Regau
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| Coat of arms | Location in Austria |
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| Statistics | |
| State: | Upper Austria |
| District: | Vöcklabruck (VB) |
| Area: | 34 km² |
| Population: | 5.815 (as of 01 March 2006) |
| Elevation: | 429 m |
| Postal code: | 484a |
| Area code: | 07672 and 07674 |
| Official website: | http://www.regau.at |
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| Mayor: | Peter Harringer (ÖVP) |
Regau is a municipality in Austria near Vöcklabruck, which is the capital of the region. This Upper Austrian municipality has 5,815 inhabitants of which about 700 live in the village of Regau itself.
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[edit] Geography and population
The northern border of Regau is the river Ager, another important water is the Baggersee, an artficial lake where many people like to stay in summer for swimming or other sports. Near this lake there is the football stadium of Regau which is used by the Union Regau.
The municipality is devided in 36 smaller villages of which Schalchham with more than 1000 inhabitants is the biggest. Other important villages are - of course - Regau, Rutzenmoos (a predominantly protestant village with a church), Wankham and the Lixlau.
About 53,5% of Regau's soil is used for agriculture, another third is covered by forests.
[edit] History
Regau's first mention in a deed was more than 1200 years ago - in the year 800. That time, Regau was the seat of the Earls of Rebegau, their castle is reckoned to have been near the today's village Burgstall (translated: stable of a castle).
The origin of the name Regau was the latin denomination Repagauve, later in German Rebengau. This denomination got shorter and shorter and nowadays the municipality is called Regau. All these denominations show that Regau once was famous for viniculture.
Since the twelfth century Regau has been part of the duchy Austria, before it's been part of Bavaria. Since 1490 Regau has been part of the princedom Austria upon the Enns, today called Upper Austria of which Regau has been part of since 1918.
June, 28th of 1981 Regau was officially given a coat of arms, in 2000 Regau was declared a market. (In Austria there are three different kinds of municipalities: villages, markets and cities)
[edit] Culture and Sights
In Rutzenmoos there is the Protestant Museum of Upper Austria
In Regau there are many traditional association like:
- The Regau civil guard
- The Regau civil guard's band
- a group of Goldhauben and many other societies
There are three churches in Regau:
- the gothical chuch St. Peter in Regau's centre
- the church St. Vitus in Upper Regau
- the protestant church of Rutzenmoos
Regau is connected to the Way of St. James.
The Union Regau is th municipality's most important sporting club.
[edit] External links
- (German) Official website of Regau
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