Altmünster

Altmünster is a market town in the province of Upper Austria in the district of Gmunden am Traunsee with 9553 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Gmunden.

• 5.1 street
• 5.2 Railway

• 9.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 9.2 Persons with respect to the location

Geography

Altmünster is located on 442 m height ( place ) in the northern Salzkammergut region and traditionally belongs to the Traun quarter. It extends from the western summit region of Höllengebirge ( Hochlecken and Brunnkogel, 1708 m) to Gmunden beach ( 422 m above sea level ). The western part of the municipality has a highland region, bordering the Eastern Townships of Lake Attersee. The main village is located on the Traunsee Altmünster. The two largest towns Neukirchen and Reindlmühl are in Aurachtal, above the Lake Traun is a broad meadow landscape extends to the wooded elevations in the hinterland ( Gmundnerberg, Grasberg, Richtberg ). The extension is from north to south 14.2 kilometers, 11.5 kilometers from west to east. The total area is 79 km ². 48.1 % of the area is forested, 35.4% of the area is used for agriculture. Regarding surface extent and population represents Altmünster for a long time about 1 per mil of Austria dar.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 10 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Altmünster ( 2095 )
• Eben ( 1363)
• Ebenzweier ( 443)
• Eck ( 1272 )
• Gmundnerberg ( 535)
• Grasberg ( 684)
• Mühlbach ( 350)
• Nachdemsee (530 )
• Neukirchen (1784 )
• Reindlmühl ( 466 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Altmünster, Eben, Ebenzweier, Gmundnerberg, Grasberg, Mühlbach, Nachdemsee, Neukirchen, site Altmünster and Reindlmühl.

Neighboring communities

Coat of arms

Blazon: Split and half divided; opened right in black, the upper part of a golden, emanating from the sign foot church tower with a square and octagonal basement floor, the windows black, the octagonal peaked roof topped by a knob with weathercock; left divided by a blue, narrow bar, above in gold on a green hill, a green, black -stemmed conifer, split down from silver and red three times.

The coat of arms in 1952 also awarded with the market survey. It shows the distinctive tower of the parish church, which also symbolizes the place name. The tree refers to the forestry and timber industry in the community, the blue bar on the situation on the Traunsee. The white and red piles are taken from the coat of arms.

History

As secured historically true that the room is Altmünster continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age. This is demonstrated with several discoveries in the field of Brennbühels (gravel terrace at the foot of the Gmunden mountain, the Pfahlbaureste in the area of ​​Gmunden medicinal spa, a Roman grave, which can be seen in the parish church. )

After the ethnicity it is likely to have first traded to the Illyrians, but then to Celts and Romans. The Bavarian land acquisition (early 8th century ) is by the mention of the abbey Trunseo ( deed of gift from the year 909 AD), backed by the tower of the parish church, a Romanesque baptismal font in the church itself and by some old house names.

Altmünster is first mentioned in 909 as the site of a monasterium called " Trunseio ". 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 of Austria above the Enns attributed. During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times.

Medieval and modern times up to 1849 are characterized by the landlords. Münster ( so the old name) was politically largely focused on the rule and place on parish church Altmünster.

Altmünster since 1850, an independent municipality, at the time had 4000 inhabitants. 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. On 9 June 1952, the survey was a market town.

Policy

Mayor Hannes Schobesberger of the ÖVP. Hugo Scheuba (ÖVP ) was with 28 years in office the longest serving mayor Altmünsters.

Traffic

Road

Altmünster is located on the main road 145 (Salzkammergut Street ), which connects with Altmünster Gmunden, Bad Ischl Vöcklabrucker. On a highway that runs through the municipality of Altmünster, can be achieved on the Attersee about the Taferl -Klause and the Taferlhöhe Steinbach.

Bus: In Altmünster run several post bus lines, making the closest cities Gmunden and Bad Ischl are accessible from Altmünster. Furthermore, there is a bus service through the ÖBB both in the direction of Bad Ischl and in the direction Puchheim.

Railway

The station Altmünster am Traunsee is a through station on the Salzkammergutbahn. In Altmünster hold regional trains and regional express trains of the relation Puchheim - Stainach - Irdning. There are direct connections to Linz and coaches connection to Vienna Westbahnhof.

At the time of opening of the Salzkammergutbahn there was only one holding and loading site called " Ebenzweier ". In 1897, the operating point has been upgraded to the station and renamed " Ebenzweier - Altmünster ". In 1947, this station was given its present name.

The station building still in use today was built in 1902. In building a waiting room, a busy ticket office and the switchboard are housed. The track system consists of drive-through track, siding, a unilaterally connected loading track and a siding to a sawmill at the train station. At the drive-through track one side platform is ( main platform ), the crossing track is opened up with a low central platform.

Population Development

In 1991, the municipality had 9067 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 9445 inhabitants.

Twinning

• Düren- Niederau ( Germany ) since December 23, 1971
• Hoegaarden (Belgium )

Culture and sights

Parish Altmünster: The oldest parish in the areas of the present deanery Gmunden Altmünster, formerly simply called Munster. Probably built by the dukes Agilolfinger at the beginning of the 8th century to promote the spiritual and material culture on the waterfront of Lake Traun, a monastery and the church dedicated to St. Benedict Medal founders. But had the Abbey not last long because it was probably destroyed 920 of the approaching urgent Magyars. After the Battle of Lechfeld in 955 returned the volatile inhabitants in their villages back, and it also bought Münster again, though not more than Abbey, but as a parish. Münster was a large parish and involved as a mother parish of the area of their subsequent daughter parishes Traunkirchen, Goisern, Hallstatt, Gmunden with Ohlsdorf and Laakirchen, also Schorfling and St. Georgen im Attergau. In an old document from the year 1236 Münster is called " antiquissima parochia monasterialis " (old parish Münster). But already in the 12th century, formed from the old parish pastoral Münster independent parishes Traunkirchen Ohlsdorf, Attersee, St. Georgen im Attergau. Only Pinsdorf remained as a branch in Altmünster.

The feudal law on Altmünster had initially served as Styrian Margrave, then it passed to the Lords of place. Albert of Veldsperg and his wife Gisela of place, the last of her tribe, instigated in 1269 the nunnery Imbach ( ( 1782 repealed) ) in Lower Austria and incorporated this monastery, the parish Altmünster, so the nuns of Imbach the patronage and right of presentation over Munster had.

In 1764 the Prince-Bishop of Passau, Leopold Ernst Graf von Firmian brought to 6000 fl these rights themselves. The the hl. Benedict consecrated late Gothic hall church was built around 1470 /80. The center of the high altar is the painting " The Death of hl. Benedict "by Joachim von Sandrart. In the Chapel of All Saints is the Allerheiligenaltar of sandstone from the year 1518th The altar shows a many-figured relief group of saints in a Renaissance setting.

Filialkirche Reindlmühl: The church was built in the years 1955-1956 according to the plans of Gottfried and Nobl is the hl. Dedicated to Josef. Gottfried Nobl was from 1959-2005 Linz Cathedral architect. In 1977 a chapel was built as a mortuary chapel behind the church.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Celestine Wolf Gruber (1848-1924), Benedictine, church historian, the last imperial Court chaplain to St. Stephan in Vienna
• Franz Stangl (1908-1971), National Socialist
• Mary Singer (1914-2003), Bavarian and Austrian folk Actress

Persons with respect to the location

• Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), writer, bought the house in 1971 Grasberg 98, called the " Krucka ", and lived and worked there temporarily
• Elisabeth Lanz ( born 1971 ), actress, grew up in the SOS Children's Village