Sankt Stefan am Walde
St. Stefan am Walde (also Sankt Stefan am Walde ) is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria in the upper Upper Austria with 801 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The competent jurisdiction is Rohrbach in Upper Austria.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 Demographics
Geography
Sankt Stefan am Walde is located at 807 m altitude in the upper Upper Austria. The expansion is 4.7 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 5.9 km. The total area is 16 km ². 33.8 % of the area is forested, 61.3 % of the area is used for agriculture.
Districts of the municipality
Dambergschlag, Gmain, Haid, Herr Schlag, Interior Dash, Oberafiesl, Oberebenhütte, Upper Riedl, Preßleithen, Raiden, Sankt Stefan am Walde, sub level, Unterriedl.
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.
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) is represented by the local council elections in 2009, with the mayor and the deputy mayor in the parish council, and thus in this body represents the absolute majority. The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ) sends another members.
Strongest faction in the city council of St. Stefan has always been the ÖVP, which in the period since 1945 is always the absolute majority of votes and mandate achieved and in most cases even reached a two-thirds majority. Since 1945, The second strongest recorded the ÖVP election results from 65.5 to 80.6 percent, with the ÖVP their best result achieved in 1961, its worst in 1949. Parties in the local council of St. Stefan was always the SPÖ since 1945, the SPÖ since 1945 results from 19.4 to 34.5 came. Other parties as ÖVP and SPÖ did not stand in the community since 1945.
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 Franz Engleder (ÖVP ) decide by 86.8 percent against the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the first round itself. 2003 Franz Anzinger approached for the ÖVP. he arrived at the mayor direct dial to 87.8 percent, with it this time was no opposing candidate. 2009 Anzinger was confirmed with 66.7 percent in office, except that a candidate of the Social Democratic Party candidate against him.
Mayor since 1850:
Coat of arms
The community Schönegg with certain Resolution by the Council on 4 November 1968, the design of the coat of arms municipality and the local color ( yellow). The coat of arms was granted in the following resolution passed by the Upper Austrian Provincial Government on 17 May 1971 and approved by the municipality colors. The blazon of the arms is: "Divided; top in gold, a blue, diagonally right excepted ax with black handle, down in green three silver, two -to-one asked, irregularly shaped stones. " the ax in the coat of arms is a saga that revolves around the founding of the parish church. As the construction of the parish church did not succeed, the Holy Stefan came in the shape of a carpenter from the forest and contributed to the builders to build the house of God there in the forest where the ax is thrown by him. The stones in the lower part of the coat of arms are in turn for the local and parish patron who was stoned to death in Jerusalem. The draft of the municipality coat of arms comes from Gerhard Hirnschrodt from Linz.