Gallneukirchen

Geschichte

Gallneukirchen is a small city in the Austrian state of Upper Austria and is part of the district Urfahr-Umgebung.MottoExperience the city enjoy the land – "Stadt erleben Land genießen (original)"HistoryIn the year 1125, it was mentioned for the first time in a documentary as "Novenkirchen". At that time Gallneukirchen was just a market. Originally lying in the East part of the duchy of Bavaria (Germany), in the 12th century it belonged to the duchy "Austria", and in the year 1211, the market was included in the diocese of Passau for the next 200 years. In 1411, the brothers Caspar and Gundakar bought it from the Starhemberg family. Since 1490, it has belonged to the principality of "Österreich ob der Enns". During the Napoleonic wars it was occupied several times, and now belongs to Upper Austria. From 1832 to 1872 the Horse railway transported Goods and persons through Gallneukirchen. In 1985 Gallneukirchen became a European municipality and 1992 Gallneukirchen incurred a partnership with Northeim in Lower Saxony. The last large change was when Gallneukirchen became a city on 5 March 2001.GeographyGallneukirchen is at a height of 337 m at the lower part of the Mühlviertel. The dimension from north to south are 2.9 km and from west to east are 3 km.Surface distribution ImageSize = width:500 height:150 PlotArea = width:80% height:66% bottom:25% left:10% DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:100 Legend = columns:4 columnwidth:175 left:10% top:95% TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:0