Mitterkirchen in Machland

market community Mitterkirchen in Machland
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Perg
License plate :	PE
Surface:	28.85 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 11 '  N , 14 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '1 "  N , 14 ° 42' 34"  E
Height :	235  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,716 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4343
Area code :	07269
Community code :	4 11 12
Address of the municipal administration:	Mitterkirchen iM 50 4343 Mitterkirchen im Machland
Website:	www.mitterkirchen.at
politics
Mayor :	Herbert Froschauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	12 7th 12 7th  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 12 SPÖ : 7
Location of Mitterkirchen im Machland in the district of Perg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mitterskirchen in Machland is at the Danube lying market town in Machland in district Perg in the lower Mühlviertel in Upper Austria 1716 inhabitants (January 1, 2020).

The municipality belongs to the judicial district of Perg with the competent district court in the district capital Perg .

Due to its location on the Danube, one of the oldest markets in Upper Austria was located in the village of Hütting, which had been relocated several times due to catastrophic floods . The market survey of Mitterkirchen on October 10, 1977 took place with reference to this market law, the coat of arms of Mitterkirchen also contains parts of the Hüttingen coat of arms.

The construction of the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant in the second half of the 1960s on the municipal area has shaped the landscape and the course of the waters ever since. The Machland dam aims to sustainably reduce the risk of flood disasters.

Towards the end of the 20th century, a Celtic barrow from the Hallstatt period was uncovered and in this context the Celtic village of Mitterkirchen was opened in 1991 . The location on the Danube Cycle Path and on the Donausteig is also of touristic importance .

geography

Villages of Mitterkirchen with the rivers Naarn and Danube in the 2nd half of the 19th century

The center of the village is located about ten kilometers southeast of the district capital Perg and about two kilometers north of the Danube at 235  m above sea level. A. The municipal area extends from north to south of 8.7 kilometers and from west to east 7.1 kilometers. The total area is 28.6 square kilometers. 21% of the area is forested, 59.2% of the area is used for agriculture.

From a geological and geomorphological point of view, Mitterkirchen belongs to the Upper Austrian Machland spatial unit .

Mitterkirchen is on the Machland Plain, so the difference between the lowest and highest point in the community is only eleven meters. The highest point is at the Hans in der Haid farmstead at 244 m above sea level. A. and the lowest point in the fields on the Gries at 233 m above sea level. A. Further height information in the municipality concerns Hart, Kirchstetten, Hofstetten, Wagra, Stadlbauer on the Leithn with each 241 m above sea level. A., Loa 240 m above sea level A., Fuchsluger 238 m above sea level A., Inzing and Gang 237 m above sea level. A., parish church 235 m above sea level A., Hütting (before resettlement) 234 m above sea level. A.

The community Mitterkirchen consists of the following cadastral communities (KG) with the listed nineteen localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Cadastral municipality Hofstetten:
  • Am Buehel (99)
  • Haid (59) including In der Haid
  • Hard (88)
  • Hofstetten (52)
  • Kirchstetten (55)
  • Loa (274)
• Cadastral municipality Langacker:
  • Aisle (19)
  • Hörstorf (343)
  • Langacker (81) including Pührer
  • Weisching (68) including the Mitterkirchen and Wagerhof bathing lake
  • Worth (64)
• Cadastral community Mitterkirchen:
  • (New) Hütting (0)
  • Kaindlau (0)
  • Labing (43)
  • Fiefdom (29)
  • Mitterkirchen (189)
  • Wagra (80)

In the north, Mitterkirchen is bounded by the municipality of Perg with the cadastral municipality of Pergkirchen and by the municipality and cadastral municipality of Arbing , in the east by the market and cadastral municipality of Baumgartenberg and in the west by the market municipality of Naarn im Machlande with the cadastral communities Baumgarten and Ruprechtshofen. In the south, before the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant was built , the course of the Danube forms the municipal boundary to the Lower Austrian municipalities of Wallsee-Sindelburg and Strengberg in the Amstetten district and is thus also the border between Upper and Lower Austria . Thus, since the power plant was built, there are on the one hand small parts of the Mitterkirchen municipality south of the Danube and on the other hand small parts of the municipalities of Strengberg and Wallsee-Sindelburg north of the Danube.

