Pinsdorf

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Coordinates: 47°55′N 13°46′E

Pinsdorf
Coat of arms of Pinsdorf Location of Pinsdorf in Austria

Country Austria
State Upper Austria
District Gmunden
Population 3.523 (01.01.2004)
Area 12,47 km²
Population density 276 /km²
Elevation 493 m
Coordinates 47°55′ N 13°46′ E
Postal code 4812
Area code 07612
Licence plate code GM
Mayor Dieter Helms (SPÖ)
Website www.pinsdorf.ooe.gv.at

Pinsdorf is a village in Upper Austria in the district of Gmunden. At the 2001 census with 3,445 inhabitants. Dieter Helms (SPÖ) has been mayor of Pinsdorf since 2002

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[edit] History

The Bauernhügel is a memorial in Pinsdorf, which remembers of the brutal war between the Bavarian stadtholder Adam Graf von Herbertstorff and the farmers, who live in this principality. The farmers fought against the counter-reformation. The myth means, that under this hill there are the skeletons of the killed farmers. An obelisk remembers of this Battle of Gmunden

[edit] Geografie

[edit] Hills

In Pinsdorf there are some small hills, for example the Pinsdorfberg, the Gmundnerberg, the Vöcklaberg and the Kronberg

[edit] Waters

The river Aurach flows through Pinsdorf

[edit] Politics

These are the results of the last election of the local government in 2003.

  • SPÖ: 14 mandates (57,3 %)
  • ÖVP: 9 mandates (34,4 %)
  • FPÖ: 2 mandates (8,4 %)

Major is Dieter Helms (SPÖ)

[edit] Twin Town

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