Weißenkirchen (municipality of Weißenkirchen im Attergau)

Weißenkirchen im Attergau ( Rotte ) ; locality ( capital of the municipality ) ; cadastral municipality Weissenkirchen
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Vöcklabruck (VB), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Vöcklabruck
Pole. local community	Weißenkirchen im Attergau
Coordinates	47 ° 56 '59 " N , 13 ° 25' 2.7" E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '59 " N , 13 ° 25' 2.7" E
height	652 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	33 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	21 (addresses 2014 )
Area d. KG	13.68 km²
Post Code	4890 Frankenmarkt
	Statistical identification
Locality code	13125
Cadastral parish number	50032
Counting district / district	Weißenkirchen i.Attergau ( 41 748 000)
	formerly St. Margarethen am Walde; Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

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Weißenkirchen im Attergau is a small place in the Attergau of the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria as well as the capital , locality and cadastral municipality of the municipality of Weißenkirchen im Attergau in the Vöcklabruck district .

geography

The place is located 20 kilometers southwest of Vöcklabruck and 4 kilometers south of Frankenmarkt . It is located in a western side valley of the Attergau, that of the Sprenzlbach , at around 650 m above sea level. A. Height at the foot of the Lichtenberg ( 885 m above sea level ), an alpine peak of the Mondsee Flysch Mountains ( Salzkammergut Mountains ).

Although the place is the municipality's capital, it is still only a small group on Kirchberg with around 15 buildings and almost 30 inhabitants. The immediately adjacent village of Hölleiten below is more important.

The much more extensive cadastral municipality of Weissenkirchen, with 1,367.8 hectares, includes the entire eastern municipal area, from the Frankenmarkt city limits to the Lichtenberg summit in the south, and from the lower Freudenthaler Ache in the west to the municipal boundary to Berg south of the Die Hoad forest area in the east.

South side of the church

**Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:**
Egg (O)	Stauf (KG, Gem. Frankenmarkt ) Haitigen (O)
Freudenthal ^* (KG) Truchtlingen (O)		Hölleiten (O) Eggenberg (KG, Gem. Berg i. A. )
	Lichtenberg (O) Pabing (KG) (both Gem. Straß i. A. )

^∗Dr Freudenthal is located to the southeast.

History and sights

The local church was once called St. Margarethen am Walde . The first documentary evidence of a church building comes from a letter of indulgence for the parish of St. Georgen im Attergau from 1299. The current place name appears only in the 15th century, which indicates that an earlier wooden church was replaced by a stone building (choir of the new Gothic church dated 1512). The place has remained a small parish until today.

Web links

Commons : Weißenkirchen im Attergau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

41719 - Weißenkirchen im Attergau. Community data, Statistics Austria .