Wartberg whether the Aist

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Wartberg ob der Aist (Austria)
Wartberg whether the Aist
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Free City
License plate : FR
Surface: 19.41 km²
Coordinates : 48 ° 21 '  N , 14 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '50 "  N , 14 ° 30' 30"  E
Height : 477  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,308 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code : 4224
Area code : 07236
Community code : 4 06 24
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 5
4224 Wartberg ob der Aist
Website: www.wartberg-aist.at
politics
Mayor : Dietmar Stegfellner ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)
14th
7th
4th
14th 7th 4th 
A total of 25 seats
Location of Wartberg ob der Aist in the Freistadt district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wartberg ob der Aist is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Freistadt in the Mühlviertel with 4308 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Freistadt .

geography

Wartberg ob der Aist is 477 m above sea level in the Lower Mühlviertel in the immediate vicinity of Pregarten and Hagenberg (together they form the cultural and economic region PreHaWa). The extension is 7.1 km from north to south and 6.1 km from west to east. The total area is 19.5 km². 3.6% of the area is forested and 13.3% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 28 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Altenhaus (121)
  • Arnberg (94)
  • Doberhagen (15)
  • Frensdorf (356)
  • Friensdorf (159)
  • Hague (8)
  • Hacklberg (138)
  • In the Bichl (5)
  • Klausmühle (10)
  • Blade Weir (35)
  • Upper Schlossberg (10)
  • Obergaisbach (149)
  • Obervisnitz (151)
  • Reitling (114)
  • Reitlingberg (57)
  • Disc (179)
  • Castle House (95)
  • Castle Hill (67)
  • Schoenreith (130)
  • Steinpichl (282)
  • Türnberg (67)
  • Lower Reitling (117)
  • Untergaisbach (318)
  • Untervisnitz (59)
  • Wartberg ob der Aist (1275)
  • Wolfsegg (75)
  • Zeilerberg (222)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Untergaisbach and Wartberg ob der Aist.

Neighboring communities

Unterweitersdorf Hagenberg
Engerwitzdorf Neighboring communities Pregarten
Katsdorf Ried in the Riedmark

history

Mentioned for the first time in 1111 by Bishop Ulrich von Passau and located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria , the place has belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century. Since 1490 it has been assigned to the principality 'Austria ob der Enns'. During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times. Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the "Gau Oberdonau". After 1945 Wartberg was in the Soviet occupation zone . After 1955 the infrastructure was expanded and rebuilt. In 1983 Wartberg was raised to the market.

population

Population development
year Residents   year Residents
1869 1,398   1951 1,873
1880 1,576   1961 1.916
1890 1,668   1971 2,409
1900 1,703   1981 2,763
1910 1,772   1991 3,190
1923 1,726   2001 3,731
1934 1,704   2008 3,961
1939 1,581

Development and structure

In 1869 there were 1,398 people living in the municipality. The number of inhabitants rose steadily, with a slump around 1939. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of inhabitants has risen sharply. Wartberg became the third largest municipality in terms of population in the Freistadt district. In 1991 the community had 3190 inhabitants at the census , in 2001 it had 3731 inhabitants, which corresponds to an increase of 17%. On January 1st, 2008 the community had 3961 inhabitants, the highest level in its history. The population increase in Wartberg in recent years is almost entirely due to immigration.

In the 2001 census, the proportion of residents who were 60 years of age or older was 16.7%; 20.2% were under 15 years old. The proportion of the female population was 49.7%.

Of the 3900 residents of Wartberg, who were over 15 years old in 2001, 5% had graduated from a university , technical college or academy . Another 8.8% had completed the Matura , 47.7% had completed an apprenticeship or a vocational middle school and 38.4% of all Wartbergers had compulsory school as the highest degree.

Origin and language

The German dialect, which is generally spoken in the Wartberg od Aist area and throughout Upper Austria, is Middle Bavarian . In 2001, 98.6% of the Wartbergers stated German as a colloquial language. Another 0.7% spoke mainly Croatian , 0.3% Czech , the rest stated other colloquial languages.

The proportion of Wartbergers with foreign citizenship was 1.6% in 2001, well below the average in Upper Austria. 0.3% of the Wartberg population was citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina , 0.3% that of Germany and 1% were other citizens. In 2001, around 2.7% of Wartbergers were born in a country other than Austria.

