Kronstorf

Kronstorf is a market town in Upper Austria in the district of Linz-Land in the central area with 3192 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 Previous Mayors
  • 5.3 Town twinning
  • 8.1 Workplaces and Employees
  • 8.2 Established businesses
  • 8.3 traffic
  • 9.1 Sport

Geography

Kronstorf is located at 277 m altitude in the Upper Austrian central space. The expansion is 8.4 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 6 km. The total area is 21.3 km ², making Kronstorf is the eighth largest municipality in the area. 72 % of the land used for agriculture, wooded 14 percent, 5 percent gardens, 3 percent water and 0.9 percent of construction areas. In addition, about 6 percent of other space. Neighboring municipalities are Enns in the north, Hargelsberg in the west, in the south Steyr ( Steyr-Land district ) and Haidershofen, Ernsthofen and St. Valentin (district of Amstetten, Lower Austria ).

Landscape

The territory of Kronstorf is most of the space in the lower unit Enns and Steyr. These include the proportion of the community on the Enns River itself and the adjoining Austufe. In addition to natural riparian forests the Austufe but also used for agriculture. The adjoining lower terrace is both agriculturally coined as coined by the densely settled area of places Kronstorf and Thaling. Also here are the forests on the slopes of the terrace edge. To the west of the municipality is the Farming Hochterrassem and a small part of the landwirtschaftkich embossed hill country. While the former nor the indoor unit Lower Enns and Steyr is attributed to the hill country is located in the indoor unit Traun -Enns Riedelland. In the hills there are also some forest areas.

Soils

According to the different landscape levels exist in the municipality of different soil types. In the Austufe consist gray and brown Auböden, unconsolidated sediment - brown earths and rendsina. The soils of the valley floor are moderately moist and risk of flooding to some extent, in small areas it is due to the ground water influence to Vergleyungen. The soils in this section are used as fields and medium-to high-quality meadows. In the countryside region of the low terrace is dominated by unconsolidated sediment - brown soils. Depending on the water supply are the brown earth soils mittelwertiges to high-quality farmland dar. Also on the high terraces, there is the unconsolidated sediment - brown soil with calcareous and non-calcareous facies. By loess or predominantly clayey layers represent the well supplied with water quality farmland soils dar. In the area of the Traun -Enns Riedel country consists mainly Deckenlehm while ceiling gravel only occurs at Errosionslagen. On the vast gentle slopes were formed by water well supplied to moderate alternating wet, pseudovergleyte, lime-free unconsolidated sediment - brown soils. On the other hand, the Verebnungsflächen Pseudogley comes to the fore.

Vegetation

In the municipality there are collinear (200 to 300 meters ) and submontane ( 300 to 550 meters) altitude. In the Enns and the Ausstufe exist natural riparian areas and slope forests. The lower terrace is home to large, species-rich deciduous forests in the area of ​​settlements and Winkling Thaling. Furthermore, there are several poor grassland and semi-dry grasslands along the terrace edge. Insist on the high terrace scattered coniferous forests and the shores accompanying woody at the stable stream, in the hill country several large coniferous and deciduous forests. All types of landscapes are used intensively for agriculture and have isolated over small -scale orchards and rows.

Settlement structure

The urban area of Kronstorf has a closed building structure. In the peripheral areas, the region is, however, characterized on the basis of intensive agricultural use of the scattered farmsteads of peasant farms. Commercial settlements are scarce. The community is characterized by a moderate settlement pressure by a moderate urban sprawl.

