Piberbach

Piberbach is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Linz-Land in the central area with 1844 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The competent court is the district court district Traun.

• 5.1 municipal
• 5.2 Mayor

• 6.1 Workplaces and Employees
• 6.2 Agriculture and Forestry
• 6.3 traffic

Geography

Piberbach is located at 320 m altitude in the central Upper Austria. The maximum extent of the municipal area is 4.6 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 6.7 km. The total area is 17.3 km ². 10.4% of the area is forested, 78.6 % of the area is used for agriculture.

The community is made up of the cadastral Piberbach in the north and fire instead of in the South. Piberbach comprises 744.37 hectares, 991.14 hectares of fire instead. The cadastral Piberbach houses the majority of the community population. The northernmost settlement is the rotting Weifersdorf (365 m above sea level. A. ), which included 2001 128 buildings and 441 inhabitants. The north-eastern districts, the farmstead Landthüllner, the hamlet Radlehner and the individual farms Stöckl and pond Lehner were counted as to Weifersdorf. South of Weifersdorf located with the village Piberbach the most populous settlement of the community. It included 2001 166 buildings with 766 residents. To Piberbach were next to the actual village Piberbach (320 m above sea level. A. ) and the west of Piberbach situated village Piberbach -West ( 320 m above sea level. A. ), the scattered settlement Piberbach - Scattered houses and situated around the village Piberbach individual farms Huber, Lindenhof, Ofner, Schenker, Schwaiger and Zeissl counted. South of Piberbach and thus located in the cadastral fire instead are almost only scattered settlements. The northernmost settlements of the Cadastral are the scattered settlements in the West and winds Pellndorf (380 m above sea level. A. ) to the east. Winds was here in 2001 from 53 buildings, home to 152 residents and also included the rotting Bruck and the hamlet of Wolfenstein. To Pellendorf included 2001 24 buildings and 78 residents and the Eintelhöfe Krahmühle, Stierenberg and Zwickl Mayr. In the south of the municipality of the scattered settlement fire instead is the Rotten Krottenhaid and Neukematen. Instead of fire included 52 buildings and 165 inhabitants in 2001. In addition, the district also dismissed the Statistics Austria 2001 settlement with 46 buildings and 103 inhabitants from.

Between 2001 and 2011 Weifersorf and Piberbach could increase their for population, while the remaining districts reported no population changes or slight losses. Piberbach 2011 came to 838 inhabitants, Weifersdorf had 521 fire instead of 160 winds 154 municipal and 87 Pellndorf 85 inhabitants.

History

Originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria lying, was the place since the 12th century the Duchy of Austria. From 1490 on, he was the Principality of 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 "Anschluss " of Austria to the German Reich on 13 March 1938, the village belonged to the Upper Danube. After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria.

Population

Population structure

2013 lived in the community Piberbach 1,844 people, which Piberbach was the fifth smallest municipality of the 22 municipalities of the district. End of 2001, 97.4 percent of the population Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, District Linz-Land 91.4 percent ) until the beginning of 2013, the value increased slightly to 96.2 percent ( 91.1 percent of Upper Austria, Linz District country 89.0 percent). A total of 70 foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community who came to 90 percent from Europe. The largest contingent of people presented with a citizenship from the former Yugoslavia ( excluding Slovenia ), which accounted for 28 percent of all foreigners alone. (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 80.7 percent of residents known, 8.1 percent were Protestant, 7.9 percent and 0.6 percent without commitment Islamic faith.

The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was below the national average. 21.1 percent of the population of Piberbach were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 61.5 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 17.4 percent below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Piberbach changed in the sequence in all segments. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 to 17.0 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years to 67.4 percent, considerably increased. The proportion of 59 -year-old, however, dropped to 15.6 percent. Marital status in 2001 44.9 percent of the population of Piberbach were single, 45.6 percent married, widowed, divorced and 5.6 percent 3.9 percent.

Demographics

The community Piberbach recorded between the late 19th century and in 1939 barely a population movement. Rather, the population fluctuated between 900 and 1,000 inhabitants. The population development was then compared below average with the Province of Upper Austria and the district of Linz -Land. It was not until 1939, the community on a strong population growth, with growth in the 1940s, the 1960s, and since 1991 was particularly strong. Since 1961, the annual population growth in the community over the national average, although the growth rates of Piberbach still far below those of the district average. Piberbach benefited in the 1970s, yet only from a positive birth rate coupled with easier migration. In the 1980s, the migration could be stopped while the increased birth rate. From the 1990s, however, immigration rose sharply, with the birth rate still remained strongly positive. This has experienced strong population growth the community. The births over deaths remained even after the turn of the millennium there are, while the immigration continued until 2007. Since then, the community experienced a negative migration balance.

Coat of arms

The community Piberbach sent by February 21, 1983 awarded by the Government of Upper Austria, a coat of arms. The blazon of the coat of arms is: From red and green increases divided by a golden, slanted left wave beams in a black, left inverted, withstand sighted beaver. The representation of the speaking emblem symbolized by the wave beam and the beaver the stream of Bach's Piber, had lived in the original beaver. The green part of the emblem symbolizes agriculture, Rotteil the auspendelnde workers. The municipality colors have been defined with red -yellow-green.