Marketplace

politics

The municipal council and mayoral elections take place every six years, at the same time as the state elections. Between 1945 and 1967 the ÖVP always achieved an absolute majority. Since then, the SPÖ has been the party with the most votes. The FPÖ was always the third strongest party until 1997, and the Greens have been the third strongest party since 2003 . In 2003 the SPÖ became the party with the strongest vote with 49.1% and governed with an absolute majority of the mandate. In 2009 the SPÖ lost this absolute mandate majority again, but with 44.4% it remained the party with the strongest vote before the ÖVP. The third strongest party was again the Greens before the FPÖ. The BZÖ received 4.0% of the votes when it first appeared, which corresponds to a municipal council mandate. In 2015, the SPÖ regained the absolute mandate majority with 55.5% of the votes. The ÖVP remained the second strongest force with 26.5% of the vote but lost one mandate. The third strongest party was again the Greens and won a mandate. The FPÖ lost its two seats on the municipal council due to the failure to appear. The BZÖ lost their only mandate because they did not run in the 2015 municipal council elections.

The 2015 municipal council election, with a turnout of 85.8%, produced the following results:

Party / political grouping voting
share
Verän-
alteration
Seats on the local council Verän-
alteration
SPÖ 55.5% + 11.1% 14th +3
ÖVP 26.5% -3.6% 7th -1
GREEN 17.9% + 6.2% 4th +1
FPÖ n.k. 0.0% -9.8% 0 -2
NEOS 0.0% nk 0 nk
KPÖ 0.0% + 0.0% 0 +0


nk not running

Mayor of the community has been Ing. Dietmar Stegfellner from the SPÖ since October 30, 2013. The municipal council consists of 25 members.

The next municipal council election will be held regularly in 2021.

Town twinning

  • Czech RepublicCzech Republic Vodňany , Czech Republic

coat of arms

Wartberg coat of arms

Official blazon of the municipal coat of arms: “Embraced; 1 red; 2 in silver a black, floating, curly paw cross with arms sloping at the sides; 3 in silver three red wavy strips; 4 black. “
The paw cross stands for the dead of the two world wars. The wavy bars represent the Feldaist. The colors red-white-black are the colors of the ministerial family who ruled Schloss Haus in the 13th century.
The community colors are red-white-black.

The municipal coat of arms and colors were awarded on August 14, 1972.

Culture and sights

Wenceslas Church
Chapel on the Calvary
Entrance to the "Flehlucka"
See also:  List of listed objects in Wartberg ob der Aist
  • Schloss Haus : A three-winged building from the years 1721–1729, owned by Starhemberg until 1958 ; a nursing home since 1947.

Wartberg is a closed church settlement with three Gothic churches: the parish church, the Michaelskapelle and the Wenzelskirche.

  • Parish church Wartberg ob der Aist Mariä Himmelfahrt: The mainly Gothic parish church was first mentioned on August 23, 1111. Bishop Ulrich von Passau confirms in the document that a certain Sigihart handed over the church of Wartberg with its property to the monastery of St. Florian . In 1128 the church was consecrated by Bishop Reginmar von Passau. After the Hussite and Bohemian border wars, the Gothic nave was rebuilt as a three-aisled hall with ribbed vaults and consecrated in 1508 by Bernardus, Bishop of Passau. Worth seeing in the parish church is the ribbed vault (end of 1400) and the poor Bible (around 1500), which were exposed as frescoes during the restoration in 1963.
  • Michaelskapelle: The name "Michaels-Kapelle" indicates the beginning of Christianization. The chapel was built between the 9th and 10th centuries and is therefore probably the oldest church in Wartberg. The chapel was originally built as a Karner , then a princely Starhemberg crypt chapel. The Michael's chapel was converted into a funeral hall in 1976. The actual Michaels Chapel was located where the funeral hall with the south apse is now. The late Gothic part to the north of it, the Dionysius Chapel, was added to the Michaels Chapel in 1508 and is still incorrectly called Michaels Chapel today.
  • Wenceslas Church: It can be assumed that the place where the Wenceslas Church stands today was already used as a place of worship by the first pagan settlers . After Christianization , a wooden chapel was probably built there. The Wenceslas Church probably dates back to around 800. It is believed that the later brick chapel was consecrated by the Slavic settlers in the 10th century to St. Wenceslas shortly after his death. After renovation work in 1964, the church was used as a war memorial.
  • Calvary
  • Flehlucka (Fliehloch), a well-preserved earth stable in Reitling
Natural monuments
theatre
  • "Theater am Wartberg" association, founded in 1996

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

  • Road: The Mühlkreis Autobahn A 7 offers very good transport links to Linz
  • Train: The nearest train stations are Gaisbach Wartberg ( Summerauerbahn ) or Schloss Haus stop and in the neighboring municipality of Pregarten (Summerauerbahn)

