!!!Innviertel

Innviertel (officially: Innkreis) Region, Upper Austria, fertile, 
densely populated hilly landscape in the Alpine foreland, western part 
of Upper Austria, between the rivers Salzach, Inn and Danube, and 
Hausruck mountains. Area of about 2,250 km%%sup 2/% with a 
population of 203,515 (1991), comprising Sauwald region in the north, 
the fertile river landscape of the lower Innviertel with the 
Innviertel farmhouse types Vierseithof and Vierkanthof used by the 
"Koerndlbauern" (cereal growers) and the morainic landscape of the 
upper Innviertel, consisting of the Ibmer Moos, Weilhartforst 
woodland, Mattigtal valley and Kobernausserwald hills. At 
Ostermiething and Trimmelkam, brown coal deposit ("Salzach Coal"), 
closed down in 1994. Granite quarries near Schaerding and Wernstein. 
At Ried im Innkreis, the main town in the Innviertel, petroleum and 
natural gas deposits. Austria's most important aluminium plant is 
located in Braunau-Ranshofen; Fischer ski factory, food and mechanical 
engineering industries. On the steep banks of the River Inn are the 
border crossing points Braunau, Obernberg and Schaerding; A 8 
(Innkreisautobahn motorway) with Suben border crossing point. - At 
first the Innviertel was only temporarily Austrian territory (victory 
of Hochstaedt, 1704), the Peace of Teschen of 1779 brought about its 
cession from Bavaria to Austria; from 1809 to 1814 the Innviertel 
belonged to Bavaria again. Politically it is divided into the 
districts of Braunau, Ried and Schaerding. The power stations on the 
rivers Inn (4) and Danube (1) are all half Austrian, half 
German-owned. - The hilly country consists of fertile arable land and 
meadows, intensively used for agricultural purposes: cattle breeding 
(Simmental cattle), fruits for fruit juice and must production.

!Literature
G. Kleinhanns, Das Innviertel, 1991.


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