Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

Hofkirchen in Mühlkreisautobahn is an Upper Austrian municipality in the district of Rohrbach 1481 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach.

• 2.1 municipal
• 2.2 Mayor
• 2.4 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Population structure
• 4.2 Demographics

Geography

Hofkirchen situated at an altitude of 601 m above sea level. A. in the southwestern border area of the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria upper. Based on the nature conservation space planning, the municipality proportion of the room units Zentralmühlviertler Highlands, Southern Šumava foothills and the Danube canyon and tributary valleys. The area is from the north to the south slowly and by numerous peaks and troughs in a structured form, which is also a main drainage direction is. The extension is 8.9 km from north to south, from west to east 7.4 kilometers, the total area covers 22.59 km ². Hofkirchen is in the upper middle of the municipalities of the district. With 66 inhabitants per km ² Hofkirchen 2013 was also in the middle of the municipalities. The municipality covers an average of 550 and 650 meters, with the lowest point of the community in the Danube valley at about 280 meters and the highest point of the municipalities is around 810 meters. 2001 35.5 percent of the municipal area were forested, 49.6 percent of the area was used for agriculture. In comparison with the state of Upper Austria Hofkirchen is thus in the Upper Austrian average (Upper Austria: 38.3 percent and 49.3 percent). The proportion of other uses ( construction areas, gardens, waters and other ) is 14.9 percent, also in the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. Neighboring municipalities are Neustift im Mühlkreisautobahn the southwest, Parishes in Mühlkreisautobahn in the west and north and, Putzleinsdorf in the Northeast and Niederkappel in the east. In the southeast, south and southwest Hofkirchen borders the district Eferding where Haibach ob der Donau and St. Agatha in the southeast, forest churches represent the neighboring communities in the south and Engelhart cell in the southwest.

Geology and soil

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif which goes back to a very old mountain range that was created by the Variscan orogeny in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous). After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, it came during the alpidic orogeny in the Tertiary repealing the crystalline basement to several 100 meters, which fractures and faults formed. Subsequently, it came in the Tertiary and Quaternary deposition of sediments. The dominant soil type in the community is brown siliceous earth. Exist depending on the hillside medium to deep, mature soils that are poor in nutrients but due to their balanced water budget shall be deemed to secure earnings. In waterlogging, wet meadows or along streams, there is also Gley suitable for grassland, forest plateau in higher layers ( Pfarrwald ) also occur Podsolierungserscheinungen.

Landscape and vegetation

The landscape of the municipality can be divided into three sections. To the north lies the woody Hofkirchner highlands, which is the southernmost foothills of the Bohemian Forest. In the forests there is a completely contiguous United backlog, which has a partially natural species composition and structure ( spruce-fir - beech forest ). Partial but it is also heavily influenced forestry pure spruce stands. The main part of the township is a country hilltop in relief with changing those features of landscape elements. The area is more or less intensive agricultural embossed with medium altitudes and scattered small areas of forest. The area is also inhabited continuously loose. The forest areas consist mostly of forestry heavily embossed pure spruce stands, to a lesser extent, deciduous trees rich patches occur mainly with beeches. Agriculture is mixed arable and grassland farming with a slight emphasis is in grassland. In the south of the municipality are the wooded Donaueinhänge and the Danube valley. The steep slope forests are mostly close to nature and protected Natura 2000. The species composition of the hillside forests is mostly planted close to nature and with oak-hornbeam forest. There are also spruce -dominated stocks on the slopes einmündender side valleys.

Districts of the municipality

Au, village, Emmerstorf, Falkenstein, free cell, Gerastorf, Hötzendorf, Hofkirchen in Mühlkreisautobahn, Hundsfülling, Kling, Marsbach, Niederranna, Oberbumberg, meadows.

Policy

Parish council

The Parish Council, the supreme body of the municipality comprises 19 seats and is elected every six years, Upper Austria on municipal elections in the course. The parish council consists of five members, with the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP) is represented by the local council elections in 2009, with the mayor, the deputy mayor and two other members of the parish council, and thus in this body represents the absolute majority. The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ) sends another members.

Strongest faction in the council of Hofkirchen in Mühlkreisautobahn has always been the ÖVP, which in the period since 1945 is always the absolute majority of votes and mandate achieved and with one exception, always had a two-thirds majority. In 1955 the People's Party with 87.8 percent to its best result, in 2003, it recorded 64.7 percent of its worst result. The second strongest party in the municipal council of Hofkirchen in Mühlkreisautobahn was always the SPÖ, which came on results from 12.2 to 24.9 percent since 1945. Your best result had the SPÖ here in 1985, its worst in 1955., The Austrian Freedom Party ( FPÖ ) occurred in1973 in the community and was able to reach 9.1 percent, in 1979, separated the FPÖ again from the local council. Only in 1991 the Freedom Party candidate again in Hofkirchen, reaching 5.1 percent in 1997 and 10.8 percent. Already in 2003 she resigned from 2.9 percent again as the local council. The Greens, however, succeeded in 2003 with 10.1 percent for the first time a place in the council. In the last local elections of 2009, the ÖVP 68.6 percent and 13 seats, the Social Democrats came to 20.1 percent, or four seats, the Greens scored 11.3 per cent and two seats.

