Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis

Parishes in Mühlkreisautobahn is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria in the upper Upper Austria with 1482 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach.

• 3.1 Population structure
• 3.2 Demographics

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Mayor
• 4.3 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 Attractions

Geography

Parishes in Mühlkreisautobahn situated at an altitude of 819 m above sea level. A. in the southwestern part of the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria upper. Based on the nature conservation space planning the municipality share of the Southern Bohemian Forest foothills, on Zentralmühlviertler highlands as well as in the far south has on the indoor unit Danube canyon and tributary valleys .. The extension is from north to south 10.7 kilometers, from west to east 5.6 km, the total includes 31.15 km ². Parish churches, making it the fifth largest municipality in area of the district Rohrbach. With 48 inhabitants per km ², the municipality was in 2013, however, in the lower third of the municipalities of the district. In 2001, the municipality was wooded to 40.7 per cent, 53.5 per cent of the area is used for agriculture. In comparison with the state of Upper Austria parish churches, which is slightly more than average forested ( Upper Austria: 38.3 percent ) and is slightly more agricultural area ( Upper Austria: 49.3 percent). The proportion of other uses ( construction areas, gardens, waters and other ) amounted to around 5.8 percent, well behind the Upper Austrian average of 13.8 percent. Neighboring communities of parish churches are Oberkappel in the north, Atzesberg in the northeast, Putzleinsdorf in the east, Hofkirchen in Mühlkreisautobahn in the southeast and Neustift im Mühlkreisautobahn the southwest and west.

Geology and soil

The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif, which goes back to a very old mountain range, which by the Variscan orogeny in the Paleozoic ( Carboniferous) was born. After the strong erosion of the former high mountains, it came during the alpidic orogeny in the Tertiary to raise the crystalline basement to several 100 meters, which fractures and faults formed. Subsequently, it came in the Tertiary and Quaternary deposition of sediments. The altitudes in the municipality range from around 300 to around 900 meters, which moves the bulk of the congregation 550-700 meters. The area falls from the northeast to the southwest slowly and is structured by numerous peaks and troughs, resulting in the main drainage direction. In the municipality there siliceous brown soil that forms on granites and gneisses as soil type before. The light to very light soils are generally poor in nutrients in their quality and in their use of the depth and the water supply dependent. In addition, in the range of Quellvernässungen, wet meadows, ditches, depressions and on slopes feet gley soils occur in the highest registers of the parish forest exists Podsolauf.

Landscape and vegetation

The municipality is divided into various sub- landscapes, where the east and north is the Pfarrkirchner highlands, which has a high and a low proportion of forest in the north to the east. The East is wooded to about 70 percent and also houses the main town parish churches. The forest has a partial natural species composition and structure and is home to spruce-fir - beech forest but also strongly influenced forestry pure spruce stands. Agriculture in this area has a distinct focus on grassland management, where the arable land is used around the village parish churches as a golf course. The north of the country is forested high only to 25 percent, with forestry heavily embossed pure spruce stands predominate and there are only minor deciduous trees rich patches with predominantly Book. The sub-region is loosely populated, mixed arable and grassland farming has a slight emphasis on grassland. The center and the west of the township is a country hilltop in relief with regular features of landscape elements. This is an agriculturally more or less intensively embossed area with regularly distributed forest land, the member area is forested to 20 percent and loosely populated. The forest areas are mostly forestry heavily embossed pure spruce stands, the mixed arable and grassland farming has a slight focus on grassland management, have said a few extensive hay meadows, especially on steep slopes is obtained. In the far west and the southwest lies the wooded ravine area of ​​Ranna, the natural, steep ravine forests houses, which are reported in the south as a Natura 2000 site. In the south of the area is mostly a natural species composition and structure of spruce - fir-beech forest, and in the ravine forest area numerous ash, sycamore and elm as well as in the deeper layers also occur oak-hornbeam companies. In the northern part there are also many strong forestry embossed pure spruce stands.

Community structure

Quarters are Albernberg, Altenhof, Amesedt, Atzgersdorf, Mountain at Hamet, Eilmannsberg, Erdmannsdorf, falconry, Grettenbach, Hamet, Hinterleithen, high-rise, Irnezedt, Karl Bach, Konzing, Mühlholz, Niederranna, Pernerstorf, Parishes in Mühlkreisautobahn, Pollmannsdorf, Ratzesberg, nicks, impact, Unholnedt, Father Reith, WoodyStock, Weber shock, Wehrbach, Wernersdorf, Wurz wool, Zanklbach and Zinöck.

History

Originally under the suzerainty of the Bishops of Passau, the area was several times during the Napoleonic Wars, among others occupied by Bavaria. Since 1814, the place is definitely a thing to 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 municipality belonged to the judicial district of Lembach, after the dissolution of this judicial district parish was assigned to the judicial district of Rohrbach January 1, 2003.

