Wals-Siezenheim

Wals-Siezenheim

Walserfeld Memorial, view to Gois and Untersberg

Coat of arms
Wals-Siezenheim

Location within Austria

Coordinates: 47°46′00″N 12°58′00″E / 47.76667°N 12.96667°E / 47.76667; 12.96667Coordinates: 47°46′00″N 12°58′00″E / 47.76667°N 12.96667°E / 47.76667; 12.96667
Country Austria
State Salzburg
District Salzburg-Umgebung
Government
 • Mayor Ludwig Bieringer (ÖVP)
Area
 • Total 26.62 km2 (10.28 sq mi)
Elevation 446 m (1,463 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)[1]
 • Total 13,243
 • Density 500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes 5071, 5072
Area code 0662
Vehicle registration SL
Website www.wals-siezenheim.at

Wals-Siezenheim is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung (Flachgau) in the Austrian state of Salzburg. There live 12.665 people and the municipality got the title: Biggest municipality of Austria.

The double municipality had been founded in 1948 of the places Wals and Siezenheim. In the same year the arm had been conferred. The population figure rose up from 1.000 inhabitants in 1947 to approximately 11.000 in 2001. Previous Wals was part of the separate municipality Siezenheim, but even so Liefering and a giant part of Taxach.

Geography

The municipality is located between the city of Salzburg in the east and the Austrian border with Germany in the west. It was established in 1948 by the merger of Wals and Siezenheim, after parts of its territories had been incorporated into the Salzburg city limits. The whole municipal area belongs to the suburbs of Salzburg, however, no further amalgamation efforts have been made so far. It currently comprises the cadastral communities of Wals I, Liefering I, Siezenheim I, and Gois.

Wals-Siezenheim is located immediately at Salzburg Airport with access to the Salzburg trolleybus system. It is the site of extended shopping malls and several branches of major industrial companies. The Walserberg locality is widely known for the former border checkpoint on the Austrian West Autobahn to the German Bundesautobahn 8. Border controls have been abolished with the implementation of the Schengen Agreement in 1997.

Communities of Wals-Siezenheim

The municipal area includes 10 communities (In the brackets you can see the figure of inhabitants, standing 31 October 2011):

Neighbouring municipalitys

History

The oldest locality Siezenheim was already settled in Roman times and got his name of the Roman aristocrator Sizo. From 1690 onwards Schloss Klessheim was erected as a summer residence of the Salzburg archbishops.

Sport

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Wals-Siezenheim.

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