Neukirchen am Walde
Neukirchen am Walde is a market town in Upper Austria in the Gries district churches in Hausruckviertel with 1629 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district Peuerbach.
Geography
Neukirchen am Walde is 555 meters in Hausruckviertel. The expansion is 8.2 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 5.1 km. The total area is 15.9 km ². 21.4 % of the area is forested, 69.8 % of the area is used for agriculture.
Community structure
The municipality includes the following 30 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Achleiten ( 4)
- Aigen (55 )
- Baumgarten ( 17)
- Eben at St. Sixt (20 )
- Feuermühl (4)
- Franken Grub ( 36)
- Grass Point ( 12)
- Hofing (36 )
- Hung mountain ( 9)
- Inzing ( 8)
- Jebing (44)
- Kirchberg ( 11)
- Knotzberg (48)
- Mäusburg (35)
- Mehring (35 )
- Mehrin Gerau ( 7)
- Moosau (38 )
- Neukirchen am Walde ( 736 )
- Oberbuch Berg ( 22)
- Obergermating (42)
- Cushion Grub ( 19)
- Pühret (58 )
- Spattenbrunn (20)
- Road at St. Sixt (78 )
- Unterbuchberg ( 8)
- Untergermating (87 )
- Untergrub (9 )
- Vorau (31 )
- Weibing (90 )
- Ornamental Reit ( 11)
The municipality comprises the cadastral Neukirchen and St. Sixt.
Coat of arms
Blazon: In black on green Three mountain (on the middle and left tip ) a silver, single-tower, red and black covered open, Gothic church with two golden knobs on the wedge roof of the tower and two gold crosses on the gable gable roof of the ship; accompanied to the right of the green, dense deciduous trees ( = forest ). The municipality colors are black - white-green.
The coat of arms depicts the market as canting arms the place name dar. When it was given, is not known, the first evidence is from the year 1705. A previous application in 1574 directly from the Emperor to Coat Ceremony was unsuccessful.
History
Already in the 9th century Neukirchen mentioned at the forest together with Natternbach in a document of Otto von Norderenbar, it is therefore likely that these two localities listed at that time as a common possession Norder bars and only with the partial lease and border transfer of the land the Enns were divided by the Archduchy Bavaria into two independent villages.
In the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria lying, was the place since the 12th century the Duchy of Austria. Since 1490 he is the Principality ' Austria above the Enns ' attributed.
In the Upper Austrian Peasants' War of the place sank during a battle on September 19, 1626 in ruins.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times. 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.
Policy
Mayor Kurt Kaiser Eder from the ÖVP.
Population Development
In 1991 the municipality had 1,580 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 1686 inhabitants.