Stroheim

Stroheim is a municipality with 1558 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Upper Austria in Eferding district in Hausruckviertel. The municipality is located in the judicial district Eferding.

Geography

Stroheim is located on 489 m height on a gneiss bars, the 220-380 m rises above the Eferdinger pool. The highest peak, Mayrhofberg is 654 m high and at the same time the highest point of the district Eferding. In the north, the mountain drops off sharply to Aschach out the form here on the 2.7 km boundary of the municipality. Other notable waters there is not due to the hillside location.

The extension is 7.8 km from North to South, from West to East 9 km. The total area is 28.7 km ². 28.6% of the area is forested, 63.4 % of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 22 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Salvors (25 )
  • Birihub (40)
  • Dunzing (6)
  • Gmeinholz (34)
  • Götzberg (16 )
  • Großstroheim (94)
  • Gschnarret (21 )
  • Gstocket (17 )
  • Gugerling (14 )
  • Kleinstroheim (125 )
  • Knieparz whether the conduct (47 )
  • Kobling (119 )
  • Mayrhof (105 )
  • Mitterstroheim (217 )
  • Reith (76 )
  • Schnellersdorf (77 )
  • Stallberg (63 )
  • Stroheim (241 )
  • Baggage (16 )
  • Windischdorf (93 )
  • Wögern (78 )
  • Wölflhof (32 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Großstroheim and Mayrhof.

Neighboring communities (clockwise - in brackets are the cardinal directions ):

St. Agatha (NW), Haibach ob der Donau (NO), hard Churches ( O), Pupping (O), Hinzenbach (S ), Prambachkirchen (W) and Waizenkirchen (W).

History

In 1110 the village was first mentioned in documents as Strachen. 1272 can be found in a document of the name Strochen. Until 1848 Stroheim is a basic rule. In that year the two communities Mayrhof and Großstroheim are formed, which are merged in 1876 to the municipality Stroheim.

Religion

In 1235, Count John I of Schaubergwerk build a Catholic church. The Count was a member of St. John and gave the church as a branch church of the Hospitallers mail mountain, the later Maltese. From this fact, the Maltese cross in today's municipal coat of arms is derived. 1784 Stroheim will have its own parish. The Gothic parish church in its origins was later rebuilt several times, so she got including a neo-Gothic interior. Besides the parish church there are the Built in 1901, donated by Pupping Monastery

Landerlkapelle in the district Geisberg. It is aim of the annual Ascension Day processions and can be used as a wedding chapel.

Today ( 2006) are about 75 % of the population are Catholics.

Culture and sights

  • Parish: gothic, built in 1235
  • Landerlkapelle: built in 1901
  • Mayrhofberg: on the highest point of the municipality ( 654m ) is located since 1884 a brick observation tower.

Policy

  • Mayor: Mayor Franz Breuer, Deputy Mayor Rudolf Gammer, both from the ÖVP.
  • City Council: The council consists of 19 members and is since the municipal elections of 2009 mandates the following parties together:
  • 13 ÖVP - provides the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor
  • 3 SPÖ
  • 2 FPÖ
  • 1 AAF

Coat of arms

Blazon: From red and silver quartered with a Maltese cross in reversed colors. The municipality colors are green and white. The notched ( " eight-pointed " ) cross is the sign of the company founded in Jerusalem in 1113 St John, later Military Order of Malta, which arose on the occasion of the Crusades to care for the pilgrims and to defend the churches in the Holy Land. The Order of St. John Coming Stroheim was probably built in 1260 or even in 1235 due to a gift from the Lords of Schaubergwerk within their sphere of influence and the Commandery mail Mountain / northeast. passed as a branch; 1273 St. Mary's Church is mentioned above " Strahen " in a deed to the Master Wulfing in mail mountain for the first time in writing. After 1780 or 1784, the establishment of the parish Stroheim was decreed in 1790 renounced the Maltese Coming to the right of patronage, which finally went to the religious fund the newly created Diocese of Linz.

Education

  • Community kindergarten
  • Elementary school

Sports

  • Two tennis courts
  • Asphalt track
  • Public sports ground
  • Marked trails
  • In winter, a 15 -km cross -country ski trail

Traffic

Because of its location on a hill, there is no through traffic. The L 1217 straw bucket road leads from Eferding about Stroheim into Aschach Valley at Waizenkirchen. There are also secondary roads in other neighboring communities.

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