Großgmain

Großgmain is a municipality in the province of Salzburg in Salzburg-Umgebung in Austria with 2542 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

Geography

The municipality is located in the province of Salzburg Flachgau on the foothills of the Unterberg directly on the border with Bavaria ( Germany ). The border represents the White creek in the west of the village, on the other side of the river there is Bavarian Gmain.

Districts are Großgmain ( the church district ), Schwaig, Tannenwinkl, Trail Riding.

Neighboring communities

History

On the Gmain is a centuries- long used name for the settlement area between the lower mountain and Lattengebirge, Hallthurm and cherry wood. Already the people of the Bronze Age knew the richness of the soil and the convenient location of the environment to appreciate and settled here permanently, as well as thousands of years later the Counts of Plain, which made the area of Gmain with the construction of the Plainburg the center of their upper county. Regardless of country manor boundary that divided the widely scattered farms after the decline of plainischen rule in a Bavarian and a half Salzburgische already before 1300, the rural community of the population was always seen as a unit.

In the enforcement of the religious life, the canonical unit formed a community -forming principle for all Gmainer. As to the economic mainstream, cultural life in general and education in particular, played the country's border along the White creek hardly matters. Also the diverse kinship ties across the border formed naturally a strong link. Spacers only looked at each Weissbach ending Salzburgische and Bavarian court, which justified its different territorial sovereignty.

Real importance was the state's separation but only from 1816, when after a short time the union of the two districts, the political differences in the 19th century gained ever greater validity under Bavarian administration. Despite the formation of two separate communities the feeling of togetherness remained. Equal economic interests, especially in tourism, also contributed to this, as the appropriateness of common technical facilities.

Since the formation of volunteer fire Großgmain 1889 we celebrate together the traditional Florianifest together with the volunteer fire department Bavarian Gmain. In 2005, the 100th common Florianifest of firefighters was celebrated. During the First and Second World War there were repeated interruptions, but the fire departments of the two communities were not to be dissuaded from their tradition.

Policy

Municipal council

• ÖVP: 11
• SPÖ: 4
• FPO: 3
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In the council the following distribution of seats is made by the local council elections in 2009, when 19 seats:

Mayor Sebastian Schönbuchner (ÖVP ). He was re-elected on March 1, 2009 with a majority of 84.66 %.

Coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms is described:

Attractions

• Josef Meinrad Park
• Marie Healing Garden: designed by Heinrich Bunzel
• Marian pilgrimage church with originating from the 1395 Beautiful Madonna and the Gothic panel paintings by Master of Großgmain from 1499
• Plainburg: one of the oldest ruins in Austria
• Salzburg Open-Air Museum: together with numerous historical farms from all over the province of Salzburg, on a wide area in farms with local influences, the museum field rail Großgmain

Nature

Unterberg: Except for the settlement area the entire municipality for Landscape and Plant Reserve Unterberg ( LSG 51, PSG 1), the Natural Park Unterberg (NPK 1 ) is along the Zwinkbachs (for Kohlgraben after Marzoll ) embedded in it, as well as the Europe and the conservation area Unterberg foreland (FFH AT3227000/ESG 17 LSG 63), at the Saalachstrasse, the Berchtesgaden over the Bavarian biosphere reserve land (adjacent development zone) belong to a protection network that opens out in Pongau and Pinzgau and to the northwest, and in the city of Salzburg with the conservation area Leopoldskroner Moos ( LSG 47) continues.

Regular events

• Cäciliakonzert the Trachtenmusikkapelle Großgmain: every year on the first Saturday in November
• Thanksgiving: annually
• Unlimited Großgmain
• BBQ Feast of Trachtenmusikkapelle Großgmain: year on the second full weekend (Saturday and Sunday) in July
• Children's club ski race: organized by the Ski Club
• Krampus: annually by December 5 ( Krampustag )
• Mother's Day request concert of Trachtenmusikkapelle Großgmain: every year on the Friday before Mother's Day

Education

• Kindergarten Großgmain
• Elementary school Großgmain
• Musikum Flachgau
• Education Centre of the Security Executive ( BZS ) the SIAK

Recreation and Sports

• Pool Großgmain
• Nature Park Unterberg
• Adventure playground
• Wildlife Park Wolfschwang
• Nordic Walking Park
• Sports field with a volleyball court
• JUZ - Youth Centre

Personalities

Persons with respect to Großgmain

• Oscar Fritz Schuh (1904-1984), theater director and opera director, died in Großgmain
• Cesar Bresgen (1913-1988), composer, who lived from 1956 in Großgmain
• Josef Meinrad (1913-1996), Kammerschauspieler, died in Großgmain
• Ilse Aichinger, (* 1921), writer, mother of Clemens calibration, lived from 1963 to 1981 in Großgmain
• Lolita (1931-2010), singer, last lived in Großgmain
• Clemens calibration (1954-1998), actor and writer who grew up in Großgmain