In Mitterkirchen, with the Machland dam, protection against a century flood will be built between 2009 and 2013 after the village of Hütting has been completely relocated and rebuilt in Neu-Hütting.

Major rivers are the Danube next to the part on the Erla -fed, remaining in power plant construction in the 1960s Danube oxbow lake Wallsee and Hüttinger arm , one in previous Danube regulation remaining oxbow lake of the Danube.

Both the Aist-Mühlbach and the Naarn flow into the Hüttinger Arm, with the Schwemmnaarn being diverted shortly before the mouth of the Naarn. This is the old arm of the Naarn that remained after the Naarn regulation in the 1960s and continues to flow into the Danube near Dornach. The Kaindlau lumber yard was one of the endpoints of the failure flood on the Naarn (see also main article Perger Schwemmplatz ), was initially located directly on the Danube bank and after the Danube regulation at the beginning of the 19th century on the banks of the Hüttinger Arm (Donaualtarm, Grieswasser). Before the First World War, the wood was brought to the diving site near Kohlbühel for loading into watercraft by means of a horse-powered field railway. In 1922 the diving site had to be relocated and the field railway also had to be relocated, strengthening it and lengthening it to 3 km so that it could be operated with gasoline engines. In the northeast, the Tobrabach partially forms the border between the municipality and the municipality of Arbing.

The future European protected area Machland Nord extends over part of the municipal area. More than 57 square kilometers of low and Upper Austria Machland were due to its international importance for birds of BirdLife Austria for Important Bird Area declared (IBA).

An oak in Hütting , chestnut and linden near the Grüner Chapel and the Lederer Haufen in Mitterkirchen are listed as natural monuments in the nature conservation book of the Upper Austrian provincial government .

history

Parish church and cemetery

Individual finds from the New Stone Age give rise to the assumption that people lived in the area around Mitterkirchen as early as 2500 years before Christ. The Celts settled in the Danube region from around 800 BC . Around the excavation of the Mitterkirchen burial ground, the Celtic village of Mitterkirchen was created to preserve the site and to depict Celtic life. 50 barrows with around 80 burials from the early Iron Age (Hallstatt culture, 800 to 450 BC) were uncovered. Around 900 vessels with valuable grave goods suggest burials of high-ranking personalities. One of the finds is also the Mitterkirchen float car .

During Roman times , Mitterkirchen was right on the border of the province of Noricum , which was formed in this area by the Limes and the Danube , within the 7.5 kilometers wide buffer zone between the Romans and the barbarians . The Roman fort Adiuvense ( Wallsee ) was within sight, and the Albing legionary camp, built around 170 AD in what is now the municipality of Sankt Pantaleon-Erla, was only a few kilometers away on the south bank of the Danube. There are no traces of settlement from this time in the Mitterkirchen area. There are also no traces of Huns or Rugier activities in this area. During the excavations already mentioned, the remains of a Slavic housing estate with an attached workshop area from the 8th century were found. The site is east of Labing. Among other things, the remains of a pottery and distillery, ovens and pit piles were found. Iron was produced in so-called reduction pits and processed in blacksmiths' workshops. Slavic-Bavarian mixed terms and place names indicate a peaceful coexistence of the two peoples.

In the early Middle Ages the southern Machland belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria and from the 9th century it belonged to the Avarmark . On January 18, 853, border count Wilhelm I gave the monastery Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg his possessions between the rivers Aist and Naarn , the so-called Regensburger Luss. At the turn of the 9th to 10th century, after the victory over the Bavarians near Pressburg , the Magyars received the area east of the Enns from 907 , only after the victory over the Hungarians on the Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955 did the border marks move east again. The time of the tower hill castle Wasenberg cannot be precisely classified.

At the time of the Babenbergs , the later cadastral communities Hofstetten, Langacker and Mitterkirchen were in the margraviate and later in the Duchy of Austria in Machland on the territory of the Lords of Machland . The oldest written mention of Mitterkirche was in 1111 as Mittrinchirchin . Other spellings in the 12th and 13th centuries were mittirchirchen, mitterchirchen, mitternkirchen, mitterenchirchen, mitterchirchen and mitterkirchen . The place name was mostly translated with the middle church (location between Saxen and Naarn), but could also come from the location on a Mitterfeld . In 1156 an agricultural settlement, the Wörthbauer, was first mentioned in Mitterkirchen. In the Middle Ages, Hütting was home to one of the oldest markets in Upper Austria, which was also an important place of jurisdiction. The place should have been flood-free in the Carolingian era and was therefore also important for shipping and trade.

