Eferding
Encyclopedia
Eferding is a city and the capital of the Eferding district
in the Austria
n federal state of Upper Austria
. It had a population of 3,393 as of the 2001 census.
Eferding (district)
Bezirk Eferding is a district of the state ofUpper Austria in Austria.- Municipalities :Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.*Alkoven*Aschach an der Donau*Eferding*Fraham*Haibach ob der...
in the Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n federal state of Upper Austria
Upper Austria
Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...
. It had a population of 3,393 as of the 2001 census.
Geography
Eferding is the center of the 'Eferdinger Becken', a plain landscape area. the city is 2 km away from the danube river. It has most moderate climate in Upper Austria.Sightseeing
- Cathedral Eferding: (Stadtpfarrkirche Eferding) late gothic, built in 1451-1505, because of its size it is also called 'Dom of Eferding'
- main place: the main place is an old big place with gothic and baroque houses, at the north side of the main place these is the castle
- Castle Starhemberg: (Schloss Starhemberg) built in the 13th century. It is Home of two museums: the Fürstlich Starhembergische Familienmuseum (History of the Starhembergs) and the Museum of the city Eferding. The museum presents the table of the Viennese apartment of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
where he composed the opera The Magic FluteThe Magic FluteThe Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
(Die Zauberflöte). A "Christmas Market" is celebrated every winter in the castle courtyard. The descendants of the StarhembergStarhemberg----Starhemberg is the name of an Austrian noble family hailing from Upper Austria, specifically Steyr and Steinbach, who were Counts of the Empire from 1643, raised to princes in 1765...
family continue to reside in the castle. The castle is located between the north side of the main place, the catherdral at the graben of the former citywall.
Traffic
- Danube cycle way: In Austria the Danube cycle path goes from Passau - Aschach - Eferding - Linz - Vienna to the border to Hungary. Eferding is twenty kilometers before Linz, and it is two kilometers away from the Danube and the Danube cycle path.
- shipping peer: there is a Danube shipping peer in the small village 'Brandstatt', 2 km away from the town Eferding http://www.ddsg-blue-danube.at/
Sport
- Ponds: there are some nice small ponds (lakes) located in the area between the Danube und the city Eferding, used for swimming in summer by free entry
- outdoor swimming pool: close to the center there is a new outdoor swimming pool (Landscaped Pool)
- horseback-riding: there are possibilities for horseback-riding