Spital am Pyhrn
- SPÖ: 13
- ÖVP: 10
- FPÖ: 2
Spital am Pyhrn is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems in Traun quarter, Austria with 2181 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).
- 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 8.2 people with relationship to a place
Geography
Spital am Pyhrn lies on 640 m altitude in Traun quarter. The dimension is 16 km from north to south and from west to east 12.3 km. The total area is 108.9 km ². 47.6 % of the area is forested and 19.3 % of the area is used for agriculture.
Community structure
The municipality comprises the following five villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Driving Berg ( 28)
- Gleinkerau (293 )
- Oberweng (267 )
- Seebach ( 245 )
- Spital am Pyhrn ( 1377 )
The municipality comprises the cadastral mountain driving, Gleinkerau and Spital am Pyhrn.
Spital am Pyhrn belongs to the tourism Pyhrn-Priel region.
History
Emperor Henry II donated the land on Phyrn the bishopric of Bamberg. The place was one of the 12th century the Duchy of Austria.
Bishop Otto II of Bamberg handed 1190 Spital am Pyhrn a brotherhood. The hospital was in 1418 converted into a collegiate. The pin Spital am Pyhrn gained some wealth in the following centuries. The collegiate church was elevated by Pope Paul V in 1605 to a provost. 1714 to 1730 the church with frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte and stucco work by Domenico Antonio Carlone was designed Baroque by Johann Michael Prunner. They then received four exquisite altarpieces by Kremser Schmid and two of Michelangelo Unterberger.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times.
The Benedictine monks of the repealed in 1806, the monastery of St. Blaise in the Black Forest covered with the entire inventory of the monastery and the coffins of the early Habsburgs first to Spital am Pyhrn. Then their was the collegiate too small and the climate too rough, the Convention already moved in 1809 to St. Paul in the Lavant Valley. The collegiate church was not allowed to be built again, and the collegiate church was the parish church. On the night of 25th to October 26th, 1841, a fire damaged the town and the monastery building.
The place belonged to the Crown Land Austria above the Enns, 1918 became the province of Upper Austria.
After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on 13 March 1938, the town belonged to the " Upper Danube ". In early 1945, the total gold treasure of the Hungarian National Bank was incorporated ( 33,000 kg ) in the crypt under the chancel of the church. After 1945 the restoration of Upper Austria and the convent building came into the possession of the Austrian. Federal Forests, which they sold to the Spital am Pyhrn 2009. An exterior restoration of the congregation took place from 1964 until 1967. Between 1989 and 1997, the forest enterprise hospital / Phyrn was established in the pen. Today, the Austrian Rock Art Museum is in the restored baroque rooms of the pen.
Hospital belonged until 2012 for the judicial district Windischgarsten and since 1 January 2013 part of the judicial district of Kirchdorf an der Krems.
Coat of arms
Blazon: Shared; top in gold, a black, growing lion, down in a golden blue, crescent fallen, sullied with a golden cross. The municipality colors are blue - yellow-blue.
The lion is the " impaired " emblem of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, whose Bishop Otto II of the house of Andechs- Meranien in 1190 founded a hostel for pilgrims on the north side of the Phyrn passport. The sticking some the cross, down swept crescent was the emblem of the 1418 emerged from the hospice, in 1807 repealed collegiate secular canons.
Population Development
In 1991 the municipality had 2,197 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 2274 inhabitants.
Culture and sights
- Collegiate Church ( Parish ) 1199 consecration of the church; magnificent expansion and refinement 1714-1730 by the Baroque architect Johann Michael Prunner, frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte, stucco work by Domenico Antonio Carlone, four altarpieces by Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt, and two altarpieces by Michelangelo Unterberger, furthermore a wrought iron cover grille in the collegiate church by Andreas Ferdinand Mayr Linder, one of the most beautiful ironwork of Austria. The Collegiate Church is part of the former monastery.
- Austrian Rock Art Museum: Opened in 1979, the museum presents an overview of petroglyphs and rock paintings from all over the world and is located in the convent building
Recreation and Sports
- Vogelsang Gorge 1906 opened up; it is the largest rocky gorge in Upper Austria and a popular hiking destination. Numerous paths and stairs made of wood allow walking through the gorge.
- Panoramic Pool: 1971 opened, rebuilt in 1991
- Golf course Pyhrn -Priel: Opened in 2006, 18 -hole golf course with an attached golf school
Freeman
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (* 1970 in Kirchdorf an der Krems) grew up, extreme mountaineer, in Spital am Pyhrn, since September 30, 2011
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Christoph Conrad Wine Master (1810-1871), Sense producer and industrialist, bearer of the Civil Order of Merit.
- Ernst Krackowizer (1821-1875, Ossining, New York City, NY ), Austrian revolutionaries of 1848 and well-known surgeon in the United States.
- Michael Leisgen ( born 1944 ), Photographer
Persons with respect to the location
- Roland Girtler ( b. 1941 ), grew sociologist and cultural anthropologist in Spital am Pyhrn, visited ibid. 1947-1951 elementary school; Girtler is regularly in place.
Economy
Dana- door Industrie GmbH, Austria's largest door manufacturer with 480 employees goes with the beginning of 2005 of Admont Abbey to the Danish door manufacturers Vest-Wood A / S.Vest -Wood, since 2002 part of Door Holding A / S is 2006 as the largest European door manufacturer to Jeld- Wen of Oregon, USA. Jeld -Wen doors GmbH is now called the producing company in the hospital, as part of the international group Jeld -Wen.