After the extinction of the Lords of Perg and Machland, the Machland was directly subordinate to the sovereigns, the Babenbergs, Mitterkirchen belonged to the sphere of influence of the Machland district court with its seat at Mitterberg Castle and later on Greinburg . In Hütting there was likely to have been a fragmentation of this court. Towards the end of the 13th century, the Machland district court was pledged to the Lords of Walsee and remained in their hands until the 15th century. The lower nobility from the Mitterkirchen area included the Inzingers (documented mention from 1240 to the middle of the 14th century, based in Inzing), the Steiner (owners of Ausernstein and Innernstein, 13th century), the Pieber (related to the Steiner , wealthy in Weinberg and Machland, 14th century) and the Mitterkirchner (13th and 14th centuries, comparatively insignificant to the aforementioned).

It is unclear whether the Mitterkirchen parish originally belonged to the Altpfarre Naarn or Saxen. The church in Mitterkirchen was dedicated in 1147 by Otto von Machland to the foundation of the Säbnich or Waldhausen monastery and the parish was incorporated into the Waldhausen monastery in 1256 and remained there until the monastery was abolished in 1785. The parish church was built in 1482 after it was previously probably had been destroyed once or several times by the Hussites . In 1586 the Mitterkirchen parish was looked after by the Baumgartenberg monastery. From 1606 to 1626, Mitterkirchen, like numerous other parishes in the region, belonged to the Naarn parish, while Protestant priests were there at the same time. An estimated 75% of the city and market residents and around 50% of the rural population are likely to have been Protestant. The Mitterkirchen parish has been part of the Linz diocese since 1785.

In 1501 there was the biggest flood of the millennium in the Machland. Around 6000 people died in this natural disaster. The high water mark at Wallsee was around two meters higher than that of 1954. In the 16th and 17th centuries there were several peasant uprisings in the area because of social and economic dissatisfaction. In 1624 and 1625 there were numerous deaths from the plague in Mitterkirchen. A parish school was first mentioned in 1676. A new school was built in 1817 and served as such until 1968. From 1755 there was an imperial privilege to flood wood on the Naarn . A rake was built in Labing and the wood was passed from there to the Kaindlauer Schwemmplatz, skewered and stored. The wood was assembled into rafts or loaded onto ships and shipped down the Danube to Vienna and Budapest. The last wood drift on the Naarn took place in 1938.

For the ultimately unsuccessful drainage of the Perger Au, a small and a large Naarn Canal were built from 1776 onwards. The latter was called Maria-Theresien-Kanal. The Naarn and its tributaries were lowered, bordered and straightened against the resistance of the mill owners. As weir systems were again built and the flood of failure continued, the state of swampiness as before the regulation was soon achieved again. It was not until the 1960s that a permanent solution could be found in connection with the construction of the Danube power plant.

In 1785 the Josephine Lagebuch was created. In this context, the cadastral communities of Langacker, Hofstetten and Mitterkirchen were formed.

During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. In 1805 5,000 men camped between Naarn and Au, the looting extended to Mitterkirchen. The Danube regulation in the first half of the 19th century also affects the area between Mauthausen and Ardagger and fundamentally changes the course of the Danube in this area. The original main channel of the Danube remained after the regulation as the Hüttinger oxbow lake.

In 1848 the municipalities of Hofstetten, Langacker and Mitterkirchen were created in the areas of the cadastral municipalities of the same name, and from 1918 onwards became municipalities in the federal state of Upper Austria.

The expansion of the infrastructure began with the construction of a post and telegraph office and was interrupted by the war years and continued in line with developments across the country. Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. At this point in time there were initial plans for a hydropower plant. The local advance fund association was founded on May 4, 1890 as a cooperative with unlimited liability and later referred to as the Raiffeisenkasse. In 1990 the merger with Raiffeisenbank Perg took place. Sparkasse Perg had a branch in Mitterkirchen from 1927 to 1939, from 1951 to the 1980s a paying office at the municipal office and then a branch again until 1999.