Population

Population structure

2013 lived in the town of 1,482 people parish churches, parish churches which lay in the middle of the 42 municipalities of the district. In relation to the population density of parish churches, however, in the lower third of the municipalities of the district. End of 2001, 96.2 percent of the population Austrian citizens (Upper Austria 92.8 percent, 96.9 percent Rohrbach district ) until the beginning of 2013, the value changed to 95.1 percent ( 91.1 percent Upper Austria, Rohrbach District 96, 9 percent) barely. A total of 72 foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community who came to 79 percent from Europe and 17 percent from Asia. Had a total of 2013 192 inhabitants another country of birth as Austria. (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 95.0 percent of residents known, 2.3 percent had no religious affiliation, 1.1 percent and 0.3 percent Protestant Islamic faith.

The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was slightly below the national average. 23.0 percent of the population of small cell were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 58.5 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 18.4 percent below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of parish churches changed in the sequence in all segment. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 to 17.9 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years to 65.7 percent, considerably increased. The proportion of 59 -year-old, however, dropped to 16.4 percent. Marital status in 2001 49.1 percent of the inhabitants of parish churches were single, married 44.0 percent, 5.2 percent widowed and divorced 1.7 percent.

Demographics

Policy

Parish council

The council, the supreme body of the municipality consists of 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 member.

Strongest faction in the council of parish churches has always been the ÖVP, which in the period since 1945 is always the absolute majority of votes and mandate and scored in every election even reached a two-thirds majority. In 1949 the People's Party with 100 per cent to their best result so far, and no other party candidate. Up to and including the election in 1985 the People's Party had more than 80 percent of the vote, 1991-2009, she came to 71.0 to 74.8 percent. In 1997, she recorded her worst result with 71.0 percent. The second strongest party in the municipal council of parish churches was always the SPÖ since 1945, however, they decided not to run in 1949. Documents the results of the SPÖ to 1991 always with a maximum of 14 percent, the SPÖ from 1997 to 2009 came to 18.7 to 26.7 percent. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ ) entered in 1991 for the first time in the town, and came to 11.9 percent, in 1997 it reached 10.3 percent. Since then, the Freedom Party, however, is no longer taken up in parishes.

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 the incumbent mayor since 1991 Johann Moser ( ÖVP) decide by 76.6 percent against the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the first round. In 2003, Moser was, however, confirmed by 75.0 percent in the first ballot unopposed in office. 2009 won his successor Gierlinger with 86.3 percent unopposed choice.

Mayor since 1850:

Coat of arms

The church Parishes in certain Mühlkreisautobahn with Resolution by the Council on 24 August 1979 the design of the coat of arms municipality and the municipality of colors ( red, white and green). By resolution of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government of 10 December 1979 the coat of arms was granted or approved the municipality colors in a row. The blazon of the arms is: ". In red on green, fringed by a golden bar hill, in three, two asked for one, golden lilies, a golden Latin cross with trefoil ends " where the coat of arms refers to the history, the religion and the location of the community. The dominant in the crest golden cross stands for the place name and the parish of the municipality, which was the mother of the parish until the 12th century still sparsely populated area. The cross is enthroned on a stylized hill, which symbolizes the location on the gentle ridge of Passau forest and stands for the position as the highest vicarage of the district Rohrbach. The three lilies in the sign stand for the Marienpatrozinien various churches in the community and the root of the coat of arms SALZBURG, who were landowners in parish churches.

Culture and sights

Attractions

The parish church of the Assumption is an originally Romanesque / Gothic church, the Baroque style in the 17th century comprehensively. The church was built in the 13th century still in Romanesque style. From this time, some remains of frescoes have been preserved in the nave. The church is surrounded by a cemetery and this ring enclosing wall. The church interior is characterized by lush mural painting by frescoes and stucco painting by Giovanni Carlone and his staff. A special feature is that the stucco of the church is painted ( stucco finto ). This type of painting had not given it up to this time in the Austrian region and was then a new form of equipment. After major damage from local fires in 1678 and 1682 the church was remodeled by the Passau Domarchitekten Carlo Carlone Antonio in the late Baroque style. Between 1697 Giovanni Carlone finished the ceiling frescoes of the church, which were painted over in the 19th century and until the restoration of the church from 1988 to 1995 again came to light and were restored.

Other important sights are the four-winged castle Altenhof and the late-Gothic, Baroque style Loretto Chapel. Originally used as a grave chapel, the chapel was from 1670 to 1673 and rebuilt in Baroque style from 1693 to 1694 to the Loretto Chapel.