Weyer (Upper Austria)

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Weyer (Upper Austria) (Austria)
Weyer (Upper Austria)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Upper Austria
Political District : Steyr-Land
License plate : SE
Surface: 223.76 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 51 ′  N , 14 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 1 ″  N , 14 ° 39 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 399  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,143 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes : 3335, 4464, 8934
Area code : +43 7355, 7357, 3631
Community code : 4 15 22
NUTS region AT314
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Marktplatz 8
3335, 4464, 8934 Weyer
Website: www.weyer.eu
politics
Mayor : Gerhard Raimund Klaffner ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(31 members)
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A total of 25 seats
Location of Weyer in the Steyr-Land district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Weyer is a market town with 4143 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Upper Austria in the Steyr-Land district in the Traunviertel . Since January 1st, 2014 the community belongs to the judicial district of Steyr . The rural part of Weyer-Land , split off from Weyer-Markt in 1897 , was reunited with Weyer-Markt to form a single municipality on January 1, 2007.

geography

The extension is from north to south 21.4 km, from west to east 22.6 km. The area of ​​the municipality is 223 km². Weyer-Markt was 4 km² and Weyer-Land was 219 km².

Districts

Districts of the municipality were Obsweyer and Weyer until 2007, with almost the entire population being concentrated in the Weyer district. On January 1, 2007, the districts of the incorporated Weyer-Land were added: Anger, Au, Frenz, Kleinreifling , Küpfern, Mühlein, Nach der Enns, Oberlaussa , Pichl, Rapoldeck, Unterlaussa and Weißwasser .

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

The community consists of the six cadastral communities Anger, Kleinreifling , Laussa, Nach der Enns, Pichl and Weyer.

Neighboring communities

In the north, Weyer borders the municipalities of Gaflenz , Großraming and Reichraming, which are also part of the Steyr-Land district . In the east, Weyer borders on Hollenstein an der Ybbs in the Amstetten district in Lower Austria . The southern neighbors are Altenmarkt near Sankt Gallen and St. Gallen in the Liezen district in Styria . In the west, Weyer borders on Rosenau am Hengstpaß in the Kirchdorf an der Krems district .

Gaflenz
Reichraming

Rosenau am Hengstpaß
( District Kirchdorf / Krems ) 		Neighboring communities Hollenstein an der Ybbs
( district Amstetten , Lower Austria )
St. Gallen
( district Liezen , Styria ) 		Altenmarkt near Sankt Gallen
( district Liezen , Styria )

climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Weyer
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 3.0 5.5 10.0 15.2 20.3 22.8 25.0 24.9 20.2 15.7 8.3 3.6 O 14.6
Min. Temperature (° C) -5.5 -4.2 -0.6 2.8 7.4 10.7 12.4 12.5 9.1 4.7 0.1 -3.9 O 3.8
Temperature (° C) -1.9 -0.3 3.7 8.1 13.3 16.2 18.0 17.7 13.4 8.9 3.4 -0.6 O 8.4
Precipitation ( mm ) 101 89 128 98 129 153 163 148 137 89 104 112 Σ 1,451
Humidity ( % ) 67.8 58.7 54.2 47.6 48.5 52.6 50.1 52.2 56.0 56.9 67.3 73.0 O 57.1
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history

Originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria , the place belonged to the Duchy of Austria since the 12th century . Since 1490 it has been assigned to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . During the Napoleonic Wars , the place was occupied several times.

In 1897, the rural population of Weyer sought a separation from the center of the community because they feared being disadvantaged by the iron industry. The vast majority of the community, which was 219 square kilometers in size, was henceforth an independent community as Weyer-Land. Weyer itself now only consisted of the four square kilometer town center and was henceforth called Weyer-Markt to distinguish it .

Population development
Source: Statistics Austria
Weyer
year -Market -Country
1869 4,313
1880 4,459
1890 4,713
1900 1,793 3,178
1910 2,027 3,314
1923 2,065 3,503
1934 2.212 3.113
1939 2.146 3,024
1951 2,512 3,481
1961 2,367 3,094
1971 2,518 2,569
1981 2,503 2,262
1991 2,324 2,397
2001 2,354 2,362
2005 2,264 2,326
2007 4,590
(territorial status 2007)
2009 4,378
2010 4,322
2012 4,230
2014 4.163

Since 1918 the place belongs to the federal state of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . From 1941, prisoners of war were housed in a barrack camp and used for construction work along the Enns. From July 1943 to August 29, 1944, the Diepoldsau camp, a satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp or a sub-camp of the Großraming camp, existed in the municipality of Weyer (then: Weyer-Land) . About 130 prisoners were used here to build the Enns dam. In the spring of 1945 thousands of Hungarian and Jewish forced laborers were driven through the Ennstal in several columns, many people perished in the community area on the death march .

In 1945 Upper Austria was restored. On June 8, 1966, there was an accident at the Kastenreith Bridge in which several workers were killed.

