Niederwaldkirchen

Niederwaldkirchen is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria upper with 1744 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach.

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Mayor

• 5.1 Population structure
• 5.2 Demographics

Geography

Niederwaldkirchen situated at an altitude of 525 m above sea level. A. in the southeast of the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria upper. Based on the nature conservation space planning is one of almost the entire municipality to Zentralmühlviertler highlands, only the extreme northeast of Niederwaldkirchen is part of the Southern Bohemian Forest foothills. The expansion is 6.9 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 8 km, the total area comprises 28.26 km ². Niederwaldkirchen making it the seventh largest municipality in area of the district Rohrbach. With 62 inhabitants per km ², the municipality was in 2013 in the middle of the municipalities of the district. The municipality covers an average altitude of 500 to 600 meters and was forested in 2001 to 21 per cent, 73 per cent of the area is used for agriculture. In comparison with the state of Upper Austria Niederwaldkirchen is significantly less forested than the national average (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent ) or essentially consists more agricultural area ( Upper Austria: 49.3 percent). The proportion of other uses ( construction areas, gardens, waters and other ) is around 6 percent, well behind the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. The deepest points of the municipality is located in the extreme south to about 470 m above sea level. A.. The highest peaks, located at about 800 m above sea level. A. on the northeastern boundary of the municipality at the Hans Berg. Neighboring communities include St. Martin in Mühlkreisautobahn the southeast, small cell in Mühlkreisautobahn in the West, St. Ulrich in Mühlkreisautobahn at Noren, St. Johann am Wimberg in the Northeast and St. Veit im Mühlkreisautobahn in the east. In the south Niederwaldkirchen borders the municipality Duke village that belongs to the district Urfahr.

Geology and soil

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif. The landscape here is from the north to the south of the Bohemian Forest to the Danube towards, and is characterized by deeply incised streams. The Bohemian Massif was buoyed by a very old mountains that by the Variscan orogeny in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous) was created, which led to the formation of granites and gneisses. After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, it came during the alpidic orogeny in, tertiary repealing the Bohemian Massif to several 100 meters, which fractures and faults formed. Subsequently, it came in the Tertiary and Quaternary deposition of sediments. The municipality is located in the outlet area of the Linz forest and extends from the foot of Hans Berg's south, said Pesenbachtal divides the municipality in north-south direction into two parts. The starting material of soil formation are igneous rocks such as granites ( Mauthausen and Weinberger granite), dike rocks ( pegmatites, aplites, etc.) and cover rocks ( Perlgneis, basic mixed gneiss, schist gneiss ). The soils are generally mild, basenarm and sour. Agricultural areas have mostly medium subtle, moderately dry and deep and well supplied with water lime-free soils on rock from brown soils of fine-grained silicate rock ( Mauthausen granite, Perlgneis ) or of coarse-grained silicate rock ( Weinberger granite or porphyry gneiss). The sandy- clayey rocks brown soils are only partially penetrated by individual larger stones. On Verebnungsflächen pseudovergleyte unconsolidated sediment - brown earths and Reliktpseudogleye are also to be found. Furthermore, there are in hollows and trenches through groundwater and slope water influenced gleyed unconsolidated sediment - brown earths and Gleye. There are also in the valley of streams lime-free gley soils.

Community structure

The municipality Niederwaldkirchen is divided into the cadastral Allersdorf, Drautendorf and Niederwaldkirchen. Districts are Allersdorf, Baumgartsau, Drautendorf, Erdmannsdorf, Koth, Niederwaldkirchen, Schindlberg, Steinbach, Golling, Witzersdorf, Wolkersdorf and Zeißendorf.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality was Niederwaldkirchen awarded on 19 October 1970, through the Upper Austrian government. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: Shared; above in three gold green firs, below in red a silver heraldic lily. The three fir trees are speaking as a symbol of the place name, while the lily symbolizes the patronage to Mary this oldest Florianer pin parish. The design of the coat of arms is derived from Johann Herbert Rammerstorfer from Niederwaldkirchen. The local council of Niederwaldkirchen laid with council decision of 20 December 1974 established the church colors with green -yellow-red, and this decision was upheld by the Upper Austrian Provincial Government 16 June 1975.

History

Originally 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. 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. Originally the community since 1850 part of the judicial district Neufelden, after its dissolution but was added to the judicial district of Rohrbach January 1, 2003.

Policy

Parish council

The Parish Council, the supreme body of the municipality comprises 19 seats and is elected every six years, Upper Austria on municipal elections in the course. The parish council consists of five members, with the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP) is represented by the local council elections in 2009, with the mayor, the deputy mayor and two other members of the parish council, and thus in this body represents the absolute majority. The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ) sends another members.

