St. Gilgen

Sankt Gilgen is a municipality with 3837 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the northeast of the Austrian province of Salzburg. It is located on Lake Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut.

  • 2.1 Municipal Council
  • 2.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Sankt Gilgen is next to Strobl and St. Wolfgang one of the three surrounding communities of Lake Wolfgang and has an area of ​​98.67 km ². The municipality is part of the Judicial District Thalgau. The main village is located in 545 meters. A..

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following eight villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Gschwand (873 )
  • Laim (400)
  • Upper Burgau (98 )
  • Pöllach ( 665 )
  • Ried (367)
  • Sankt Gilgen ( 1071 )
  • Unterburgau (12 )
  • Winkl (305 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Gschwand, Upper Burgau, Ried, St. Gilgen, Unterburgau and Winkl.

The municipal area includes the summit of Sheep Mountain and the Schafbergalm, the dragon wall ( up to Abbruchgrat ), a part of Lake Mondsee ( between Scharfling and Lake Mondsee ) and a part of Lake Attersee (in the range of Burgau ).

Policy

Municipal council

The local council of St. Gilgen has 21 members and is composed as follows since the local council elections in 2009 together:

Directly elected mayors is Otto Kloiber (ÖVP ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is in the blue field on a slightly moving lake level a twelve-radius golden sun.

History

In the municipality of Burgau is located on the southern shore of Lake Attersee Kaiserbrunn, also called Kaiserbründl. On the steep bank of the lake a large iron depot from the last decades of the 1st century BC was found (outgoing La Tène period ) quarrying around 1900. The depot comprises predominantly agricultural equipment, including a large scythe blade with a 87 cm cutting length, two plows, a 155 cm large kettle hook, a long-handled ladle, a spoon and drill a hook spanner. The objects are kept in the Institute of Prehistory and Early History of the University of Vienna Collection.

Sankt Gilgen is named after St. Giles of St. Gilles, which is called in the German language also Gilg or Gilgian. Originally called the place Oberdrum. This name was a reference to the geographical location, namely at the upper part (drum, strand ) of the lake. To 750 AD gave the Duke Odilo ( Bavaria ) of the Salzburg church, the area of the lake, but to let it open up by monks. By the 13th century, the area on the whole was fully cultivated. At that time there were about ten houses. The first church was built in this period. Due to the increasing population, the church had two newly built, once in 1425 and again in 1769. According recording of navigation on Lake Wolfgang (1873 ), and especially after the establishment of the Salzkammergut Local Railway (1893 ) took the previously insignificant village a strong upswing in tourism. Celebrities such as the physician Theodor Billroth or industrialists and bankers such as Wilhelm Kestranek or Max Feilchenfeld built summer villas here, in the interwar period is also an artists' colony, the zinc Malerkolonie dedicated a small museum today developed.

Culture and sights

On the Falkenstein is located since the 14th century, the Falkenstein church, a formerly important place of pilgrimage. Worth seeing in St. Gilgen themselves are the town hall with the Mozartbrunnen front of it, the parish church and the Mozart House. The Museum of the zinc Malerkolonie in the former elementary school is worthwhile. The Gut Aich describes itself as a European monastery.

Myths

Near the Falkenstein is the Ochsenkreuz. Legend has it that a farmer was with his oxen on the way across the lake to the market. It was winter and the lake was partially frozen. The boat is capsized and be the Bauer nearly drowned. The ox, however, saved the farmers and brought him to a small island. As a thank you the peasant turned the cross on the small island.

There is also the wedding cross, which can be found near the ox Cross. The legend from the 16th century states that a wedding party danced in winter on the frozen lake. Suddenly the ice broke up and many are drowned in the floods. Only the couple was able to escape to the shore and was built in gratitude the wedding cross.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • Anna Maria Walburga Pertl (1720-1778), mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • August Brunetti - Pisano (1870-1943), composer
  • Adolf Helmberger (1885-1967), Portrait and landscape painter
  • Anne Marie Reitsamer (* 1941), Austrian politician
  • Eisl Josef (* 1941), Austrian politician
  • Wolfgang Eisl (* 1954), Austrian politician
  • Sarah Zadrazil (* 1993), Austrian-Czech football player

Honorary Citizen of:

  • Helmut Kohl ( b. 1930 ), German Federal Chancellor - Acquired in the 1980s Sankt Gilgen in Germany as a holiday by the then Chancellor additional media interest. Kohl was named Honorary Citizen of St. Gilgen 1985.
  • Hubert Raudaschl ( born 1942 ), sailor, world champion and Olympic medalist

Related to St. Gilgen

  • Max Feilchenfeld (1852-1922), Austrian banker - adopted home in St. Gilgen
  • Kestranek Wilhelm (1863-1925), Austrian Industrialists - adopted home in St. Gilgen (Villa Kestranek 1906/ 07)
  • Miguel Herz - Kestranek ( * 1948 ), Austrian actor
  • Alfred Gerstenbrand (1881-1977), Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, writer and cartoonist - adopted home in St. Gilgen
  • Karl Franz Rankl (1898-1968), Austrian conductor and composer
  • Michael Jeannée ( * 1943 ), Austrian journalist

Pictures

Church and cemetery

Mozart's House

St.Gilgen

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