Weng in the inner circle

This article explains the community, the place there see Weng (community Weng im Innkreis) .

Weng in the inner circle
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Braunau am Inn
License plate :	BR
Main town :	Weng in the inner circle
Surface:	21.34 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 14 '  N , 13 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '9 "  N , 13 ° 10' 47"  E
Height :	370  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,377 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	4952 ( Weng im Innkreis ), 4950 ( Altheim ), 4961 ( Mühlheim am Inn )
Area code :	07723
Community code :	4 04 46
Address of the municipal administration:	4952 Weng iI Hauptstrasse 30
Website:	www.weng-innkreis.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Moser ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	8th 6th 5 8th 6th 5  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 8 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 5
Location of Weng im Innkreis in the Braunau am Inn district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Weng im Innkreis is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel with 1,377 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Weng im Innkreis is around 370  m above sea level. A. Höhe in the Inn Valley , on the western edge of the Innviertel hill country .

The extension is 4.9 km from north to south and 7.5 km from west to east. The total area is 21.4 km².

7.5% of the area is forested, 82.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Neighboring communities

St. Peter am Hart	Mining	Mühlheim am Inn ( District Ried iI )
		Altheim
Burgkirchen	Moosbach

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 16 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Appersting (110)
• Bauerding (75)
• Bergham (77)
• Book (41)
• Burgstall (45)
• Elling (41)
• Gunderding (30)
• Hard thing (46)
• Hauserding (37)
• Hunding (64)
• Leithen (19)
• Mankham (42)
• Pirath (29)
• Riedlham (32)
• Weng im Innkreis (669)
• Wernthal (20)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Leithen and Weng .

The only counting area is Weng in the Innkreis .

The responsible judicial district is the judicial district Braunau am Inn .

Population development

In 1991 the community had 1,312 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 it had 1,389 inhabitants. The reason for the growth was a positive birth balance, which exceeded the slightly negative balance of migration . From 2001 to 2011 both balances were slightly negative, so that the population decreased to 1,365.

history

Since the founding of the Duchy of Bavaria , the place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen with the Innviertel (then Innbaiern) . During the Napoleonic Wars briefly Bavarian again , the place has been part of Austria on the Enns since 1816 ( Treaty of Munich ) .

With the creation of the local parishes after 1848/49 , Weng in the Innkreis became an independent parish in 1851. The municipality has belonged to the federal state of Upper Austria since 1918 . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, it belonged to the Upper Danube Gau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

politics

The distribution of mandates in the municipal council (19 seats) since the 2015 municipal council election:

• 8 mandates of the Austrian People's Party  (ÖVP)
• 5 mandates of the Social Democratic Party of Austria  (SPÖ)
• 6 mandates for the Freedom Party of Austria  (FPÖ)

mayor

• Josef Moser (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms:

In green, a silver , sloping, downwardly curved fish winged above .

The community colors are green-yellow-green .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Weng im Innkreis

• Burgstall Altheim
• Parish church St. Martin, see parish church Weng im Innkreis
• Local museum
• Several chapels

Personalities

• Ulrich von Weng (around 1323), Canon of Regensburg
• Johann Georg Meindl (1682–1767), freedom fighter in the Bavarian popular uprising in 1705/06
• Michael Six (1874–1938), academic sculptor
• Hans Finsterer (1877–1955), surgeon
• Hans Plank (1925–1992), academic painter
• Hans-Henning Scharsach (* 1943) has lived in Weng im Innkreis since 2012
• Georg Schöppl, Chairman of the Austrian Federal Forests

literature

• Harald Pfleger (arrangement), u. a .: Landscape survey of the municipality of Treubach . Final report; Series of natural space mapping Upper Austria , on behalf of the Province of Upper Austria, nature conservation department - natural space mapping Upper Austria. Kirchdorf an der Krems 2004 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• Franz Berger: The parishes of Moosbach, Mining and Weng. Akad. Preßvereinsdruckerei Linz, Linz 1907 ( pdf , Upper Austrian State Library).

Web links

Commons : Weng im Innkreis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• im Innkreis Entry on Weng im Innkreis in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 40446 - Weng in the Innkreis. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• More information about the municipality of Weng im Innkreis on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Province of Upper Austria - Geographical data of the municipality of Weng in the Innkreis .
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Weng, population development. Retrieved April 9, 2019 . 
4. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Accessed April 9, 2019 . 
5. ^ State of Upper Austria, coat of arms of the municipality of Weng. Retrieved March 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Kapellen in Weng , oberoesterreich.at; Images on Weng ... the place of the chapels , weng-innkreis.ooe.gv.at → Photo gallery