Public facilities

  • Event Center: The Event Center was officially opened on March 11, 2007. The day care center and youth center were quartered on the ground floor of the primary school building . An event hall with a capacity of around 400 people is available for cultural events. There are two seminar rooms for adult education . The wedding room has been integrated in the building since January 2007. The new kindergarten building houses three kindergarten groups, a crawling group and the parent-child center.

education

  • The old school : The old (elementary) school was built in 1673 . The grave digger's house was attached to the eastern front. Until 1763, only 50 to 60 students are likely to have attended the class. Lessons were held in a class with two sections. In 1763 a second class was established. It is possible that the premises of the nearby Michaelskapelle were temporarily used as a classroom. Fragments of blackboards that were found under the floor during the renovation of the Michael's Chapel indicate this. In the "night of horror" from October 12th to 13th, 1840 , eight houses, including the school, and three barns burned down. The school was rebuilt by the existing competitors (clerical and secular authorities ). The old school house served its purpose until 1971 .
  • The new school : The school moved to the current area under the direction of high school supervisor Karl Sengstschmid. In 1991 the planning of cultural spaces began. The strong influx of people into the Wartberg community resulted in the need to expand the school by two school classes. This led to the development of the project: "School, educational and cultural spaces". This was realized with the event center described above.
  • In addition, there is a library and a branch of the Volkshochschule Freistadt.

Sports & Freetime

  • There are numerous opportunities to do sports in Wartberg. The sports club, "TSU Wartberg / Aist", offers numerous types of sport in the most varied of sections.

The names of places in the municipality

Unless otherwise stated, the following information comes from the presentation by Hohensinner and Wiesinger:

  • Visnitz : First documented in 1125 as Uisinisse . Ahd . Fisinissa is a combination of Fis ( fine rain ) and Nissa ( wet place, meadow ).
  • Frensdorf : First documented in 1230 as Vateinsindorf . A village was added to the Slavic word Bratrešz (= brother ) as a place name when it was Germanized.
  • Friensdorf : First documented in 1378 as Fuenstorf . The place name is the composition of -dorf with the diminutive mhd .
  • Vüns . The name basically meant a “little place”.
  • Gaißbach : First documented in 1120/30 as Geizbach . Composition of goat (goat) and brook , in the sense of: "brook where goats are kept".
  • Guschlbauer settlement : The name goes back to the property owner Guschlbauer , on whose grounds the settlement was built in the 1970s.
  • Hochstrass settlement : First documented in 1514 as Hochstrass . A trade route ran here from the Danube to Bohemia (Mauthausen-Freistadt). At this point the road ran on a high hill, hence the name.
  • Reitling : First documented in the 13th century. as Roeudnich . Here the former name of the left side stream of the Visnitz has been carried over to the area: Slaw. * ruda can mean red-brown iron earth, ore, ferrous swamp . The name probably refers to the red-brown water.
  • Discs : First documented in 1656 as discs . The name, derived from mhd. Schîbe ( disk, circle, plate ) describes a disk-shaped area around which a path with a strong curvature led around.
  • Steinpichl : First documented in 1612 as Steinbichl . Mhd. Pichl is a form of Bühel , which means hill : "stone hill".
  • Wartberg : First documented in 1111 as Wartperch . When referring to the meaning of the word “waiting” (e.g. observation tower), a mountain dominating the landscape is meant, from which one can spy out the landscape.

Personalities

literature

  • Wartberg ob der Aist , Festschrift, published by the municipality of Wartberg ob der Aist on the occasion of the market survey in 1984
  • Historical bibliography in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Karl Hohensinner and Peter Wiesinger: The place names of the political districts Perg and Freistadt. Book of place names of the Province of Upper Austria Volume 11. Vienna 2003.

Web links

Commons : Wartberg ob der Aist  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. a b Statistics Austria: Population and components of population development (download as pdf; 35 kB)
  3. a b c 2001 census: demographic data (download as pdf; 10 kB)
  4. a b c Province of Upper Austria: Local council election results Wartberg ob der Aist. State of Upper Austria, accessed on September 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Province of Upper Austria, regional history: coat of arms of the municipality of Wartberg od Aist (accessed on October 30, 2008)
  6. Lambert Karner : Artificial caves from ancient times. Vienna 1903; Reprint 2018, ISBN 978-3-96401-000-1 , p. 194.
  7. Hohensinner and Wiesinger, Place Names, pp. 114–120.