Tarsdorf
Tarsdorf is a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in the Austrian state Upper Austria.
Tarsdorf | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Tarsdorf Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates: 48°04′48″N 12°49′33″E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Upper Austria |
| District | Braunau am Inn |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Andrea Holzner (ÖVP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 32.34 km2 (12.49 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 429 m (1,407 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
| • Total | 2,068 |
| • Density | 64/km2 (170/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 5121 |
| Area code | 06278 |
| Vehicle registration | BR |
| Website | www.tarsdorf.at |
Geography
Tarsdorf is located in the Innviertel. About 38 percent of its area consist of forest and 55 percent is made up of farmland.
Villages
The villages in the municipity are (with population in brackets as at 1 Jan 2020):
- Am Anger (69)
- Döstling (50)
- Eckldorf 57
- Ehersdorf (203)
- Eichbichl (83)
- Fugging (106)
- Haid (48)
- Hofstadt (89)
- Hofweiden (124)
- Hörndl (243)
- Hucking (59)
- Leithen (76)
- Neues Dorf (82)
- Ölling (18)
- Schmidham (38)
- Sensberg (53)
- Sinzing (4)
- Staig (28)
- Tarsdorf (481)
- Wimm (1)
- Winham (52)
- Wolfing (45)
- Wupping (51)
History
Findings in the Weilhart-Forest show that the municipal area of Tarsdorf was already inhabited in the neolithic age. Tumuli have also been discovered, dating back to the Hallstatt period. The Illyrer who occupied the area at that time mixed with the celts arond 500 BC, who were coming from the west.
During the Roman predominance in the area the road from Salzburg to Burghausen lead through Tarsdorf as well as Hofweiden and Hörndl. Several findings have been made between Hofweiden and Tarsdorf dating back to the first four centuries AC. These findings include the rests of a villa rustica, a millstone, the shards of a bowl, tiles belonging to an underfloor heating, pieces of plaster coming form walls decorated with depictions of flowers and a silver coin.
In the sixth centuries the immigrating Bajuwars, ancestors of today´s Bavarians, cleared large parts of the Weilhart-forest.
Population Development
| Year | Population |
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| 1869 | 1.115 |
| 1880 | 1.128 |
| 1890 | 1.172 |
| 1900 | 1.246 |
| 1910 | 1.231 |
| 1923 | 1.259 |
| 1934 | 1.274 |
| 1939 | 1.202 |
| 1951 | 1.380 |
| 1961 | 1.343 |
| 1971 | 1.517 |
| 1981 | 1.652 |
| 1991 | 1.793 |
| 2001 | 1.938 |
| 2011 | 1.998 |
| 2020 | 2.060 |
Celebrities
- Richard Puchner (1883-1965), architect and builder
- Georg Dechant (1884-1953), politician, farmer and landlord
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.
External links
Media related to Tarsdorf at Wikimedia Commons
