Attersee (town)
Attersee am Attersee is a municipality in Upper Austria in Vöcklabruck district in Hausruckviertel with 1588 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district franc market.
Geography
The Attersee is located on 496 m height on the Attersee. The expansion is 5.3 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 4.6 km. The total area is 14.7 km ². 21.1 % of the area is forested, 36.7 % of the area is used for agriculture.
Quarters are: Attersee, Altenberg, Attersee, Anger, Breitenröth, Mühlbach, Neuhofen, Oberbach, Palm Village.
Coat of arms
Blazon: With a golden, crenellated top, bottom bent- beam divided; up in a golden red, five-pointed crown; below in blue with a silver fish. The municipality colors are white and blue.
The coat of arms granted in 1972 recalls with crown and battlements in mind that on the Atterseer Kirchberg early as the 9th century, a royal court. The fish on a blue background represents the location on the Attersee and fisheries as formerly important economic sector.
History
In the Neolithic period, there were numerous stilt houses, which were built in the lake. Pfahlbaufunde on the lake floor in front of the villages of Anger and Altenberg witness a dense population in the Neolithic period. Also, the book mountain peaks seems to have been inhabited in prehistoric times.
From Roman times, no significant archaeological finds are known so far. Impressively, however, are the traces of the Middle Ages, which are scientifically researched since the seventies by excavations on the Kirchberg.
The secular center was located in the early Middle Ages in the present location Attersee. On the Atterseer Kirchberg there was a royal court (Latin curtis ), the 885 for the first time as " Atarnhova " ( Atterhofen ) was documented and was repeatedly visited in the course of the 9th century by the Frankish kings. For example, King Arnulf 888 was present in Attersee.
1007 the dominion of the Atterseer castle of Emperor Henry II was donated to the newly formed Diocese of Bamberg with Bishop Eberhard I.. This Attersee belonged to the diocese of Bamberg. For this property in Attergau were " villages, hamlets, churches, servants and maids, free building sites and buildings, cultivated and wild land, woods and forests, waters with fishing rights and mills ". All this records the written in Latin deed of gift. The Attergau included at this time the area of today's district Vöcklabruck. The Mondseerland was excluded.
The castle in Attersee was expanded in the following years with fortifications and was in the High Middle Ages, the center of power of the Attergaues. It was not until the late Middle Ages, the building fell into disrepair, as a new castle ( urkundl. 1440 as " New Attersee ", later " Kogl " called ) was built on the Koglberg in St. Georgen.
1379 The Habsburgs acquired the property in Bamberg Attergau by the actors salvors. The reign center but was moved from defense-related reasons in the late Middle Ages to the higher Koglberg in St. Georgen. The castle complex in Attersee was thus left to decay. The remains of the castle are below the church square and the school garden. In the Baroque period Attersee was a much-visited pilgrimage site.
Attersee is a parish since 1276. The Gothic Parish and Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption stands high above the town on the historic church hill, a castle of the mountain used to be. The church grew out of a Gothic castle chapel. In the years 1712-1728 the patronage of Mr. Anton Graf Khevenhüller let the house of God by the Baroque architect Jakob Pawanger rebuild. At the time the tower was placed the Baroque onion dome. The high altar is the miraculous image of " Mary in the sun." Sanctuary is since 1652, when the cult object was placed in it.
Policy
Mayor Walter Kastinger of the SPÖ.
Population Development
In 1991, the municipality had 1481 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 1496 inhabitants.
Culture and sights
Structures
The first church was built by Bishop Eberhard I. in 1010.
In the Baroque period Attersee experienced as a place of pilgrimage a new upswing. After the transfer of the miraculous image "Mary in the Sun" by St. Georgen to Attersee 1652 the former Gothic palace church was converted into a Baroque pilgrimage church.
Beginning of the 18th century, the building enlarged and the interior of the Baroque style in the form of preserved until today. The center of the high altar is the image of Mary in a rococo silver frame. The stature of " Madonna and Child " also could have come from an earlier Gothic altar. It was re-erected at the high altar of the church renovation until 1910. A special highlight is the Gothic relief of the Adoration of the Magi from the East (here as replica ). Of great art-historical value are also carved by sculptor Mondseer Meinrad Guggenbichler statuettes of the three Doctors of the Church, which are now under a glass dome on the right side of the altar.
A late Gothic religious building with Neo-Gothic furniture. Until 1813, the church was the Roman Catholic. Parish Church of Attersee.
Between 1810-1816 was the western part of the Attersee, the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1813 the Protestant parish Attersee was built by the Bavarian king. The background for this was that the tolerance community Rutzenmoos, belonged to the Protestant families of Attergaues since the granting of religious freedom by Joseph II, was then in the Austrian abroad.
The parish Attersee, which is already mentioned in 1142, belonged to the dissolution of the monastery (1791 ) to the Benedictine monastery of Mondsee,. The former membership of Mondsee is also used in place names Attersee expressed. The three altars and the pulpit was created by the sculptor Mondseer Meinrad Guggenbichler in 1699 bis 1703.