The community consists of three cadastral, Schieferegg in the north with 629.47 hectares, 577.44 hectares in the center with Kronstorf and Stallbach in the south with 926.96 hectares. The cadastral Schieferegg are the districts Thaling, Schieferegg, the House and Schmieding (from north to south). The settlement Thaling (265 m above sea level. A. ) comprised 211 buildings and 678 inhabitants in 2001. She was making it the second largest settlement of the community. The rotting Schiefeegg, which also includes the Schieferegg castle had heard eleven buildings and 44 residents. The settlement lower house (280 m above sea level. A. ) meadow 2 001 142 buildings on 440 inhabitants, at which the lower house also the farmstead Haider was counted. The southernmost district of the cadastral was the village Schmieding with 34 buildings and 102 inhabitants. In the north, the cadastral Kornstorf is the same market and the west of the village Kronstorfberg. The market had 2001 302 buildings and 1,231 residents. He was thus the largest district. Kronstorfberg contrast, only included 13 buildings and 48 residents and was grown together with the market already. South of Kronstorf are dwe district Grub, which is adjacent to the village Plaik (290 m above sea level. A. ) from the northern village of Grub and also the northern settlement Plaik. In addition, the Enns Mühlrading part of the district, including in 2001 a total of 82 buildings and 269 inhabitants. The largest of cadastral Kronstorf, Stallbach, is also the most sparsely populated region of the municipality. None of the five districts reached a three-digit number of inhabitants. In the West, the cadastral the scattered settlement Teufelsgraben is the Saxlgut. The district had 2001 17 buildings and 55 residents. To the east of the district Stallbach, located in the upper rotting Stallbach located (311 m above sea level. A. ) and the hamlet Unter Stallbach (307 m above sea level. A. ) is divided. North of Unterstall Bach is also the district Dörfling. Stallbach haate 2011 18 buildings and 63 residents of the hamlet Dörfling three buildings and 12 Einwohne. Next öszlich are further Pühring the rout with 12 buildings and 35 residents and the scattered settlement Winkling with 18 buildings and 25 buildings.

Climate

The territory of Kronstorf is located in the Central European climate area where the United subozeanische climate in the southern part of the Northern Alpine Foreland makes for a rainy weather with relatively mild winters. The temperatures here are in contrast to the Upper Austrian Alpine region constantly above the European average. It is a temperate humid zone with pronounced, but rather a short cold season. The highest rainfall values ​​are measured in the summer months from June to August. The following long-term average values ​​were measured in the nearest observation station of Linz Wipe in 1971 and 2000. The annual precipitation was 832.4 l / m, the mean annual temperature of 9.4 ° C. The average January temperature was -0.7 ° C, the mean July temperature of 19.1 ° C (both long-standing daily average ).

Coat of arms

Official description of the municipality coat of arms: Shared; above in red a silver deer bar silver down in three red, rising from the sign foot flames. The municipality colors are red and white.

History

834 seems Kronstorf as " Granesdorf " for the first time on a document. The social structure of the Middle Ages was marked by the basic rule. In Kronstorf the nobility and the clergy were among the landlords. The bishops of Passau had possessions here and in the 13th century. were subject to them in Kronstorf several fiefs. Originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria lying, was the place since the 12th century the Duchy of Austria. In the following years Kronstorf was repeatedly threatened by enemies. From 1485 to 1490 the Hungarians took of Ernsthofen out raids in the area of Kronstorf and conquered castle Schieferegg. Since 1490 he is the Principality ' Austria above the Enns ' attributed. During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times. Since 1918, the city is part of the newly founded state 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.

Kronstorf was from the 1952 's to 1995 Location of the radio station Kronstorf for medium wave. Built with three masts of the occupying United States, the 274 m high mast was the tallest structure ever in Austria. This large (and one of the smaller ) was dismantled in 1956 and rebuilt as something reduced transmitter Bisamberg in Vienna. The last remaining transmission tower was blown up on 25 January 1995.

Population

Population structure

2013 lived in the community Kronstorf 3,192 people, which Kronstorf was in the middle of the 22 municipalities of the district. Even with the population density was Kronstorf the average of these communities. End of 2001, 95.5 percent of the population Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, District Linz-Land 91.4 per cent), by the beginning of 2013, the value decreased slightly to 93.5 per cent ( 91.1 per cent of Upper Austria, Linz District country 89.0 percent). A total of 209 foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community who came to 95 percent from Europe. The largest contingent of people presented with a citizenship from the former Yugoslavia ( excluding Slovenia ), which accounted for 45 percent of all foreigners alone. From Turkey came seven percent of foreigners. From the Kronstorfer population were born abroad 2013 373. (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 84.2 percent of residents known, 3.6 percent were Protestant, 7.4 percent and 3.0 percent commitment without Islamic faith.

The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was slightly below the national average. 20.0 percent of the population of Kronstorf were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 62.2 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 17.8 percent slightly below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of Kronstorf changed in the sequence in all segment. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 strongly to 14.6 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years to 68.7 percent, considerably increased. The proportion of 59 -year-old, however, dropped to 16.6 percent. Marital status in 2001 41.6 percent of the population of Kronstorf were single, 48.1 percent married, widowed, divorced and 5.9 percent, 4.5 percent.

