It is situated in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Innviertel and has 2,002 inhabitants.

Parts of the municipality are Aching, Aschbrechting, Breiningsham, Breitsach, Dürnberg, Emprechting, Engersdorf, Ficht, Gadering, Gonetsreith, Hilprechting, Hohenzell, Kager, Langstadl, Leisen, Mauler, Oberham, Oberlemberg, Obermauer, Plöck, Ponner, Roith, Wöging, Wötzling, Wanger, and Willmerting.

The official description of the coat of arms (translation): From Red to Silver diagonally separated, with two heraldic roses in complementary colours; on the separating line a sword, which is silver at the top and black at the bottom.

During the French Revolutionary Wars it became Bavarian again, then in 1814 it became part of Upper Austria to whom it has belonged up to the present day.

After the Anschluß to the German Reich on 13 March 1938 the city was part of the "Gau Oberdonau".