Wagrain

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Wagrain is a market town with 3003 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in Salzburg ( Austria ).

The place is located in the ski Amade, one of the largest ski areas in Austria.

In the Middle Ages the neighborhood mining area.

  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 7.2 personalities with respect to the location

Geography

Wagrain is located in the Pongau about 9 km east of St. Johann im Pongau. In Schwaighof is the watershed of the river Salzach and Enns. The highest elevation is 2,037 meters with the fork on the southern municipality border.

A popular destination is the mountain Öbristkopf ( 1,411 m), a target for the Salzburg Hiking nobility.

Community structure

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

  • Hof ( 1251 )
  • Hofmarkt ( 745 )
  • Schwaighof ( 468 )
  • Vorderkleinarl (174 )
  • Wagrain ( 363)

The municipality comprises the cadastral court, Hofmarkt, Schwaighof, Vorderkleinarl and Wagrain.

Neighboring communities

Origin of the name

The name Wagrain is made up of the two Middle High German words " wac " ( moving water, river) and "pure" ( Rain, Meadow, slope ) together. 1243 is in the Salzburg city name book " Wakrein " first mentioned, written in 1350, "Wake Rain" and 1382 " Wakchrain ". Then under the influence of written language it came finally to today's spelling.

Evangelical expulsion

Wagrain was the site of the Archbishopric of Salzburg with the highest number of Protestant exiles. About 80 % of the locals moved the expulsion ( usually after Prussia) the conversion to Roman Catholicism before.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " In red a gold top, in which a silver embattled tower stands on green bank above natural water with a goal and two windows. "

Culture and sights

  • Castle Wagrain
  • Parish: gothic, with additions from the period from 1450 or 1711; High altar from 1976 with gothic Madonna

The high altar of the Catholic Parish Church

  • Built in 1616: Baroque Branch Church Saint Francis

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Joseph Ernst von Koch- Sternfeld (1778-1866), the Salzburg - Bavarian official, geographer, historian and writer

Individuals with regard to the place

  • Joseph Mohr (1792-1848), lyricist of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night, worked and lived from 1837 in Wagrain
  • Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897-1973), lived from 1920 in Wagrain
  • Alois Rohrmoser (1939-2005), founder of the company Atomic (skiing generation ), lived in Wagrain
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