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46-574: As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 5,216. The Bavarian Wittelsbach family owned the town until 1779. Eyewitness Travel Austria guide describes Schärding's best feature as its central square, at the north end of which sits the Silberzeile row of gabled -roof houses. Other features include the large Church of St. George. The castle is gone but in its gateway there is a local museum with religious sculptures including those by Johann Peter Schwanthaler. The town sits at an altitude of 313 meters and

92-510: A Duke installed by the Franks (Old Bavarian law codes refer to five main lineages). The Danubian frontier between the Roman empire and " Germania " had by this time become a region where older populations had been added to significantly by generations of Roman border troops, Germanic clients, and then various " barbarian " peoples from outside the empire, some of whom had been under the hegemony of Attila

138-557: A favorable geographical location. From 1160 Schärding was ruled by the Counts of Andechs , and from 1248 by the Wittelsbach dynasty . Benefiting from its location by the Inn, Schärding became a center of trade, particularly for salt, timber , ores, wine, silk , glass, grain, textiles and livestock . The town was granted market rights at the end of the 13th century. After many changes of ownership in

184-491: A hunters' meeting at the Aschenbrenner Inn, a portrait of Hermann Göring was decorated with fresh greens. The men celebrated the incorporation of the neighboring German-inhabited Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia into German hunting grounds. The municipality comprises the following five localities (in parentheses population status as of October 31, 2011). The residents are predominantly Roman Catholic , at 83.5 percent of

230-406: A while). ) Slavs were settling to the north-east, and Goths and Langobards to the east and south were later displaced by Slavs and Magyars . Much like was the case in neighboring Alemannia , Bavaria was nominally Christian by virtue of being ruled by Christian dukes from the 6th century, but Christianization of its population was a gradual process lasting throughout the 7th century and into

276-593: Is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the south-east of the German language area, including the German state of Bavaria , most of Austria and the Italian region of South Tyrol . Prior to 1945, Bavarian was also prevalent in parts of the southern Sudetenland and western Hungary . Bavarian is spoken by approximately 12 million people in an area of around 125,000 square kilometres (48,000 sq mi), making it

322-518: Is also the indefinite pronoun ebba(d) , "someone" with its impersonal form ebb(a)s , "something". It is inflected in the following way: The interrogative pronouns wea , "who", and wås , "what" are inflected the same way the indefinite pronoun ebba is inflected. Bavarians produce a variety of nicknames for those who bear traditional Bavarian or German names like Josef, Theresa or Georg (becoming Sepp'l or more commonly Sepp , Resi and Schorsch , respectively). Bavarians often refer to names with

368-468: Is an alternative naming many High German dialect speakers regard justified. Bavaria and Austria officially use Standard German as the primary medium of education. With the spread of universal education, the exposure of speakers of Bavarian to Standard German has been increasing, and many younger people, especially in the region's cities and larger towns, speak Standard German with only a slight accent. This accent usually only exists in families where Bavarian

414-501: Is called Hausname (en: name of the house) and is seldom used to name the person, but more to state where they come from or live or to whom they are related. Examples of this are: Bayerish iz a grupe dyalektn afn dorem funem daytshishn shprakh-kontinuum. Sholem-aleykhem, ikh bin Peter un ikh kum fun Minkhn. Lize/Lizl hot zikh (hotsekh) tsebrokhn dem fus. ikh hob (kh'hob) gefunen gelt. The dialects can be seen to share

460-585: Is divided into three main dialects: The Baiuvarii were the early Bavarians, who are known from records starting in the 6th century. Their name indicates a connection to the Bohemian Forest area, which had been the territory of the Boii during antiquity, although the nature of this connection is uncertain. The name is Latinized from the ethnonym *Bajōwarjōz, meaning "citizens of Bohemia " from Proto-Germanic *Bajōhaimaz (Boiohaemum, Bohemia), meaning "Boii home", which

506-543: Is located in the Innviertel . It measures 4.1 kilometers from north to south, 1.9 km from west to east. The total area is 4.08 km². 2.4 percent of the area is forested, 31.7 percent is used for agriculture . The Inn River forms the border with the neighboring German state of Bavaria . Directly opposite the town on the Bavarian side of the river is Neuhaus am Inn , which is accessible via two bridges. The area around

