Burgkirchen, Austria

Castle Churches is a town in Upper Austria in the district of Braunau am Inn in Innviertel with 2538 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The competent court is the district court district of Braunau am Inn.

The place received 1992 and 2003 the award for wheeled Friendliest municipality in Upper Austria.

Geography

Castle churches located on 393 meters altitude in Innviertel. The extension is from north to south 8.9, 10.3 km from west to east. The total area is 45.9 square kilometers. 30.5 % of the area is forested, 61.9% used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 45 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

Albrecht Berg ( 95)
Alharting ( 7)
Atzing ( 19)
Au ( 22)
Bachleiten (10 )
Biburg (12 )
Brand ( 25)
Brunning (67 )
Castle Churches ( 576 )
Edthof (6 )
Eglsee (73 )
Fartham (11)
Frieseneck (13 )
Fuchs Mayrhofen ( 14)
Fürch (61 )
Geretsdorf (153 )
Grillham (74)
Harham (47 )
Herma thing ( 47)
Mr. streets (21 )
Holzgassen ( 2)
Kaltenhausen ( 4)

Kobledt (7)
Kühberg (94 )
Lindhof ( 2)
Maxedt (15)
Mitt Erlach (22 )
Oberaching (64)
Upper Hartberg ( 16)
Oberseibersdorf (27)
Pass Mountain (10 )
Penning (26 )
St. Georgen an der Mattig (203 )
Scheuhub (26)
Solling (15 )
Spraid (38)
Stock directing (201 )
Valley ( 12)
Under Hartberg ( 26)
Unterseibersdorf (20)
Daybook (47 )
Walzing (39 )
Weikerding (46)
Wool Austria (158 )

Coat of arms

Official description of the municipality coat of arms: In a blue white, jumping horse. Municipality Colors: Blue - White-Blue.

History

1007, the village was mentioned for the first time. The name is derived from Puchkyrchen ( = church at Buchenwald). The place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to the Peace of Teschen with the Innviertel (then ' Innbaiern ') to Austria. During the Napoleonic Wars shortly Bavarian, it belongs since 1814 finally to 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.

Population development: In 1991, the municipality had 2472 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 2551 inhabitants.

Policy

Mayor Albert Troppmair of the ÖVP.

Twinning

Füllinsdorf, (CH ) ( due to the similar, almost identical coat of arms )

Culture and sights

Biburger Chapel

Catholic Parish Church of St.. Maximilian: late Gothic, built in the middle of the 15th century; the parish church houses many precious works of art, such as the crucifixion group of brothers Martin and Michael Zürn ( the Upper Swabian family of sculptors Zürn ) and magnificent stucco work by JM Four Thaler.
Engl Muller Chapel
Old Schoolhouse
Catholic branch church hl. Georg: equipped with altars of Martin and Michael Zürn, further located here is the oldest offertory Austria.

Personalities

Anton Deiser (1872-1955), farmer, innkeeper and politician
Josef Öller (1949-2008), politician
David Schießl (* 1972), politician, member of the Municipal Council of Churches castle
Anna Zauner Pagitsch ( born 1963 ), harpist who lives in Castle Churches
Hermann Gschaider ( born 1956 ), sculptor

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