Hargelsberg

Hargelsberg is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Linz-Land in the central area with 1314 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The church was originally part of the judicial district Enns, since 1 January 2014, the community is part of the judicial district of Steyr.

• 4.1 Population structure
• 4.2 Demographics

• 5.1 municipal
• 5.2 Mayor

• 6.1 Workplaces and Employees
• 6.2 Agriculture and Forestry
• 6.3 Transport and Infrastructure

• 9.1 traffic

Geography

Hargelsberg is located on 324 m altitude in the Upper Austrian central space. The expansion is 4.5 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 6.3 km. The total area is 17.8 km ², making Hargelsberg in area was in the middle of the 22 municipalities of the district. 7.9 percent of the area of Hargelsberg are forested, 84.3 percent of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The territory of Hargelsberg divided into four cadastral Hargelsberg ( 449.89 acres ), Penking ( 313.61 acres ), Sieding ( 525.17 hectares) and Thann ( 500.24 acres ). Thann is located in the north and north- east of the district, Penking takes the west of the municipality one. The cadastral Hargelsberg located in the center of the municipality, Sieding in the south. In addition to the four cadastral ten districts are distinguished in the municipality. In the north, in the cadastral Thann Thann are the village (290 m above sea level. A. ), the scattered settlement Franzberg and the scattered settlement Hart. Thann 2001 comprised 26 houses with 85 inhabitants, Franzberg six buildings and 19 residents, hard, together with the single farm field Mayr 16 buildings and 38 residents. In the eastern cadastral Penking exists with the dispersed settlement Penking (330 m above sea level. A. ) only a hamlet, with the north and south of Penking situated detached houses bailiff, Hagmayr, Hubmühle and Ipfmühle among Penking. To Penking included 2001 23 buildings and 77 residents. The cadastral Hargelsberg in the center of the municipality is home to the districts Fisching and Hargelsberg the largest settlements of the municipality. The two settlements, however, are already almost grown separated by the Thaller Bach. The village Hargelsberg (324 m above sea level. A. ) 2001 hosted 120 buildings and 326 inhabitants, the rotting Firsching (300 m above sea level. A. ) 98 buildings and 332 inhabitants. Also in the cadastral Hargelsberg is located north of Firsching and Hagelberg the village Hausmanning (295 m above sea level. A. ) with 17 buildings and 48 residents in 2001. West of the two places is the hamlet Pichhorn, which consisted in 2001 of five buildings with 19 residents. The southern cadastral Sieding houses next to the rotting Sieding (298 m above sea level. A. ), the scattered settlement Anger mountain ( 340 m above sea level. A. ) with the Kothmühle. Sieding was 2001 from 26 buildings with 68 inhabitants, Anger Mountain 30 buildings with 70 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, mainly Firsching able to increase its number of inhabitants. With 445 inhabitants, it was now clearly the largest settlement in the municipality, followed behind Hargelsberg with 349 inhabitants. All other districts had less than 100 inhabitants. Third largest settlement was Thann with 85 inhabitants, followed behind Sieding with 82 Anger mountain with 73 Penking with 72 Hausmanning 45, Franzberg with 23 and Pirchhorn with 19 inhabitants.

Coat of arms

Official description of the municipality coat of arms: With a silver, curved thread diagonally divided; above in red with a silver, querverstutztes Andrew's cross, down in green with a silver, slumped Knaufbeil. The municipality colors are yellow - green.

History

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 ' Austria above the Enns ' attributed. During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times. 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 town belonged to the " Upper Danube ". After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria.

Historical findings from Hargelsberg be exhibited in the museum Enns.

Population

Population structure

2013 lived in the community Hargelsberg 1,314 people, which Hargelsberg was measured by the population, the third smallest municipality of the 22 municipalities of the district. End of 2001, 97.6 percent of the population Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, District Linz-Land 91.4 percent ) until the beginning of 2013, the figure fell marginally to 97.2 per cent ( 91.1 per cent of Upper Austria, Linz District country 89.0 percent). A total of 37 foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community who came to 97 percent from Europe. The largest contingent of people from the established EU countries. (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 88.3 percent of residents known, 1.3 percent were Protestant, 7.5 percent without commitment, 0.9 percent and 0.7 percent Islamic faith Orthodox Christians.

The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was slightly below the national average. 18.5 percent of the population of Hargelsberg were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 66.4 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 15.2 percent below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Hargelsberg changed in consequence comparatively little. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 to 17.6 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years increased to 69.7 percent. The proportion of 59 -year-old, however, dropped to 12.7 percent. Marital status in 2001 43.5 percent of the population of Hargelsberg were single, 47.9 percent married, widowed, divorced and 5.0 percent 3.6 percent.

Demographics

The community Hargelsberg recorded between the late 19th century and the year 1951 hardly a population movement. Rather, the population fluctuated between 1,000 and 1.0100 residents. The population development was then compared below average with the Province of Upper Austria and the district of Linz -Land. After 1951, the township population began against the state and district strong trend to decrease, the municipality 1951-1981 lost nearly 30 percent of its population. Only in the 1970s, the decline could be stopped with a slightly positive birth rate and a slightly positive balance of migration was responsible for the small plus. Even in the 1980s there was a positive migration and birth rate, which was approximately twice as high as in the 1970s, but in comparison with District and Country was still well below average. Only since the 1990s, the community on a strong growth, with the population in this decade increased by 28 percent. Main reason for the growth was an increasing influx into the church, where the immigration around five times extreme than the surplus of births. The high numbers of immigrants continued into the 21st century.

Policy

Parish council

The council, the supreme body of the municipality includes 13 seats and is elected every six years Upper Austria on municipal elections in the course. The parish council is composed of three members, with the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP) with the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor currently has two members and the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ) is a member.

Strongest faction in the council of Hargelsberg has always been the ÖVP, which is always the absolute majority of votes and was able to achieve majority mandate 1973-2009. The ÖVP reached this choice results from 56.1 to 67.9 percent. The second strongest party was in every election, the SPÖ, which received 29.9 to 38.0 per cent in coming. In addition to the ÖVP and the SPÖ only (FPÖ ) ran the Freedom Party of Austria from 1991, in the community, where they reached a maximum mandate and 2003 missed a place in the council. The election results of the FPÖ were present at 5.9 to 10.2 percent. In the last local elections of 2009, the ÖVP came to 62.5 percent, or eight seats, the Social Democrats scored 29.9 per cent and four seats, the FPÖ 7.6 percent and a mandate.

Mayor

The Mayor is determined since 1997 in a direct line, where there will be a runoff election for a candidate with no absolute majority. Mayor since 1995 Manfred Huber of the ÖVP. He was reelected in 1997 with 77.7 percent in office and was also the mayor elections in 2003 and 2009 to decide on the first ballot with 68.0 and 70.1 percent for itself. The vice mayor is also provided by the ÖVP.

Similar to the municipal elections always occupies the ÖVP also in state elections in the municipality the first place and also achieved an absolute majority of votes. The results of the ÖVP were doing 51.6 to 65.8 percent. The second strongest party was as always the local council elections the SPÖ, which came on results from 22.4 to 34.8 percent. The FPÖ was with results from 1.4 to 13.5 percent, respectively the third strongest party. At the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came with 56.2 percent again in the first place. The SPÖ only came to 22.4 percent, and have suffered their worst result so far. Third largest party, the FPÖ was 11.9 %, the fourth largest green with 6.8 percent.

Economy and infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

Hargelsberg home to 2001, only one company that had 20 or more employees. Overall, carried out as part of the Census Census of gave 46 workplaces with 177 employees (excluding agriculture ), where 81 percent of people in employment were. The number of workplaces showed a rise compared to 1991 by 17 (plus 59 percent ), the number of employees by only one person ( plus one percent). The most important industry was 2001, the manufacturing sector with 11 workplaces and 63 employees ( 36 percent of all employees ) prior to the real estate, renting / corporate services with 11 workplaces with 27 employees (15 percent ) and the construction of five work sites and 21 employees ( 12 percent). 41 percent of harrows village workers were employees or officials, 35 percent of workers and 19 percent of farmers.

From living in Hargelsberg 2010 683 economically active persons 4.1 per cent were unemployed. Of the 655 136 persons in employment in the manufacturing sector (21 percent), 105 in trade ( 16 percent) and 53 in the health and social care (8 percent) were employed. Other important sectors were agriculture, forestry and freelance bzzw. technical services, each with 7 percent of the workforce. Of the 632 workers from Hargelsberg (without temporarily employed persons absent from work population ) in 2010 were only 120 people in Hargelsberg after their employment. 512 or 81 percent had to commute to work. Of the 37 percent of commuters had their place of work in the district of Linz-Land, and 29 percent in Linz. Important commuter communities adjacent to Linz were Enns and Steyr. In return, 139 people commuted after a Hargelsberg, with 42 percent of commuters from the city of Steyr came.

Agriculture and Forestry

The statistics from 2010 showed 36 agricultural and forestry holdings for the community Hargelsberg. Among them were 20 commercial farms and 16 part-time farms. The total number compared to 1999 decreased by eight companies, or 18 percent, while the number of part-time farms had dropped to 40 percent and three full-time farms were added. Jointly managed farms in 2010 a total of 1,512 hectares, with 62 percent of the area were managed by full- time farmers. The average size of the full- time farmers was placed at 46.7 hectares around 50 percent higher than the Upper Austrian average.

Transport and Infrastructure

Most important road link in the municipality is the Steyr road (B 309), which extends east of the municipality from north to south and Hargelsberg connects to the north with the city of Enns and the Western Motorway (A1) and in the south with the city of Steyr. Traffic Technically, the church will, however, developed mainly by the country's roads, where the road Harr (L 1404) establishes the connection between the street and the center of Steyr Hargelsberg and is out following further Kronstorf and Steyr. The Penkinger road (L 1398 ) takes over, starting from the center of Hargelsberg the digestion of its territory to the east and southeast, and leads to the hamlet Penking. In Penking itself also Wiesenstraße (L 1365 ) and the Road Than (L 1349 ) have their output. But they run only briefly about the municipality. Starting from the center opens up the Volker Straße (L 1403 ) to the north of the municipal territory and extends to the motorway junction Enns -west of Western Motorway. In the south, the municipality will open next to the road by the Harr Angerberger road (L 1352), which extends into the community Kronstorf.

Culture and sights

See list of monumental objects in Hargelsberg

Recreational facilities

• Riding Club
• Tennis club
• Football field
• Single ski lift in the district of Linz-Land,
• Solar- heated outdoor pool
• And other recreational facilities

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

In Cycling Master Plan of the Austrian government in 2009 Hargelsberg is cited as that place which has over Austria the lowest share of cycling: the proportion of cyclists in the total traffic volume is at 0 %.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town:

• Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter (1936-2003), Augustinian Canons, composer and organist