Sankt Peter am Hart
St. Peter am Hart ( also Sankt Peter am Hart) is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Braunau am Inn in Innviertel with 2426 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The competent court is the district court district of Braunau am Inn.
Geography
Sankt Peter am Hart is on 372 m altitude in Innviertel. The extension is 6 km from north to south, from west to east 6.4 km. The total area is 22.9 km ². 14.8% of the area is forested, 62.9 % of the area is used for agriculture.
Community structure
The municipality includes the following 21 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Aching (80 )
- Aham (55 )
- Aselkam (174 )
- Bergham (145 )
- Bogenhofen (322 )
- Unterdietfurt (219 )
- Guggenberg ( 8)
- Haguenau (192 )
- Hart ( 18)
- Heitz Berg ( 25)
- Hundslau (5)
- Jahrndorf (183 )
- My Harting (8)
- Moos ( 136)
- Nöfing (106)
- Oven ( 87)
- Reikersdorf (270 )
- St. Peter am Hart ( 351)
- Schickenedt (14)
- Spraid (14)
- Wimm (9 )
The municipality comprises the cadastral Anzing, Haguenau and St. Peter.
Coat of arms
Official description of the municipality coat of arms: from silver and gold divided by a wavy blue bar; above two black, diagonally crossed keys with averted beards, below a black bull's head in his sights. The municipality colors are green - yellow-blue
History
Since the establishment of the Duchy of Bavaria St. Peter am Hart was Bavarian until 1779 and came to the Peace of Teschen with the Innviertel (then ' Innbaiern ') to Austria.
From the village Aham in the community of St. Peter am Hart came the later ascended to the rank of count noble family of Ahamer.
During the Napoleonic Wars shortly Bavarian, part of St. Peter am Hart since 1814 final 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.
Policy
Mayor Rüdiger Buchholz of the SPÖ.
Population Development
In 1991, the municipality had 2069 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 2403 inhabitants.
Culture and sights
Personalities
- Maximilian trade (1889-1966), landowner and politician
- Raimund Jeblinger (1853-1937), architect of historicism