Wagrain (Pongau)

market community

Wagrain

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Salzburg

Political District :

St. Johann im Pongau

License plate :

JO

Main town :

Wagrain market

Surface:

50.54 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 20 ' N , 13 ° 18' E Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '0 " N , 13 ° 18' 0" E

Height :

838 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,121 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

5602

Area code :

06413

Community code :

5 04 23

NUTS region

AT322

Address of the
municipal administration:

Markt 14
5602 Wagrain

Website:

www.wagrain.salzburg.at

politics

Mayor :

Axel Ellmer ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2019)
(19 members)

11

5

3

11 5 3

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 11
SPÖ : 5
FPÖ : 3

Location of Wagrain in the St. Johann im Pongau district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Wagrain is a market town with 3121 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the Austrian state of Salzburg .

geography

Wagrain, core area around the market with Kirchboden in front, view in northwest direction towards the Hochkönig

The Wagrain valley widening towards the northeast, Kirchboden with the parish church

Wagrain is located in Pongau , about 55 km south of Salzburg and 8 km east of St. Johann im Pongau . In the district of Schwaighof is the watershed of the Salzach and Enns , the Wagrainer Höhe . The highest point is at 2037 m above sea level. A. on the fork on the southern edge of the municipality.

A popular excursion destination is the mountain Öbristkopf ( 1411 m above sea level ), a destination for the Salzburg hiking nobility.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following five cadastral communities and towns of the same name (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Courtyard (1323)
Hofmarkt (775)
Schwaighof (482)
Front Small (177)
Wagrain Markt (main town, KG Wagrain , 364)

Counting districts are Wagrain market centers for the main town and its immediate surroundings, and Wagrain surroundings for the rest of the municipality.

Wagrain belongs to the judicial district of St. Johann im Pongau

Neighboring communities

	Huettau
St. Johann im Pongau		Flachau
Grossarl	Kleinarl

history

Wagrain market square (1920)

The name Wagrain is made up of the two Middle High German words wac (moving water, river) and rein (rain, meadow, slope). 1243 is the Salzburg City Book Wakrein first documented in 1350 Wax Rain and 1382 Wakchrain written. Under the influence of the written language, the current spelling was finally used.

In the Middle Ages the area was a mining area.

Wagrain was the place in the archbishopric of Salzburg with the highest number of Protestant exiles . Over 80% of the locals preferred to be expelled (mostly to Prussia) over to convert to Roman Catholicism .

coat of arms

Blazon :

In red a golden tip in which a silver crenellated tower with a gate and two windows stands above natural water on a green bank .

politics

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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: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
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: 10 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 3 FPÖ.

mayor

1999-2018 Eugen Grader (ÖVP)
since 2018 Axel Ellmer (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Waggerlhaus
Wagrain Castle
Parish Church of St. Rupert : Gothic, with additions from 1450 and 1711; High altar from 1976 with a Gothic Madonna
Filial Church of St. Francis (Market Church) : built in 1616, baroque

Wagrain, parish church
Wagrain, market church
Parish church, interior view
The high altar of the parish church

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld (1778–1866), civil servant from Salzburg and Bavaria, geographer, historian and writer
Rudolf Huber (* 1963), ski racer
Thomas Hettegger (* 1994), ski racer

People related to the community

Joseph Mohr (1792–1848), lyricist of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night , worked and lived in Wagrain from 1837 onwards
Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897–1973), lived in Wagrain from 1920
Alois Rohrmoser (1932–2005), founder of the Atomic company (ski production), lived in Wagrain

literature

Ortschronik Wagrain ; Volume I Wakhrein - The old Hofmark ; Volume II From the mountain farming village to the Salzburger Sportwelt Amadé , municipality of Wagrain ( web link ).

Web links

Commons : Wagrain - collection of images, videos and audio files

50423 - Wagrain. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Entry on Wagrain in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Community website
Wagrain . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Eugene Grader (Wagrain) . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
↑ Axel Ellmer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .