Gaflenz

Gaflenz is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Steyr-Land with 1877 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The church was originally part of the judicial district Weyer, since 1 January 2014, the community is part of the judicial district of Steyr.

• 6.1 council elections
• 6.2 History of Mayors

• 7.1 Demographics

• 9.1 street
• 9.2 railway

Geography

Gaflenz located in Upper Austria Traun quarter approximately 28 kilometers southeast of Steyr and approximately 28 kilometers south-west of Amstetten directly on the border with Lower Austria and belongs to the region Pyhrn Eisenwurzen.

The expansion of the market town is 10.3 kilometers from north to south and from west to east 9.5 km. The community area is 58.79 km ², of which 60.2% of the area is forested, 35.7 % is used for agriculture. The northernmost point is the Elmkogel in the district Großgschnaidt 898 m above sea level. A.. The southernmost point is at Holzer Kogel in the district Breitenau 962 m above sea level. A.. 's The easternmost point of Gaflenz in Amstetten hut and the westernmost point on Feichteck in the cadastral Neudorf with 1114 m above sea level. A.. During the village at an altitude of 478 m above sea level. A. is, is the Gaflenzer Kaibling in the district Breitenau with 1167 m above sea. A. the highest point.

Districts

Breitenau, Gaflenz market, Großgschnaidt, Kleingschnaidt, Lindau, Neudorf, Oberland and Pettendorf

The municipality is divided into the cadastral Gaflenz, Kleingschnaidt, Neudorf and Pettendorf.

Neighboring communities

History

The market is on the former estate Abelenzi back, initially in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria ( marcha orientalis ) lying, and since the 12th century belonged to the Duchy of Austria. Since 1490 he is the Principality ' Austria above the Enns ' attributed. During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times. At the time of the First Siege of Vienna in 1529 invaded Ottoman grazing flocks before to after Gaflenz, where they were repulsed at the Türkenschanze in Oberland. Residues of these consisting of ramparts and moats defense system still exist today.

Since 1918, the town belongs to the province of Upper Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on 13 March 1938, the town belonged to the " Upper Danube ". After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria.

Between 1924 and 1938 George Grüll made ​​on the basis of church records for the period 1620 to 1920 to a family register, which is intended as a basis for a local family book whose printing is still pending. Located in the Upper Austrian State Archives in Linz and Leipzig in the German Central Office for Genealogy as copy existing manuscript comprises 15,000 pages with 7,500 families.

Coat of arms

Blazon: In Göppelschnitt divided; top right in blue a golden supplied turned crescent moon, accompanied by a golden, six-pointed star, left split up three times by silver and red; below in gold on black triple mount a silver church in a side view with black roofs, doors and windows, the porch with a shed roof, the nave with a tent roof, the two-storey tower with a crossed onion dome = The sacred stone The municipality colors are blue, yellow and red.

Culture and sights

• Sebalduskirche:

• Parish Church:

Twinning

• Küntzig Luxembourg Luxembourg

Policy

• Mayor of the municipality Gaflenz since 1985 Günther Kellnreitner of the ÖVP. So this is the longest-lived been in office mayor of Gaflenz. Since 1997, not only the local council, the mayor is elected in Upper Austria, but also determined in a direct line. Günther Kellnreitner was able to post 1997 69.6 % 2003 66.2 % 2009 73.7 % of the vote, as well as for themselves.
• Vice Mayor Andreas Kaltenbrunner (ÖVP ).

Local elections

Chronicle of the Mayor

After a provisional patent community was put into force on 17 March 1849, the first municipal elections took place on 29 July 1850. Priest Constantin Zwirtmayr was honored for the first mayor of Gaflenz.

Community data

According building and housing census of 15 May 2001 Gaflenz had 502 buildings, 449 of them on residential buildings.

Demographics

Sports

• SV Gaflenz:

• Archery Gaflenz - Weyer
• Eisschützenverein Gschnaidt
• Model flying club MFI Neudorf
• Reiter group Gaflenz

Traffic

Road

Gaflenz is from the Weyerer Road ( B121 ) through it, which leads from Amstetten, where it branches off from the Western Highway ( A1) and the Wiener Straße (B1 ) to Weyer, where it connects to the Iron Road ( B115 ). From these branches about one kilometer south of the center of Gaflenz a country road that leads over the cadastral Kleingschnaidt in the Moosgraben.

Gaflenz is accessed by two public postal bus lines ( 440 and 1648) of the Austrian Federal Railways, which have several stops in the local area.

Train

In the area of the market town Gaflenz to a train station ( Oberland) and a stop ( Gaflenz ) of the wing route Amstetten Box Reith Rudolf web. The Rudolf railway was opened on 1 November 1872 as single track. Gaflenz was so connected to the rail network of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which gave the place a great boost. In the period after the Second World War Gaflenz were the " border control " performed because there was the line of demarcation between the Russian and the American zone here at the station. The line was electrified in 1967 and 1968. On 13 December 1968, the electric company was officially incorporated and replaced the previously existing operating with steam locomotives. In November 1971 reversed the route of the last scheduled run with steam locomotives train. At the same time the former station Gaflenz was converted into a holding and loading point. 1972 Gaflenz is converted back to a train station, which is staffed with a director.

Almost Gaflenz would become the starting point of the narrow- Ybbstalbahn after Kienberg gaming that would lead across the district Breitenau to Hollenstein an der Ybbs should. But even a boiler house and staff accommodation were built. After the communities of Ybbstales against Gaflenz penetrated, was chosen as the starting point Waidhofen an der Ybbs.

Established businesses

• Company Harreither: Plumbing heating systems and energy systems
• Company Mitteramskogler: Production of thermal Hardwood

Personalities

Persons with respect to Gaflenz

• Georg Grüll (1900-1975), Austrian historian