Policy

Parish council

The council, the supreme body of the municipality consists of 19 seats and is elected every six years Upper Austria on municipal elections in the course. At the same time the mayor is determined in a direct line, where there is a ballot for a candidate with no absolute majority.

Strongest force in local politics has long been the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ), which could always achieve the absolute majority of seats and with one exception, the absolute majority of votes 1973-1991. It was the SPÖ recorded 49-54 percent for itself. The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP ) during this period remained always in second place and reached 23-42 percent, while the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ ) ended up with 7 to 15 per cent in third place. 1997, however, succeeded the ÖVP to achieve the relative voting and majority mandate un as the dominance of the Social Democrats to break. After 46 percent in 1997, the ÖVP could increase as a result even at 51 % and has since 2003 had an absolute majority of votes and mandate. The SPÖ fell to below 40 percent, the election results of the FPÖ fluctuated in the range we have. In the last local elections of 2009, the ÖVP, the SPÖ came to 51.0 percent, or 10 seats, to 36.6 percent, or 7 seats and the FPÖ to 12.4 percent, or 2 mandates. Besides these three parties there were in 1973 no further candidacy lists in Piberbach.

Mayor

Mayor since 1997 Florian Kranawetter (ÖVP ). He was elected to office with 56.5 percent in 1997 and increased its vote to 66.5 percent in 2003 and 2009 to 74.1 per cent. The vice mayor is also provided by the ÖVP.

In state elections SPÖ and ÖVP changed several times as the strongest party from voting in Piberbach. So took the SPÖ in 1973 and 2003 the first place, the ÖVP was most votes in the period 1979 to 1997 and 2009 party. The SPÖ posted this in 1973 with 50.4 percent of its best results, the ÖVP in 1985 with 47.3 percent. The FPÖ has always occupied the third place, where it reached 5.5 to 15.7 percent. At the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came with 42.3 percent in the first place. The SPÖ only came to 29.5 percent, and have suffered their worst result so far. Third strongest party was the Freedom Party with 15.7%, the fourth largest green with 8.4 percent.

Economy and infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

Piberbach only hosts a workplace with 20 or more employees. The study conducted as part of the Census Census of 2001 resulted in Piberbach 27 workplaces with 97 employees (excluding agriculture ), where 76 percent of people in employment were. The number of workplaces showed a rise compared to 1991 by 11 (plus 69 percent ), the number of employees by 51 people (plus 111 percent). The most important industry, 2001 was the essence of reality / enterprise services lungs with seven workplaces and 37 employees ( 38 percent of employees in Piberbach ). He was followed by the manufacturing sector with four work sites and 15 employees, and the public administration with a workplace with 10 employees. 46 percent of employees in Piberbach were employees or officials, 29 percent of workers and 23 percent of farmers.

From living in Piberbach 2010 1.026 labor only 3.3 % were unemployed. Of the 992 workers were 230 in the manufacturing sector (23 percent), 181 in trade ( 18 percent) and 87 in the health and social care (9 percent). Other important industries were the construction industry with 78 employees as well as agriculture and forestry, with 70 employees ( 7 percent each ), the Public Administration with 59 employees (6 percent ) and the field of education ind classes with 50 or more employees (5 percent). Of the 973 workers from Piberbach (without temporarily employed persons absent from work population ) in 2010 were only 127 people in Piberbach after their employment. 846 or 87 percent had to commute to work. Of the commuters had 42 percent of their place of work in the district of Linz-Land, 28 percent in the city of Linz. Important Auspendelgemeinde after the city of Linz were Neuhofen an der Krems, Ansfelden and Kematen an der Krems and Traun.

Agriculture and Forestry

The statistics reported in 2010 50 agricultural and forestry holdings for the community Piberbach. Among them were 27 commercial farms, 21 part-time farms and a community of persons. The total number had fallen compared to 1999 by 11 companies, or 18 percent, while the number of part-time farms was particularly sharply. Together, the companies managed a total of 1,422 hectares in 2010, with 71 percent of the area of full- time farmers, 28 percent were managed by part-time farmers. The average size of the full- time farmers was placed slightly higher than the Upper Austrian average of 37.5 hectares.

Traffic

Piberbach will transport links from the Schiedlberger road ( L1372 ) open, which begins in the neighboring municipality Neuhofen an der Krems and leads on the town Schiedlberg until after Sierning, where the connection to the foothills road ( B122 ) is. The Schiedlberger road led thereby to the east, away from most residential areas by the municipality. To the public transport network, the community is connected by bus line 420, which is carried out by a private company on behalf of ÖBB -Postbus GmbH and is led by Neuhofen an der Krems on Piberbach after Sierning. In Neuhofen an der Krems is the nearest train station and thus to transfer to Pyhrnbahn towards Linz or Kirchdorf an der Krems.

Culture and sights

• Toleranzbethaus Neukematen

Personalities

• Klausnitzer Rudolf (* 1948), journalist, media manager and entrepreneur