Ansfelden is a

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in the

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n state of

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. The rivers

Traun Traun () is an Austrian city located on the north bank of the river Traun and borders Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, to the east. The name ''Traun'' is derived from the Celtic word for river (''dru''). Traun is the fifth largest city in U ...

and Krems run through the municipality. The town is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of the composer and organist

Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...

. Ansfelden has two

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s, the Anton Bruckner Museum and a museum of musical instruments. In the town's

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, granted on October 28, 1985, the wavy stripe represents the two rivers, the organ pipes the organist and composer Bruckner, and the

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the town's paper-mills and other older industries. (Page 9 in the PDF.) Between 1945 and 1964 the

DP Camp Haid The DP camp Haid, officially Wohnsiedlung 121 Haid, was a camp for displaced persons, first under American administration, then Upper Austrian administration. It was located in the district of Haid, Ansfelden in Upper Austria. Displaced persons we ...

was located in the district Haid.

Population

Local council (Gemeinderat)

Seats in the council, Elections 2015: *

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Sons and daughters of the city

(1824–1896), composer, organist and teacher of

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

and

pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...

performance * Walter Wimmer (1919–2003), politician (SPÖ) and member of parliament * Hermann Aichmair (born 1924), university professor, author, painter and sculptor * Hermann Krist (born 1959), politician (SPÖ) and member of parliament * Josef Schicklgruber (1967), football player (goalkeeper).

People with relationship to the city

* Bernhard Sallmann (born 1967), German filmmaker; grew up in Ansfelden *

Werner Gruber Werner Gruber (born 15 March 1970, in Ostermiething) is an Austrian physicist, author, lecturer, and cabaret artist and is well known from ORF and as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). Biography Gruber grew up in Ansfeld ...

(born 1970), neurophysicist and author; grew up in Ansfelden

References

{{Authority control Cities and towns in Linz-Land District