Unterweitersdorf

• SPÖ: 11
• ÖVP: 8

Unterweitersdorf is a municipality in Upper Austria in Freistadt district in Upper Austria with 2008 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Freistadt.

• 3.1 Development and Structure
• 3.2 Origin and Language

• 6.1 Museum
• 6.2 Structures
• 6.3 Music
• 6.4 Sports

• 7.1 traffic
• 7.2 Public Institutions and Education 7.2.1 Fire Department

Geography

Unterweitersdorf is located on 333 m above sea level. A. in Upper Austria between Linz, the capital and the district Freistadt at the Little Gusen. The expansion is 4.5 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 4.9 km. The total area is 11.3 km ². 26.5 % of the area is forested, 64.6 % of the area used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following eight villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Bergen ( 80)
• Gauschitzberg (69 )
• Hattmannsdorf (249 )
• Loibersdorf (191 )
• Radingdorf (20 )
• Riders (317 )
• Unterweitersdorf ( 798 )
• Wögern (285 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Unterweitersdorf.

Neighboring communities

History

Bronze Age barrows with grave goods from the period 13th to 11th century are the earliest archaeological evidence of human settlement in the municipality BC. Originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria lying, owned the area since the 12th century the Duchy of Austria. For the first time the "Next village", an estate, mentioned in documents in 1200. Since 1490 he is the Principality of Austria above the Enns attributed. During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was occupied several times.

Since 1918, the town belongs to 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 ". After 1945 Unterweitersdorf was in the Soviet zone of occupation and after 1955 was an expansion and construction of infrastructure, particularly in the early 1980s with the motorway junction.

Population

Development and Structure

In 1869, 629 people lived in the municipality. By 1951, the population stagnated, as it started to grow. Higher growth since 1971 is recorded, which may be associated with the establishment of the Mühlkreisautobahn highway. In 1991, the municipality had 1415 inhabitants at the 2001 census, already in 1704, representing an increase of 20.4 %. On 1 January 2008 the municipality recorded 1951 inhabitants, the highest level in history.

At the 2001 census, the proportion of residents who were 60 years and older, 14.6% was; 21.2% were under 15 years old. The proportion of the female population was 48.7 %.

Of the 1342 residents Unterweitersdorf village, which in 2001 were over 15 years old, 4.1 % had completed a university, college or academy. Other 12.0% had completed a Matura, 51.6 % had attended a teaching degree or a vocational middle school and had 33.3 % of all villages Next compulsory education as their highest degree.

Ethnicity and language

The German dialect that is commonly spoken in the room Unterweitersdorf and in Upper Austria, is the means Bairische. 98.5 % of the villages further gave in 2001 to German as their language. An additional 1.5 % spoke other languages ​​.

The proportion of the Next villages with foreign citizenship in 2001 was 0.9 %, well below the average of Upper Austria. In this case, 0.2 % of the population had a more villages citizenship from Germany and 0.7 % were other citizens. Overall, in 2001 about 2.3 % of the Next villages were born in a country other than Austria.

Policy

The council and mayoral elections are held every six years, coinciding with the state election held. Since the year 1945, the ÖVP reached until 1997 always the absolute majority. The second strongest party was always the SPÖ, which is the largest party vote since 1997. Other parties do not play a role in the local council elections. 2003 and 2009, the SPÖ was inoculated with 58.5 % agree the strongest party and ruled by an absolute majority.

The municipal election in 2009 with a turnout of 92.2 % gave the following result:

Mayor of the municipality since 19 November 2007 Wilhelm Wurm of the SPÖ. The council consists of 19 members.

The next municipal election will be held in rotation 2015.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in red a silver, abutting St. Andrew's cross, topped with two diagonally crossed blue dragoon sabers. The design is based on the fact that on 7 May 1809 and banter on May 18, 1809 took place a battle between the invading French and Austrian Mühlviertel hussar in space Unterweitersdorf. The municipality colors are blue, white and red.

The award of the municipality coat of arms and the municipality of colors took place on 18 June 1973.

Culture and sights

Museum

• Mill Museum Weigl mill: A mill from 1481
• American Motorcycle Museum

Structures

• Gusenleithnerhof: A 500 ​​year old farm Mühlviertler
• Adventure trail horse railway trail with old buildings ( flagman houses)

Music

• Musikverein Unterweitersdorf

Sports

The Sports Union Unterweitersdorf was founded in 1965 and consists of the sections soccer, curling, tennis, volleyball, gymnastics and sports destination. Chairman is Robert Punzenberger.

The Asko Unterweitersdorf offers the sections chess, skiing, hiking and volleyball. Chairman is Louis Kürnsteiner.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The Mühlkreisautobahn motorway A 7 offers very good transport connection to Linz. Furthermore, the Prager Strasse, the Königswiesener road and the Mühlviertler road passes through the municipality.

Public Institutions and Education

In the resort, a kindergarten and a primary school are available. In addition, a library and an extension of the folk high school Freistadt. There is currently a general practitioner in the community, who is also active in Gallneukirchen.

Fire department

The volunteer fire department Unterweitersdorf currently has five emergency vehicles, a command vehicle, a fire truck, a fire vehicle wheel, a small fire engine and crew transport vehicle.

The fire department is since March 2013 under the leadership of Commander main fire inspector Jerome Wörister and Deputy Commander Upper Fire Inspector Michael Thauerböck.

For January 2014, the commissioning of a Rüstlöschfahrzeug tunnel is planned, this is currently under construction. The vehicle is the safety of the under construction S 10 tunnel between Unterweitersdorf and Götschka, make a significant contribution.

Personalities

• Heinrich Schmid Inger, (* 1916 Loibersdorf at Unterweitersdorf - † 1992 Salzburg, buried in Spitz ad D. ): historian, longtime director of the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome