Wallern an der Trattnach

Wallern at the Trattnach is a market town in Upper Austria in the Gries district churches in Hausruckviertel with 2887 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Gries churches.

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 Municipal Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 Town twinning

Geography

Wallern at the Trattnach is on around 300 m above sea level. A.. Expansion is 6.2 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 4.6 km. The total area is 14.7 km ². 10.2% of the area is forested, 76.2% of the area is used for agriculture.

The topography of the area is part of the indoor unit Inn and Hausruckviertler hills.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 18 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Salvors (290 )
• Breitwiesen (198 )
• Edlgassen (61)
• Grub ( 154)
• Hague ( 11)
• Hilling (56 )
• Wood ( 22)
• Wooden houses (37 )
• Hunger Mountain (16 )
• Kitzing (34 )
• Wall (44 )
• Müller Hill (6 )
• Parzham (28 )
• Uttenthal (26)
• Wallern at the Trattnach (1814 )
• Weghof (31 )
• Brackets ( 19)

The municipality comprises the cadastral wall, Uttenthal and Wallern. Zählsprengel are Wallern central area and Wallern environment.

Neighboring communities

History

The first mention of Wallern goes back to the year 815. In this Year for Priests Engilger gives his Church Adwaldi on the river Dratihaha to the Bishop Hatto of Passau. The first " h" of Dratihaha in the manuscript is evidently a clerical error; correctly takes the name Dratinaha loud - pronounced " Dratin - acha ", which, Drat ( i) n- bach '.

Since the year 1411 the parish belongs to the monastery of St. Florian. During the Reformation of the 16th century, the Protestant faith was widespread, which lived on even after the Counter-Reformation. According to the decree of the Toleration Patent 1781 a house of worship was built. In the years 1851/52 establishing the Protestant Church, which bears the name of Trinity Church was.

Population Development

In 1991 the municipality had 2,618 according to census 2001 2 874 inhabitants. 2010, the population went back to 2825 (main residence ), there are 231 secondary residences in Wallern (total 3056, as of September 2010 )

Policy

Municipal council

Mayor since January 29, 2008 Franz Kieslinger of the ÖVP. He was elected by the municipal council unopposed as the new local chief of Wallern at the Trattnach after ÖkR Friedrich hit after 35 years of active community politics, including 18 years as mayor, his office has come. In the mayoral election of 2009, Kieslinger sat with 64.8 % of the votes against by Erhard Rudolf ( 35.2 %).

Coat of arms

Blazon:

The municipality colors are red -yellow-green. The reproduced in reversed colors Tatzenkreuz represents the St. Florian Monastery, which has testified in the year 815 Church of Wallern adopted in 1151, but can be regarded as a symbol of the work of Catholic and Protestant parish in an ecumenical spirit. The oak leaf to symbolize the place name ( " with the people on the forest ").

Twinning

• Pressig Germany ( Bavaria, Germany ), since 1984

To mark the anniversary "1000 Years Austria - 11 centuries Wallern " the council declared the conclusion of two other partnerships:

• Volary Czech (Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic), since 1996

Economy and infrastructure

• Volunteer Fire Wallern

Culture and sights

• Heritage Museum Wallern: Peasant living and working tools are the thematic focus of the museum. Also a copy of the certificate for the first mention of the place in the year 815 is issued.
• The Engilger statue in front of the parish church commemorates the first mention of the place ( by donation).
• 2005-2008 is in Wallern, designed by Ewald Otto Decker and Rau, originated the raised hide Lindhof. He is owned by a major contractor and is connected to a stud farm and a farm. The building with courtyard and portico, one in Austria unusual example of current Neohistorismus is based on the style of the late Baroque to neoclassical 1780-1800.

• Trattnachtal Trail: At 2 km long trail Trattnachtal be on 22 boards discussed ecological contexts and presented to the animal and plant life of the region.

Lindhof

Trattnachtal Trail

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town:

• John Dantine ( born July 5, 1938 † August 24, 1999 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian and minister of the Evangelical Church Oberkirchenrat A. B. in Austria