Wernstein am Inn

The title of this article is ambiguous. Wernstein is also part of the Mainleus community

Wernstein am Inn
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Schärding
License plate :	SD
Surface:	16.53 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 31 '  N , 13 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '31 "  N , 13 ° 27' 37"  E
Height :	319  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,540 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	93 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4783
Area code :	07713
Community code :	4 14 29
Address of the municipal administration:	Innstrasse 1 4783 Wernstein am Inn
Website:	www.wernstein.at
politics
Mayor :	Alois Stadler ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	9 6th 4th 9 6th 4th  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 6 FPÖ : 4
Location of Wernstein am Inn in the Schärding district
View from Neuburg am Inn Castle to Wernstein am Inn
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wernstein am Inn is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Schärding in the Innviertel with 1540 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Schärding .

geography

Wernstein am Inn is 319 m above sea level in the Innviertel. The extension is from north to south 5.3 km, from west to east 5.8 km. The total area is 16.4 km². 20.7% of the area is forested, 66.5% of the area is used for agriculture.

The municipality of Wernstein am Inn lies on the southern edge of the Bohemian Massif, an ancient mountain range that extends over northern Bavaria, the Sauwald, the Mühlviertel and Waldviertel and parts of the Czech Republic. Granite, gneiss and their mixed forms (in the municipal area they are "Migmatite of the Wernstein type") form the building blocks of this mountain range.

One of the most attractive landscapes in the lower Innviertel is the inner area of ​​Vornbach-Wernstein: an erosion valley that is also an interesting area from a floristic point of view. Nowhere in the wide area can one find such a diverse flora in such a small area. The valley is well developed by hiking and cycling trails on both sides of the Inn.

The municipality also includes the islands of Bernaschek Island and the Kreuzstein im Inn (both of which belong to the cadastral municipality of Rutzenberg).

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 18 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Amelreiching (96)
• Edt (13)
• Deforestation (21)
• Goepping (79)
• Grub (23) including stritting
• Hofötz (23)
• Kinham (43)
• Linden (50)
• Lindenberg (7)
• Öhret (44) including kicking
• Rutzenberg (14)
• Sachsenberg (135) including Sachsenberger settlement
• Schafberg (55)
• Stöbichen (36)
• Wernstein am Inn (630)
• Wibling (55)
• Wimberg (52)
• Zwickledt (164)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Amelreiching, Rutzenberg, Schafberg, Wernstein and Zwickledt.

history

The current capital of the municipality of Wernstein am Inn was created by the union of two older villages, namely the village of St. Georgen am Inn around the parish church of St. Georg and the settlement near Wernstein Castle .

At the time of the early church organization in the Middle Ages, St. Georgen am Inn belonged to the original parish of St. Severin . In 1182 St. Severin and the "Innbruckamt" responsible for the administration of the Inn Bridge were incorporated into the St. Aegidien Hospital in the city center . Since then, the “Innbruckamt” has also administered the parishes incorporated into the hospital, which were to be assigned by the respective “Bruck pastor”. In addition to St. Severin with Schardenberg and St. Georgen am Inn , these included St. Weihflorian , Kellberg , Hauzenberg , Kopfing , Münzkirchen and Tettenweis . Soon after the incorporation of St. Severin, the seat of this parish was relocated to the St. Aegidien / St. Gilgen hospital church, where it remained until 1653.

Wernstein Castle was built between 1120 and 1150 . As part of the immediate imperial county of Neuburg, the castle and town of Wernstein were subject to Austrian sovereignty, but the county changed hands again and again as a result of pledges until the Passau bishopric in 1730/39 acquired the county - and thus also Wernstein - by purchase. The area around Wernstein, on the other hand, was Bavarian until 1779; it came to Austria after the Treaty of Teschen and the Innviertel (then "Innbaiern"). In 1803 the Passau bishopric was dissolved in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and the county of Neuburg was divided: Neuburg am Inn came to Bavaria and Wernstein to Austria. Briefly Bavarian during the Napoleonic Wars , Wernstein has been part of Upper Austria since 1814.

