Weißenkirchen im Attergau

This article explains the community, its main town see Weißenkirchen (community Weißenkirchen im Attergau) .

Weißenkirchen im Attergau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Vöcklabruck
License plate :	VB
Main town :	Weißenkirchen im Attergau
Surface:	26.7 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 57 '  N , 13 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '52 "  N , 13 ° 25' 0"  E
Height :	653  m above sea level A.
Residents :	974 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	4890
Area code :	07684
Community code :	4 17 48
Address of the municipal administration:	Weißenkirchen i. A. 13 4890 Frankenmarkt
Website:	www.weissenkirchen.ooe.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Meinhart ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (13 members)	9 3 1 9 3 1  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 9 FPÖ : 3 SPÖ : 1
Location of Weißenkirchen im Attergau in the Vöcklabruck district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Weißenkirchen im Attergau is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Vöcklabruck district in the Hausruckviertel with 974 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Vöcklabruck .

geography

Weißenkirchen im Attergau lies at around 650  m altitude in the Hausruckviertel.

The extension is from north to south 6.4 km, from west to east 6.4 km. The total area is 26.7 km², 53.9% of the area is forested, 41.9% of the area is used for agriculture.

Neighboring communities

Pondorf	Frankenmarkt
Straßwalchen ( District Salzburg-Umg. , Sbg. )		Berg in the Attergau
Zell am Moos		Straß im Attergau

Community structure

Cadastral communities are Freudenthal and Weissenkirchen .

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

• Angern (5, also Gem.  Straßwalchen , Salzburg)
• Brandstatt (53)
• Egg (49)
• Freudenthal (4)
• Geßlingen (88)
• Giga (27)
• Haitigen (53)
• Hölleiten (72)
• Pabigen (57)
• Horsemen (54)
• Roeth (101)
• Stadln (67)
• Stone wall (63)
• Truchtlingen (38)
• Tuttingen (29)
• Voeckla Valley (63)
• Weißenkirchen im Attergau (main town, 33)
• Wieneroth (40)
• Ziegelstadl (78)

The only counting district for the whole community is Weißenkirchen i.Attergau .

The village of Schwaigern (also part of Pöndorf ) was abolished in 2009 and replaced by Vöcklatal , Angern (previously part of Giga) was newly introduced.

history

The area around Weißenkirchen was settled by the Bavarians in the 6th century . They cleared the forests and made the land fertile. Several real -ing names (Witzmaning, Hipping) in the area north of Weißenkirchen show that the municipality was already settled in the early Middle Ages. Other place names ( clearing names : Röth, Reittern) indicate that in the High Middle Ages (11th / 12th century) the settlement area was expanded by clearing.

Originally the location was called St. Margarethen am Walde . It was not until the 15th century that the current place name Weißenkirchen appears , which indicates that an earlier wooden church was replaced by a stone building, and that the place was primarily a settlement around it.

According to a legend, the church was originally supposed to be built on a different square in Tuttingen . After the building material had been miraculously brought from there to the top of the mountain again and again, the church was rebuilt at its current location.

In the Baroque period , when the pilgrimage industry experienced a new boom in the course of the Counter-Reformation, there was also a pilgrimage to St. Leonhard, the second church patron. In 1711, for example, a church bill of the St. Georgen parish mentions that a procession to St. Margarethen was held to avert a cattle disease. The so-called Leonhardi ride was created during this time, but was discontinued in the course of the pilgrimage ban by Joseph II (1765–1790) and was not renewed until 1924.

In 1777, Weißenkirchen became its own parish when it broke away from the mother parish of St. Georgen . The political community Weißenkirchen was founded in 1851 (creation of the local communities 1848/49 ) and, as today, consisted of the cadastral communities Weißenkirchen and Freudenthal .

Population development

In 1991 the community had 921 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 964 inhabitants.

coat of arms

Blazon : “By a silver wavy bar , inside a black glassmaker's pipe, divided obliquely to the left ; above in green a silver daisies bloom with golden clusters, below in red a silver horseshoe placed on the left . "

The municipality colors are green-white-green.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1979 by the Upper Austrian provincial government. The marguerite refers to the parish patron saint, St. Margaretha , the glassblowing tool at the Freudenthal glassworks . The horseshoe stands for the traditional Leonhardiritt , the wavy bar symbolizes the Freudenthaler Ache flowing through the municipality.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 13 members. With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015, the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 3 FPÖ and 1 SPÖ.

mayor

• Josef Meinhart (ÖVP)

Regional policy

Weißenkirchen belongs to the regional association holiday region Attergau as part of the Salzkammergut . The Tourism Attergau (St. Georgen / Strasbourg / Mountain) is associated with its own association Weisskirchen.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Weißenkirchen im Attergau

South side of the church

• The parish church of St. Margaretha and its surrounding cemetery have been the only object of the community to be protected by the Federal Monuments Office. The first documentary evidence of a church building comes from a letter of indulgence for the parish St. Georgen im Attergau  (1299), whereby the church was originally named after its patron saint St. Margaretha im Wald .
• Freudenthaler Glas : The Freudenthal glassworks in the wooded head of the Sprenzlbach valley existed from 1716 until 1942. The last owner was Theodor Freiherr von Stimpfl-Abele. In the course of time a wide range of products was produced and sold in most of the countries of the Danube Monarchy. After a fire and subsequent reconstruction, only medicine and pharmacy jars were made. After sales difficulties in the time of global economic crisis and the collapse of the factory roof in the harsh winter of 1942, the production was not added after the Second World War.
  In the summer of 1999, the “Freudenthaler Glas” museum was opened in the community , showing exhibits from the former production.
• The Leonhardiritt is held once a year in Weißenkirchen im Attergau. Associations and private individuals take part with decorated horse-drawn carriages and horses. After the field fair and horse blessing, equestrian games such as the wreath piercing, carriage demonstrations and barrel beating take place.

Personalities

• Josef Lohninger (1866–1926): The prelate born in Weißenkirchen is of great importance for research into the history of the Attergau. Under the pseudonym Dr. J. L. Atergovius published in 1913 Die Pfarrkirche St. Georgen im Attergau. Sheets on the history of the Atergau . After working as a pastor in Unterach , he was appointed rector of the German National Institute Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome in 1902. He again spent his twilight years in Weißenkirchen, where he had a country house built near the house where he was born, based on the model of a Roman country villa (atrium house) .

Web links

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

• Community website
• 41748 - Weißenkirchen im Attergau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the community Weißenkirchen im Attergau on the geo-information system of the federal state Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Entry on Weißenkirchen im Attergau in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ As of January 1, 2009, with Statistics Austria: List of places. Issued December 19, 2008; Information according to the Federal Environment Agency: List of amendments - 2162: Austrian localities. 12.
3. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (5th addendum 1977–1979) . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Issue 3/4, 1980, p. 138, online (PDF; 2.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
4. ↑ This site requires a frames-compliant browser .: Meinhart Josef . In: Weißenkirchen im Attergau . ( ooe.gv.at [accessed on April 19, 2018]).
5. ^ Attergau Tourism Association , atterwiki.at
6. ↑ Glass Museum - The Glass Valley - themed trail in Weißenkirchen im Attergau! Retrieved April 19, 2018 . 
7. ^ Attergau events. Retrieved April 19, 2018 .