50)
Piberschlag ^∗ (350)
Schönegg ^∗ (47)
Blunt (360)
Unterbrunnwald (30)
Vorderweissenbach (612)

^∗ Locations of the former municipality of Schönegg

Neighboring communities

St. Stefan-Afiesl (Rohrbach district)	Loučovice ( Czech Republic )
Helfenberg (Rohrbach District)		Bad Leonfelden
	Oberneukirchen

history

Reclamation began around 1150 and lasted for over 100 years. Amesschlag, Amesberg, Eberhardschlag and Gaisschlag belonged to the Haunsperger family at Wildberg Castle . Weyssenpach was first mentioned in a document in 1292 (1356 Weizzenpach ), whereby the name can be traced back to the white (bright, shiny) brook.

After the place originally belonged to the Mühlviertel mother parish of Gramastetten and from 1292 to the parish of Bad Leonfelden , Vorderweißbach became its own parish in 1613.

During the Thirty Years' War in 1639 it was occupied by imperial soldiers under the command of Colonel Bernardi, and in 1645 entrenchments were built at the Schönegger Pass and at Aigendorf (Köckendorf) because Sweden threatened to invade.

After the linen weaving trade was released towards the end of the 18th century, the Löfler family of merchants made wealth, which is still visible today through some stately designed buildings in Hinterweißbach (all four buildings are listed). The Schwarzenberg Bräu was brewed in Löfler's brewery until the 1950s, before it fell victim to road expansion .

A two-class elementary school was built in 1825, an extension was added in 1877 and a general renovation of the school in 1958.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place with Upper Austria belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . On November 1, 1938 and January 1, 1939, the previously independent communities of Amesschlag and Bernhardschlag were incorporated into what was then the community of Oberweißbach.

In 1995 the community of Vorderweissenbach joined the “Mühlviertler Sterngartl ” association, from which a number of activities developed, such as the “Schmankerldorf” initiative.

On March 18, 2002 the survey took place on the market town .

On January 1, 2018, Vorder Weißenbach was merged with the Schönegg community , which had belonged to the Rohrbach district , on a voluntary basis. As a result, the district border was moved and the Schönegg area was added to the Urfahr-Umgebung district. The new municipality carries on the name Vorderweissenbach.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church of Vorderweissenbach

Catholic parish church Vorderweissenbach hl. Peter and Paul : under monument protection
Sternsteinwarte: The 20 m high observatory on the 1122 m high Sternstein , which was built on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph and was officially opened on October 22nd, 1898.

Regular events

Market festival and Christmas market: The market town organizes a market festival in summer and a Christmas market every year.
Fire brigade tent festival: The Piberschlag and Bernhardschlag fire brigades organize a fire brigade tent festival every year.

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest employer with around 100 employees in Vorderweissenbach is the Wippro door and stair factory.

With the merger of Schönegg, the Hotel Guglwald, which is located directly on the border with the Czech Republic, is part of the municipality.

fire Department

There are five volunteer fire brigades (two were added in 2018 when the municipality of Schönegg was merged) in the market town of Vorderweißbach :

FF Vorderweißbach
FF Bernhardschlag
FF Amesschlag near Vorderweissenbach
FF Piberschalg (formerly Gem. Schönegg)
FF Schönegg (formerly Gem. Schönegg)

Safety and health

Police inspection: The nearest police inspections and Red Cross bases are in Bad Leonfelden and Helfenberg .
Hospital: The nearest hospitals are in Linz , Freistadt and Rohrbach .

traffic

Street

Vorder Weißenbach is on the Böhmerwaldstrasse B 38 federal highway . Bad Leonfelden can be reached in about ten minutes , where the B 38 and B 126 Leonfeldner Strasse intersect. From there, Linz , Budweis (Czech Republic) (via B 126) and Freistadt (via B 38) can be reached in less than an hour. Rohrbach-Berg can be reached in around 20 minutes via the B 38. The Afisel – Guglwald district road also runs through the municipality.

politics

The municipal council has 25 members. After the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution:

19 ÖVP
4 SPÖ
2 FPÖ

mayor

1945–1949 Alois Zauner
1949–1973 Josef Ganglberger
1973–1994 Karl Haudum
1994–2009 Bruno Fröhlich (ÖVP)
2009 to date Leopold Gartner (ÖVP)

On April 8, 2018, after the merger with Schönegg, the municipal council and mayor were re-elected. The previous mayor Leopold Gartner (ÖVP) was the only candidate and was elected with around 91% of the vote.

coat of arms

Schönegg
Vorderweissenbach

As a result of the municipality merger, the coats of arms of the previous municipalities became invalid in 2018. The right to use a municipal coat of arms was granted to the municipality in 1970, the blazon (coat of arms description) read:

"In green a lowered, silver wave bar, above a golden, six-pointed star."

