Weng (municipality of Weng im Innkreis)

Weng im Innkreis ( village ) ; locality ( capital of the municipality ) Weng ; cadastral community
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Braunau am Inn (BR), Upper Austria
Judicial district	Braunau am Inn
Pole. local community	Weng in the inner circle
Coordinates	48 ° 14 '8 " N , 13 ° 10' 44" E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '8 " N , 13 ° 10' 44" E
height	370 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	669 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	215 (2001)
Area d. KG	11.55 km²
Post Code	4952 Weng in the Innkreis
	Statistical identification
Locality code	07991
Cadastral parish number	40227
Counting district / district	Weng im Innkreis (40 446 000)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS

BW

Weng im Innkreis is a place in the Innviertel of Upper Austria as well as the capital , locality and cadastral municipality of the municipality of Weng im Innkreis in the Braunau am Inn district .

geography

The place is located 10 kilometers east of Braunau am Inn and 23 kilometers west of Ried im Innkreis . The village is around 370 m above sea level. A. Höhe in the Inn Valley , on the western edge of the Innviertel hill country . The Lochbach flows through the village, the Moosbach flows south of the center, which marks the exit of the Moosbach valley into the valley of the Inn.

The village of Weng in the Innkreis has around 220 buildings with a population of over 600, which is almost half of the community's population. Today, Weng has largely grown together with the town of Bergham downstream; the border runs along Hans Plank-Straße .

With 1,155.09 hectares, the Weng cadastral community covers a good half of the community area, and extends from Wernthal and the northern edge of the Schachawald down the Lochbach for about 6½ kilometers to the banks of the Mühlheimer Ache (Ach) northwest of Altheim . These include - southwest to northeast - the localities of Wernthal, Hunding , Weng iI, Bergham, Harterding, Hauserding and Pirath , parts of which already belong to Altheim, and Burgstall , parts of which are also in the cadastral community of Leithen .

The B142 Mauerkirchener Straße (here main street ) runs through the village , from Uttendorf and Mauerkirchen in Mattig Valley to Altheimer Straße (B148) near Harterding.

**Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities**
Leithen (KG) Elling (O) Riedlham (O)	Mankham Bauerding (both O)	Weyrading (KG, Altheim district ) Bergham (O)
Oberspraidt (KG, Burgkirchen district )		Stern (KG, Altheim district ) Diepolding (O, Gem. Altheim )
Wernthal ^∗ (O) Hunding (O) St. Georgen adM ^∗∗ (KG, municipality of Burgkirchen )	Matzelsberg (O) Grubedt (KG) Waasen (KG) (all in Moosbach )	Gaugsham (O, Gem. Altheim ) Hainschwang (O, Gem. Moosbach )

^∗The local situation Eder belongs to Wernthal

^∗∗KG St. Georgen an der Mattig only borders on one point

history

Wang / Weng is a typical place name for open - often damp - lowlands. The place is first mentioned in 1070 with a donation from noble Ulrich von Weng to Ranshofen .

There was probably a residence here, in the course of the 12th and 13th centuries there were other lords of Weng, one of the last was Ulrich von Weng , Canon of Regensburg (around 1523). The parish church was built in the 14th century, but was temporarily subordinate to the Moosbach parish church.

A local school is known from 1834.

Culture and sights

Parish church in Weng in the Innkreis
Pestkapelle, Weldlkapelle, Hoferkapelle
Local museum

literature

Joseph Ernst Ritter von Koch-Sternfeld : The dynastic branches of Moosbach and Weng. (Specially reprinted from the IV. Booklet of the archive published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences for customers of Austrian historical sources.), Vienna: Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1849.

proof

40446 - Weng in the Innkreis. Community data, Statistics Austria .

↑ Joseph Ernst Ritter von Koch-Sternfeld: The dynastic branches of Moosbach and Weng . Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1849.
↑ Kapellen in Weng , oberoesterreich.at; Pictures on Weng… the place of the chapels , weng-innkreis.ooe.gv.at → Photo gallery , pictures no. 7, 13 resp. 6th

[1] Joseph Ernst Ritter von Koch-Sternfeld: The dynastic branches of Moosbach and Weng . Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1849.

[Kapellen-2] Kapellen in Weng , oberoesterreich.at; Pictures on Weng… the place of the chapels , weng-innkreis.ooe.gv.at → Photo gallery , pictures no. 7, 13 resp. 6th