In 1936, through the amalgamation of the formerly independent municipalities and cadastral municipalities of Hofstetten, Langacker and Mitterkirchen, the large municipality of Mitterkirchen was created, from which the villages of Kühofen, Mettensdorf and Pitzing and the property Lehen 1 were separated again in 1956 and incorporated into Baumgartenberg. This brought the parish boundaries into line with the parish boundaries.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, Mitterkirchen belonged to the Upper Danube Gau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored and the community belonged to the Soviet occupation zone until 1955 .

In 1954 the flood of the century caused great damage in the municipality of Mitterkirchen. In 1968 the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant went into operation. Since then, the course of the Danube has changed over a length of around 3.5 kilometers in this area, while the municipal, district and state boundaries have remained unchanged. It was the first Austrian Danube power plant to be built using drywall construction.

In 1971 the approximately seven hectare leisure area with the approximately 3 hectare Mitterkirchen swimming lake in the village of Weisching was opened and in 1972 the Naarn regulation was completed. In 1977 the elevation to the market took place and Mitterkirchen received a new municipal coat of arms and new municipal colors. In 1984 the first finds from the Hallstatt-era Celtic barrows , including the Mitterkirchen float chariot , were presented to the public in fiefdoms and in 1991 the Celtic village of Mitterkirchen was opened.

After the Danube flood in August 2002 , the Hütting district was relocated to the newly created Neu-Hütting district in 2003 . Between 2008 and 2015, the Machland Nord flood protection project will be implemented together with the other municipalities on the Danube .

politics

Municipal office of Mitterkirchen im Machland

City council and mayor

In municipal council elections , the ÖVP has had an absolute majority of votes and mandates since 1945, with the proportion of votes ranging between 79.9% (1955) and 50.2% (2003) of the votes cast. The proportion of votes in the SPÖ ranged between 20.1% (1955) and 45.6% (2003). The FPÖ ran from 1967 to 1979 and scored between 4.0 (1979) and 5.6% (1967). From 1991 the FPÖ again took part in local council elections and achieved between 4.3% (2003) and 10.3% (1997).

Since the municipal council elections in 2015 , the 19 mandates in the municipal council have been distributed as follows until 2021: ÖVP 12 mandates and SPÖ 7 mandates. Herbert Froschauer of the ÖVP has been mayor since 2015. Vice Mayor is Martina Kranzl from the ÖVP.

Mayor of Mitterkirchen (1850 to date)

• Jakob Ortmayr (1850 to 1861)
• Johann Froschauer (1861 to 1864)
• Anton Heisserer (1864 to 1867)
• Anton Lindner (1867 to 1870)
• Anton Gusenleitner (1870 to 1873)
• Anton Lindner (1873 to 1876)
• Anton Gusenleitner (1876 to 1879)
• Jakob Ortmayr (1879 to 1882)
• Josef Froschauer (1883 to 1894)
• Martin Freinhofer (1894 to 1906)
• Johann Lettner (1906 to 1924)
• Franz Dragon (1924 to 1931)
• Karl Zickerhofer (1931 to 1937)
• Johann Heiml (1937 to 1945)
• Josef Schönbeck (1945 to 1949)
• Johann Heiml (1949 to 1967)
• Johann Mayrhofer (1967 to 1972)
• Josef Lettner (1972 to 1979)
• Franz Heilmann (1979 to 1993)
• Johann Hinterkörner (1997 to 2003)
• Anton Aichinger (2003 to 2015)
• Herbert Froschauer (2015 to date)

Mayor of Hofstetten (1850 to 1936)

• Leopold Lettner (until 1850)
• Georg Hölzl (1850 to 1861)
• Ignaz Burghofer (1861 to 1864)
• Josef Freindorfer (1864 to 1867)
• Johann Freinhofer (1867 to 1870)
• Josef Freindorfer (1870 to 1894)
• Anton Schachner (1894 to 1897)
• Johann Brunner (1897 to 1900)
• Michael Lettner (1900 to 1910)
• Johann Brunner (1910 to 1919)
• Michael Lettner (1919 to 1936)

Mayor of Langacker (1850 to 1936)

• Martin Söllinger (1850 to 1867)
• Franz Kaindl (1867 to 1870)
• Josef Lichtenberger (1870 to 1894)
• Stefan Reitbauer (1894 to 1903)
• Anton Aichinger (1903 to 1909)
• Georg Kastner (1909 to 1919)
• Karl Binder (1919 to 1936)

Partner and European congregation

A partnership with the Bavarian community of Mitterskirchen has existed since 1978 . Another partnership has existed since 1987 between the Mitterkirchen town of Inzing and the town of Inzing near Hartkirchen near Pocking in Lower Bavaria . What the two villages have in common is that they were inhabited by Celts long before they were first mentioned in a document . Early medieval burial grounds have been discovered in both villages .