The golden star symbolizes the star stone , which is largely located in the municipality of Vorderweißbach.

The new award of a community coat of arms for the merged community took place through the announcement of the Upper Austria. State government on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Vorderweissenbach in the LGBl Upper Austria, year 2018, August 31, 2018, No. 70 (www.ris.bka.gv.at). The new blazon reads:

“Divided by a humbled silver wave bar; above in green a six-pointed golden star; below in gold a red-armored, red-tongued upright black beaver. "

The community colors are green and white.

Personalities

Johann Paul Löfler Sr. (1756–1818), son of a Friedberg linen weaver, married in 1780 on the Preining-Gut (Altes Löflergut), in 1816 bought Langhalsen Castle, including the ruins of Freizell Castle
Johann Eberhard Löfler (1781–1847), canvas dealer and mayor of Neufelden
Johann Paul Löfler jun. (1792–1868), businessman and founder of the local brewery, which was in operation from 1830 to 1955
Franz Xaver Löfler (1796–1865), first mayor of Oberweißbach
Helmuth Gsöllpointner (* 1933), sculptor, medalist, former rector of the Linz Art University
Albert Mülleder (1961–1999), organist and vicariate cantor, cathedral music director of Wiener Neustadt

Individual evidence

↑ Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 KB); accessed on January 10, 2020.
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fritz Winkler: On the history of schools in Vorderweissenbach. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter. Linz 1965, pp. 17–19, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
↑ Karl Hohensinner , Peter Wiesinger : Place Name Book of the Province of Upper Austria 10. The place names of the political district Urfahr-Umgebung (Middle Mühlviertel). Vienna 2006

^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Free city district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

↑ "District borders are shifting: Schönegg is moving to Vorder Weißenbach." Nachrichten.at, June 23, 2017; accessed on August 20, 2017.

^ "Ordinance of the Upper Austria. Provincial government regarding the unification of the communities Schönegg and Vorder Weißenbach. " In:" Landesgesetzblatt für Oberösterreich. "Volume 2017, November 30, 2017, Ordinance No. 85, accessed on December 6, 2017

^ Austrian Alpine Association, local group Bad Leonfelden: Sternsteinwarte ; Retrieved July 25, 2017

↑ “New Mayors: Runoff Election in Peuerbach” on orf.at, April 8, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2018.

↑ orf.at: “Mayor elections in three districts” on orf.at, April 8, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2018.

^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Vorder Weißenbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

41625 - Vorderweissenbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
www.vorderweissenbach.at Website of the municipality
More information about the community of Vorderweissenbach on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
Literature on Vorderweißbach in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

[1] Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 KB); accessed on January 10, 2020.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-2] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[Winkler-3] Fritz Winkler: On the history of schools in Vorderweissenbach. In: Mühlviertler Heimatblätter. Linz 1965, pp. 17–19, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

[4] Karl Hohensinner , Peter Wiesinger : Place Name Book of the Province of Upper Austria 10. The place names of the political district Urfahr-Umgebung (Middle Mühlviertel). Vienna 2006

[5] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Free city district. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[6] "District borders are shifting: Schönegg is moving to Vorder Weißenbach." Nachrichten.at, June 23, 2017; accessed on August 20, 2017.

[7] "Ordinance of the Upper Austria. Provincial government regarding the unification of the communities Schönegg and Vorder Weißenbach. " In:" Landesgesetzblatt für Oberösterreich. "Volume 2017, November 30, 2017, Ordinance No. 85, accessed on December 6, 2017

[8] Austrian Alpine Association, local group Bad Leonfelden: Sternsteinwarte ; Retrieved July 25, 2017

[9] “New Mayors: Runoff Election in Peuerbach” on orf.at, April 8, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2018.

[10] rf.at: “Mayor elections in three districts” on orf.at, April 8, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2018.

[11] State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .