Hausruckviertel

The Hausruckviertel ( in community names also Hausruckkreis ), so named after the mountain back home jerk, is a landscape in Austria and is one of the four historic "quarters" of Upper Austria, although there today deferral is made by the political districts only in the 19th century out formed. While the western boundary of the Hausruckviertel has always been defined by the existing to 1779 Bavarian border, the eastern border is largely formed in the 19th century by the Traun River.

The Hausruckviertel today includes the city located in the center of Wels in Upper Austria and the districts of Wels-Land, Eferding Gries and churches, as well as the District Vöcklabruck in the southwest.

In the old classification of Upper Austria in four quarters, the Hausruckviertel the west by the border of the districts in the Innviertel Braunau, Ried and warping thing was bounded on the south by the rivers Vöckla, Ager and Traun and to the north by the Danube. With the introduction of the concept Oberösterreichischer central space, the area between the cities of Linz, Wels Eferding and is no longer expected to do so.