Schörfling am Attersee

Attersee am Attersee is a market town in Upper Austria in Vöcklabruck district in Hausruckviertel with 3226 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The competent jurisdiction is Vöcklabruck.

• 2.1 Early History
• 2.2 Middle Ages
• 2.3 Reformation

• 9.1 traffic
• 9.2 Public bodies

Geography

Location

Attersee am Attersee is located at 512 m above sea level. A. Height in Hausruckviertel. The expansion is 7.7 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 5.9 km. The total area is 23.3 km ².

Related towns

Number of inhabitants according to the census of 15 May 2001

Area distribution

The total area of the municipality is divided as follows:

Neighboring communities

History

Early History

On the north shore of the Attersee lake Attersee. For the prehistoric colonization of the Attergaues lay the remains of the Pfahlbautenkulturen the lake, which were made around 3750 BC, from significant testimonies. The slow Christianization of the area may have begun as early as the late period of the Roman Empire, which had advanced through the ingestion of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum in 15 BC its boundaries to the Danube.

A local legend tells of a Roman patrician, who had owned a country estate on the Attersee, on the site of today's castle chamber. When his daughter Flavia stayed for instruction in Rome, she came into contact with Christianity. Returning home, Flavia did not want to renounce their new faith, so she let her father naked forge on a boat and float down the Ager. At the confluence of Traun and Ager the girl was rescued by shepherds. Today reminded of this announcement nor the market and pen arms of Lambach, the Flavia shows in the ship.

Middle Ages

In the 6th century AD invaded in the wake of the Great Migration Baiuvarii settlers in the area now Upper Austria before that of the Bavarian duchy was in the aftermath heartland. How many places in the area contributes Schorfling a name of Bavarian origin. Since the 7th century spread among the Bavarians from Christianity, announced by the deriving from the Roman period remaining Christian churches and missionaries from the Frankish empire and from Ireland. In order to consolidate the Christian religion and in the service to develop land donated by Duke Odilo in the year 748 the monastery Mondsee. When Charlemagne 778 settles the Duke Tassilo, of course, all the property of the Franks, the domain Aterhofen falls (today Attersee ) is Franconian Crown Estate. In a deed of gift for the Convention Schorfling 803 is the first time as " sceroluingen " written mention.

Schorfling was subordinate to 1200 the parish Altmünster. The exact founding date of the Schörflinger parish is not known, but may well be adopted for the 12th century, which witnessed the comprehensive development of the parochial organization then responsible here diocese of Passau. 1221 came the parish as a fief of the powerful family of the Schauberger, who exercised their dominion over the Attergau from the adjacent lake parties chamber. In 1260 is mentioned for the first time, a priest named Konrad von Schorfling. 1383 is the " Church fief of Schirflingen " to the House of Habsburg, which it assigns 200 years later to the gender of the Khevenhüller.

In the late Middle Ages, the town had gained economic importance; In 1499 he was elevated to the market and the population grew steadily. But even in Schorfling life was at that time dominated by peasant unrest. The peasants who lived in part in serfdom, rebelled against their landlords, as their economic situation deteriorated rapidly.

Reformation

One way out of their plight hoped the people of Schorfling of the Reformation movement of Martin Luther. The municipality therefore joined temporarily to the new doctrine. As part of the Counter-Reformation, however, a Catholic priest was the patronage Lord, Franz Christoph Khevenhüller used, and the Parish returned to her old profession. Through the renewed devotion to Mary and the establishment of Loreto chapel at the parish church Schorfling developed anew deep Catholic faith life was in the 17th century even the goal of pilgrimages that only in the Enlightenment (1787 ) came to an end. At that time it also came in the church to a major restructuring. In 1785 for more than 1,000 years belonging to the diocese of Passau Austrian Danube country were separated from the mother diocese and assigned to the newly constructed Landesbistümern; for Upper Austria it was the Diocese of Linz. In the restructuring of the deaneries was Schorfling seat of a deanery, which today includes more 11 parishes.

Policy

• Mayor Gerhard Gründl of the SPÖ. His deputy is Mr Walter Höller ( ÖVP).
• The council consists of 25 members. The municipal elections in 2003 had a turnout of 80.0%. From it the Social Democratic Party emerged with 51.1 % as the strongest faction, which thus won 13 seats in the municipal council. The People's Party won 34.9 % and 9 seats, the Freedom Party 14.0 %, and 3 seats. In the municipal elections of 2009, the People's Party lost one seat to the SPÖ and the FPÖ.

Demographics

In 1991, the municipality had 3059 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 3170 inhabitants.

Coat of arms

Official description of the municipality coat of arms: In blue on green Dreienberg a silver tower with round arch black open, above a red-white- red labels and three next to each other shooting holes and three red gave battlements; on both sides of the tower over the three mountain a silver, blue wavy water.

The market coat of arms was Schorfling awarded in 1567 by Emperor Maximilian II. The tower with the shield points to lock chamber at the time of sovereign possession. The waves symbolize the location on the Attersee.

Twinning

• Wanfried in Hesse, Germany

Culture and sights

• Schloss Kammer

• Parish Church of St. Gallus

• Loreto Chapel

• Theme Klimt am Attersee

Regular events

The weekend after the St. Gallus day, 16 October, held annually a Kirtag, gallic market.

Economy and infrastructure

The convenient location on the western highway favors the establishment of companies. This is accomplished with two commercial areas ready.

Traffic

• Road

Through the municipal area of ​​Schorfling leads the Western Highway. There is a half- way junction with a driveway in the direction of Vienna. The Seeleiten road branches off in Seewalchen of the Atterseestraße and via Schorfling along the eastern shore of the Attersee lake south to Unterach, where it flows back into the Atterseestraße.

• Railway

The station is the terminus of chamber Schorfling Kammerer track of Vöcklabruck after Schorfling.

• Bus

A bus line connects Schorfling with Vöcklabruck, Puchheim and swan city.

• Ship

During the summer season put battleships of the Attersee-Boats at the dock to chamber.

Public institutions

• Fire department

For fire fighting, as well as for technical applications the 1872 Volunteer Fire Schorfling and the volunteer fire department Oberhehenfeld are available.

Education

• Kindergarten
• Elementary school
• New secondary school

Personalities

• Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), painter, representative of the Viennese Jugendstil
• Richard Teschner (1879-1948), painter, printmaker, sculptor and puppeteer, a member of the Wiener Werkstätte
• Käthe Dorsch (1890-1957), actress, since 1938, had the cod villa. According to her Käthe Dorsch way in Schorfling is named.

• Michi Gaigg ( b. 1957 ), head of the L' Orfeo Baroque Orchestra and Artistic Director of Donaufestwochen

• Josef Wenger (1840-1903), founder of the volunteer fire department Schorfling and Improvement Society