In 1921 Wernstein received electric light from the Kneiding power station .

After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1945 Upper Austria was restored.

From 1962 to 1964 the site was redesigned due to the construction of the Passau-Ingling run-of-river power station.

From 1979 to 2010 the Innviertel Monthly Gazette was published here.

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had a peak of 1,659 inhabitants. After that, the population decreased to 1,652 in 2001 due to a negative balance of migration . As the birth balance also turned negative in the next decade , the population fell to 1,546 in 2011.

Town twinning

• Community partnership with the community of Neuburg am Inn in Bavaria , Germany since 2003
• Fire brigade partnership with the Neuburg am Inn volunteer fire brigade since 1988
• Fire brigade partnership with the Unterhöhenstetten volunteer fire brigade

coat of arms

With the decision of the Upper Austrian provincial government on June 9, 1980, Wernstein is granted the right to use a municipal coat of arms. The municipality colors are set with blue-white-blue. The two erect lions and the tip are taken from the family coat of arms of the Knights of Schmelzing and Wernstein, the three ashlar stones are taken from the coat of arms of Count Sinzendorf. Both sexes have shaped the history of Wernstein and left traces, such as the epitaph in the parish church, Zwickledt Castle and the Marian column. The wavy line should indicate the location of the place on the Inn.

Blazon : In blue a silver, curved tip, in it over a blue, wavy shield base covered with a silver wavy strip three red, one-to-two set ashlar stones; accompanied by two golden, erect and facing, crowned and winged lions with red claws and red tongues. The municipality colors are blue-white-blue.

politics

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2003, the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2009, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 4 FPÖ.

mayor

• 2003–2015 Johann Mayr (ÖVP)
• since 2015 Alois Stadler (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Wernstein am Inn

Marian column

See also:  List of listed objects in Wernstein am Inn

• Catholic parish church Wernstein am Inn hl. Georg: One-aisled, late Gothic building at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. On the north and south sides, two barrel-vaulted reinforced concrete extensions were built according to plans by Edgar Telesko and Helmut Wertgarner in place of the older extensions. The interior of the parish church contains some excellent art monuments. An octagonal baptismal font made of red marble, the statues of St. Leonhard and St. George as well as a larger-than-life crucifix from the beginning of the 15th century date from the Gothic period. Incomplete Baroque Way of the Cross. The block altar, tabernacle and baptismal font in the chancel by the sculptor Karl Prantl are contemporary . The church windows, designed by Rudolf Kolbitsch , come from the Schlierbach Abbey glass workshop .

• Local cemetery and funeral hall: In the local cemetery around the parish church, important personalities have found their final resting place: Alois Weinberger, Johann Schlössleder, Alois Samhaber, Herbert Fladerer , Alois Beham, Alfred Kubin and his wife Hedwig. Karl Prantl created the gravestone. Kubin's friend Herbert Lange was buried at the original grave site. In the mortuary there are concrete glass windows , created by Margret Bilger in 1963 , which depict Mary's sevenfold pain. Another attraction is the memorial created in 1953 by Alois Dorn for the victims of both world wars.

• Nepomuk statue: designed by Alois Beham in 1976, is located on the Johannesfelsen in the Inn
• Plague column: the so-called plague column is a Gothic wayside shrine from the end of the 15th century
• Schifferkreuz: the Schifferkreuz in memory of those who died in the Inn was erected in 1976

• Marian column in front of Wernstein Castle: The Marian column commemorates a vow made by Emperor Ferdinand III. that he had done in the face of the threat to Vienna from the Swedes at the end of the Thirty Years War in 1645. Accordingly, the following year Johann Jacob Pock made a granite and sandstone column based on the Munich Marian column. 20 years later, Emperor Leopold I had the stone column replaced by one made of ore. Count Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf asked the emperor for the stone column and had it brought on a ship from Vienna to Wernstein and set up opposite the Neuburg. After two years of work, the installation and restoration was completed in 1670. After the county was dissolved, the Mariensäule became the property of the municipality of Wernstein in 1841.

