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: ''Riad'') is a town in the
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n state of
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, approximately west of
Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
and north of
Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...
. It is the capital of the district of
Ried im Innkreis Ried im Innkreis (Central Bavarian: ''Riad'') is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, approximately west of Linz and north of Salzburg. It is the capital of the district of Ried im Innkreis, and it serves as the administrative centre ...
, and it serves as the administrative centre for the
Innviertel The Innviertel (literally German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ''Innkreis''; ) is a traditional Austrian region southeast of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavari ...
region.


Geography

Ried is situated in a hollow of the
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, to the north of the Hausruck Forest (''Hausruckwald''). The name of the city is derived from the
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"Riet" (also: Rieth, Reet, Rohr, and the like), which denotes the
reed Reed or Reeds may refer to: Science, technology, biology, and medicine * Reed bird (disambiguation) * Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times * Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales * ...
which grows along the shores of swamps. Ried im Innkreis is above
sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...
. It measures from the North to the South and from the East to the West and it is 6.7 km² (2.6 sq mi) in area.


Climate

Ried has a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...
, bordering on an
oceanic climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate, is the humid temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool summers and mild winters ( ...
.


Town structure

Ried consists of a city core, composed of several spatially separated squares (e.g. '' Hauptplatz'', ''Stelzhamerplatz'', ''Kirchenplatz'', ''Roßmarkt'', ''Marktplatz'', and ''Hoher Markt''), as well as a few other quarters. Most of them have a long history of their own. Others were designed as new development areas and then obtained their own name, but often have no distinct boundaries. In particular, these areas belong to the city core: * Bad Ried * Hopfenberg * Kapuzinerberg * Kleinried * Kreuzbergsiedlung * Lughofergründe * Riedberg * Schloßberg * St. Anna * Stöcklgras * Wegleiten


Neighbouring municipalities

The following municipalities are adjacent to Ried. They are listed in clockwise direction, starting from the South:
Neuhofen im Innkreis Neuhofen im Innkreis is a municipality in Upper Austria in the district of Ried im Innkreis. Geography Neuhofen im Innkreis is situated 464 m above sea level. Its dimensions are 7.1 km from the north to the south and 3.9 km from the wes ...
,
Mehrnbach Mehrnbach is a municipality in Upper Austria. It is situated in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Innviertel. Geography Mehrnbach is situated 443 m above sea level in the Innviertel. Its dimensions are 6.2 km from the North to the S ...
,
Aurolzmünster Aurolzmünster is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Aust ...
,
Tumeltsham Tumeltsham is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria ...
and
Hohenzell Hohenzell is a municipality in Upper Austria. It is situated in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Innviertel and has 2,002 inhabitants. The responsible jurisdiction is ''Ried im Innkreis''. Geography Hohenzell is situated 478 m above sea ...
.


Population


History


Middle ages

Ried was first mentioned on 13 November 1136, as a castle of the
Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
n
sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ...
with the seat of the noble house of Ried. Already in 1180, the townsmen of Ried were first mentioned in records, indicating a settlement near the castle. Legend has it that in 1191, ''Dietmar der Anhanger'' - a miller's son - obtained the
market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...
of Ried as a fiefdom from Frederick I. (Barbarossa). Allegedly, Dietmar boosted the morale of the troops during the
crusade The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were i ...
: When the enemy had overthrown the flag of the army in Iconium, Dietmar took off his boot and put it onto a lance; under that sign, the crusaders took new courage and managed to conquer the city. The peasants' boot of this legend is now part of the city's coat of arms. The line of the lords of Ried ended around 1200 and the Bavarian dukes took over the area. Ried was situated only one and a half hours by foot from the Austrian border at the Geiersberg, and this vicinity proved again and again to be disastrous to the market town of Ried. In 1266, the ''Veste Ried'' was conquered by Ottokar II. Přemysl, and it was again conquered on 24 September 1364 by Rudolf IV. der Stifter and destroyed. The ''First Treaty of Ried'', negotiated in 1379, halted these border conflicts for the time being. In 1435, Ried obtained its own coat of arms from Duke
Henry XVI of Bavaria Henry XVI of Bavaria (1386 – 30 July 1450, in Landshut), (), since 1393 Duke of Bavaria-Landshut. He was a son of duke Frederick and his wife Maddalena Visconti, a daughter of Bernabò Visconti. Life Duke Henry XVI was the first of the three f ...
.


