Tarsdorf
Coat of arms
Tarsdorf Location within Austria
Coordinates: 48°04′48″N 12°49′33″E / 48.08000°N 12.82583°E / 48.08000; 12.82583
Country	Austria
State	Upper Austria
District	Braunau am Inn
Government
• Mayor	Andrea Holzner (ÖVP)
Area [1]
• Total	32.34 km2 (12.49 sq mi)
Elevation	429 m (1,407 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01)[2]
• Total	2,068
• Density	64/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5121
Area code	06278
Vehicle registration	BR
Website	www.tarsdorf.at

Tarsdorf is a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in the Austrian state Upper Austria.

Geography

Tarsdorf is located in the Innviertel. Situated at an altitude of 429 metres (1,407 ft), the municipality covers an area of 32.2 km² (12.4 mi²), measuring 7.1 km (4.4 mi) from north to south and 6.8 km (4.2 mi) from east to west. 37.9% of the land is forested, while 54.7% is used for agriculture. The Filzmoos, a raised bog, is located within the municipality.

Villages

The villages in the municipity are (with population in brackets as at 1 Jan 2020):

History

Finds in the Weilhart Forest indicate that the Tarsdorf area had already been settled by the Neolithic. Burial mounds from the Hallstatt period have been discovered. The area was settled by Celts around 500 BC.

In the Roman era, the road from Salzburg to Burghausen led through Tarsdorf. It ran through Hofweiden, Tarsdorf and Hörndl. The remains of a rustic villa, a millstone, shards of bowls, bricks from an underfloor heating system, pieces of plaster and a silver coin, all dating back to the first four centuries AD, have been discovered between Hofweiden and Tarsdorf.

In the sixth centuries the immigrating Bajuwars, ancestors of today's Bavarians, cleared large parts of the Weilhart-forest.

Notable People

• Richard Puchner (1883-1965), architect and builder
• Georg Dechant (1884-1953), politician, farmer and landlord

References

External links

• Media related to Tarsdorf at Wikimedia Commons