The municipal council of Mitterkirchen declared the municipality to be a European municipality with a resolution of July 19, 1987 and set up corresponding information boards at the town entrances.

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided; above in gold a blue weir (as in the sign for waterway traffic), below in blue a golden, roofed ship. The community colors are blue-yellow.

The award of the coat of arms and the approval of the municipal colors set by the municipal council on June 30, 1977 took place with a resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government of October 10, 1977 at the same time as the elevation to the market. The new coat of arms refers to the location on the Danube, the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant, which went into operation on March 9, 1968 at river kilometer 2060.4, and the barrage, which is provided with a double lock for shipping and located entirely in the municipality. The historical counterpart to this is the ship taken from the old coat of arms of the former Hütting market , which refers to the important crossing from Hütting to Wallsee at the time.

population

Population development

Population development
year Residents 1846 1869 1,430 1880 1,442 1890 1,435 1900 1,483 1910 1,469 1923 1,488 1934 1,509	year Residents 1939 1,579 1951 1,498 1961 1,505 1971 1,533 1981 1,617 1991 1,775 2001 1,793 2009 1,695

The number of inhabitants rose only slightly from 1869 to 1971 from 1430 to 1533 (with the exception of 1939, where 1579 people were counted). From 1971 the number of residents increased more strongly and in 2001 reached 1793 people. Since then, there has been a slight population decline.

Population structure by gender, age and education

On January 1, 2009, the community of Mitterkirchen had 1,695 inhabitants, of which 827 were men and 868 women.

The rough age structure of the Mitterkirchen population as of January 1, 2009 shows that 68.5% of Mitterkirchen residents are over 15 and under 65 years old. At 16.6%, around a sixth of the population is younger and, at 14.9%, slightly more than a seventh of the population is older. The proportion of women in the main group is significantly lower than in the overall value, while it is significantly higher in the younger and older people.

Of the 1,451 Mitterkirchen residents who were over 15 years old in 2001, 752 or 51.8% are women. 28 Mitterkirchen residents, 1.9% of those over fifteen, have graduated from a university , technical college or academy ; the proportion of women here, at 42.9%, is well below that of the population group as a whole. Another 90 people from Mitterkirchen, that is 6.3% of the relevant population group, have the Matura , with the proportion of women at 56.7% being significantly higher than that of the relevant population group. 705 people from Mitterkirch, with 48.6%, almost half of those over the age of fifteen, have completed an apprenticeship or vocational middle school , with 39.1% women. 628 or 43.3% of Mitterkirchen residents only have a compulsory school certificate . Almost two thirds of them are women.

Origin and language

98.3% of Mitterkirchen's residents were Austrian citizens on January 1, 2009 and 96.9% were born in Austria. 1.7% of Mitterkirchen residents come from other EU countries, 0.1% from non-EU countries.

The Middle or Danube Bavarian dialect is a Bavarian dialect form that is widespread throughout Upper Austria . The ostösterreichische branch of the middle Bairischen goes to the dialect of the created by the Bavarian Ostsiedlung Babenberg dominion Ostarrichi back.

In the 2001 census, 1750 people (97.6%) stated German as a colloquial language, 31 (1.7%) Turkish , 12 (0.7%) another language.

religion

In the 2001 census, 1,711 people (95.4%) indicated that they were Roman Catholic , 40 (2.2%) Islamic , 1 (0.1%) Protestant , 5 Orthodox and 1 other faith. 35 (2.0%) of the people of Mitterkirchen have not professed any religion.

