Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in the

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n state of

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Geography

Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald lies in the upper (northwestern) Mühlviertel region, near the

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with the

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state of

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

and the

South Bohemian Region The South Bohemian Region ( cs, Jihočeský kraj; , ) is an administrative unit (''kraj'') of the Czech Republic, located mostly in the southern part of its historical land of Bohemia, with a small part in southwestern Moravia. The western part ...

of the

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. The municipal area stretches along the southern slopes of the

Bohemian Forest The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as Šumava () and in German as Böhmerwald, is a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from Plzeň Region and South Bohemia in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria ...

(''Böhmerwald'') range; about 71 percent of the municipality is forest, and 26 percent is farmland.

History

First mentioned in 1571, the ''Schwarznperg'' estates were held by the Bavarian Prince-Bishops of Passau since medieval times. The remote area near the border with the

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from 1638 was the site of a

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house, which became a possession of

Schlägl Schlägl is a town and a former municipality in Rohrbach District in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. On 1 May 2015 Schlägl municipality was merged with Aigen im Mühlkreis to form Aigen-Schlägl municipality. As of 1 January 2018, populati ...

Abbey in 1719. Under the rule of Empress Maria Theresa, in 1765, Schwarzenberg finally passed to the Upper Austrian crown land of the Habsburg monarchy. The local parish was established according to a 1784 patent issued by Emperor

Joseph II Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 29, 1780 un ...

. After the

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, the area became part of the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence ...

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') as of 2015 local elections: * Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 9 *

Freedom Party of Austria The Freedom Party of Austria (german: Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Austria. It was led by Norbert Hofer from September 2019 to 1 June 2021.Staff (1 June 2021"Aus ...

(FPÖ): 3 * Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 1

Notable people

Franz Xaver Schmid Franz Xaver Schmid; name sometimes given as Franz Xaver Schmid-Schwarzenberg (October 22, 1819 – November 28, 1883) was an Austrian-German educator and philosopher born in Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald. From 1840 to 1844 he studied Catholic ...

(1819–1883), philosopher *

Viktor Schauberger Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885 – 25 September 1958) was an Austrian forest caretaker, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and biomimicry experimenter. Schauberger developed his own ideas based on what he observed in nature. In ''Implosion'' ma ...

(1885–1958), forester and naturalist

References

Cities and towns in Rohrbach District Bohemian Forest {{UpperAustria-geo-stub