Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald

Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald
Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald
	Coat of arms
	Location in the district
	Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald Location within Austria
	Coordinates: 48°43′55″N 13°50′00″E
Country	Austria
State	Upper Austria
District	Rohrbach
Government
• Mayor	Michael Leitner (ÖVP)
Area [1]
• Total	27.29 km2 (10.54 sq mi)
Elevation	756 m (2,480 ft)
Population (2018-01-01)[2]
• Total	566
• Density	21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4164
Area code	07280
Vehicle registration	RO
Website	www.schwarzenberg.co.at

Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

Geography

The state border near the Plöckenstein

Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald lies in the upper (northwestern) Mühlviertel region, near the tripoint with the German state of Bavaria and the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. The municipal area stretches along the southern slopes of the Bohemian Forest (Böhmerwald) range; about 71 percent of the municipality is forest, and 26 percent is farmland.

History

First mentioned in 1571, the Schwarznperg estates were held by the Bavarian Prince-Bishops of Passau since medieval times. The remote area near the border with the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1638 was the site of a forest glasshouse, which became a possession of Schlägl Abbey in 1719.

Under the rule of Empress Maria Theresa, in 1765, Schwarzenberg finally passed to the Upper Austrian crown land of the Habsburg Monarchy. The local parish was established according to a 1784 patent issued by Emperor Joseph II. After the Napoleonic Wars, the area became part of the Austrian Empire.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2015 local elections:

Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 9
Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 3
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 1

Notable people

Franz Xaver Schmid (1819–1883), philosopher
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958), forester and naturalist

gollark: It just hooks into `load`.

gollark: The bad-code-blocking mechanism is actually not very complex at all.

gollark: Oh, people read the code?

gollark: PotatOS is written to use `pairs` basically everywhere even when it relies on order, which is technically not guaranteed!

gollark: Not me!

References

"Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
"Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[wikidata-f3373d889b3e667af72d1979ec2c3615f4e35537-v3-1] "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.

[wikidata-e49e74cba12ebc857db3ff1e3141c6ab850aaa31-v3-2] "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.