Bad Hofgastein

  • ÖVP: 13
  • SPÖ: 10
  • FPÖ: 2

Bad Hofgastein is a market town with 6726 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Salzburg region in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in Austria. She is a spa and winter sports community.

Geography

The municipality is located in the Gastein Valley in the Pongau in Salzburg. By the end of 2002, the village belonged to the district court Gastein, since 2003 she has been part of the judicial district of St. Johann im Pongau.

Community structure

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

  • Anger ( 1350)
  • Bad Hofgastein ( 2740 )
  • Breiteberg (252 )
  • Gadaunern (210 )
  • Harbach (288 )
  • Heissingfelding ( 694 )
  • Laderding (181 )
  • Vorderschneeberg (641 )
  • Weinetsberg (116 )
  • Wieden (238 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Bad Hofgastein, Harbach, Heissingfelding, Vorderschneeberg and Wieden.

Neighboring communities

History

The story of Bad Hofgastein dates back to Roman times, because this place was the center of silver and gold mining on Radhausberg, in Angertal and Pochkar. Bad Hofgastein is located on the widest part of the valley, which is why the settlement was also the main town of Gastein. Here was also the first parish of the valley and the seat of the court ( Court ) of the Gastein region. So the town was named in the gas yard stone, later it was Hofgastein.

In the High Middle Ages Hofgastein was the center of commodity exchange between Italy and Austria and Germany top the two Gastein Tauern. In the developed already used by the Romans over the Korntauern reached tropical fruits, wine and other products in this mountain valley, to be exchanged for gold and silver. The market rights were awarded in the 13th century.

The parish church was built in 894 as a small church, and took its present appearance in the 15th century Gothic.

The decline in gold prices, natural disasters, the outbreak of the plague in 1574, and the social and religious conflicts during and after the Thirty Years' War led to the complete demise of the place.

A second bloom reached Hofgastein after the abolition of the Archbishopric of Salzburg and the connection to Austria since 1807 as a spa. 1820 was the award of the thermal waters subscription rights from the springs of Bad Gastein by Emperor Franz I.. Since 1830 the coveted wet is induced transported in a eight -kilometer thermal water line from Bad Gastein.

Since 1936, the place under the name of Bad Hofgastein.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is: In the divided shield in gold hammer and mallet diagonally crossed over each other up in natural colors and down in a silver field a natural colored wooden bathtub.

Policy

Mayor since 2009, the ski school owner Fritz Zettinig of the ÖVP. Its predecessor was the Benedict Long hotelier. The municipal council has 25 members, of which 13 are ÖVP, SPÖ 10 and 4 FP.

  • Population Development: 2005, Bad Hofgastein 7009 inhabitants.

Religion

  • Catholic Parish of Our Lady on the Gries: built The Church of Our Lady, a three-aisled church season, was in the years 1498-1507. The pointy -helmeted tower dates from the year 1602. The magnificent centerpiece of the church represents the magnificent baroque altar, which is regarded as the main work of the painter Josef Andrae Eisl and sculptor Paul Mödlhammer. The center of the high altar is the Gothic depiction of the enthroned Madonna, the miraculous image of the Mother Hofer from the period around 1500. The pulpit and side altars date from the first half of the 18th century.
  • Evangelical Salvation church (built 1960)

Culture and sights

  • Parish of the Assumption
  • Weitmoserschlössl

Economy and infrastructure

Bad Hofgastein is an internationally known spa and winter sports community with approximately 145,000 guests per year and spa, conference and event facilities, a pedestrian street with shops, hotels, cafes and restaurants. Then there are the Alpen Therme Gastein with the Alpine spa and the famous for centuries Gastein radon thermal treatments ( Radonbalneologie ).

The common ski resort of Bad Hofgastein and Bad Gastein, the ski Schloßalm - Angertal- Stubnerkogel, is part of the Gastein Valley ski region of the composite ski Ski amadé, and offers over 80 km of pistes, with a total of 5 chairlifts, 7 chairlifts and 7 surface lifts. It stretches from the place on the Schloßalm ( 2,050 m) and the high saddle (2300 m above sea level. A. ) below the Türchlwand, from there to the Angertal to 1,175 m and the Stubnerkogel (2250 m above sea level. A. ) on Bad Gastein.

In the municipality there are 120 farms with 7,200 acres of alpine meadows and 28 pastures.

Personalities

  • Bernhard Gruber ( * August 12 1982 Schwarzach im Pongau), skiing ( Nordic combined )
  • Franz Hofer ( * November 27, 1902 Hofgastein, † 1975 in Mülheim an der Ruhr), Gauleiter of Tyrol
  • Hans Grugger (* December 13, 1981 Bad Hofgastein ), alpine skier

Gallery

Panoramic views of Bad Hofgastein in winter

Adolph von Menzel: Corpus Christi Procession in Hofgastein

Dorfgastein Rauris Gothic art Johann Grugger Bischofshofen Eben im Pongau Filzmoos Flachau Forstau Kleinarl Radstadt Sankt Veit im Pongau Untertauern Werfen Werfenweng
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