Wals-Siezenheim

Wals is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria and carries with 12,420 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) the title of "largest village in Austria ".

The double municipality was founded in 1948 from the villages of whale and Siezenheim. In the same year the ceremony the coat of arms took place. The population increased in the period 1947-2001 of about 1,000 to about 11,000 residents in. The district Siezenheim was formerly part of the formerly independent municipality Liefering. To Siezenheim formerly included the majority of the then undeveloped area of today's Salzburg district Taxham.

  • 3.1 Municipal Council
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Regional Policy
  • 4.1 Established businesses
  • 4.2 traffic
  • 4.3 Religion
  • 5.1 buildings
  • 5.2 Nature

Geography

The municipality is located in Flachgau in Salzburg, like a belt just west clung to the city of Salzburg. Almost the entire municipality can be counted to the town area of Salzburg, incorporations are but - because of the increasing role of supra-municipal spatial planning in Austria - have not been implemented until now. Only relatively unpopulated part areas of the former two municipalities were amalgamated to Salzburg, making it the cadastral Wals Siezenheim II and II, and in Wals Liefering I are now in the city of Salzburg. Whale is called due to its location between the city and the state border as a commuter belt community.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 10 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Gois (409 )
  • Kingdom of Heaven (1138)
  • Käferheim ( 507)
  • Kleßheim (88 )
  • Schwarzenberg barracks ( 19)
  • Siezenheim ( 2653 )
  • Cattle Hausen ( 1979)
  • Wals ( 3489 )
  • Walser mountain ( 862 )
  • Walserfeld ( 1029 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Gois, Liefering I, Wals Siezenheim I and I.

Neighboring communities

Bad Reichenhall ( district Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY, DE)

History

Siezenheim existed since Roman times and was named by the Romans who Sizo, which in the field of the present castle Kleßheim had his noble residence. The oldest Christian cultural monument is a stone cross, which you can visit in the parish church Siezenheim. The local chronicler Franz Müller ( 1976) dated it even to the year of the Hungarian invasions back to 926.

The Catholic parish church of Siezenheim 2006 celebrates its 500th anniversary. It was built in 1506 on the site of the burned down around 1500 Romanesque predecessor church (built around 1281 ). The elementary school, donated by Archduke Ludwig Viktor, at the same time its 100th anniversary.

At the time of connection sparked the Nazi administration of the municipality Siezenheim the present town of parts deliverer ring and Taxham out to attach it to the city of Salzburg. The establishment of the double municipality in 1948 from the villages of whale and Siezenheim. Also, the coat of arms was awarded this year.

Policy

Municipal council

  • ÖVP: 15
  • SPÖ: 3
  • GREEN: 3
  • FPO: 4

The seats parameters is outdated and obsolete!

The municipal council of Wals has 25 members and is composed as follows for the local council elections in 2014 together:

Current mayor is Joachim Maislinger (ÖVP ).

Coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms is described ( emblazoned ):

The mountain is the Unterberg ( this is so stated in the text of the blazon ), the pear is the historical Walser Birnbaum.

Regional Policy

Wals is now closely associated with the city of Salzburg, part of the Regional Association of Salzburg and the surrounding area and also falls under the broader term development plan in the Salzburger Land Salzburg central space (corresponding to the city of Salzburg region of Statistics Austria, SR040 ).

A conflict with the city since there are younger to the pyrotechnic store in the former army ammunition depot Gois, which falls II guidelines because of its size under the Seveso. It is the community Wals, due to the climatic conditions consequences if an accident but would primarily relate to Salzburg.

Economy and infrastructure

The Airport Center in heaven was - until June 2006 - the second largest shopping center or commercial accumulation in the agglomeration of Salzburg. In September 2009, a new factory outlet center was completed. A group at the Wiener Städtische Versicherung, which together with McArthurGlen, which also has that built in Parndorf, operates the new outlet center is planning to invest 80 to 90 million euros. The new center has a net sales area of ​​about 25,000 square meters. The parts distribution center of Porsche Holding concerned the provision of spare parts for Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Škoda Auto and Porsche next to Austria for seven other countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova.

