Buchkirchen

Buchkirchen
Municipality
Coat of arms
Buchkirchen Location within Austria
Coordinates: 48°13′26″N 14°01′12″E
Country	Austria
State	Upper Austria
District	Wels-Land
Government
• Mayor	Nikon Baumgartner (SPÖ)
Area
• Total	32.17 km2 (12.42 sq mi)
Elevation	346 m (1,135 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01)
• Total	4,038
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4611
Area code	0 72 42
Vehicle registration	WL
Website	www.buchkirchen.at

Buchkirchen is a municipality in the district of Wels-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

Geography

Buchkirchen lies in the Hausruckviertel. About 10.9% of the municipality is forest, and 76.9% is farmland.

Parts of Buchkirchen

Those parts are called Ortschaften in German:

Buchkirchen, Elend, Ennsberg, Epping, Hörling, Haberfelden, Hartberg, Hochscharten, Holzwiesen, Hundsham, Hupfau, Kandlberg, Lachgraben, Luckermair, Mistelbach bei Wels, Niedergrafing, Niederhocherenz, Niederlaab, Obergrafing, Oberhocherenz, Oberperwend, Oberprisching, Ottenham, Radlach, Öhnerhäuser, Ötzing, Schickenhäuser, Schnadt, Sommerfeld, Spengenedt, Unterholz, Wörist, Wolfsgrub.

History

In 1179 Buchkirchen was mentioned in a document of Pope Alexander III. In those years Buchkirchen was named as "Puechkirchen".

In the late 1960s, the two chefs, Herbert Schuh and Franz Thalhammer, invented the Austrian dish Käsekrainer in Buchkirchen. Since then, the sausage has been well established in Austrian cuisine and gained great popularity within and beyond Austria.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1991	3,187	—
2001	3,648	+14.5%

Sights

• The church Pfarrkirche Buchkirchen
• The church Filialkirche Mistelbach
• The castle Schloss Mistelbach (Schloss = German for Castle)The castle is now a school called Fachschule ÖKO Wirtschaft und design