Windhaag near Perg

Windhaag near Perg
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Upper Austria
Political District :	Perg
License plate :	PE
Surface:	19.12 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 17 '  N , 14 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '0 "  N , 14 ° 40' 49"  E
Height :	514  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,506 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	79 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4322
Area code :	07264
Community code :	4 11 26
Address of the municipal administration:	Enzmilnerplatz 3 4322 Windhaag near Perg
Website:	www.windhaag-perg.at
politics
Mayoress :	Bettina Bernhart ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (19 members)	14th 5 14th 5  A total of 19 seats ÖVP : 14 SPÖ : 5
Location of Windhaag near Perg in the district of Perg
View of Windhaag near Perg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Windhaag bei Perg is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Perg in the Mühlviertel with 1506 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

The competent district court for the municipality belonging to the judicial district of Perg is located in Perg .

A castle was first mentioned in documents in Altenburg in 1250 and in Windhaag in 1287. Windhaag originally belonged to the Altenburg parish. In 1782 the parish rights were transferred to Windhaag, the former monastery church was established as the parish church of Windhaag and the parish church Altenburg was designated as a branch church. At the same time, the cadastral communities Altenburg and Windhaag were created. In 1938 the two communities, which had been independent since 1848, were merged.

Windhaag is known for the Topographia Windhagiana , the Bibliotheca Windhagiana and the Windhag Scholarship Foundation for Lower Austria . The history of the place is shaped by the family of Ladislaus Prager as well as by Joachim Enzmilner, Count of Windhaag , and his daughter Eva Magdalena, the first prioress of the Dominican convent in Windhaag .

From the castle Windhaag and Castle Pragtal today is nothing more to find. The Windhaag castle ruins belong to the municipality of Windhaag and are being made available for tourist purposes. As one of 18 communities in the Perg district, the municipality is a member of the LEADER Region Strudengau and promotes the Altenburg Museum and the Enzmilner Kulturwanderweg in particular .

Location and geography

The municipality of Windhaag lies at an altitude of 514  m above sea level. A. about 6.4 kilometers north of the district capital Perg . The extension of the hilly municipal area is 6.1 kilometers from north to south and 6.5 kilometers from west to east. The total area is 19.16 square kilometers. The highest point is on the northern edge of the municipality near the Putz farm at 586  m above sea level. A.

Local division

The municipality of Windhaag has consisted of the two cadastral communities Windhaag and Altenburg since the incorporation of the municipality Altenburg on November 1, 1938 : cadastral municipality Altenburg (with the districts Altenburg, Forndorf, Freindorf, Hochtor, Karlingberg, Kuchlmühle and Pragtal). Windhaag cadastral community (with the districts of Asching, Holzmann, Kemet and Windhaag). On January 1, 2008, a total of 33 new street names were assigned to the settlement areas that had previously only been marked with the district name.

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

• Altenburg (44)
• Asching (118)
• Forndorf (108)
• Freindorf (40)
• Hochtor (185)
• Holzmann (75) with yoke
• Karlingberg (153)
• Kemet (48)
• Kuchlmühle (8)
• Prague Valley (78)
• Windhaag near Perg (649)

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Bad Zell borders in the northwest, the municipality Rechberg in the north and northeast, the market municipality Münzbach in the east and the town of Perg in the south on the municipality Windhaag. The Windhaag districts of Karlingberg, Freindorf and Forndorf border directly on the districts of Karlingberg and Lehenbrunn of the city of Perg.

geology

The community is located in the Untermühlviertel Schollenland, an extension of the granite and gneiss plateau .

From a geological and geomorphological point of view as well as in terms of the use of space, the municipality of Windhaag mainly belongs to the Upper Austrian spatial unit Aist-Naarn-Kuppenland . Only in the south-west does the southern Mühlviertler Randlagen spatial unit extend to Windhaag.

Water and landscape protection

The western border to Allerheiligen forms the river Naarn over a length of about ten kilometers . The Tobrabach rises northeast of the Kloiber farm directly on the border with Rechberg, is called Modlerbach in the municipality of Windhaag in the upper reaches and then Kropfmühlbach, before it flows further south as the border river between Perg and Münzbach. Other smaller rivers are the Hausbergbach and the Stieglerbach.