In Siezenheim is the Schwarzenberg barracks, the largest barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces and one of the largest in Central Europe.

Established businesses

  • Alpine Mayreder Bau GmbH
  • Dm drugstore GmbH
  • Kaindl Flooring GmbH
  • Österreichische Post AG logistics center 5000
  • Porsche Parts Distribution Center
  • Servus TV

Traffic

Airport: Salzburg Airport in Maxglan, as measured by passenger numbers, Austria's second largest airport and is directly adjacent to the district of the kingdom of heaven.

Public transportation: Whale is operated by the Salzburg trolleybus lines 1 ( EM Stadion ), 2 (airport, Walserfeld ) and 8 (airport, Outlet Center ). Additionally, at the municipal bus lines 27 ( Viehhausen, airport) and 28 ( Siezenheim ) and the regional bus lines 142 and 150

Street: there is also the junction Salzburg, to which the Austrian motorways A1 western motorway to Vienna and Eastern Europe, and the A10 motorway to Carinthia and Southeastern Europe cross on Walser municipality. The A1 is at the border crossing Walser mountain (former border crossing Great Walser mountain ) the transition to the German Autobahn 8 (Salzburg - Munich - Stuttgart).

Religion

The community now has its own two Catholic parishes, and Wals Siezenheim ( both of which also serve smaller areas in the city), the chaplaincy Walserfeld, while the southern regions of Salzburg -St. Vitalis are cared for. All these facilities are part of the deanery Bergheim ( Pfarrverband 5 Großgmain - Salzburg St Vitalis -. Siezenheim - Wals - Walserfeld ).

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Castle Kleßheim
  • Catholic parish church of the Virgin Birth in Siezenheim
  • Catholic Parish Church of St.. George in Wals
  • Catholic branch church to St. James the Great in Gois
  • Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Viehhausen
  • Roman Villa Loig
  • Monument to the Battle of the Walserfeld in Gois
  • See also: List of all small monuments in the parish Wals
  • See also: List of the listed objects in Wals

Nature

  • Pear on the Walserfeld

Sports

  • With the Bundesliga club FC Red Bull Salzburg of the currently most successful Salzburg football club plays its home games at the Red Bull Arena on the outskirts of Salzburg. This 30,000 -seat arena has also been a venue for the 2008 European Football Championship. However, this time it was called the EM Stadion Wals.
  • AC Wals, the wrestlers fighting for many years to the Austrian league title with
  • Curling club Wals (EV Wals ), large winter and summer Halle ( 8 lanes )

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

  • Joseph Price (* 1867 in Siezenheim (then at Liefering ), † 1944 ibid ), former Mayor of the City of Salzburg from 1919 to 1927 and former Member of the Salzburg Parliament
  • Bartl Brötzner I ( born February 13, 1928 in Wals ), Austrian wrestler
  • Franz Berger (born 24 January 1940 in Wals ), Austrian wrestler
  • Bernhard Naber ( born March 12, 1944 in Wals ), Benedictine abbot of the pin Altenburg and since 2009 Abbot President of the Austrian Benedictine Congregation
  • Bartholomew Brötzner II ( born February 20, 1957 in Wals ), Austrian wrestler
  • Georg Marchl (born 22 January 1964 in Wals ), Austrian wrestler
  • Anton Marchl ( born March 19, 1965 in Wals ), Austrian wrestler
  • Georg Neumaier ( born February 13, 1966 in Wals ), Austrian wrestler

Honorary Citizen of:

  • Georg Neumaier (1940-2008), Ökonomierat and long-time deputy mayor of the community Wals

Persons with respect to the city:

  • Ludwig beer Inger ( born 1943 ), former mayor of the community Wals, former politician (ÖVP )
  • , Died Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842-1919), Archduke, the youngest son of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and the youngest brother of the Austria -Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Kleßheim
  • Karl Thurwieser (1789-1865), Austrian meteorologist, Alpinist and theologian, assistant priest in Siezenheim
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