Aigen im Mühlkreis

Aigen in Mühlkreisautobahn is a market town with 1921 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Upper Austria in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Upper Austria. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach.

Geography

Aigen in Mühlkreisautobahn is on 596 m above sea level. A. level in the upper Upper Austria. Based on the nature conservation space planning is one of the northern municipality to indoor unit Bohemian Forest and the southern area to indoor unit Southern Bohemian Forest foothills. The boundary between the two units is along the closed forest limit of the so-called " High Bohemian Forest ". The extension is from north to south and 8 km from west to east up to 6 km. The total area covers 17.41 km ², which Aigen is in the middle of the 42 municipality of the district. Neighboring municipalities are Schlaegl the east and south, and Ulrich mountain in the east. In the north Aigen borders the Czech Republic and the Okres Český Krumlov.

Geology and soil

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan orogeny in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous). This produced various granites and gneisses. Furthermore, there is between the Bohemian Forest and the valley of the Great Muehl the so-called pole fault from northwest to southeast from easily erodible mylonites. Northwest of this disorder is predominantly cordierite paragneiss and Eisgarner granite and orthogneiss. To the south is mainly Mauthausen granite and granite streaks and Titanitfleckengranit. After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, it came during the alpidic orogeny in the Tertiary repealing the crystalline basement to several 100 meters, which fractures and faults formed. Subsequently, it came in the Tertiary and Quaternary deposition of sediments. In the area of the Great Muehl a strip has formed with flow deposit, with typical four meteorological phenomena such as Wollsackverwitterung prevails, leading to the formation of block castles, block good boulders.

The soils in the municipal area are characterized by lack of nutrients and a high potassium content. They also exhibit poor phosphorus and calcium supply. As soil is loamy sand or sandy loam. The soil quality is of the un profundity of water supply dependent, with the grain size of the rock on the Wasserzügigkeit or dryness of the location decision. The rock brown soil is the main soil type in the area, he can be found at 1000 m above sea level as a base to poor acidic, shallow to medium subtle ground which was built on the solid or schuttigem starting material. Furthermore, it has formed on gravelly or feinklastischem starting material unconsolidated sediment - brown earth. By use of litter and spruce forests genuine brown soils have become limited with no evidence podsoliger dynamics. About 1000 meters above sea level incurred in high rainfall mainly podzols and semipodsols where the needle litter of coniferous forests also acts stale. Gley is primarily in the area of springs, streams, ditches, depressions and on slopes feet with here is mainly dominated by wet, acid meadows. More occurring soil types are Pseudogley, peat soils and Anmoorböden in the area of cold air lakes in small valleys along creeks or endorheic documents and Rankerartige soils over scree material.

Community structure

Districts are:

• Aigen in Mühlkreisautobahn
• Grünwald
• Rudolfing
• Sonnewald

History

The Upper Upper Austria originally belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria, and since 1180 the Duchy of Austria.

Aigen arose in the course of colonization which took place in this area by the Premonstratensian Schlaegl. With the approval of the Austrian duke Frederick II led Propst Heinrich I. 1242, the plant a settlement on the monastery ground belonging to "own " where the settlers an exemption has been granted for twelve years. At the request of Schlägl Provost John gave Duke Rudolf IV with a certificate issued in Passau on July 28, 1362 document to the village Aigen market rights. 1459 confirmed Duke Albrecht VI. the privilege of a carnival for the Sunday after All Saints' Day. Since 1490 Aigen the Principality of Austria above the Enns attributed. 1529 recognized judges and counsel of the market Aigen a contract concluded in 1497 between the Schlägl provost and his subjects, were controlled by the heriot and Besthaupt that had been previously practiced for some time after Bohemian custom. In the 16th century, the Reformation spread and destroyed in a fire in 1585 the market Aigen. In order to support the reconstruction, confirmed Emperor Rudolf II on 17 June 1598 previous privileges and at the same time approved a further year market, which was on February 6, the feast of St. Dorothea hold. 1599 Aigen received a new market order, by which a flourishing trade with Bohemia was possible. 1708 the citizens of Aigen granted the right to propose its own judge. During the Napoleonic Wars Aigen was repeatedly occupied and destroyed by fire in 1808. 1852 burned the houses down market due to lightning strike. By following the Mühlkreisbahn 1888 was an economic upturn.

Since 1918 Aigen belongs to the province of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on 12 March 1938, the town belonged to the " Upper Danube ". 1941 the municipalities Aigen and Schlaegl were combined into an administrative community, which was dissolved in 1945 again. In the 20th century developed into a summer resort Aigen. In recent decades it rose to become a tourist center of the Upper Mühlviertel.

Aigen was in 1850 part of the judicial district Aigen, the seat of the court was moved in 1873 by Schlaegl to Aigen. 2003, the district court Aigen was dissolved and assigned the community the jurisdiction Rohrbach.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Humiliated divided; top in gold on a green three green hills ever, black -stemmed conifer; split down of silver and black with two obliquely crossed hammers in reversed colors. The municipality colors are red, white and blue.

Policy

• Mayor Herbert core of the Austrian People's Party (December 2013).
• Population development: In 1991, the municipality had 1,802 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 1929 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

• The pen Schlaegl incorporated parish church Holy Apostle and Evangelist John was built 1897-1901 after plans by the architect Raimund Linzer Jebinger.
• Bird Museum in the Cultural Centre Aigen
• Art Gallery Atelier Anders
• Calvary ( Aigen in Mühlkreisautobahn )

Personalities

• Gerhard Gruber ( born 1951 ), pianist and silent film accompanist
• Christian Hoffmann ( born 1974 ), cross-country skiing Olympic champion