Buchkirchen

Buchkirchen
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	Regina Rieder (ÖVP)
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".

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