The part of the Naarn Valley, which is part of the municipal area, with its wooded slopes is a Natura 2000 area designated as a landscape protection area, which continues in the area of ​​the neighboring municipalities on the other bank of the Naarn and belongs to the Mühlviertel Nature Park in the area of ​​these municipalities .

history

Copper engraving in the Topographia Austriae superioris modernae 1674

During Roman times , the area around Windhaag was only a few kilometers north of the border of the Noricum province , which was formed in this area by the Limes and the Danube , already outside the 7.5 kilometers wide buffer zone between Romans and barbarians . The Roman fort Adiuvense ( Wallsee ) and the Roman military camp Lauriacum ( Enns / Lorch ) were within sight. There are no traces of settlement from this time in the area of ​​the municipality of Windhaag.

The linguistic influence of the Slavic and Baier settlement activity in the 7th and 8th centuries has been preserved in the names of farms and places. The area around Windhaag was originally located in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria and belonged to the Avarmark from the 9th century .

At the time of the Babenbergs , the later cadastral communities of Windhaag and Altenburg were in the margraviate and later in the Duchy of Austria in the border area between Riedmark and Machland and in the border area between the areas of the Lords of Perg and the Lords of Machland .

The oldest documentary mentions were made around 1250 with a certain honorabilis vir Conrad de Altenburch and around 1287 with Winthag Castle in Machland .

At the end of the 15th century, Windhaag Castle was expanded by Ladislaus Prager and his family into a manor house and the seat of a regional court. The members of the Prager family are buried in a crypt with magnificent frescoes in the former Altenburg parish church.

Since 1490 the place belongs to the Principality of Austria ob der Enns . Joachim Enzmilner had the new, magnificent Windhaag Castle built next to the old castle from 1642 to 1673, which, however, was demolished again shortly after his death by his daughter Eva Magdalena, who had the Dominican convent Windhaag and the monastery church built with the building materials from 1681 to 1693.

In contrast to the new castle, the old castle has been preserved as a castle ruin and has been used for tourism purposes since 1990. The monastery was closed in 1782. In the same year the parish rights were transferred from Altenburg to Windhaag and the former monastery church became the parish church.

In 1848 the municipalities of Altenburg and Windhaag were established in the areas of the cadastral municipalities of the same name.

Windhaag has been a municipality in the federal state of Upper Austria since 1918. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1938, the place belonged to the Gau Oberdonau . In 1938 the Altenburg community was incorporated into the Windhaag community. In 1945 Upper Austria was restored and Windhaag belonged to the Soviet occupation zone until 1955 . An artillery unit of the Red Army was stationed in the village of Freindorf .

The population development declined from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 1960s, only then did lively settlement activity set in and the number of inhabitants has increased significantly since then. Since the 1990s, Windhaag has been the venue for several mountain bike events on the oldest signposted mountain bike (MTB) route in Austria that runs through the municipality .

population

Population development

Population development
year Residents 1846 1.014 1869 1.010 1880 1,045 1890 969 1900 966 1910 943 1923 956 1934 956	year Residents 1939 1,074 1951 946 1961 928 1971 1.002 1981 1,138 1991 1,208 2001 1,309 2009 1,414

The population initially rose slightly from 1,010 to 1,045 between 1869 and 1880 and then declined for many decades, with the exception of 1939, the lowest level being reached in 1961 with 928 inhabitants. Since 1961, due to the lively settlement activity, there has been a significant increase to 1,414 inhabitants.

Population structure

The community of Windhaag had 1,406 inhabitants on January 1, 2009, of which 726 were men and 680 women.

The rough age structure of the Windhaag population as of January 1, 2009 shows that 68.3% of the Windhaager are over 15 and under 65 years old. At 18.1%, a little less than a fifth of the population is younger and at 13.6% a little less than a seventh of the population is older. The proportion of women in the main group and among younger people is approximately the same as the total, while it is significantly higher among older people at 52.4%.

