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Weitersfelden

municipality in Freistadt District, Upper Austria, Austria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ687255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Weitersfelden is a municipality (German: Marktgemeinde) in the district of Freistadt in the Mühlviertel in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

Districts

Districts (German: Ortsteile) of Weitersfelden includes:

Neighbouring municipalities

Population

Politics

References

Further reading

Gemeindeamt u. Ludwig Riepl (Hrsg): Weitersfelden - Ein heimatkundliches Lesebuch und a Ortschronik. 471 Seiten. 1997.

Pfarramt und Ludwig Riepl (Hrsg): 650 Pfarre Weitersfelden. 1987. 48 Seiten.

Gemeinde u. Ludwig Riepl (Hrsg): Weitersfelden im Wandel der Zeit.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Weitersfelden” as municipality in Freistadt District, Upper Austria, Austria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Weitersfelden, municipality and Freistadt.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Weitersfelden, municipality and Freistadt providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Weitersfelden”, the useful work is to connect “municipality in Freistadt District, Upper Austria, Austria” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q687255. VIAF identifies the subject as 242761332. Authority coordinates are 48.478, 14.728. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1987.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Weitersfelden”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Weitersfelden primary sources, Weitersfelden archive and Weitersfelden research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Weitersfelden”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Weitersfelden” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.