• Castle and Lordship of Wernstein : It was part of the Grafschaft Neuburg until 1803. It was administered by castle keepers and carers, who were also toll collectors and levied shipping duties . In 1805 the Austrian state sold the castle to private individuals. The mantle wall castle built in the 12th century belonged to the extensive castle complex of the Neuburg, it served as an outer works and toll station. It has buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries and was partially rebuilt and generously restored on the south side from 1991–1993.
• Neuburg am Inn Castle: Neuburg Castle is located high above the Inn on the Bavarian side. It was built in 1025 by the mighty Counts of Formbach and then had a changeable fate.
• Gut Zwickledt : In 1567, Count Julius I von Salm, owner of the County of Neuburg, gave his administrator Leonhard Schmelzing the Zwickledt estate. Emperor Maximilian II raised the brothers Leonhard and Bernhard Schmelzing to the nobility in the same year. In 1645 the title "von Wernstein" was added in a renewed diploma. The Lords of Schmelzing, who shaped the life of the place for almost 300 years, remained in the possession of Zwickledt until 1852. In 1906 Alfred and Hedwig Kubin bought the main part of the old country estate. Zwickledt became his "ark" and was known throughout the world through Kubin and is inextricably linked with his name and work. After Alfred Kubin's death , the state of Upper Austria acquired Zwickledt and declared it a Kubin memorial.
• Landscape protection area Vornbacher Enge : The landscape protection area Vornbacher Enge with the wild and romantic Inndurchbruchstal and most of the Neuburg Forest deserves a special mention and is easily accessible through hiking trails.
• Suspension bridge: The bridge to Neuburg is an asymmetrical suspension bridge with a length of 145 meters, which spans the Inn on a max. Spans a height of 8 meters. The total weight is only 80 tons. Only a single pylon built on the Neuburg side carries the bridge. It is needle-shaped, 30 meters high and diverts the tensile forces into the granite rock via restraint ropes. Forces acting vertically and horizontally take up wind ropes on both sides of the cross members. Vibration absorbers under the pavement minimize vertical and horizontal vibrations. The Mariensteg also sets accents at night. The light installation by the artist Waltraut Cooper lets the night walkway shine in the colors of the rainbow - as a symbol of peace and a united Europe.
• Alfred Kubin Gallery: the Alfred Kubin Gallery shows pictures by the graphic artist Kubin, who lived in Wernstein am Inn.
• Wimberg ruins , also known as "Neuhauser Burgstall": abandoned hilltop castle at the entrance to the Vornbacher Enge.

Regular events

• In 2009, a new program item was launched as part of the bridge festival. A cultural event under the name Kaas - Kabarett am Steg is to be established. The cohesion of "drent and herent", that is Bavaria and Upper Austria, in particular of the two partner communities Wernstein am Inn and Neuburg am Inn, is to be shown. Every year, Bavarian and Austrian cabaret artists will perform alternately.

• Since the opening of the Mariensteg in October 2006, there has been an annual cross-border running event, which is framed by the two-day bridge festival.
• Mostkost: organized by the Wernstein am Inn band

economy

The companies Auer Metallbau, CAB, ZSM - Maschinen- & Metallbau GmbH, Schwarzmayr Montagen, Elektro Schiebler, Elektro Danninger, Wärme- und Elektrotechnik Boxrucker, Wollersberger Metallbau and Keim Fallenfabrik are based in Wernstein.