Of the 1037 Windhaagern who were over 15 years old in 2001, 514 or 49.6% are women. 38 Windhaagers, that is 3.6% of those over fifteen, have graduated from a university , technical college or academy ; the proportion of women here, at 55.3%, is well above that of the population group as a whole. Another 89 Windhaagians, that is 8.6% of the relevant population group, have the Matura , with the proportion of women at 48.3% only slightly below that of the relevant population group. 471 Windhaager, with 45.4% almost half of those over fifteen, have completed an apprenticeship or vocational secondary school , with 38.4% women. 439 or 42.3% of the Windhaagers only have a compulsory school certificate . More than three fifths of them are women.

Origin and language

94.4% of the Windhaag residents were Austrian citizens on January 1st, 2009 and 93.9% were born in Austria. 1.8% of Windhaagers come from other EU countries, 3.6% from non-EU countries.

The Middle or Danube Bavarian dialect is a Bavarian dialect form that is widespread throughout Upper Austria . The ostösterreichische branch of the middle Bairischen goes to the dialect of the created by the Bavarian Ostsiedlung Babenberg dominion Ostarrichi back.

In the 2001 census, 1262 people (96.4%) stated German as a colloquial language, 20 (1.5%) Turkish , 7 (0.5%) Croatian , 2 (0.2%) Bosnian , 2 (0.2 %) %) Czech , 16 (1.2%) another language.

religion

In the 2001 census, 1237 people (94.5%) stated that they were Roman Catholics , 29 (2.2%) Islamic , 8 (0.6%) Protestant , 7 (0.5%) Orthodox and 5 (0 , 4%) other faiths. 23 (1.8%) of the Windhaagians have not professed any religion.

politics

• Local council: In local council elections , the ÖVP has had an absolute majority of votes and mandates since 1945, with the proportion of votes ranging between 84.6 percent (1949) and 69.4 percent (2003) of the votes cast. The remainder of the voting shares went to the SPÖ as a rule , since no other parties have run for any municipal council elections since 1949. In 2009 the ÖVP received 73.3 percent of the vote.
• Ignaz Knoll from the ÖVP was mayor from 2008 to December 2019. He achieved75.2 percent of the votes in the direct mayor electionin 2009. On December 12, 2019, he was succeeded by Vice Mayor Bettina Bernhart in this office.

mayor

• 2008 to 2019: Ignaz Knoll (ÖVP)
• since 2019: Bettina Bernhart (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms is officially described as follows: In blue on a silver three-mountain, a golden, crowned, red-tongued and armored griffin, holding half a golden mill wheel. The design of the municipal coat of arms refers to the family coat of arms of Joachim Enzmilner, Count of Windhaag .

Culture, sport and leisure

The Windhaag Citizens Corps Band near Perg at the district music festival in the town of Perg on June 28, 2014 with uniforms based on historical models

In Windhaag there are a number of associations that meet the cultural needs of the regional population.

• The Kulturverein Windhaag-Altenburg is significantly involved in the establishment and operation of the Altenburg Museum in the former school building, where the history of Windhaag, but in particular Joachim Enzmilner, the Count of Windhag, and his daughter Eva Magdalena von Windhag , the first prioress of the Dominican convent Windhaag takes center stage. The Enzmilner cultural hiking trail presents the rich history of Windhaag, Altenburg and Münzbach in the context of 50 stations.
• Another cultural association is renovating the Windhaag castle ruins. The keep should be made accessible again and used as a lookout tower.
• The civil corps band of the Windhaag Music Association, founded in 1890 and continuously existing with interruption due to the world wars, and the Uniformed Privileged Citizens' Rifle Corps Windhaag (Bürgergarde Windhaag), created in 1662, officially founded in 1785, dissolved in 1938 and re-established in 1982 , refer to a centuries-old tradition .
• The Windhaag Cantat church choir group, founded in 1983, has since made a name for itself through national appearances at festivals, Advent singing and at the state exhibition in Waldhausen.
• The Turn- und Sportunion Windhaag is active with the sections soccer and curling and takes part in championships.
• The Union Tennis Club Windhaag, founded in 1984, is run as an independent club, has built its own tennis courts and its own clubhouse and has been participating in championships since 1991 and in the Machland Cup since 1999.
• The ÖAMTC Powerbike Team Windhaag is active in mountain bike races and often trains on the oldest signposted mountain bike route Windhaag near Perg, which leads through the municipality of Windhaag and the neighboring municipalities.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Windhaag near Perg