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552-689: Is preferred in the mass media . Ludwig Thoma was a noted German author who wrote works such as Lausbubengeschichten in Bavarian. There is a Bavarian Misplaced Pages . Also, the official FC Bayern Munich website was available in Bavarian. Notes: Vowel phonemes in parentheses occur only in certain Bavarian dialects or only appear as allophones or in diphthongs. Nasalization may also be distinguished in some dialects. Bavarian has an extensive vowel inventory, like most Germanic languages. Vowels can be grouped as back rounded, front unrounded and front rounded. They are also traditionally distinguished by length or tenseness . * These are typically used in

598-462: Is restricted to use as the language of writing and the media. It is therefore often referred to as Schriftdeutsch ("written German") rather than the usual term Hochdeutsch (" High German " or "Standard German"). Given that Central German and Upper German together comprise the High German languages , out of which the then new, written standard was developed and as opposed to Low German , that

644-506: Is spoken regularly. Families that do not use Bavarian at home usually use Standard German instead. In Austria, some parts of grammar and spelling are taught in Standard German lessons. As reading and writing in Bavarian is generally not taught at schools, almost all literate speakers of the language prefer to use Standard German for writing. Regional authors and literature may play a role in education as well, but by and large, Standard German

690-554: Is the lingua franca . Although there exist grammars, vocabularies , and a translation of the Bible in Bavarian, there is no common orthographic standard. Poetry is written in various Bavarian dialects, and many pop songs use the language as well, especially ones belonging to the Austropop wave of the 1970s and 1980s. Although Bavarian as a spoken language is in daily use in its region, Standard German, often with strong regional influence,

736-760: The Bavaria region, a state within Germany . The group's dialect or speech is known as the Bavarian language , native to Altbayern ("Old Bavaria"), roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century. Like the neighboring Austrians , Bavarians are traditionally Catholic . In much of Altbayern , membership in the Catholic Church remains above 70%, and the center-right Christian Social Union in Bavaria (successor of

782-520: The Bavarian People's Party of 1919–1933 ) has traditionally been the strongest party in the Landtag , and also the party of all minister-presidents of Bavaria since 1946, with the single exception of Wilhelm Hoegner , 1954–1957. There is no ethno-linguistic distinction between Bavarians and Austrians . The territory of Bavaria has changed significantly over German history; in the 19th century

828-486: The Duchy of Bavaria , forming the south-eastern part of the kingdom of Germany . The Old High German documents from the area of Bavaria are identified as Altbairisch (Old Bavarian), even though at this early date there were few distinctive features that would divide it from Alemannic German . The dialectal separation of Upper German into East Upper German (Bavarian) and West Upper German (Alemannic) became more tangible in

874-646: The Kingdom of Bavaria acquired substantial territories of Franconia and Swabia , while having to return territories to Austria who had become Bavarian only a few years earlier. Thus, only three of the seven administrative regions of the state of Bavaria are culturally Bavarian: Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern), Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern) and the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz), to the exclusion of Bavarian Franconia (historically inhabited by Franks ) and Bavarian Swabia (inhabited by Swabians ). The Bavarian language

920-548: The Middle High German period, from about the 12th century. Three main dialects of Bavarian are: Differences are clearly noticeable within those three subgroups, which in Austria often coincide with the borders of the particular states. For example, each of the accents of Carinthia, Styria, and Tyrol can be easily recognised. Also, there is a marked difference between eastern and western central Bavarian, roughly coinciding with

966-663: The 10th century, derived from an earlier duchy ruled by the Frankish Agilolfings during the 6th to 8th centuries. The Margraviate of Austria was formed an eastern march to the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and became a duchy in its own right, the Duchy of Austria , in 1156, in the 13th century falling under the dominion of the House of Habsburg . In the 14th and 15th centuries, upper and lower Bavaria were repeatedly subdivided. Four Duchies (or "partial duchies", Teilherzogtümer ) existed after

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1012-626: The 14th century, for example on 20 January 1316 (to the Wittelsbachs), on September 24, 1364 it went to Rudolf IV of the House of Habsburg . 1369 ended the peace of Schärding (the dispute between Austria and Bavaria for control of the Tyrol, which fell to the Habsburgs who pawned the town back to Bavaria.) From 1429 to 1436 the fortifications of the city were built by Duke Ludwig the Gebarteten. Among others,

