Pischelsdorf am Engelbach

Pischeldorf am Engelbach is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Braunau am Inn in Innviertel with 1656 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The competent court is the district court district Mattighofen.

Geography

Pischeldorf am Engelbach is located at 433 m altitude in Innviertel. The expansion is 6.9 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 8.2 km. The total area is 32.7 km ². 30.9% of the area is forested, 64.5 % of the area is used for agriculture. Is named the community after flowing through it Engelbach.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 33 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

Aich ( 7)
Mountain ( 0)
Paper (36)
Deimledt (9)
Dessenhausen (69 )
Edt (20 )
Angel Schärding (77 )
Erlach (57 )
Feldmühl (55)
Glatzberg (14 )
Großgollern (38)
Gschwendt (32 )
Hart ( 27)
Humertsham (39)
Irnstötten (18)
Kager (11 )
Kaltenhausen ( 5)

Kleingollern (33)
Lander Ting (67 )
Moss (17 )
Ottendorf (88 )
Perleiten (9)
Pfaffing (21 )
Pischeldorf am Engelbach (332 )
Posching (14)
Schmidham (186 )
Schwarzgröben (42)
Winner Ting (133 )
Stapfing (10)
Stempfen (16)
Under Hart ( 17)
Wagenham (108 )
Wehrendorf (31 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Erlach, Gschwendt, Humertsham and Pischeldorf.

History

In the year 803 gave Cotalind and her brother Popili the Church of the Assumption, the Cotafried and wife Kepahilt had built (consecrated in 739 ), including possession of the bishop of Passau, hence the local name Bishop village.

Since the founding of the duchy of Bavaria, the place was Bavarian until 1779 and came to the Peace of Teschen with the Innviertel (then Innbaiern ) to Austria. During the Napoleonic Wars shortly Royal Bavarian, he is now finally in 1814 to Crown Land Austria above the Enns. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on 13 March 1938, the village belonged to the Upper Danube. After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria.

Population Development

In 1991 the municipality had 1,513 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 1644 inhabitants.

Policy

Mayor Johann Sengthaler of the ÖVP.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Oblique divided; up in a golden red, growing from the dividing line of a bishop's crook rod, down in a green silver, transverse asked Buchenast with two green leaves, one each from the bottom up and from the top bent downward. The municipality colors are red -yellow-green.

Culture and sights

Personalities

Franz Giger (1856-1937), farmer and politician, mayor of Pischeldorf am Engelbach

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