• Windhaag Castle : built in the 13th century and expanded into a castle by Ladislaus Prager. In 1636 the splendid new Windhaag Castle was built next to the old castle, but it was demolished again in 1681. The castle ruins of the old castle have belonged to the municipality since 1990 and have been made available for tourists ever since.
• Windhaag Parish Church : built as a monastery church from 1685 to 1693, and has served as a parish church since the Dominican Convent of Windhaag was dissolved and parish rights were transferred from Altenburg to Windhaag in 1782.
• Filialkirche Altenburg : until 1782 parish church of the former parish Altenburg. In a crypt that was rediscovered in 1907 and served as a burial place for the Prager family in the 16th century, numerous frescoes have been preserved.

Economy and Infrastructure

Mainly local and regional companies and public institutions are based in Windhaag, which mainly serve the local supply, including several inns. After the Second World War, a sawmill and timber trade was established on the site of the Hintermühle , which was operated in the 16th century, below the Altenburg branch church . There are several power plants of the Perg electricity company (cone forge and Aschermühle) in the municipality . A large part of the power supply for the municipality is provided by this company.

On January 1, 2001, 186 people were employed in Windhaag. Of the 606 employed people living in Windhaag, 466 commuted to their jobs outside the municipality, while at the same time 46 people commuted to their workplace in Windhaag.

288 Windhaager jobs are located in another municipality in the Perg district, mainly in Mauthausen, Perg and Schwertberg and 141 outside the Perg district in Upper Austria, mainly in Linz-Stadt and Linz-Land. The remaining jobs are located in other federal states, and a few abroad. 39 people from the Perg district work in Windhaag, the rest of the commuters come from other districts of Upper Austria or other Austrian federal states.

In 2001, 11.8 percent of the Windhaagern were employed in agriculture and forestry, 38.5 percent in industry, trade and construction and 49.7 percent in the service sector. The share of Windhaager active in agriculture and forestry was 27.7 percent in 1981. 38.7 percent of the jobs in Münzbach were in agriculture, 19.9 percent in industry, trade and construction and 41.4 percent in the service sector. In 1981, 62.1 percent of jobs were still in agriculture and forestry. The municipality of Windhaag is one of 18 municipalities in the Strudengau region .

• Energy: The power supply for the municipality of Windhaag is mainly provided by the Perg electricity company . There is both a regional district heating supply for parts of the municipality and a connection to the Upper Austrian gas network .
• There is a local volunteer fire brigade .

traffic

The nearest stops and train stations for the Donauuferbahn are around 7 km away in Perg. In Windhaag, only buses are available for public transport, with connections coming from Rechberg to the district capital.

On the L 1423 there are supraregional bus connections that come from the hinterland to the district capital and the state capital. A large number of inbound and outbound commuters depend on their own vehicle. The next motorway connections are in the west in Sankt Valentin, Enns and Asten with a journey time of 30 to 45 minutes and in the east in Amstetten and in Ybbs with a journey time of around one hour.

The municipal area and the individual districts are accessed by the L 1426 state road coming from the direction of Perg and continuing to Rechberg , as well as by several municipal roads and goods roads. On the southern edge, the state road L 1423, which also comes from Perg, leads partially to Windhaager municipality in the direction of Münzbach .

For commuters, the expansion of the road network over the past few years and decades is a significant improvement. Particular mention should be made of the Windhaag bypass, the continuous expansion of the L 1423 state road in the municipality and its connection to the B 3 in Perg.

education

• kindergarten
• Elementary school

Personalities

Joachim Enzmilner, Count of Windhaag since 1669

People in relation to the community

• Ladislaus Prager
• Joachim Enzmilner, Count von Windhaag and his daughter Eva Magdalena Enzmilner
• Karl Kammerer (born December 13, 1938), pastor of Neukirchen an der Vöckla
• Johann Korninger (born May 12, 1883 in Windhaag, † December 14, 1950 in Perg) was an Austrian politician and member of the Upper Austrian state parliament during the period of Austrofascism
• Herbert Wimmer, former deputy district captain and head of the security department of the district administration Perg, holder of the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Honorary citizen

