Weißenkirchen im Attergau

White im Attergau is a municipality in Upper Austria in Vöcklabruck district in Hausruckviertel with 920 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The municipality is located in the judicial district franc market.

Geography

White im Attergau is on 652 m altitude in Hausruckviertel. The expansion is 6.4 kilometers from north to south, from west to east 6.4 km. The total area is 26.7 km ². 53.9 % of the area is forested, 41.9 % of the area is used for agriculture.

Quarters are: Fire Instead, Egg, Freudenthal, Geßlingen, Giga, Hölleiten, Haitigen, Pabigen, Röth, Reittern, Schwaigern, Stadln, stone wall, Truchtlingen, Tuttingen, Vöcklatal, white churches in Attergau, Wieneröth, Ziegelstadl.

Coat of arms

Blazon: A silvery wave bar is a black blowpipe, diagonally left divided; above in green a silver daisies bloom with golden slugs below in red with a silver, slanted left -laid horseshoe. The municipality colors are green and white - green.

History

The area around White churches was inhabited in the 6th century by the Bavarians. They cleared the forests and made ​​the land fertile. Several reports real "-ing " names ( Witzmaning, hipping ) in the area north of White churches that the municipality was already settled in the early Middle Ages. Other place names ( Röth, Reittern ) point out that in the Middle Ages the settlement area was expanded by clearing ( 11-12 c.).

Originally the place was called St. Margaret am Walde. It was only in the 15th century we find the modern place- name is white churches that indicates that you replaced an earlier wooden church with a stone.

According to legend, the church was to be built on a different place in Tuttingen originally. After the building material but had been brought to repeated times miraculously from there on the mountaintop, they built the church on the present site.

In the Baroque period, when the pilgrimages experienced a revival during the Counter Reformation, it also came in white churches on a pilgrimage to the Holy. Leonhard, the second patron. 1711, for example, in a church account of the parish of St. Georgen mentioned that they had held in lieu of a murrain a procession to St. Margaret. The so-called Leonhardi ride originated at this time, but has been adjusted in the course of the pilgrimage ban by Joseph II (1765-1790) and in 1924 renewed.

1777 white churches was with the detachment from the mother parish of St. Georgen own parish. The municipality white churches arose in 1851 and consists of the cadastral white churches and Freudenthal.

Of great importance for the study of the history of Attergaues born in White Church prelate Joseph Stockinger wage is ( 1866-1926 ). Under the pseudonym " Dr. JL Atergovius " he published in 1913 " The parish church of St. Georgen im Attergau. Leaves on the history of Atergaues ". After working as a pastor in Unterach he was appointed rector of the German National Institutes Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome in 1902. He spent his evenings in white churches, where he had built a country house after the pattern of a Roman country villa near his birthplace ( house with courtyard).

Culture and sights

The " Kath Parish Church of St. Margaretha and Cemetery " ( Standort47.94977777777813.417472222222 ) was provided as the sole object of the municipality white churches in Attergau from Bundesdenkmalamt under protection.

The first documentary proof of a church building is from a letter of indulgence for the parish of St. Georgen im Attergau ( 1299 ), the church was originally named after its patron saint " St. Margaret in the Forest".

The parish church is an impressive late Gothic building by Stephan Wultinger. The surprisingly large choir ( chancel ) completed in 1512, the two-aisled nave with a central column gerau ended in 1514; note the different design and spatial effect of these two components. The neo-Gothic main altar is by the sculptor Josef Atterseer Hochrainer (1890), to fit the two neo-Gothic benches in the chancel. Also worth mentioning are the pictorial representations on the baroque pulpit: front the image of a sower in the old peasant costume of Attergaues, the appearance of the ( here youthful and beardless subscribed ) sideways of the wonderful fishing, altar side Risen to the disciples in a landscape, how to here has Attergau in mind. Noteworthy, the beautiful Gothic entrance portal ( through the stem partially bricked in the upper part ). The west side of the tower - the weather side - was covered due to the exposed position of the Church with Eternit panels.

The glassworks Freudenthal in the wooded valley of the Sprenzlbaches existed from 1716 built until 1942. The last owner was Theodor Freiherr von Stimpfl - Abele. Over time, a wide range of products was produced and sold in most countries of the Danube monarchy. After a fire and subsequent rebuilding only medicine and apothecary jars were produced. After sales difficulties in the time of global economic crisis and the collapse of the factory roof in the severe winter of 1942, the production after the Second World War was no longer recorded.

In the summer of 1999, in the municipality of the museum " Freudenthal glass " opened, which exhibits from the former production shows.

Policy

Mayor is Joseph Meinhart of the ÖVP.

Population Development

In 1991 the community had 921 inhabitants according to the census, in 2001 then 964 inhabitants.