Hohenzell is a municipality in

Upper Austria Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states 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, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ...

. It is situated in 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 (district), Ried im Innkreis, and it serves a ...

in the

Innviertel The Innviertel (literally German language, German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ; ) is a traditional Austrian region southeast of the Inn (river), Inn river. It forms the western part of the States of Austria, state of Upper Austria a ...

and has 2,002 inhabitants. The responsible jurisdiction is ''Ried im Innkreis''.

Geography

Hohenzell is situated 478 m above sea level in the

. Its dimensions are 6.8 km from the North to the South and 5.7 km from the West to the East. The complete area accounts for 22.6 km². 10.2% of the land is afforested, 80.1% is used agriculturally. Parts of the municipality are ''Aching'', ''Aschbrechting'', ''Breiningsham'', ''Breitsach'', ''Dürnberg'', ''Emprechting'', ''Engersdorf'', ''Ficht'', ''Gadering'', ''Gonetsreith'', ''Hilprechting'', ''Hohenzell'', ''Kager'', ''Langstadl'', ''Leisen'', ''Mauler'', ''Oberham'', ''Oberlemberg'', ''Obermauer'', ''Plöck'', ''Ponner'', ''Roith'', ''Wöging'', ''Wötzling'', ''Wanger'', and ''Willmerting''.

Coat of arms

The official description of the coat of arms (translation): ''From Red to Silver diagonally separated, with two heraldic roses in complementary colours; on the separating line a sword, which is silver at the top and black at the bottom.'' The municipal colours are green and white.

History

From the foundation of the

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dom the city belonged to Bavaria until 1780. Together with the Innviertel (former known as "Innbaiern") it was ceded to

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

after the

Treaty of Teschen The Treaty of Teschen (, ; ) was signed on 13 May 1779 in Teschen, then in Austrian Silesia, between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and the Kingdom of Prussia, which officially ended the War of the Bavarian Succession.Brendan Simms, ''The Strug ...

. During the

French Revolutionary Wars The French Revolutionary Wars () were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted French First Republic, France against Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain, Habsb ...

it became Bavarian again, then in 1814 it became part of Upper Austria to whom it has belonged up to the present day. After the

Anschluß The (, or , ), also known as the (, ), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany") arose after the 1871 unifica ...

to the

German Reich German ''Reich'' (, from ) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 1871 to 1945. The ''Reich'' became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German ''Volk'' ("na ...

on 13 March 1938 the city was part of the "Gau Oberdonau". After 1945 the restitution of Upper Austria took place.

Politics

Since September 2015 Thomas Priewasser (

ÖVP The Austrian People's Party ( , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since January 2025, the party has been led by Christian Stocker (as an acting leader). It is currently the second-largest p ...

) has been the mayor and Mag. Thomas Fischer (ÖVP) the vice mayor.

Population

According to the census of 1991 the municipality had 1,870 inhabitants, and 2,002 inhabitants in 2001.

References

Cities and towns in Ried im Innkreis District {{UpperAustria-geo-stub