• Anton Zuderstorfer, mayor from 1997 to 2008

Honorary ring bearer from Windhaag near Perg

• Franz Hiesl , Governor -Stellvertreter of Upper Austria
• Friedrich Schmidtbauer, longtime community representative and cultural activist
• Wilhelm Burghofer, long-time head of office
• Anton Neulinger

Former mayor of Windhaag near Perg

• Caspar Rothhammer (from July 28, 1850 to October 14, 1867)
• Martin Schwaiger (from October 14th, 1867 to October 12th, 1879)
• Simon Hueber (from October 12, 1879 to August 20, 1882)
• Markus Holzer (from August 20, 1882 to September 8, 1894)
• Martin Holzer (from September 8, 1894 to August 15, 1909)
• Karl Amstler (from August 15, 1909 to November 23, 1910)
• Josef Zuderstorfer (November 23, 1910 to April 24, 1938)
• Franz Auböck (from April 24, 1938 to November 25, 1945)
• Karl Weilguny (from November 25, 1945 to January 1, 1958)
• Rudolf Amstler (from January 1st, 1958 to October 22nd, 1967)
• Johann Knoll (from October 22nd, 1967 to October 7th, 1979)
• Adolf Feiglstorfer (from October 7, 1979 to October 5, 1997)
• Anton Zuderstorfer (from October 5, 1997 to April 29, 2008)
• Ignaz Knoll (from April 29, 2008 to December 12, 2019)
• Bettina Bernhart (since December 12, 2019)

The mayors of the formerly independent municipality of Altenburg (1850 to 1938) are listed in the main article on Altenburg .

literature

• Oskar Hille: Castles and palaces of Upper Austria. Wilhelm Ennsthaler, 2nd edition, Steyr 1992, ISBN 3-85068-323-0 .
• Ernst Fietz: The stones from Windhaag near Perg and the history of the castle, with three text drawings and five illustrations. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Landesinstitut für Volksbildung und Heimatpflege in Upper Austria (publisher), 26th volume, issue 3/4, Linz 1972, pp. 108–117 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
• Georg Grüll : History of the castle and the rule Windhag near Perg (Upper Austria). In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 87th year, Linz 1937, ISSN  0379-0819 , pp. 185-311 ( PDF (12.9 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
• Josef Wallner: Rich, tough and devout. In the footsteps of Count Joachim Enzmilner in Münzbach and Altenburg. In: Church newspaper Linz, 2002.

Web links

Commons : Windhaag bei Perg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Windhaag near Perg in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 41126 - Windhaag near Perg. Municipality data , Statistics Austria .
• Further information about the municipality of Windhaag near Perg can be found on the geographic information system of the state of Upper Austria .
• Map in the Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System ( DORIS )
• Official website of the municipality of Windhaag near Perg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enzmilner Kulturwanderweg ( Memento from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Hermann Kohl: The lifeless nature. In: Land Oberösterreich (Hrsg.): Das Mühlviertel, nature-culture-life, contributions to the state exhibition in 1988 in Schloss Weinberg near Kefermarkt , Linz 1988, p. 41ff.
4. ↑ Klaus Berg, Clemens Gumpinger, Simonetta Siligato: Defense register of the Naarn and its tributaries. Water protection report 42nd Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Environment and Water Management Department, Surface Water Management Department, Linz 2009, p. 64 ( PDF; 2.8 MB on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).
5. ↑ MTB mountain bike route Mühlviertel ( Memento from June 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population development of Windhaag near Perg (PDF)
7. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality of Windhaag near Perg, population status and structure PDF
8. ↑ Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality of Windhaag near Perg Education PDF
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistics Austria table: A look at the municipality of Windhaag near Perg Demographic data PDF
10. ↑ State of Upper Austria elections in Windhaag near Perg. ( Memento from December 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (PDF)
11. ↑ Two new mayors in the Perg district. August 28, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bettina Bernhart is the new local boss: Windhaag near Perg is being run by a woman for the first time in its history. December 13, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 . 
13. ↑ View of the municipality of Windhaag, commuters by commuting destination , (PDF)
14. ↑ Province of Upper Austria, regional database , (PDF) ( Memento from December 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
15. ↑ Strudengau region