Traunviertel

The Traun quarter ( the municipality also named Traun circle) is named after the river Traun, which originally formed the northwestern boundary of this part of the country of Upper Austria. In the course of the change in the administrative structure with the creation of political districts in the 19th century was also a change in the demarcation to the north-west Hausruckviertel. The Traun quarter as south-eastern part is bordered on the southwest by the most beautiful countryside in the south of the district Liezen and on the east by the Most area.

NUTS breakdown: AT315

In the run for the official statistics of the EU NUTS breakdown is ' Traun quarter ' one of the five groups of districts (NUTS: AT -2) in Upper Austria, bears the code AT315 and includes three political districts:

• Gmunden
• Kirchdorf an der Krems
• Steyr-Land
• Steyr City

Traditionally also Linz City Linz-Land District and are each calculated south of the Traun to Traun quarter. According to the NUTS regional breakdown of the EU's term in 2000 was the extent redefined. Upper Austria is therefore not divided into statistics at European level on its four quarters, but in its regions Innviertel, Upper Austria, Traun quarter, Linz -Wels and Steyr- Kirchdorf. This corresponds to the modern spatial planning concept in which the Upper Austrian central space is singled out as a " fifth " quarter.

History

Originally, the area of the Traun quarter, the Traungau, possession of Traungau count who Otakare, and it belonged to 1254 the Duchy of Styria. The Treaty of 1254 between the furnace of Ottokar II and the Hungarian King Béla IV, the area was separated from Styria and the heartland of today's Upper Austria.