Hörsching
Sign in to saveHörsching is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is next to the Linz Airport which is served by a shuttle bus from the Hörsching railway station. Anton Bruckner was schooled for a time in the village.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hörsching
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hoersching kirche.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- AUT Hörsching COA.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 80x110px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Austria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 270
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Austria
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location within Linz-Land district
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Austria
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Upper Austria
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Linz-Land
- Settlement.parts_style
- para
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Gunter Kastler
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 6062
- Area
- 20
- Elevation
- 294
- Official website
- www.hoersching.at
- Image
- Hoersching kirche.jpg
- Dialing code
- 07221
- Licence plate code
- LL
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- Commons category
- Hörsching
- postal code
- 4063
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- P8168
- Walter Alvarez
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Hörsching is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is next to the Linz Airport which is served by a shuttle bus from the Hörsching railway station. Anton Bruckner was schooled for a time in the village.
During World War II, on April 1, 1945 — Easter Sunday — U.S. Army 1st Lt. Harry Stewart was escorting a formation of B-24 Liberators near Linz, Austria on a mission to attack the railroad marshaling yards in St. Pölten, west of Vienna. During the flight home, they were attacked by a flight of German Focke-Wulf Fw-190s. Lt. Stewart got three victories, but three of the eight planes in his unit were shot down on the mission. One belonged to 2nd Lt. Walter Manning, who successfully bailed out of his P-51 and was captured. However, while downed flyers could generally count on becoming prisoners of war, Manning was lynched from a lamp post in Linz-Hörsching, Austria by troops inspired by local SS units.
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