Leonding

{{Expand German|topic=geo|Leonding|date=November 2016}}

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| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Walter Brunner

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| postal_code = 4060

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| area_code = 0732

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Leonding ({{IPA|de|ˈleːɔ̯nd̥iŋ|-|De-Leonding.ogg}}) is a town southwest of Linz in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It borders Puchenau and the river Danube in the north, Wilhering and Pasching in the west, Traun in the south and Linz in the east. Leonding is the most populous town of the Linz-Land district and the fourth most populous town in Upper Austria.

It is very close to Linz and offers views of the Alps and therefore attracts the upper social classes for living without providing much infrastructure on its own.{{fact|date=May 2022}} Due to the proximity of Linz and transport connections{{fact|date=May 2022}} (like West railway, Westautobahn, B1 Wiener Straße or Linz Airport) it attracts companies like Rosenbauer, Ebner Industrieofenbau, Poloplast or Neuson.{{fact|date=May 2022}} Other major employers are the UNO Shopping Center (approximately 850 jobs) as well as the Plus City Shopping Center (approximately 2200 jobs).

From 1898 to 1905 Adolf Hitler lived in Leonding where he attended the local primary school and later a grammar school in nearby Linz. The graves of his parents Alois and Klara are in Leonding. His brother Edmund, who died of measles, was buried there too.Anna Rosmus Hitlers Nibelungen, Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 120f A delegation of Passau National Socialists visited the family's grave illegally.Anna Rosmus Hitlers Nibelungen, Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 121 Hitler visited the grave in 1938. In 2012, when a relative of Alois Hitler's first wife, Anna, did not renew the lease, the grave was dissolved.Anna Rosmus Hitlers Nibelungen, Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 122

In 1903, Hitler's father died when drinking a glass of wine in a guesthouse in Leonding.{{fact|date=April 2017}}

Leonding is split up into 22 localities: Aichberg, Alharting, Berg, Bergham, Buchberg, Doppl, Enzenwinkl, Felling, Friesenegg, Gaumberg, Haag, Hart, Holzheim, Imberg, Jetzing, Leonding, Reith, Rufling, St. Isidor, Staudach, Untergaumberg and Zaubertal.