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. The first direct election was won with 82.2 percent in the first round against the candidate of the Social Democratic Party for the reigning mayor since 1988 Erich Moser ( ÖVP). 2003 Moser was replaced by Martin Raab (ÖVP ), who came to 78.7 percent for the mayor direct election on the first ballot. 2003 candidates stood as candidates while the SPÖ and the Greens against Raab. Raab was bestätigit 2009 with 80.4 percent again in office, which in this election only one candidate of the Green Party candidate against him.

Mayor since 1850:

The ÖVP dominates As with municipal elections and in state elections in the community. Until 2003, the ÖVP was able to achieve a two-thirds majority, with the exception of an election until 1997, being 81.9 per cent achieved in 1979, her best result. Since then, however, the ÖVP lost successive votes shares. The second strongest party was in state elections until 1991, always the SPÖ, the election results from 14.4 to 23.8 percent was recorded for itself. Your best result had the SPÖ here in 2003, its worst in 2009. FPÖ came into the church in 1949 as VdU still to 11.2 percent, after which it remained until 1985 nwith one exception always around 3 percent. Only with the 1991 election, the FPÖ was able to achieve noticeable results again with 9.4 percent. In 1997, the FPÖ was able to achieve the best result with 11.7 percent, but then it crashed to 3.8 percent. At the last state election in 2009, the ÖVP came with 61.6 percent and its lowest result so far in the first place. The SPÖ only came to 14.4 percent, had about 9 percent of their share of the vote exits. The FPÖ reached 10.9 percent, their second best result, the Greens came with 10.1 percent to its best election result.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Hofkirchen in Mühlkreisautobahn is relatively old, but the coat of arms awarded to Hofkirchen is not evidenced by a certificate. The first evidence of the use of the market coat of arms comes from the July 25, 1571, than in an imprint on the "Violence letter because Fürkaufs " the markets of the upper Mühlviertel a seal with the inscription "S. HOFKHIRICHEN. PEI. VALKHENSTAIN " and the year 1541 was printed. In later descriptions of the coat of arms of building the new parish church was erroneously referred to as " Town Hall ", which was shown accordingly in the subsequent period the emblem. The blazon of the arms is: Azure, on a green Dreienberg a silver solid wall with black open round arch and two windows; behind towering a silver church with black roof, two windows on the gable side of the longitudinal vessel and three sullied at the edge of the tower and two in the annex, the tent roof of the tower with golden pommel and cross. The emblem symbolizes thereby naming the settlement after erected next to a Herrschaftshof church, where the name " Hofkirgen " has already been mentioned in 1160 in a Bavarian certificate. The municipality colors blue and white green are, however, performed according to ancient custom without official approval.

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. By the end of 2002, the village belonged to the district court Lembach, as of 1 January 2003 the municipality was assigned to the judicial district of Rohrbach.

Population

Population structure

2013 lived in the town of 1,481 people, which was in Hofkirchen Mühlkreisautobahn the average of the communities of the district. End of 2001, 98.7 percent of the population Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, 96.9 percent Rohrbach district ) until the beginning of 2013, the figure fell to 96.6 percent ( 91.1 percent Upper Austria, District Rohrbach 96.9 percent). A total of 50 foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community, but the (mostly from EU countries ) came to 86 percent from Europe. Overall lived in Hofkirchen 2013 105 people with a foreign country of birth. (Upper Austria: 88.6 percent) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 97.6 percent of residents known, 1.0 percent had no religious affiliation, 0.3 percent and 0.8 percent Protestant Islamic faith.

The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was approximately the national average. 19.4 percent of the population of Niederwaldkirchen were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 62.6 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 18.0 percent below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Hofkirchen changed in the sequence, especially in the first two segments. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 to 14.4 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years to 69.6 percent, considerably increased. The proportion of 59 -year-old fell slightly to 16.0 percent. Marital status in 2001 47.8 percent of the population of Hofkirchen were single, 43.7 percent married, widowed, divorced and 6.1 percent, 2.3 percent.

Demographics

Culture and sights

• Falkenstein Castle: Grand old castle above the Rannatal
• Castle ruins Haichenbach: Former castle on the Danube loop with excellent views from the castle tower.
• Labyrinths: Hofkirchen has since July 2010 on three large mazes on various topics.

Regular events

A wine fair takes place every first Saturday in May.

Every two years the school day weekend in July, the street art festival held Mühlviertler bacon dachshund.