Modern times

During the
Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
, several reports of ecclesiastic visitations verify the influence of the Reformation. But by 1580, the
Counter-Reformation The Counter-Reformation (), also called the Catholic Reformation () or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation. It began with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) a ...
had been completed, which led many to emigrate. During the
German Peasants' War The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (german: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It failed because of intense oppositio ...
, Ried was the asylum and headquarters of the Bavarian war commissioner. In 1649, a
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reached the city and took 236 lives. In the
War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714. The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Phil ...
(1701–1714) and in the
War of the Austrian Succession The War of the Austrian Succession () was a European conflict that took place between 1740 and 1748. Fought primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic and Mediterranean, related conflicts included King George's W ...
(1740–1745), the border conflicts between Austria and Bavaria resurfaced. After the
War of the Bavarian Succession The War of the Bavarian Succession (; 3 July 1778 – 13 May 1779) was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after the extinction of the Bavarian bra ...
, the
Innviertel The Innviertel (literally German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ''Innkreis''; ) is a traditional Austrian region southeast of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavari ...
- including Ried - was ceded to Austria in the
Treaty of Teschen The Treaty of Teschen (german: Frieden von Teschen, i.e., "Peace of Teschen"; french: Traité de Teschen) was signed on 13 May 1779 in Teschen, then in Austrian Silesia, between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and the Kingdom of Prussia, which off ...
1779. During the
Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...
, it was temporarily returned to Bavaria in 1810.
Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
spent the night in Ried twice and narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on 2 May 1809. With the
Treaty of Ried The Treaty of Ried of 8 October 1813 was a treaty that was signed between the Kingdom of Bavaria and Austrian Empire. By this treaty, Bavaria left the Confederation of the Rhine which was allied with Napoleon, and agreed to join the Sixth Coalition ...
, Bavaria changed sides on 8 October 1813 and joined the
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against Napoleon. After the Treaty of Munich in 1816, Ried finally became Austrian. As the largest market town of Austria at that time, Ried was granted its
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by
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Franz Joseph I of Austria Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the Grand title of the Emperor of Austria, other states of the Habsburg m ...
in 1857. The "Gewerbliche Ausstellungsfest" (Commercial Exhibition Festival), held for the first time in 1867, formed the foundation for Ried's later position as a centre for exhibitions and trade fairs.


Contemporary history

On 12 March 1938 - the day of the
annexation of Austria The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
by Nazi Germany - units of the German
Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previous ...
marched into Ried;
Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then ...
passed through the city on his way to
Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
. At the end of World War II on 3 May 1945, American troops marched in and the city became part of the American occupation area in occupied Austria. The American military administration built a camp for members of the German military taken as prisoners of war. Besides the prisoner of war camp, a
Displaced persons camp A refugee camp is a temporary Human settlement, settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for interna ...
was also built. This camp was led by a member of the
UNRRA United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency, largely dominated by the United States but representing 44 nations. Founded in November 1943, it was dissolved in September 1948. it became part o ...
and had the number ''701A''.


Politics


Municipal council

Since the local elections in 2003, the
municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...
has had 37 members, whose term of office is six years. Since the local elections in 2015, the seats are distributed among the political parties as follows: *
ÖVP The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...
15 *
SPÖ The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...
7 *
FPÖ The Freedom Party of Austria (german: Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Austria. It was led by Norbert Hofer from September 2019 to 1 June 2021.Staff (1 June 2021"Aust ...
10 * GRÜNE 4 * NEOS 1


Mayor

Since 1781, Ried has been governed by a
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and a
municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...
. Since 1997, the mayor has been directly elected by the eligible voters for a term of four years, at the same time as the municipal council. The mayor is the chairman of the council. His deputy is the first councillor, the
vice-mayor The deputy mayor (also known as vice mayor, assistant mayor, or mayor ''pro tem'') is an elective or appointive office of the second-ranking official that is present in many, but not all, local governments. Duties and functions Many elected depu ...
. Since 1994, the mayor of Ried im Innkreis has been Albert Ortig. Mayors of Ried since 1899 *1899-1912: Hans Winter *1912-1919: Friedrich Thurner *1919-1929: Hans Leitgeb *1929-1938: Rudolf Wilflingseder *1938-1945: Rudolf Pospischek *1945: Wilhelm Soukop *1945-1954: Adolf Matulik *1954-1958: Rudolf Wilflingseder *1958-1967: Adolf Matulik *1967-1979: Dr. Franz Fruhstorfer *1979-1991: Dr. Günther Hummer *1991-1994: Dr. Günther Nagele *since 1994: Albert Ortig


Coat of arms and flag

Ried's
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...
was awarded together with the municipal charter in 1857. The coat of arms is divided into four parts: The upper quarter shows the
double eagle A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. (Its gold content of 0.9675 troy oz (30.0926 grams) was worth $20 at the 1849 official price of $20.67/oz.) The coins are 34 mm x 2 mm and are made from ...
and signifies the affiliation to Austria. The lower quarter contains the "Bavarian Wecken" - white-blue rhombuses - and indicates that the town originally belonged to Bavaria. In the left quarter is the laced boot, which was also on the older coat of arms and refers to the founding legend of the city. The tendrils in the right quarter were also in the original coat of arms and refer to the importance of the city as a centre of brewing.


Twin city

Since 1974, the Bavarian city of
Landshut Landshut (; bar, Landshuad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also t ...
has been the twin city of Ried.


Economy and infrastructure


Transport

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:The city of Ried is a crosspoint of the railway lines from Braunau to
Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria. Geography Wels is in the H ...
and
Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
, and from
Schärding Schärding ( , Bavarian name: Scharing) is a town in northern Austrian state of Upper Austria, the capital of the district of the same name, and a major port on the Inn River. Historically, it was owned by the Wittelsbach family, which reflects ...
to
Attnang-Puchheim Attnang-Puchheim is a town in Austria, located in the Vöcklabruck district, lying between the cities Vöcklabruck and Schwanenstadt. Its partner city is the city of Puchheim in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Attnang-Puchheim is centered in the ' ...
. The line from
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to Ried via Linz travels at one-hour intervals.
Highways A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It is used for major roads, but also includes other public roads and public tracks. In some areas of the United States, it is used as an equivalent term to controlled-access ...
:Via the exits Ried/Tumeltsham and Ried/Haag, the city is connected to the motorway A8. Moreover, Ried is well connected to the federal highway network. There are connections to the East and to the West using the B141 and to the North and to the South via the B143.
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:The international airport of
Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
can be reached within 40 minutes by car. Buses :There are several "citybus" lines providing public transportation in the city.


Public facilities

Ried has a tax office, a regional court, and a district court. Furthermore, the district authority is based in the city. Since 1846, Ried has also had a hospital of regional importance.


Educational institutions

The development to a city of schools started with the construction of the high school in 1872. Today the city has two high schools, the ''Bundes Oberstufenrealgymnasium'' in the ''Dr. Thomas Senn''-street and the '' Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium'' in the ''Beethovenstraße'', three elementary schools, one alternative school (Bildungswerkstatt Schmetterlingsschule und Privatkindergarten), two public secondary schools, one private secondary school (''Franziskanerinnen''), and one polytechnic institute. The district capital is the seat of the school authority of the vocational schools (one for commercial skilled trades and the second for mercantile skilled trades), the Federal Commercial Academy, the Federal Commercial School, the College for Occupation in Service Industries Management, and the Higher Technical School for Engineering. In Ried, there is also a State Music School and the College for Kindergarten Pedagogics with its training kindergarten. A gymnastics school (Jahnturnhalle) of the Austrian Gymnastics Association (''Österreichische Turnerbunde'', ÖTB) is also in Ried.


City of trade fairs

Since 1867, Ried has periodically held trade fairs of several days' duration. The significance and popularity of these exhibitions is reflected by the number of visitors. One quarter of the visitors come from
Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
, but there are also many visitors from the Czech Republic,
Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
, Hungary,
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, Italy, Switzerland, and
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.


Media

Weekly journals of Ried are the "Rieder Rundschau", the "Tips Ried-Schärding"

, the (
Oberösterreichische Nachrichten The ''Oberösterreichische Nachrichten'' (OÖN) () is a German language regional newspaper published in Linz, Austria. History and profile ''OÖN'' was established by the US forces occupying Austria after World War II World War  ...


, and the "Rieder Magazin"

. Since 2005 the TV channel "Ried TV

broadcasts local reports via an Fiber-optic communication, optical fiber network and via the
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.


Local companies

In the industrial sector, Ried is home to the world-famous
ski A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partia ...
factory,
Fischer Fischer is a German occupational surname, meaning fisherman. The name Fischer is the fourth most common German surname. The English version is Fisher. People with the surname A * Abraham Fischer (1850–1913) South African public official * A ...
, FACC (Fischer Advanced Composites Components AG), which builds parts for aeroplanes, Team 7 producing organic
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, and the company Wintersteiger, a specialist in high-technology plant construction and engineering. Ried was previously home to two breweries, keeping up the long history of
beer Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...
s in the
Innviertel The Innviertel (literally German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ''Innkreis''; ) is a traditional Austrian region southeast of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavari ...
. The ''Kellerbrauerei'' was the oldest private brewery in Austria, founded in 1446, but ceased trading in 2013. The ''Riederbrauerei'', founded in 1536, continues to produce beer and
soft drink A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is a drink that usually contains water (often carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural and/or artificial flavoring. The sweetener may be a sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, a su ...
s to this day.


Culture


Schwanthaler family

The roots of the Schwanthaler family of sculptors are in Ried. In 1632, Hans Schwabenthaler, later Schwanthaler, came to Ried, and the family's factory was there until 1838. His son,
Thomas Schwanthaler Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...
, made the high altar and the sculpture of the Group on the Mount of Olives in the town church of Ried. Several sculptures of the family are preserved in many churches of
Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, a ...
and in the
Innviertler Volkskundehaus
' (folklore museum).


Churches and monasteries

* Stadtpfarrkirche (town church) * Altkatholische Christuskirche (
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Christ Church) * Dreifaltigkeitskirche Riedberg (
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Church Riedberg) * Kapuzinerkirche ( Capuchin Church) * Methodistenkirche (
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Church) * Neuapostolischekirche (
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Church) * Kapuzinerkloster (Capuchin
Monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...
) * Redemptoristinnenkloster (
Redemptorist The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...
Convent A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican ...
) St. Anna


Sports


SV Ried

Since the 1990s, Ried's football (soccer) club,
SV Ried SV Ried is an Austrian association football club from Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. The team plays its home matches at Josko Arena, a stadium with a capacity of 7,680. After being relegated from Bundesliga in the 2016–17 season, SV Ried ...
, has seen continuous success at the national level. The club won the Austrian Cup in 1998 and 2011, as well as being the runner-up in the
Austrian football champions The Austrian football champions are the winners of the highest league of football in Austria. The championship has been contested through the Austrian Football Bundesliga since the 1974–75 season. Rapid Wien and Austria Wien are the most suc ...
hips, and it is currently playing its 19th season in the
Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
, the Austrian premier league.


Notable residents

*
Ernst Kaltenbrunner Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 190316 October 1946) was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich ...
, born in 1903. Starting in January 1943, director of the
SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt The Reich Security Main Office (german: Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as ''Chef der Deutschen Polizei'' (Chief of German Police) and ''Reichsführer-SS'', the head of the Nazi ...
(RSHA) of
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
; thus chief over the RSHA departments of the
Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...
,
Kripo ''Kriminalpolizei'' (, "criminal police") is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. In Nazi Germany, the Kripo was the criminal polic ...
, and the SD (Security Services). He was the highest-ranking leader sentenced to death by the
Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies of World War II, Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 ...
, and executed on 16 October 1946. *
Anton Zeilinger Anton Zeilinger (; born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022. Zeilinger is professor of physics emeritus at the University of Vienna and senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and ...
, born in 1945, leading physicist: quantum information pioneer, currently president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Nicknamed "Mr. Beam". * Hans Schwabenthaler, settled in Ried in 1632, died 1682, sculptor. *
Thomas Schwanthaler Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...
, born in 1634, sculptor. * Bonaventura Schwanthaler, born in 1678, sculptor. * Hans Blietel, a
martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an externa ...
of the
Hutterites Hutterites (german: link=no, Hutterer), also called Hutterian Brethren (German: ), are a communal ethnoreligious group, ethnoreligious branch of Anabaptism, Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Refor ...
and was burnt to death around 1545. *
Sybil Danning Sybil Danning (born Sybille Johanna Danninger) is an Austrian actress, model, and film producer. She is best known for her frequent appearances in B movies during the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Early years and first films Born in Austria, Dannin ...
, born on 24 May 1952 in nearby
Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria. Geography Wels is in the H ...
, Hollywood actress. Worked in Ried ages 14–16, as dental assistant to her uncle.official biography
/ref> * Emmy Woitsch, born on 9 June 1894, died in 1981, painter. * Daria Karanowicz, born in 1908, musician. * Ludwig Pasch, born in 1919, died in 2015, writer and founder of the ''Innviertler Schulspatzen''. * Wilhelm Dachauer, born on 5 April 1881, died in 1951, painter. * August Humer, born in 1947 died in 2007, organist and harpsichordist. * Günter Voglmayr (1968–2012), classical flautist *
Andreas Goldberger Andreas "Andi" Goldberger (born 29 November 1972) is an Austrian former ski jumper. He became the first man in history to jump over 200 metres in 1994, although he didn't manage to stand. Career He won the World Cup overall titles three times ( ...
, born on 29 November 1972, former ski jumping world champion. * Heribert Reitboeck, born on 22 June 1933, neuroscientist. * Manuel Ortlechner, born in 1980, footballer. * Samuel Radlinger, born in 1992, footballer. *
Farid Hafez Farid Hafez (born on 23 December 1981) is an Austrian political scientist and Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College and Senior Researcher at Georgetown University's The Bridge Initiative. Before his role at the Georgeto ...
, born in 1981, political scientist. * Patricia Kaiser, born in 1984, former Miss Austria.


References


External links


Ried im Innkreis

WINTERSTEIGER AG

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