Buchkirchen is a municipality in the district of Wels-Land in the

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n state of

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Geography

Buchkirchen lies in the

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. About 10.9% of the municipality is forest, and 76.9% is farmland.

Parts of Buchkirchen

Those parts are called ''Ortschaften'' in German: Buchkirchen, Elend, Ennsberg, Epping, Hörling, Haberfelden, Hartberg, Hochscharten, Holzwiesen, Hundsham, Hupfau, Kandlberg, Lachgraben, Luckermair, Mistelbach bei Wels, Niedergrafing, Niederhocherenz, Niederlaab, Obergrafing, Oberhocherenz, Oberperwend, Oberprisching, Ottenham, Radlach, Öhnerhäuser, Ötzing, Schickenhäuser, Schnadt, Sommerfeld, Spengenedt, Unterholz, Wörist, Wolfsgrub.

History

In 1179 Buchkirchen was mentioned in a document of Pope Alexander III. In those years Buchkirchen was named as "Puechkirchen". In the late 1960s, the two chefs, Herbert Schuh and Franz Thalhammer, invented the Austrian dish

Käsekrainer Käsekrainer () is a type of lightly smoked Brühwurst containing roughly torn bits of pork and 10% to 20% cheese (for example Emmentaler) cut into small cubes. They are sold all over Austria at Würstelstand outlets. It is a variety of Carniolan ...

in Buchkirchen. Since then, the

sausage A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs, may be included as fillers or extenders. ...

has been well established in

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and gained great popularity within and beyond Austria.

Population

Sights

* The church ''Pfarrkirche Buchkirchen'' * The church ''Filialkirche Mistelbach'' * The castle ''Schloss Mistelbach'' (''Schloss'' = German for Castle)The castle is now a school called ''Fachschule ÖKO Wirtschaft und design''

References

Cities and towns in Wels-Land District {{UpperAustria-geo-stub