Buildings and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Mitterkirchen im Machland

Celtic village Mitterkirchen

• Prehistoric open-air museum Keltendorf Mitterkirchen : In the open-air museum Mitterkirchen a Celtic village from the early Iron Age has been reconstructed true to the original. Among other things, you can visit a large settlement complex and an important Early Iron Age burial mound of the Hallstatt culture with a faithfully reconstructed wagon grave with the Mitterkirchen float .
• Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant: The Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant is a run-of-river power plant in the Danube - between the Lower Austrian municipality of Wallsee and the Upper Austrian municipality of Mitterkirchen. The Danube power plant was built from 1965 to 1968.
• The late Gothic parish church of Mitterkirchen , consecrated to St. Andrew, was built in 1484 and, since its renovation in 2004, has provided a special atmosphere with refined lighting elements and olive wood.
• Wasenberg (Mitterkirchen im Machland) , remains of a tower hill castle in the village of Hart

Economy, infrastructure, culture, sport and leisure

Commercial enterprises

In Mitterkirchen mainly local and regional companies and public institutions are based, which mainly serve the local supply. The municipality of Mitterkirchen is one of 18 municipalities in the LEADER region of Strudengau .

Employment situation

On January 1, 2001, 245 people were employed in Mitterkirchen. Of the 824 employed people living in Mitterkirchen, 651 commuted to their workplaces outside the community, while 72 people commuted to their workplace in Mitterkirchen.

387 jobs for the people of Mitterkirchen are located in another municipality in the Perg district, mainly in Perg, Schwertberg, Naarn and Baumgartenberg and 201 outside the Perg district in Upper Austria, mainly in Linz-Stadt and Linz-Land. The remaining jobs are located in other federal states (particularly in Lower Austria), and occasionally abroad. 34 people from the Perg district work in Mitterkirchen, the rest of the inbound commuters come from other districts in Upper Austria or other Austrian federal states (particularly Lower Austria).

In 2001, 11.5% of the people of Mitterkirchen were active in agriculture and forestry, 43.9% in industry, trade and construction and 44.5% in the service sector. In 1981, the proportion of people from Mitterkirchen who were active in agriculture and forestry was still 30.1%. 38.8% of the jobs in Mitterkirchen were in agriculture, 26.9% in industry, trade and construction and 34.3% in the service sector. In 1981, 56.5% of jobs were still in agriculture and forestry.

Traffic situation

A road leads over the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant.

The Machland state road L 570 coming from Naarn crosses the municipality of Mitterkirchen from northwest to southeast, leads through the center and further northeast to Baumgartenberg. Both the Danube Cycle Path and the Donausteig , which opened in 2010, lead across the municipality .

Mitterkirchen is not directly on the Donauuferbahn , but the next stop is only four kilometers northeast in Baumgartenberg. The Danube Street (B 3) extending from Perg to Baumgartenberg parallel to the railway track and is eastbound accessible both when traveling and west in a few minutes. The closest motorway connection is located south of the Danube in Oed and can be reached in just under 15 minutes via the restricted-use bridge of the Danube power plant Wallsee-Mitterkirchen.

Infrastructure

The power supply for the community of Mitterkirchen is mainly provided by Linz AG . There is both a regional district heating supply for parts of the municipality and a connection to the Upper Austrian gas network. There are local volunteer fire departments in Mitterkirchen, Langacker and Hütting . In the municipality of Mitterkirchen there is a kindergarten for children who are not yet of compulsory schooling, as well as an elementary school . The possibility of attending secondary schools, a lower secondary school, the polytechnical course or the middle and higher schools is possible in the district of Perg, with Baumgartenberg (secondary school and European high school) and Perg being the main school locations.

Culture, sport and leisure

In Mitterkirchen there are a number of associations that meet the cultural needs of the regional population. These include the music club, the Union sports club, the volunteer fire brigade, the rural youth and other groups.

In Mitterkirchen there has been a leisure area with a swimming lake including infrastructure, restaurants, tennis courts, beach volleyball court, water trampoline and children's playground that extends over around eight hectares since 1971. The approximately 3 hectare lake was deepened in 1995 and is used in winter as an ice skating rink and for ice stock sport.