• Newspaper and art book publisher Wiesner Medien

traffic

• Rail: The community is Wernstein am Inn at the ÖBB - Wels-Passau railway (the Vienna-Frankfurt).
• Road: Due to the proximity to the district capital Schärding , the municipality is accessible via federal roads (B129, B136, B137, B149 and B12 and B512 in Bavaria) as well as the Innkreis Autobahn A8 with the provincial capital Linz and other cities such as Ried im Innkreis, Grieskirchen, Wels and the Bavarian cities of Passau, Pocking and (via the A3 motorway that continues at the border crossing in Suben) with the Bavarian capital Munich.
• Shipping: The Inn is used exclusively for tourist shipping between the St. Florian-Neuhaus and Ingling-Passau barrages, as the power plants on the Inn do not have any locks.

education

• kindergarten
• Elementary school

Sports

Wernstein am Inn has 2 asphalt tracks and a multifunctional playing field for sporting activities. The newly built sports facility of Union Wernstein includes 2 outdoor tennis courts, a spacious boccia area and a stick sports hall with 4 fairways. In addition, the wonderful location on the Inn is used by many people for running and cycling, on the great bike paths on both sides of the Inn, to keep fit. The section between Wernstein am Inn and Passau was also measured as a running route.

As part of a Euregio project, motor skills parks were also set up in the communities of Neuhaus am Inn, Wernstein am Inn, Neuburg am Inn and the city of Passau.

societies

• Wernstein am Inn volunteer fire department
• Wernstein am Inn music band
• Union Wernstein am Inn
• Fire rifle club Wernstein am Inn
• ASKÖ Wernstein
• Gold hood group
• Hiking enthusiasts

Personalities

• Alois Schließleder (1875–1941), clergyman, born in Wernstein am Inn
• Alfred Kubin (1877–1959), graphic artist, lived in Wernstein am Inn from 1906 until his death
• Alois Beham (1916–1991), Alfred Kubin's personal physician, lived in Wernstein am Inn until his death
• Johanna Dorn (1913–1988), painter, lived in Wernstein am Inn from 1965 until her death
• Herbert Fladerer (1913–1981), painter and graphic artist, lived in Wernstein am Inn from 1965 until his death
• Werner Stadler (* 1957), politician, councilor in Wernstein and member of the Federal Council

Web links

Commons : Wernstein am Inn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Site of the municipality of Wernstein am Inn
• Wernstein am Inn on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Further information about the municipality of Wernstein am Inn can be found on the geographic information system of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ ^{A b} Franz Mader : Parish history of the parish of St. Severin ( online , accessed on September 26, 2018).
3. ^ Hugo Lerch: The dispute between the Passau canon and Innbruckmaster Johann von Malenthein with the Passau cathedral chapter 1544–1549. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken 6 (1962/1963), pp. 249–261, here pp. 250–251.
   Theodor Ebner: The anti-giant estuary. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 148, Linz 2003, pp. 257–284 ( PDF (2.2 MB) on ZOBODAT ), here p. 279.
   Johann Ev. Lamprecht : Description of the kk landesfürstl. Gränzstadt Schärding am Inn and its surroundings. Wels 1860, pp. 275-276 ( online ).
   Johann Ev. Lamprecht: Historical-topographical register or historical place directory of the country ob der Enns, as an explanation of the chart of the country ob der Ens in its shape and division from the 8th to the 14th centuries. Vienna 1863, pp. 133, 212 ( online ).
4. ↑ See Johann Ev. Lamprecht: Description of the kk landesfürstl. Gränzstadt Schärding am Inn and its surroundings. Wels 1860 ( online ), p. 276.
5. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Wernstein am Inn, population development. Retrieved April 16, 2019 . 
6. ^ Community Wernstein, community archive. Retrieved April 16, 2019 . 
7. ^ State of Upper Austria, history and geography, coat of arms. Retrieved April 16, 2019 . 
8. ^ Province of Upper Austria, results of the 2015 elections. Retrieved on April 16, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Wernstein municipality, municipal office, politics, mayor. Retrieved April 16, 2019 . 
10. ^ Ernst Weber: 350 years of the Mariensäule Wernstein. In: New archive for the history of the Diocese of Linz. 1998, pp. 89-94 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
11. ↑ Bridge Festival
12. ^ Wernstein community, kindergarten and school. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .