Eferding

Eferding is a city in Upper Austria with 3861 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ), the district capital of the district Eferding and center of the district court Eferding.

Eferding is the third oldest town in Austria ( city rights since 1222 )

Geography

Eferding is located on 271 m altitude in Eferdinger pool in Hausruckviertel, about 2 km from the Danube. The expansion is 2.2 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 3 km. The total area is 2.8 km ². There are no other local villages in Eferding.

History

The story Eferdings dates back to Roman times, then was Eferding road junction on the Danube Limes, which was probably backed by a cavalry fort. The Danube was widely spread in Eferdinger pool and handed approach to the city.

When the Bavarians migrated in the 6th century into the country, to a nobleman bajuwarischer have given their name called Efrito the city. More likely, however, it from the Low German Evers ( = river vessel ) derive, which would mean a place where ships land appear.

The naming Eferdings in the Nibelungenlied of the Bishop Pilgrim of Passau ( 971-991 ) indicates an overwhelming importance of the place and a church. 1145 we find the first recorded mention of a Rantvicus Plebanus de Efridinge, 1202, the one Leutoldus Plebanus de Efridinge.

Eferding is one of the oldest cities in Austria in 1222 and received a city charter.

1367 acquired the Schauberger by buying the town and castle. 1559 were, after the extinction of Schauberger, by inheritance, the Star Hemberger the new territorial rulers. In the possession of Prince Starhemberg the castle is still, once in the - so it tells the Nibelungenlied - Kriemhild stayed in the land of the Huns on her bridal journey.

Attractions

• Parish Church Eferding ' Eferdinger Dom '

Built 1451 to 1505, the late Gothic style; three-aisled hall church if their thickness referred to as Eferdinger Cathedral, High Baroque and neo-Gothic altars, late Gothic sculptures, grave monuments from the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, remarkable rare double-armed spiral staircase as a stairway to the choir, magnificent, richly designed double porch with stone figures on the south side of the dome ( entrance )

• Castle Starhemberg

The castle dates back to the 13th century (before 1167 at this point mention of a castle ). Design of the garden front 1784th time being in possession of the show Berger, from 1559 Star Hemberger, it is today the seat of the head of Star Hemberger. The castle is located in the center on the north side of the square between the parish church and the old city moat (now Middle Graben). In the castle there are two museums:

• Princely Family Starhembergisches Museum: The museum displays including a table from Mozart's Vienna apartment, where he composed the Magic Flute.
• City ​​Museum

Built 1325, Gothic core high altar from 1623, with a remarkable façade tower with octagonal pyramid helmet, frescoes of 1430 and a net vault in the Magdalene Chapel from the High Gothic. The hospital is part of the Church of Rudolf the Schifer donated hospital ( in which both ill maintained and needy were taken ) and is located on the Schiferplatz.

• Town Square

The town square with the Holy Trinity Column and the town houses is one of the most beautiful places in Upper Austria. The mansions, almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, consisting of a preserved late Gothic core with baroque and neoclassical facades.

• Lebzelterhaus Vogl

The most beautiful town house is located on the city ranked No. 27; since 1683 Wachszieher and Lebzelterhaus in the family business, today café- patisserie with their own production; originally consisting of two Gothic houses, the facades were transformed over time into a unified Baroque front

• Evangelical Church

Built in 1830-1833, one of the few preserved unchanged Protestant houses of worship of the tolerance time; three-storey building with a rectangular shallow barrel-vaulted, late classical hall ( and again today without the tower ); located in the Schaumburg Road No. 17

Hospital Church and Schifer'sches Erbstift

Tourism, Leisure, Sport

• Danube Bike Trail: Eferding is the International Danube bike path that leads from the Danube source in Germany to its mouth in the Black Sea
• Swimming Ponds: In the environment of the city towards the Danube, several gravel ponds, which can be availed in the summer for swimming are (free entry )
• Adventure Eferding: Freibadeanlage
• Tennis facility
• Riding
• Eferdinger G'schichtnweg: 16 stations through Eferding and tell stories around the city

In 1999, the Upper Austrian townscape fair was held in Eferding.

Coat of arms

Official description of the municipality coat of arms: Split of silver and red; in reversed colors, a continuous crenellated wall with two embrasures, round arch with raised portcullis and zinnenbewehrtem tower with two semi-circular window openings. The municipality colors are blue and red. The fortified gatehouse in the show Berger colors white and red marks Eferding as formerly fortified city that already had 1167 civic under episcopal passauischer manorial character. Blue and red are the colors of Starhemberg family.

In some pictures, such as the former town hall of Eferding on the town square holds a " Wild Man " on the city arms. This is due to an old legend, is said to have taken place as follows:

The legend of the Wild Man

Before times besieged robbers Eferding. Greedy prey they did everything they could to get around the city in their hands. What the Eferdinger citizens also took, it was not possible to drive the rabble. Finally, the City Council had to bow to the inevitable. With heavy hearts it was decided to open the gates and surrender the city to the enemy.

A tailor did not want to accept this. He asked the City Council one day period. Which he used to build his assistants a huge straw man. With skins dressed, arms raised, with long claws on the fingers, at the head of powerful horns, plus a gaping wide mouth - so this mighty monster frightened even those who had built it. With ropes and pulleys was " the Wild Man " in the evening moved to Schauberger goal. Everything in the city was on its feet. On the command of the cutter pans was blown into pipes, beaten, gescheppert with tin cans, tumbled on pots, trumpets sounded. These yelled and screamed so loudly all as loud as they could.

Even the besiegers before the city became aware of the noise. They came to the city wall, to see, what was going on. Slowly the Eferdinger focused on the hideous straw man. When his wide-open grimace in the dim light of dusk behind the city walls came to light, the besiegers grabbed the horror. Horrified, she stormed away.

The Eferdinger but could cheer their "heroes". As bearers of the coat of arms of the Wilde man can be seen even today.

Twinning

• Passau in Bavaria, Germany

Population

Demographics

Traffic

• Eferdinger Street: Highway B 129 from Linz to Eferding
• Nibelungenstraße: Highway B 130 runs along the Danube from Passau Eferding according to the state border to Germany

• Linz local train (LILO ) ( private railway ): Linz-Eferding-Neumarkt/Kallham-Peuerbach-Waizenkirchen
• Aschacher train: Catfish Eferding - Aschach

• Bus 2002/ 06 Linz -Passau - Eferding (Linz - Eferding - Haibach - St.Agatha - St.Ägidi -Passau )
• Bus 2014 Linz- Eferding - Peuerbach - Enzenkirchen
• Bus 660 Catfish Bad Schaller Bach Eferding - Aschach ( - Ottenheim -Linz )
• Bus 664 Catfish nicks - Eferding
• Bus 662 Eferding - St.Marienkirchen - Prambachkirchen
• Bus 8031 Eferding - Stroheim -Reith
• Bus 8177 Leon thing / Meixnerkreuzung - Traun -Kirchberg - Eferding bath Mühllacken

• In fire instead at Eferding (2 km) is a Danube boat landing

• Danube Bike Trail: Eferding is the International Danube Bike Trail, a cycle route along the Danube River - the source of the Danube to its mouth in the Black Sea

Personalities

• Susanne Reuttinger, Eferdinger citizen daughter, married on October 28, 1631 the astronomer Johannes Kepler
• Honorius Aigner (1651-1704), Abbot of Kremsmuenster 1703-1704
• Johann Nepomuk David (1895-1977), Austrian composer
• Ernst Rüdiger Prince Starhemberg (1899-1956), Austrian politician and Home Guard leaders
• Josef Zeininger (1916-1995), Episcopal Vicar of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the founder and pastor of the Catholic Federal Workers' Youth in Austria
• Fridolin Dallinger ( born 1933), Austrian composer and music teacher
• Alfred Jungraithmayr ( born 1933), Austrian journalist
• Horst Haitzinger (* 1939), German -Austrian cartoonist
• Florian Meindl ( born 1985 ), Austrian music producer and DJ