Sankt Oswald bei Haslach
St. Oswald bei Haslach (also Sankt Oswald bei Haslach ) is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria upper. The population is 496 (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Rohrbach.
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Mayor
- 5.1 Population structure
- 5.2 Demographics
- 6.1 Workplaces and Employees
Geography
Sankt Oswald bei Haslach is located on 658 m height in the Upper Upper Austria. The expansion is 4 km from north to south, from west to east 4.2 kilometers, the total area covers 8.1 km ², with which the municipality is the third smallest of the district. In 2001, the municipality was covered to 68 percent of agricultural land, 26 percent were forested. In addition, construction areas, gardens and water accounted for about 1 per cent each of the municipal area, the remainder came from other areas. Neighboring municipalities are Lichtenau Mühlkreisautobahn in the southeast, Berg bei Rohrbach in the southwest and Schlaegl in the West. In the north of the border to the Czech runs, where St. Oswald borders the Okres Český Krumlov.
Geology and soil
The landscape of the municipality is part of the Bohemian Massif which goes back to a very ancient 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 territory itself is characterized by low mountain forms, the municipal area to the valley of the Great Muehl to 510 m above sea level. A. drops. While the village of St. Oswald with 658 m above sea level. A. is located in the central area of the municipality we find the highest point of the municipality in the north to 750 m above sea level. A.. Dominate as rocks are found in the municipality of older coarse-grained granites of the type Weinberger granite. He is one of the first solidified during the folding mountain magma series, has a typical coarseness and causes a troubled landscape character with a rapid exchange of local maxima and minima. As soil type is found siliceous brown soil in the municipality represent the light to very light soils. The quality of the generally poor soils is dependent on the depth and the water supply. The soil is generally loamy sand or sandy loam, which is found in the valley along the Great Muehl and in ditches, wells, on a slope feet or similar instead Gleyzu.
Landscape and vegetation
The territory can be roughly divided into two sections. In the north and north-east there is a more populated mountainous country with diverse landscape elements, to the west and south-east, however, a poorly structured agricultural zone. In addition to the main settlement areas, the northern landscape space on large, cross-community and closed forest areas, which are mostly covered by coniferous forest. There are also small deciduous forest areas and smaller areas to be afforested. Furthermore, there exists in this area of grassland farming and agriculture on meliorierten surfaces with very little exist extensively managed grassland. As structural elements in addition there are orchards and rows in the field of urban edges and scattered rows of trees along paths or stepping stones. In the west and south-east of the municipal area is used intensive agriculture, with only scattered small settlements exist. As structural elements are only minimal residual structures at the edges of settlement in the form of orchards present, the land consolidation has led to large-scale losses of landscape components and waters. Large closed forest areas (mainly coniferous forest ) exist only along the Great Muehl, and besides, there are no small forest areas.
Community structure
The parish of St. Oswald bei Haslach is congruent with the cadastral St. Oswald, where the community is divided into eight districts. The main town of the municipality is the village of St. Oswald. It lies in the east of the municipality to 658 meters above sea level and is the only district with more than 100 inhabitants dar. St. Oswald in 2001 included a total of 57 buildings. Surrounded St. Oswald of small bands, and hamlets. These are the rotting Almesberg (620 m above sea level. A. ) south of St. Oswald, the rotting Laimbach (570 m above sea level. A. ) west of St. Oswald and the hamlet Morau in the north. Almesberg housed in 2001 18, 14 and Laimbach Morau four buildings. In the southern municipality is situated on the Schlägl county road that company Schwackerreith (570 m above sea level. A. ). It included 24 buildings in 2001 and was the second largest district of the municipality. To Rotte this included the lying off to the Great Muehl Church Holy Stone and the Furtmühle. Also on the Schlägl district road, but in the northwest of the municipal area of the hamlet Minihof located (560 m above sea level. A. ) were among the 12 buildings in 2001. Northeast of Minihof also lies the rotting saturated Ling (570 m above sea level. A. ) nördling the rotting Günter Reith (650 m above sea level. A. ). Saturated Ling 2001 included a total of 22 buildings, Günter Reith had 15 buildings.
Coat of arms
Official description of the municipality coat of arms: Humiliated divided; top in silver, a black, left inverted raven with a red ring in its beak, below in blue with a silver stake. The municipality colors are blue and white.
The municipal coat of arms was granted in 1978 by the Upper Austrian government. The Raven is an attribute of St.. Oswald for the parish patron saint and namesake of the place. The silver stake refers to the running in the municipal area watershed between the North Sea (Elbe ) and the Black Sea ( Danube ) and the salt road that led here from the Danube to Bohemia.
History
Originally under the suzerainty of the Bishops of Passau, the place during the Napoleonic Wars was repeatedly inter alia, 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. Sankt Oswald was in 1850 part of the judicial district Haslach, which was dissolved in 1923. Sankt Oswald was assigned to the judicial district of Aigen in a row. After 2003, this jurisdiction had been resolved, the community was part of the judicial district of Rohrbach.
