Pöchlarn

Poechlarn is a town with 3948 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Melk in Lower Austria ( Austria ).

• 3.1 Demographics

Geography

Poechlarn is in the Most district, right on the southern ( right ) bank of the Danube at the mouth of Erlauf, in Nibelungengau, and is also called the Nibelungen city. The area of ​​the municipality covers 17.96 square kilometers. 16.47 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

The municipal area covers seven villages (in brackets population as at 31 October 2011):

• On computing (1320 )
• Brunn an der Erlauf ( 747 )
• Ornding (355)
• Poechlarn ( 1443 )
• Rampersdorf (28 )
• Röhrapoint (31)
• Wörth ( 0)

The municipality comprises the cadastral Brunn, Ornding, Poechlarn, Rampersdorf, Röhrapoint and Wörth.

History

Already 4000 BC, the region was inhabited. The people acted et al with degraded into small Poechlarn serpentine. At the time of the Romans was here the Noric Limes, the heavily guarded border with the Germans. The site of today's city core at the time was on a gravel island between the main flow of the Danube and the Erlauf. It was at this point probably also an important crossing the Danube. Under the Flavians the auxiliary troops Arelape fort was built on the island, therefore, in which a troop of horsemen and a part of the Roman Danube fleet was stationed later.

Poechlarn was known in the early Middle Ages as Bechelaren and is mentioned in the Nibelungenlied as the ancestral castle of Rüdiger von Bechelaren.

Population

Demographics

Policy

The council has 23 seats, mayor of the municipality is Alfred Bergner, chief officer John Giestheuer.

In the municipal elections of 2005, the People's Party 11, Social Democratic Party 9, the Greens and the FPÖ reached 2 1 mandate. In the municipal elections of 2010, the SPÖ lost 5, the Greens one seat, the FPÖ won three seats, the list The new initiative Poechlarn ( INPÖ ) 3 seats and moved into the council.

Traffic

On the road Poechlarn is on the A1 western motorway, accessible by train through the Austrian Western Railway and the Danube highway on the northern bank of the Danube, and on the waterway on the Danube itself. Furthermore there is between Poechlarn and small Poechlarn since 2002 a road bridge. It replaces a previously circulating motor ferry.

Economy

Due to the traffic- favorable situation Poechlarn is a major business in the region. The largest employers include the company Vetropack, BRAMAC and Lasselsberger, in addition, there also are several other small and medium enterprises. The passage location and the proximity to a newly created highway access offered the opportunity to tap a fast-growing operating settlement area in the recent past.

Sport and Leisure

In Poechlarn to an intact and dense network of associations, among the most famous finds, inter alia,

• ASVÖ VHS Poechlarn
• Caritas welfare center
• Goldhaubengruppe
• " Gosser team " Ornding
• Beekeepers Association Poechlarn
• Yacht Club Nibelungengau
• Kleintierzuchtverein
• KOBV Poechlarn - Confederation of Disabled People
• MC Nibelungen
• Model Club Buzzard
• Friends of Nature
• Nibelung Pass Poechlarn
• Scout
• Knighthood to Bechelaren
• Shooting club Poechlarn
• SV " Gramel " Poechlarn - Golling
• Union Wheel Club Nibelungen Poechlarn
• Union Rowing Club Poechlarn
• Union Tennis Club Poechlarn
• Club City Marketing Poechlarn

Train

In addition to the usual local elementary, primary, general special schools and music schools are located in Poechlarn a vocational school for the carpenter's trade, for carpenters, Information Technology and the only Austrian vocational school for Cooper. This vocational school complex is connected to a boarding school. Also a master class of carpenters is located here.

Culture and sights

• The birthplace of Oskar Kokoschka, called Kokoschka house, houses OK documentation of works by Kokoschka himself and temporary exhibitions, mainly with works of his students
• The 800 year old Town Hall
• The old Town Hall basement as a venue
• Welser tower
• The Demmer tower
• The Renaissance castle Poechlarn
• The carpenter Museum
• The parish church of the Assumption, built in 1389-1429 and renovated in Baroque style after a fire in 1766.
• The Nibelungen monument with the arms of the Nibelungs cities.
• The old town

Welser tower

Renaissance castle Poechlarn

Nibelungen monument on the banks of the Danube

Birthplace of Oskar Kokoschka

Twin Cities

• Germany Riedlingen in Baden -Württemberg ( Germany ), since 1996

Personalities

• Rüdiger von Bechelaren, figure from the Nibelungen saga, whose existence can be historically not occupied
• Johann Rasch (1540-1612), cleric, writer, organist, mathematician and booksellers
• Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), painter, graphic artist and writer of Expressionism
• Johann Dangl (1870-1944), mayor of inning and Member of the State Parliament of Lower Austria
• Hildegard Wais (1909-1986), poet
• Manfred Angerer (1953-2010), musicologist