Pfaffing, Austria
Pfaffing is a municipality in Upper Austria in Vöcklabruck district in Hausruckviertel with 1438 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district franc market.
Geography
Pfaffing is located at 555 m altitude in Hausruckviertel. The expansion is 5.3 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 4 km away. The total area is 12.9 km ². 31% of the area is forested, 62.8 % of the area is used for agriculture. Quarters are: Except Reith, Fischham, Forster Reith, Frieding, Digging, grove mountain, grove conducting, Hausham, Wood Point, Kienleiten, goiter Ling, Maurachen, Mauracherberg, Mesner conducting, Mitterberg, Nindorf, Oberalberting, Oberkogl, Upper Moss, Pfaffing, Schweiber, Sieberer Sonnleiten, Steinberg, Teicht, Tiefenbach, Unterkogl, Weixlbaum, Weixlbaumerberg, Ziegelhaid.
Coat of arms
Blazon: On a black shield main, is three silver cubes next to each other, each of which above a black eye, right two and left four black eyes shows in silver a red, sitting on his hind legs squirrel holding a green pine cone with the front paws in front of him.
The municipality colors are red, white and green.
The squirrel is the coat of arms Vorster taken a significant knights, whose headquarters Forster Reith was in the same village. The dice are reminiscent of the Franks Würfelspiel, which took place in 1625 on the Haushamerfeld in present-day municipality of Pfaffing.
History
From 16 BC to 450 Pfaffing was part of the Roman province of Noricum. In the 6th century the Bavarians from the west wandered forth into the former Roman province almost depopulated. They wandered about the Fornacher Redlbach way up to Walligen and Frieding to find ground for their cattle herds. The then still pagan Bavarians came from the ordered state system of their Bavarian dukes from the family of Agilolfinger that had divided the settlement landscapes south of the Danube in the political units of the Traungaues, the Atter and Mattiggaues.
The Bavarians met in a peaceful manner the few, not migrated Roman Altsiedlern and have got to know not only Roman but also Christian life in a modest fashion.
With the founding of the monastery of Mondsee by Duke Odilo of Bavaria in the year 748 a great Christian mission area has been created which has passed into the Attergau. Duke Odilo presented the monastery with the large forest areas in Mondsee Attersee and Mattiggau. The northernmost boundary point of the pin state Mondsee extended to the castle stables in Mösendorf, and rich gifts to this monastery appear in records also out of the room Pfaffing.
The first documentary mention in today's municipality Pfaffing can be found in the " tradition Mondseer Code" of the former monastery Mondsee.
Here is recorded that the Bavarian Duke Tassilo in 772 the monastery of Mondsee village Forster Reith that the Crown Estate of the Bavarian dukes in the large forest area of the Hoehn Harts counted III. , He is also the founder of monasteries Kremsmuenster and Mattsee, ( Kobernaußerwald with house jerk) has, had given.
Because there is no documentary record for Pfaffing, linguistic research can help: in the Old High German language 750-1100 called a full priests and diocesan priests phapho that translates Pfaff or called in NHG priest.
The settlement names that had been formed with the suffix- ing, expressed in Bavaria and later with the Frankish kings until the 9th century, belonging to a location name or a property name, who had been connected with a person's name out. In the parish Voecklamarkt / Pfaffing there are 12 place names with the suffix- ing. One of them is Pfaffing that indicates membership in the workplace where the missionary secular priests and pastors with the suffix- ing. They lived as it had decided the Synod of Henching (Upper Bavaria) 772, together in a " residence" and not like the monks in a monastery.
While such a " residence" as the seat of Pfaffing could not be located in the Upper Austrian Name Index research, but might have been a Edelhof turned into a farm, from which then the vicarage with a Christian prayer and of worship, a chapel or a church, had developed.
The hl. Margaret is the patron saint of the church Pfaffinger church. She is one of 14 helpers and was particularly revered as patroness of farmers and their fields.
History, the holy Margaretha attention to the Frankish missionary work of the Carolingian period.
In the time when the bishops of Bamberg had been entrusted from 1007 to 1379 with the manor of Atter and the Mattiggaues, and the bishops of the Diocese of Passau with the church administration, the parochial areas were reorganized.
The Bamberg bishops founded new parishes to which the two Altpfarren Pfaffing and Pöndorf included with their supply or branch churches in Vöckla and Mattigtal. The right of patronage, which was the protector of law, received the Mattsee.
Also Voecklamarkt, then Vekkelsdorf, is a bambergische parochial establishment, under Bishop Altmann - has come to the bishopric of Passau - called in the pen Epistle of St. Nikola in 1068 as a parish.
From this period dates the Romanesque masonry church in Pfaffing that has been bricked up in the period 1050-1150.
The church and parsonage in Pfaffing developed in the time of the Bamberg bishops, as these were used by Schaubergwerk, as governors, the counts to a parish center of a large parish. This is mentioned in the manuscript of the Lonsdorfer matriculation of the 13th and 14th centuries, including the benefice of high pin Passau, as a parish Pfaffing.
The bailiffs were the worldly representatives of the bishops of Bamberg, they monitored the duty exemption of church property and carried out their own jurisdiction.
Thus freed 1289 Count Heinrich von Schaubergwerk the Church of Pfaffing of the duties and Vogt has 1290 received the festivals Frankenburg of the Hofberg to possession also Vöcklasdorf and Pfaffing counted as collateral owned by the Bishop of Bamberg. The Schauberger had the bishop borrowed 800 marks in silver.
Count Konrad von show mine gave as bailiff of the bishops of Bamberg in 1319 the parish Widdum Pfaffing Hofmark- justice with the lower courts. Thus, the parish Widdum Pfaffing was around assimilated the secular lordships.
Since 1490, this area is the Principality of Austria above the Enns attributed.
The vicarage of Pfaffing, called as the seat of the clergy already in 1289 and 1319, remained until 1941 the vicarage of the parish Voecklamarkt / Pfaffing.
Population Development
In 1991 the municipality had 1,266 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 1371 inhabitants.