Steegen

Steegen is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Gries district churches in Hausruckviertel with 1037 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district Peuerbach.

Geography

Steegen situated at an altitude of 380 m above sea level. A. in Hausruckviertel. The expansion is 4.1 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 6.4 km. The total area is 13.2 km ². 9.1% of the area is forested, 81.8 % of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 24 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Asing (43 )
  • Enzing (42 )
  • Griesbach (15 )
  • Church Field (138 )
  • Krottenthal (12 )
  • Long Peuerbach (75 )
  • Upper Bubenberg (13 )
  • Obererleinsbach (66)
  • Place on the road (40 )
  • PARZ on Öhlstampf (26 )
  • Rittenberg (16 )
  • Sallet ( 8)
  • St. Pius (91 )
  • Steegen (116 )
  • Stieglhof (13)
  • Under Bubenberg (36 )
  • Untererleinsbach (43)
  • Unterndobl (9)
  • Untwüsten (24)
  • Urleinsberg (19)
  • Vest ( 17)
  • Weireth (46)
  • Windprechting (12)

The municipality comprises the cadastral Steegen.

Coat of arms

Blazon: In green three silver, two asked one horseshoe, about a golden, elevated, angled left dock. The municipality colors are green and yellow.

The coat of arms granted in 1989 symbolized by the slanted bridge the place name. The Three Horseshoes are taken from the coat of arms of Eisterer, the owner of the Steegerhofes, the former castle Steegen once were. At the same time they point to the agricultural character of the community.

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 village belonged to the Upper Danube. After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria.

Policy

Mayor Herbert Lehner, Vice Mayor Franz Bauer, both of the ÖVP.

Personalities

  • Johann Nepomuk Eisterer (1854-1931), parliamentary and imperial parliaments

Population Development

In 1991, the municipality had 1246 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 1124 inhabitants.

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