1058-457: The 8th; Saint Corbinian was sent by Pope Gregory II to minister to duke Grimoald and work towards the evangelization of Bavaria; he became the first bishop of Freising . A Diocese of Laureacum (Lorch) had been in existence since the 4th century, in the 8th century moved to Passau , which became a bridge-head for the Christianization of Austria and Hungary. The Bishopric of Regensburg

1104-571: The Bavarians in the generations leading up to the empire of Attila. These peoples had not only contributed to the Hunnic empire, but also sometimes been settled peacefully as Roman foederati . Also entering the area, more contemporary with the Bavarians and Lombards, were Slavs , who particularly settled the Upper Palatinate as well as around Regensburg itself (distr. Großprüfening). Neighboring

1150-742: The Hun. " Elbe Germans ", came from the river Elbe to the north, which was under Thuringian rule, and is where the Lombards had also been. But also more northern groups had moved along the Elbe from the direction of the North Sea , as did some Saxons who joined the Lombards, and possibly the Heruls . Also, East Germanic groups such as the Goths had entered the Pannonian region east of

1196-561: The World's Languages in Danger since 2009; however, the classification of Bavarian as an individual language has been criticized by some scholars of Bavarian. Reasons why Bavarian can be viewed as a dialect of German include the perception of its speakers, the lack of standardization, the traditional use of Standard German as a roofing language , the relative closeness to German which does not justify Bavarian to be viewed as an abstand language , or

1242-471: The border between Austria and Bavaria. In addition, the Viennese dialect has some characteristics distinguishing it from all other dialects. In Vienna, minor, but recognizable, variations are characteristic for distinct districts of the city. Before the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia , the linguistic border of Bavarian with Czech was on the farther side of the Bohemian Forest and its Bohemian foreland

1288-549: The capital of all of Bavaria in 1506. In 1623, Bavaria was elevated to Electorate ( Kurfürstentum ). The Kingdom of Bavaria was established at the Peace of Pressburg (1805) , in the wake of the French victory at Austerlitz . The kingdom's territory fluctuated greatly over the following years, eventually fixed at the Treaty of Paris (1814) , which established most of what remain the borders of

1334-513: The change of hands. The name of the district capital Scardinga came from the name given to the settlement by a man named Skardo and his family. Schärding (Scardinga) was first mentioned in records in 806 as a Passau farmyard. It has been the town center of the county of the Counts of Formbach-Neuburg since the 10th century. The castle rock in the immediate vicinity of the Inn River was utilized early as

1380-685: The current town has been inhabited since the Neolithic period . In 15 B.C., the Romans were advancing to the Danube and the Innviertel , including Schärding, was a part of the Roman province of Noricum and was populated by Celts. Around 488, King Odoacer withdrew his troops to the south. West Germanic Bavarians migrated about 30 years later up the Danube and occupied the area between the Vienna Woods and Lech. Place names ending in -ing, -ham and -heim clearly indicate

1426-553: The division of 1392: Lower Bavaria-Straubing , lower Bavaria-Landshut , Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Bavaria-Munich . Munich , now the capital and cultural center of Bavaria, was founded in the high medieval period, and was the capital of the "partial duchy" of Bavaria-Munich 1392–1503. In 1503, Bavaria was re-united by Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich (although the formerly Bavarian offices Kufstein , Kitzbühel and Rattenberg in Tirol were lost in 1504) and established Munich as

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1472-470: The emerging Bavarian people in the 6th to 7th centuries were the Alamanni to the west (with the river Lech as boundary, which remains a dialectal division today), and Thuringians to the north, both dominated to some extent by the Franks as were the Bavarians (in the late 7th century however, there was a period where Radulf, King of Thuringia rebelled and some independence was returned to these three regions for

1518-481: The entire town population. The second largest religious community is Islam with 5.0 percent of the population. Lutherans make up 2.8 percent, whereas; 5.6 percent have no religious affiliation . The asteroid 178243 Schaerding was named in the town's honour by its discoverer, Richard Gierlinger , who calls Schärding his hometown. Bavarians Bavarians ( Bavarian : Boarn/Bayern ; Standard German : Bayern ) are an ethnographic group of Germans of

1564-483: The fact that no country applied for Bavarian to be entered into the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages . The difference between Bavarian and Standard German is larger than the difference between Danish and some varieties of Norwegian or between Czech and Slovak . The word Bavarian is derived from the name of the people who settled Bavaria along with their tribal dialect. The origin of

