Enns (city)

Enns
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Austria
State	Upper Austria
District	Linz-Land
Mayor	Franz Stefan Karlinger (SPÖ)
Basic statistics
Area	33.27 km² (12.8 sq mi)
Elevation	281 m  (922 ft)
Population	10,888  (01/01/2005)
- Density	327 /km² (848 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	LL
Postal code	4470
Area code	07223
Website	www.enns.or.at Coordinates: 48°13′0″N 14°28′30″E / 48.21667, 14.475

Enns is a city in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, located 281 m above sea level on the river Enns, which forms the border to the state of Lower Austria.

Enns was one of the first places in Austria to receive town privileges. The town charter dates to April 22, 1212, the document is displayed at the local museum. The date is also depicted at the City Tower, the landmark of Enns.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Politics 3.1 Municipal Council 3.2 Population

Geography

Enns extends for 7.5 km from north to south and 8.6 km from West to East. Its total area is 34.3 km², of which 12.8 % are covered with forest, and 64.1% are used for agriculture.

The municipality can be subdivided into the neighborhoods of Einsiedl, Enghagen, Enghagen am Tabor, Enns, Ental, Erlengraben, Hiesendorf, Kottingrat, Kristein, Kronau, Lorch, Moos, Rabenberg and Volkersdorf.

History

The first settlements in the area of the mouth of the Enns river to the Danube date back to 4000 years ago. Celts settled the land around 400 BC. Their kingdom of Noricum was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 15 AD and was designated as a Roman province under the reign of Emperor Claudius in 45.

In the second and third century, the Roman camp of Lauriacum, in which up to 6000 soldiers where stationed, was located on the territory of modern Enns. The adjacent settlement (today: Lorch) received the privileges of a municipium in 212 by Emperor Caracalla when about 30.000 people lived here. During the Diocletianic persecution of Christians a commander of the Roman army, Saint Florian died as a martyr at Lauriacum on May 4, 304, when he was drowned in the Enns river. Only nine years later Emperor Constantine I proclaimed religious tolerance with the Edict of Milan. About 370, an Early Christian basilica was built on the remains of a Jupiter temple and Lauriacum was the see of a bishop until 488. The modern St Lawrence Basilica of Lorch was built in 1344 upon the foundations of the old church.

About 900 the Enisiburg castle, later Ennsegg Palace, was built on the Georgenberg hill to serve as a protective fortress against Magyar invasions. The surrounding settlement prospered from the 12th century onwards, when Margrave Otakar II of Styria established a market here. In 1186 the Georgenberg Pact was signed, a contract of heritage between Duke Otakar IV of Styria, who lacked a male heir, and the Babenberg Duke of Austria, Leopold V. Following the death of Otakar IV in 1192, his Duchy of Styria - then significantly bigger than the contemporary state, reaching from present day Slovenia to Upper Austria - fell to the House of Babenberg. Thus, Enns became Austrian.

As Duke Leopold VI of Austria endowed Enns with town privileges in 1212, it is now considered Austria's oldest town (apart from the Roman municipal status). The landmark of Enns, the City Tower on the Main Square, was erected between 1564 and 1568 as a belltower, watch- and clocktower.

[Stadtturm (City Tower):[1],[2]]

[Enns Basilica:[3]]

Politics

Municipal Council

The municipal council consists of 37 members. Since the 2003 elections, party representation on the council is as follows:

• 21 Social Democrats
• 12 Austrian People's Party
• 3 Greens
• 1 Austrian Freedom Party

The current mayor is Franz Stefan Karlinger, a Social Democrat (SPÖ).

Population

In 1991, Enns had 10192 inhabitants according to the census. The number grew to 10639 in the census of 2001.

v • d • e Municipalities in the district of Linz-Land Allhaming · Ansfelden · Asten · Eggendorf im Traunkreis · Enns · Hargelsberg · Hofkirchen im Traunkreis · Hörsching · Kematen an der Krems · Kirchberg-Thening · Kronstorf · Leonding · Neuhofen an der Krems · Niederneukirchen · Oftering · Pasching · Piberbach · Pucking · Sankt Florian · Sankt Marien · Traun · Wilhering

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