Hohenzell
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Hohenzell is a municipality in Upper Austria
Upper Austria
Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...

. It is situated in the district of Ried im Innkreis
Ried im Innkreis
Ried im Innkreis is a town in the state of Upper Austria in Austria, approximately 70 km west of Linz and 60 km north of Salzburg...

 in the Innviertel
Innviertel
The Innviertel is a traditional Austrian region south-east of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavaria...

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

Geography

Hohenzell is situated 478 m above sea level in the Innviertel
Innviertel
The Innviertel is a traditional Austrian region south-east of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavaria...

. 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 Bavaria
Bavaria
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n dukedom
Dukedom
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 the city belonged to Bavaria until 1780. Together with the Innviertel (former known as "Innbaiern") it was ceded to Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 after the Treaty of Teschen
Treaty of Teschen
The Treaty of Teschen was signed on May 13, 1779, in Cieszyn , Austrian Silesia, between Austria and Prussia, which officially ended the War of the Bavarian Succession sparked by the death of Elector Maximilian III Joseph...

. During the French Revolutionary Wars
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...

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

Politics

Since April 2005 Johann Zweimüller (ÖVP
OVP
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) has been the mayor and Mag. Thomas Fischer (ÖVP) the vice mayor.

Population development

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