1610-440: The family name coming first (like da Stoiber Ede instead of Edmund Stoiber ). The use of the article is considered mandatory when using this linguistic variation. In addition, nicknames different from the family name exist for almost all families, especially in small villages. They consist largely of their profession, names or professions of deceased inhabitants of their homes or the site where their homes are located. This nickname

1656-570: The largest of all German dialects . In 2008, 45 percent of Bavarians claimed to use only dialect in everyday communication. Bavarian is commonly considered to be a dialect of German , but some sources classify it as a separate language : the International Organization for Standardization has assigned a unique ISO 639-3 language code ( bar ), and the UNESCO lists Bavarian in the Atlas of

1702-506: The modern state. The kingdom in 1837 was divided into eight administrative regions ( Regierungsbezirke ), Upper Bavaria , Lower Bavaria , Franconia , Swabia , Upper Palatinate and Palatinate . Ludwig I of Bavaria changed his royal titles to Ludwig, King of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, Duke in Swabia and Count Palatinate of the Rhine . As of 1818, the total population of the kingdom

1748-789: The outer castle gate, the moat, Linz and Passau Gate and the Water Gate were built during this time. During the Thirty Years' War , especially in the years 1628, 1634, 1645, 1647 and 1651, the plague raged in the city. During the War of the Austrian Succession , a Bavarian army was defeated near the town on 17 January, 1742, during a winter offensive led by the Austrian field marshal von Khevenhüller . In April 1939, when Mayor Hans Ominger, Kreisamtsleiter Johann Pachman and other National Socialists hosted

1794-563: The southern side of the river Danube were the Vindelici in the Roman-controlled province of Raetia . Bavarians are first mentioned in the mid-6th century, in the foothills north of the Alps , on both sides of the Danube. It is difficult to distinguish the mobile and mixing groups of the Danube in this period archaeologically. The timing comes after the period when the neighbouring Alamanni (to

1840-401: The very northern dialects of Bavarian. The possessive pronouns Deina and Seina inflect in the same manner. Oftentimes, -nige is added to the nominative to form the adjective form of the possessive pronoun, like mei(nige), dei(nige), and the like. Just like the possessive pronouns listed above, the indefinite pronouns koana , "none", and oana , "one" are inflected the same way. There

1886-556: The west) and Thuringians (to the north) had come under Frankish hegemony, and in Italy the kingdoms of Theoderic and Odoacer had come to an end, creating a new power vacuum in the Alpine region. They seem to have been closely related to the Lombards who were developing as a force to the east of them. Their legal system shows heavy Roman influence, and their unification appears to have been under

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1932-435: The word is disputed. The most common theory traces the word to Bajowarjōz , meaning 'inhabitants of Bojer land'. In turn, Bojer ( Latin : Boii , German : Boier ) originated as the name for former Celtic inhabitants of the area, with the name passing to the mixed population of Celts, Romans , and successive waves of German arrivals during the early medieval period. The local population eventually established

1978-414: Was Bavarian-speaking. Alternatively, there are four main dialects: Bavarian differs sufficiently from Standard German to make it difficult for native speakers to adopt standard pronunciation. Educated Bavarians and Austrians can almost always read, write and understand Standard German, but they may have very little opportunity to speak it, especially in rural areas. In those regions, Standard German

2024-617: Was a term already mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania at the end of the 1st century AD, by which time parts of the Celtic Boii had already left the area, leaving it to be dominated by Suevic Germanic groups in close contact with the Romans, such as the Marcomanni in what is now the Czech Republic , and their neighbours the Hermunduri and Varisci in what is now northern Bavaria. On

2070-402: Was at 3.7 million, rising to 4.4 million by 1840 and to 6.2 million by 1900, reaching 6.5 million in 1910. Modern Bavaria has 12.5 million inhabitants (as of 2012); the population of Altbayern or Bavaria proper is at 6.7 million. Bavarian language Bavarian ( German : Bairisch [ˈbaɪʁɪʃ] ; Bavarian : Boarisch, Boirisch ), alternately Austro-Bavarian ,

2116-522: Was founded in 739 by Boniface . The Lex Baiuvariorum was a codex of Germanic law , comprising 23 articles of traditional law recorded in the 740s. Bavaria within the Carolingian Empire was bordering on Swabia in the west, Thuringia in the north, Lombardy in the south and Slavic Carinthia in the east. The Duchy of Bavaria was a stem duchy of the Holy Roman Empire , established in

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