In November 2005, the residents of Weyer-Markt and Weyer-Land were surveyed about merging the two municipalities, with 87% approval being achieved. The fact that 13% voted against a merger can be explained by feared disadvantages. In the Kleinreifling district, for example, only 57% approval could be achieved, as the primary school located there is feared to be closed. The amalgamation of the two communities, which was actively supported and prepared by the politicians of both communities, became legally effective on January 1, 2007. The two mayors resigned from their offices and handed over the leadership of the community to the government commissioner Johann Singer. New elections were announced for April 15, 2007.

traffic

Weyer station is located on part of the Rudolfsbahn .

coat of arms

The market community Weyer has the coats of arms of the former communities Weyer-Markt and Weyer-Land arranged side by side as the community coat of arms.

Coat of arms AT Weyer.png

Weyer-Markt (left): Twice half-split and divided; above 1: in green a silver, red armored, flame-breathing, erect panther; 2: a silver bar in red; 3: in blue a golden, facing, sighted crescent moon, in the cavity accompanied by a golden star. Below is a natural (green-colored) pond, in it three silver fish swimming to the left, bounded by a green meadow extending from the left edge of the shield, on top of it a natural-colored (brown), resisting beaver with a red tongue out and one in the blue Green deciduous tree rising towards the sky and touching the dividing line; in the background green hills and (brown) reeds.

The market coat of arms was awarded by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1564 . The upper part shows the elements of the combined monastery and convent coat of arms of the Garsten Abbey , to which Weyer originally belonged. The lower part refers to a legend about the name and the origin of the place: According to this, there was once a fish-rich pond formed by the Gaflenzbach at the place of the market. The dam, which formed a dam against the Enns, was ransacked by beavers and finally broken through by the stream, which drained the valley floor.

Weyer-Land (right): In red a silver, obliquely left wavy bar, covered with a black raftsman's hook; At the top and bottom of the wavy bar, a silver lightning bolt that twitches outwards.

The coat of arms, awarded in 1970, symbolizes with the wave bar the Enns, which flows through the municipality over a length of more than 20 km, and the associated past and present use. The rafting hook stands for the once important rafting business and the lightning bolts as symbols of electricity for the two hydropower plants Weyer and Schönau located in the municipality.

The community colors are white-green.

politics

On May 3, 2007, Gerhard Klaffner (SPÖ) was elected mayor of the reunited community.

In the municipal council elections in 2009, Adolf Brunnthaler was elected Vice Mayor of the local community.

Culture and sights

Weyer parish church on the Enns
Kleinreifling parish church
Parish church Unterlaussa

Regular events

  • Seewiesenfest : Has been organized by the FRIKULUM cultural association (independent initiative for peace, culture & environment) since 1991 and takes place in the Kleinreifling district. The cooperation with the radio station FM4 brought u. a. Deichkind and we are heroes as guests.
  • The Powerman : An international duathlon takes place annually together with the towns of Großraming and, since 2009, with Maria Neustift . It is one of the sporting highlights in the Ennstal and is also frequented by duathlon professional athletes.
  • Gymnastics Ball: Every 5th January in the large gym.
  • Market festival: takes place on the 1st weekend in July at the Weyr market square.
  • Christmas tree setting: Takes place every year in mid-December in Kastenreith at the Ennsmuseum. A Christmas tree is blessed and the members of the Eisenwurzen diving club swim with it, lit by torches, down the Enns.
  • Weyrer local run
  • "Weyer Seminar" of the UHS Upper Austria in Jutel Weyer

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Weyer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ Population development Weyer Markt 1869–2015 (PDF; 35 kB). Statistics Austria. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Population development Weyer Land 1869–2015 (PDF; 35 kB). Statistics Austria. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ Markus Krenn: The death march of Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers through the Upper Austrian Ennstal to the Mauthausen concentration camp in the spring of 1945 . A microhistorical comparison. University of Vienna. Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Vienna 2013, urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-30244.64921.277065-4 ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF; 5.0 MB ; accessed on October 31, 2019]).
  5. ↑ The Extraordinary Rescue of the Roman Spring. In: derstandard.at, accessed on June 17, 2016.
  6. ^ Report by ORF Upper Austria from 2005 on the consolidation plans .
  7. ^ NN: [title unknown]. (No longer available online.) In: volksblatt.posimis.com. Neues Volksblatt , December 2006, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 1, 2019 (report on the imminent amalgamation of the municipalities; no mementos ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / volksblatt.posimis.com .
  8. ^ Province of Upper Austria: coat of arms of the community Weyer-Markt.
  9. ^ Herbert Erich Baumert: The coats of arms of the cities, markets and communities of Upper Austria (3rd supplement). In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Issue 1/2, 1973, p. 20, online (PDF; 1.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  10. ^ Rudolf Lehr: Upper Austrian State Chronicle. Verlag Christian Brandstätter 2004, ISBN 3-85498-331-X , p. 129.
  11. ^ Mining Museum Knappenhaus Unterlaussa.
  12. ↑ Article of the Federal Monuments Office (BDA) on the ship master's house in Küpfern near Weyer , May 2007.
  13. ↑ frikulum.at - Seewiesenfest. Retrieved November 23, 2012.