Demographics

The community Kronstorf recorded only a slight population growth of around 10 percent, while the increase was less than that of the district and the province of Upper Austria between the late 19th century and the year 1939. After 1939, for Kronstorf to a sharp increase in population with a much higher growth rates than the average for the province of Upper Austria, where the population of Kronstorf 1939-2013 almost tripled. However, the growth rates remained below the average of the district of Linz -Land. Particularly strong increases recorded the congregation 1939-1951, when the population increased by 37 percent. In the 1950s and 1960s Kronstorf grew again by around 15 percent, after which growth 1971-1991 flattened significantly. A renewed, strong influx there were in the church again in the 1990s, as the number of inhabitants increased by 24 percent. In the 1970s benefited the population development of a birth surplus, at the same time, there was a slight migration. The excess of births rose in the 1980s to still, while the balance of migration in contrast to the previous decade turned into positive. Also in the 1990s, the birth surplus increased, while the immigration extremely elevated. Three quarters of the population growth in the 1990s was due to immigration. However, the migration went back in the sequence, is migrating to and held in the period 2006-2012 even the Waag. The birth rate, however, was also positive since the turn of the millennium.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 25 members and has been committed to the local council elections in 2009 from mandatary of the following parties together:

Mayor is Christian Kolarik of the ÖVP.

Previous mayors

Twinning

Personalities

  • Florian Födermayr (1877-1960), farmer and politician
  • Josef Hamberger (1884-1962), trade unionist and politician
  • Rudolf Kirchschläger, spent his childhood and youth in Kronstorf and was therefore appointed in 1974 an honorary citizen

Culture and sights

On Brucknerplatz is the Bruckner Museum. It was opened in 1989 as a small museum and secures the violin Anton Bruckner, Kronstorfer compositions, as well as a chest from the time of the famous composer.

Economy and infrastructure

Workplaces and employees

Kronstorf hosted in 2001 an operation with more than one hundred employees and five companies with 20 or more employees. Overall, carried out as part of the Census Census of gave 92 workplaces with 642 employees (excluding agriculture ), where 88 percent of people in employment were. The number of workplaces showed a rise compared to 1991 by 38 ( plus 70 percent ), the number of employees by as much as 335 person (plus a 110 per cent). The most important industry in 2001 was the area real estate, renting / business services with 10 companies and 217 employees ( 34 percent of all employees ) before the manufacturing sector with 12 workplaces with 112 employees ( 17 percent) and trade in 26 workplaces and 108 employees ( 17 percent). 38 percent of harrows village workers were employees or officials, 48 percent of workers and 11 percent of farmers.

From living in Kronstorf 2010 1.630 labor only 3.1 percent were unemployed. Of the 1,579 workers 346 in the manufacturing sector (22 percent), 304 in trade ( 19 percent) and 134 in the health and social care (9 percent) were employed. Other important sectors were construction, and services. In agriculture and forestry were still 4.1 percent of the population is involved. Of the 1,548 workers from Kronstorf (without temporarily employed persons absent from work population ) in 2010 were only 266 people in Kronstorf after their employment. 1,282 or 83 percent had to commute to work. Of the commuters had 32 percent of their place of work in the district of Linz-Land, and 25 percent in Linz. Important commuter communities adjacent to Linz were Enns and Steyr. In return, 387 people commuted after a Kronstorf, many commuters from the districts Steyr, Steyr-Land and Amstetten came.

Established businesses

The end of 2008 it was announced that the Google Group plans to build a data center in Kronstorf. For this purpose a 75 -hectare plot of land was bought, the regional economy will benefit from the high level of investment and job creation. Due to the proximity of the Enns one expects a favorable energy supply after is to be expected for the server farm with an energy requirement of 50 to 100 megawatts.

Traffic

Public Transport: The nearest train station is in Ernsthofen, approximately 2.5 kilometers from the center Kronstorfs. From here the train of the ÖBB (formerly Rudolf train) to Linz ( about Sankt Valentin with connections to the West Railway) and after Kleinreifling over Steyr. Post buses run on the route Linz Steyr. Bus stations in the districts of: Thaling, House of Commons, Schmieding, Kronstorf, Mühlrading, Plaik

Street: Kronstorf is intersected by the L571 in North-South direction. Another north-south connection is the B309 "new". The connection to the West motorway A1 near Enns is located approximately 7 kilometers from Kronstorf.

Others

Sports

  • Golf: Golf Park Metzenhof
  • Football: SC Kronstorf
  • Sailing: Sailing Club Kronstorf
  • Tennis: UTC Kronstorf
  • Riding: Riding School Cavaletti
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