Strongest faction in the council of Niederwaldkirchen has always been the ÖVP, which in the period since 1945 is always the absolute majority of votes and mandate achieved or mostly even had a two-thirds majority. In 1949 the People's Party with 99.6 percent to its best result, in 2003, it recorded 60.9 percent of its worst result. Until 1991, the ÖVP decreed it more than three-quarters of the vote in municipal elections, since 1997 she came to values ​​from 60.9 to 68.7 percent. The second strongest party in the municipal council of Niederwaldkirchen was always the SPÖ since 1945, which came on results from 0.4 to 39.1 percent. The SPÖ closed at municipal elections until the 1990s, still below 20 per cent share of the vote from before 2003, jumped for the first time the 30 percent mark. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ ) was only in 1979 and 1991-2003 represented on the council. The three council elections, in which the FPÖ took part they came on results from 7.3 to 12.4 percent. Otherwise, a candidate with the exception of the Communist Party in 1945 no more party list or at municipal elections in Niederwaldkirchen.

Mayor

The Mayor is determined since 1997 in a direct line, where there will be a runoff election for a candidate with no absolute majority. The first direct election was the incumbent mayor since 1991 Franz Eder Haug (ÖVP ) decide by 79.1 percent against the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the first round. In 2003, Haug Eder was confirmed in the first ballot, where, however, he could only reach 56.8 percent. His successor Erich Sachsenhofer (ÖVP ) was able to unite in 2009 to 65.8 percent, with both 2003 and 2009 took only one candidate of the Social Democratic Party against the ÖVP candidate.

Mayor since 1850:

The ÖVP dominates As with municipal elections and in state elections in the community, although the dominance of the People's Party has declined somewhat. Nevertheless, the ÖVP could always be correct strongest party in the period from 1973 until 2003 they even had a two-thirds majority. Your best result reached the ÖVP 1973-2009 in 1973 with 85.2 percent, since she lost almost successive votes shares, being 61.5 per cent import their lowest result so far in 2003. The second strongest party in state elections was always the SPÖ, the election results from 12.1 to 25.1 percent was recorded for itself. Your best result had the SPÖ here in 2003, its worst in 1991 and 1985. Third strongest party was until 1997 the Freedom Party, who scored in the period from 1973 1.1 to 12.2 percent. Her best result was the FPÖ doing the FPÖ 1997. 2003 but was replaced by the Greens as the third strongest party in state elections. At the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came with 63.9 percent in the first place. The SPÖ only came to 16.0 percent, had about 9 percent of their share of the vote exits. The FPÖ was able to overtake the Greens at 9.7 per cent again, while the Greens with 6.9 percent recorded its second-best result.

Population

Population structure

2013 lived in the town of 1,744 people, which Niederwaldkirchen was the tenth most populous municipality in the district. End of 2001, 98.7 percent of the population Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, 96.9 percent Rohrbach district ) until the beginning of 2013 Upper Austria the figure rose to 98.4 percent ( 91.1 percent, 96.9 Rohrbach District percent). A total of 28 foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community who came to 75 percent from Europe. Overall lived in Niederwaldkirchen 2013, 44 people with a foreign country of birth. (Upper Austria: 88.6 percent) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 97.0 percent of residents known, 1.6 percent had no religious affiliation, 0.4 percent and 0.1 percent Protestant Islamic faith.

The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was approximately the national average. 19.4 percent of the population of Niederwaldkirchen were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 64.0 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 16.6 percent below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Niederwaldkirchen changed in the sequence, especially in the first two segments. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 to 16.8 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years to 68.1 percent, considerably increased. The proportion of 59 -year-old fell slightly to 15.1 percent. After the family as of 2001, 51.1 percent of the population of Niederwaldkirchen were single, 41.5 percent married, widowed, divorced and 5.4 percent 2.0 percent.

Demographics

The population development of the community Niederwaldkirchen was founded in 1869 similar to the population development of the district Rohrbach. Thus, the population fell initially 1869-1923 by around 10 percent, stagnated in the sequence until the mid- 20th century to then increase until the early 1990s again. Since then, the population of Niederwaldkirchen stagnant. Overall, the population of the parish rose 1869-2013 by only 5 percent. Essential for the development of the population in recent decades has been the height of migration, while the birth rate was strongly positive. While in the community in the 1970s, a very high rate of natural increase was achieved, the population increased only slightly due to the strong migration. After the exodus in the 1980s had declined almost to zero, the municipality could also have a strong population increase. In the 1990s, the birth surplus halved compared to the previous year tithe during the migration increased again. Since the millennium Stige the exodus to again which led to a decline in population in recent years. While also increased the rate of natural increase, but this was weaker than migration.

Culture and sights

Personalities

• Bernhard Rammerstorfer ( b. 1968 ), author and film producer
• Josef Reiter ( born 1959 ), athlete
• Anna -Maria Hochhauser ( born 1956 ), Secretary General of Austria Chamber of Commerce