Policy
Parish council
The council, the supreme body of the municipality includes 13 seats and is elected every six years Upper Austria on municipal elections in the course. The parish council is composed of three members, with the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP) with the mayor and the deputy mayor and two members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ ), a Member.
Strongest faction in the council of small cell has always been the ÖVP, which is always the absolute majority of votes and was able to achieve majority mandate 1973-2009. By 1985, the ÖVP was even the only party that ran in St. Oswald, which is why it was also all local councils until this year. Only when the local council election 1991 candidate with the SPÖ a second party. The SPÖ finished fourth in her first appearance in 1991 28.5 percent, and could reach in the following years 37-41 percent. The ÖVP scored accordingly 1991-2009 59-72 percent. In the last local elections of 2009, the ÖVP came to 59.4 percent, or eight seats, the Social Democrats scored 40.6 percent of its best result and five 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. Mayor Paul math of the ÖVP. In the previous mayor direct elections always the ÖVP was able to prevail. Your election result ranged from 82 percent in 1997 over 63 per cent in 2003 to only 55 percent in 2009. Vice Mayor is also provided by the ÖVP.
Population
Population structure
2013 lived in the parish of St. Oswald 496 people, making St. Oswald was the fifth smallest municipality of the district. In relation to the population density was St. Oswald, however, in the middle of the municipalities of the district was. End of 2001, 98.9 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 98.4 percent ( 91.1 percent Upper Austria, Rohrbach District 96, 9 percent) barely. Overall, only eight foreigners were counted in 2013 in the community who came exclusively from Europe. For the Roman Catholic Church in 2001 97.5 percent of the population known (Upper Austria: 79.4 percent) and 2.1 percent without commitment.
The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was below the national average. 21.2 percent of the population of St. Oswald were younger than 15 years ( Upper Austria: 18.8 percent ), 63.0 percent from 15 to 59 years old (Upper Austria: 61.6 percent). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 15.9 percent, well below the national average of 20.2 percent. The average age of the population of St. Oswald changed in the sequence in all segment strong. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2013 to 12.5 percent, while the share of people between 15 and 59 years to 74.0 percent, considerably increased. The proportion of 59 -year-old, however, dropped to 13.5 percent. After the family as of 2001, 53.6 percent of the residents of St. Oswald were single, 39.2 percent married, widowed, divorced and 4.6 percent 2.6 percent.
Demographics
The parish of St. Oswald recorded between the late 19th century and the mid 20th century a negative population growth, with the population of about 600 inhabitants shrank to just over 400 inhabitants. The shrinkage of the population was particularly strong here 1880-1910, after which it came to 1939, only a small population decline. As a result, the population of St. Oswald began to rise until 1951, then stagnated in the 1950s and subsequently rose again until 1991. In 1991, by many people lived almost as in the community as 1869. Since 1991, however, the community is again able population losses. While the church in the 1970s still had a balanced migration balance and won due to the birth of an excess of population, continued from the 1980s, an exodus movement a. This was in the 1980s still low and could be more than offset by the surplus of births over. In the 1990s, emigration has, however, been about the same as the Gbeurtenüberschuss. Since the migration since 2001 has risen sharply and the rate of natural increase was comparatively lower than in previous decades, shrinking the population of St. Oswald since 2001 quickly again.
Economy and infrastructure
Workplaces and employees
St. Oswald in 2001 was home to no operation with 20 or more employees. Overall, carried out as part of the Census Census of gave only 14 workplaces with 60 employees (excluding agriculture ), where 82 percent of people in employment were. The number of workplaces showed a rise over the 1991 to five ( plus 56 percent ), the number of employees by 25 person (plus 71 percent). Due to the small number of workplaces in 2001 there were no dominant industry. In the education sector 12 people were employed in the public administration, the nature of accommodation and catering trade and the trade per 11 people. 55 percent of employees in St. Oswald were employees or officials, 20 percent workers and 15 per cent holding.
From living in St. Oswald 2010 305 economically active persons 5.6 per cent were unemployed. Of the 288 workers 58 in the manufacturing sector (20 percent), 44 in construction (15 percent) and 41 in trade ( 14 percent) were employed. Other important industries were the health and social services with 11 percent, agriculture and forestry, with 8 percent, and the Public Administration 7 percent of the workforce. Of the 264 workers of St. Oswald (without temporarily employed persons absent from work population ) in 2010 were only 54 people in St. Oswald after their employment. 210 or 80 percent had to commute to work. Of the commuters had 27 percent of their place of work in the state capital of Linz and 54 percent in the district of Rohrbach, the Beziorkshauptstadt Rohrbach and the community Haslach belonged to the Muehl to the main commuter towns. In turn, only 26 people commuted after a St. Oswald, with 85 percent came from the district of Rohrbach.