My community is Ried in der Riedmark. Ried lies on the northern side of the Danube in the Mühlviertel. It is in the district of Perg and next to Mauthausen. You can only get there by bus or by taxi. Ried has a population of about 4100 people. It is on 306m altitude and covers 32, 69 km². The local government and the major Ernst Rabl are Social Democrats.

There flows a river though Ried. It is called Riederbach and its sources in the “Red Moos”. The place is called “Augsbründl”. In Ried there are also some other places you can visit, like “Teufelskanzel” and “Holy Linden”.

On the market square there is a big ugly spring which shows an axe in a tree trunk.

In Ried there are a lot of buildings: two churches, two banks, a hairdresser, a car business, a house for challenged persons and a house called “assisted living”. This is for older people who aren’t able to do everything by themselves.

Furthermore there are a post office, a tourist office and of course a municipal office. In Ried there are also two castles, one in Grünau and the other in Marbach. For shopping we only have the groceries Spar, Adeg , the drug store Schlecker and the bakery Neuhauser.