Schlägl is a town and a former municipality in
Rohrbach District
Bezirk Rohrbach is a district in the state of Upper Austria in Austria.
Municipalities
Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are i ...
in the
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n state of
Upper Austria
Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, a ...
. On 1 May 2015 Schlägl municipality was merged with
Aigen im Mühlkreis
Aigen im Mühlkreis is a town and a former municipality in Rohrbach District in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. On 1 May 2015 Aigen im Mühlkreis municipality was merged with Schlägl to form Aigen-Schlägl municipality.
As of 1 January 201 ...
to form
Aigen-Schlägl
Aigen-Schlägl is a municipality in Rohrbach District of Upper Austria, Austria. As of 1 January 2019, population was 3196.
The municipality was formed on 1 May 2015 by merging two municipalities, Aigen im Mühlkreis
Aigen im Mühlkreis is a to ...
municipality.
As of 1 January 2018, population of the town was 430.
Geography
Schlägl is lying in the upper
Mühlviertel
The Mühlviertel () is an Austrian region belonging to the state of Upper Austria: it is one of four "quarters" of Upper Austria, the others being Hausruckviertel, Traunviertel, and Innviertel. It is named after the three rivers ', ', and '.
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. About 55 percent of the municipality is forest, and 40 percent is farmland.
Forestry
Schägl contains a monastic order in which famously developed was the target diameter harvesting method.
References
Cities and towns in Rohrbach District
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