Wallsee-Sindelburg

market community

Wallsee-Sindelburg

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Lower Austria

Political District :

Amstetten

License plate :

AT THE

Main town :

Wallsee

Surface:

25.95 km²

Coordinates :

48 ° 10 ' N , 14 ° 43' E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '58 " N , 14 ° 43' 2" E

Height :

275 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,190 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

3313

Area code :

07433

Community code :

3 05 38

NUTS region

AT121

Address of the
municipal administration:

Marktplatz 2
3313 Wallsee-Sindelburg

Website:

wallsee-sindelburg.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Johann Bachinger ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(21 members)

14th

5

2

14th 5 2

A total of 21 seats

ÖVP : 14
SPÖ : 5
FPÖ : 2

Location of Wallsee-Sindelburg in the Amstetten district

View of Wallsee

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wallsee-Sindelburg is a market town with 2190 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria .

geography

Wallsee-Sindelburg is located in the northwestern part of the Mostviertel in Lower Austria, on the right - i.e. south - of the Danube and in the south roughly bounded by the western motorway. About 26 percent of the area of the market town is forested.

The Danube valley near Wallsee is called Strudengau because there were several dangerous water eddies here before a wider shipping channel was blown out . The Erla flows into the Danube a few kilometers above Wallsee . She comes from the hill country of the Mostviertel. However, much more water flows from the Enns (15 km upstream) and the northern tributaries Aist (about 12 km upstream) and Naarn (10 km downstream).

Community structure

Wallsee-Sindelburg consists of four localities or cadastral municipalities of the same name (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020; area: as of December 31, 2017):

Igelschwang (666.30 ha, 72 Ew.) Including Franzenau, Kobling, Schaching, Steinstraße and Straß
Ried (651.15 ha, 50 Ew.) Including Biesenberg, Hofing, Roßwiese, Schöndorf, Sindelburg and Witzmannsdorf
Schweinberg (937.87 ha, 41 Ew.) Including Blindberg, Schmitzberg and Sommerau
Wallsee (338.60 ha, 2027 Ew.) Including the shore

The cadastral communities of Igeschwang, Ried and Schweinberg formed the independent community of Sindelburg until they were merged in the early 1970s. Today's community was formed in 1971 from the communities of Wallsee and Sindelburg.

Neighboring communities

	Mitterkirchen im Machland ( Perg district , Upper Austria)	Ardagger
Strengberg		Zeillern
Wolfsbach	Aschbach market	Oed-Öhling

history

As found in tools prove, Wallsee and Sindelburg were already settled in the Stone Age. The history of Wallsee begins in Roman times , when the area was part of the province of Noricum . The remains of an auxiliary fort of 200 × 160 m ( finds in the Roman Museum ) are located under today's market square . It was probably Adiuvense , mentioned several times in ancient sources , as suggested by brick stamp finds from the Legio II Italica and an investigation by the Habsburg Archduke Theodor Salvator . In recent research, however, Wallsee is equated with Locus Felicis (Hannsjörg Ubl).

In 1295/96 the Austrian nobility rose up, led a. a. by Konrad von Summerau , who sat at the neighboring castle Sommerau and ruled the region, against Duke Albrecht I. After the suppression of the uprising, the Sommerauer lost all fiefs and Heinrich I von Waldsee / Wallsee was enfeoffed with Sommerau and Sindelburg. The Wallseers can be traced back to Sindelburg from 1301 and built the castle that still exists today in 1368–88. In 1368 the castle was named "Neuen-" or "Nieder Wallsee" to distinguish it from the Oberwallsee castle in Upper Austria, which was built in 1364 . The Wallseer dynasty, which in the 14th century provided several provincial governors in Upper Austria and held the hereditary marshal's office, developed into one of the leading noble families under the Habsburgs until they died out in 1483/1506. The fortunes of the place are closely connected with Wallsee Castle until around 1920.

At the same time as the castle, the market was rebuilt and equipped with the church documented from 1362. Wallsee also received market rights in the 14th century . The “salt house” in town reminds of the former salt trade . The use of a market seal has been handed down from around 1620. The one from 1631 shows a millstone and above the stylized waves of the Danube a monster. From around 1500 to 1895 there was a millstone factory under the sandstone cliffs of the castle , which delivered to Hungary and the Black Sea and, with the Scherer millstone quarry in Perg, formed the center of Central European millstone production. The millstone guild also looked after the church of St. Anna, which was called the "Steinbrecherkapelle" (now a branch church).

After 1945, the Danube river shaped the economic development - among other things through the shipping company Brandner and the construction of a large Danube power station .

Population development

According to the results of the census, the market town had

2001 2,049 inhabitants,
1991 2,109 inhabitants,
1981 2,051 inhabitants,
1971 1,927 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

Wallsee-Sindelburg Roman Museum

Wallsee Castle
Catholic parish church Sindelburg hl. John the Baptist
Wallsee-Sindelburg Roman Museum

Wallsee Castle
Main square with town hall
Marian column on the main square
Filial church St. Anna in Wallsee
Sindelburg parish church

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2001 there were 66 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 98 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 891. In 2001, the activity rate was 45 percent. There were 215 unemployed people on average in 2003.

Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant : Between 1965 and 1968, the Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power plant was built between Wallsee and Mitterkirchen on the north bank . At 210 megawatts , it represents exactly the mean value of the electricity-generating capacity of the 10 Austrian hydropower plants on the Danube. At the same time, a river crossing was created between the bridges of Mauthausen and Grein , each about 15 km away. The “Wallsee-Mitterkirchen” power station has an annual capacity of 1,318.8 GWh and thus covers around two percent of Austria's electricity requirements (see also the power station on the Danube ).

leisure

After the power plant was built, leisure facilities and the Ufer settlement were built on the oxbow lake near Wallsee . The Steinbüchel (Am Steinbichl) weekend house settlement is also located southwest of Schweinberg .

politics

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The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

until 2007 Johann Reitbauer (ÖVP)
since 2007 Johann Bachinger (ÖVP)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Michael Memelauer (1874–1961), Bishop of the Diocese of St. Pölten 1927–1961
Walter Hoppe (1917–1986), physicist
Rudolf Streicher (* 1939 in Wallsee), politician (SPÖ), former Federal President candidate
Members of the Rosenberger family are building Austria's first motorway station in St. Valentin and operating up to 32 motorway restaurants under the Rosenberger labels (insolvency proceedings from 2018) and Landzeit . At the end of February 2019, the Burger King operator TQSR Holding und Development GmbH, bought 100 percent of the shares in Rosenberger Restaurant GmbH, which is currently in the redevelopment process, and it is planned that the rest stops will be comprehensively renovated by 30 million euros within the next 2 years, and thereafter to be reopened.