Wilhering | |
Native Name: | Wilaring |
Pushpin Map: | Austria |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Austria |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Austria |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Upper Austria |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Linz-Land |
Parts Style: | para |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | LAbg. Mario Wolfgang Mühlböck |
Elevation M: | 270 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | LL |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 4073 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 0 72 26 |
Website: | www.wilhering.at |
Wilhering (Central Bavarian: Wilaring) is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Its slogan is "culture and life". There is the Wilhering Abbey, a Cistercian Abbey, and a Rococo church, and woods around. The Cisterican Abbey was established in the 1146 and was then rebuilt after it had been burnt down. It contains sketches and paintings by Austrian Baroque painters. The church has a Rococo interior which is one of the best examples of this style in Austria. [1]
The mayor of the city is Mario Mühlböck[2] of the SPÖ, the leading party in Wilhering.
Wilhering has an education and child care facility. There are three elementary schools in Dörnbach, Schönering and Wilhering, and a middle school until eighth grade. The Stifter High School is a private school in Wilhering. Wilhering has two kindergartens.
Wilhering has its own public transport, a bus company that covers the entire municipality called WILIA, founded 1930.[3]