Mitterkirchen is located on the Danube Cycle Path and its local side route, the Machland Cycle Path , as well as on the Donausteig . The cross-state Danube-Altarmweg also leads through the municipality.

music

• The Machland Duo was a folk music formation from Hofstetten.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of Mitterkirchen and the communities of Langacker, Hofstetten and Mitterkirchen

• Chaplain Christian Anieke
• Josef Buchberger (1921), elementary school director from 1892 to 1921
• Josef Buchberger (1980), elementary school director
• Alfred Ertl (1968), elementary school director, conductor of the music association, choir director, initiator of the new elementary school building, holder of the Golden Sign of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• August Grohmann (1921), teacher from 1901 to 1921
• Johann Hartl (1911), pastor from 1902 to 1912
• Franz Heilmann (1998), municipal councilor from 1967 and mayor from 1979 to 1997, holder of the Golden Merit Medal of Upper Austria
• Johann Heiml (1968), farmer, first mayor of Groß-Mitterkirchen from 1937 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1967, holder of the Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1964)
• Josef Jochinger, was Kapellmeister of the Mitterkirchen Trachtenmusikverein for 41 years, head of the Mitterkirchen church choir for 30 years, an active member of several dance bands for decades and played a key role in establishing the partnership between Mitterkirchen and the Bavarian community of Mitterskirchen
• Michael Lettner (1937), farmer, mayor of Hofstetten until the municipal amalgamation at the end of 1936

Further holders of federal and state awards

• Johann Burghofer, recipient of the Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1993)
• Karl Fuchs, elementary school director, holder of the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1983)
• Karl Heiml, winner of the Golden Merit Medal of the Republic of Austria (1993)
• Anton Hinterreiter, winner of the Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1993) and the Silver Medal of Merit of the State of Upper Austria (1996)
• Augustin Moser, GTwinner of the Silver Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1993)
• Helmut Pikous, recipient of the Golden Merit Medal of the Republic of Austria (1998)
• Johann Resch, recipient of the Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1993)
• Josef Riesenberger, municipal secretary, holder of the Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria (1997)
• Christine Spandier, recipient of the Golden Merit Medal of the Republic of Austria (1998)

Personalities with a relationship to Mitterkirchen

• Franz Asanger (* 1958 in Saxen), religious educator and Germanist, wrote the Heimatbuch Mitterkirchen - a historical portrait of the Machland community, is an amateur photographer in the photo club VHS-AK Perg, was head of the Episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum from 2000 to 2013 and has been head of the diocese's education department ever since Linz . He lived in Mitterkirchen for a few years.
• Josef Grafeneder , Catholic priest and writer, was pastor of Mitterkirchen from 1963 to 1990
• Adolf Lind (born May 28, 1894 in Vienna; † August 5, 1966 in Vienna), 1924 to 1942 farmer in Loa 4, 1930 founder and first chairman of the Baumgartenberg dairy cooperative, National Socialist politician and farmer's leader, in 1938 a brief member of the Provincial Council of Upper Austria under August Eigruber
• Richard Neudorfer (born November 17, 1900 in Rustorf, † January 31, 1977 in Wels), was a teacher in Mitterkirchen from 1934 to 1938
• Manfred Wakolbinger (born November 6, 1952 in Mitterkirchen) is an Austrian visual artist .
• Maximilian Walch (born February 3, 1952 in Mitterkirchen) is a politician (FPÖ / BZÖ) and was a member of the Austrian National Council between 2002 and 2006.

literature

• Franz Asanger: Mitterkirchen - a historical portrait of the Machland community. Published by the market town of Mitterkirchen im Machland, Mitterkirchen 1999.

Web links

Commons : Mitterkirchen im Machland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Mitterkirchen im Machland in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 41112 - Mitterkirchen im Machland. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the municipality of Mitterkirchen im Machland can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Official website of the Mitterkirchen community
• Bibliography on Mitterkirchen in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Natural monuments in Mitterkirchen im Machland
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population development of Mitterkirchen im Machland PDF
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Mitterkirchen, population status and structure PDF
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the community of Mitterkirchen Education PDF
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics Austria table: A look at the community of Mitterkirchen Demographic data PDF
7. ^ Page of the Museum Keltendorf Mitterkirchen
8. ↑ Strudengau region
9. ↑ View of the community of Mitterkirchen im Machland, commuters by commuting destination , PDF
10. ↑ Province of Upper Austria, regional database , PDF ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 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. 
11. ^ Franz Asanger on the website of Regiowiki.at
12. ^ Franz Asanger: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machland community , market community Mitterkirchen im Machland (ed.), Linz, 1991 p. 252ff