Gratwein street angel

market community Gratwein street angel
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Main town :	Street angel
Surface:	86.69 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 7 '  N , 15 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '46 "  N , 15 ° 20' 4"  E
Height :	392  m above sea level A.
Residents :	12,846 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8103, 8111, 8112, 8113, 8114, 8153
Area code :	03124
Community code :	6 06 64
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 1 8111 Gratwein-Strassegel
Website:	www.gratwein-strassengel.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Harald Mulle ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2020) (31 members)	15th 6th 4th 4th 2 15th 6th 4th 4th 2  A total of 31 seats SPÖ : 15 ÖVP : 6 FPÖ : 4 GREEN : 4 Our Gratwein street angel : 2
Location of Gratwein-Straßengel in the Graz-Umgebung district
View from the pilgrimage church of Maria Straßengel to the villages of Hundsdorf, Rötz (both left), Gratwein (center) as well as Straßengel and Judendorf (right in the foreground)
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gratwein-Straßengel has been a market town in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria since the beginning of 2015 . It was created as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the municipalities of Gratwein , Judendorf-Straßengel , Eisbach and Gschnaidt , which were dissolved at the end of 2014, and thus became the sixth largest municipality in Styria in terms of inhabitants.

A complaint from the mayor of Eisbach to the Constitutional Court against the merger was unsuccessful. A complaint by the municipality of Gschnaidt was also unsuccessful.

geography

Geographical location

The community is located on the western (right) bank of the Mur, about ten kilometers northwest of the provincial capital Graz. It extends from the district of Judendorf in the Gratkorner basin in a north-westerly direction up to 1208  m above sea level. A. high Schererkogel, a branch of the Gleinalpe . In addition to the Gratkorner Basin with the main towns of Gratwein and Judendorf-Straßengel, the most important settlement areas are the Rein-Hörgas Basin and the Schirningbach valley in the south of the municipality.

The town of Rein with its famous monastery is the seat of a federal high school .

Community structure

The municipality includes eleven localities with a total of 12,846 inhabitants (number of inhabitants in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Eisbach (995) including Greith, Hart, Meierhof and Schirning
• Gratwein (3641) including Au and Kierl
• Gschnaidt (316) including Kornberg, Krienz, Plesch, Sankt Pankrazen, Sankt Pankrazen (surroundings), Stiwollgraben and Stübinggraben
• Hörgas (966) including Enzenbach and Hart
• Hundsdorf (513)
• Judendorf (1599)
• Kehr and Plesch (96) including Hausegg
• Kugelberg (305)
• Rein (880) including the Reinersiedlung Sdlg, Selenz and Tallak
• Rotz (760)
• Street angel (2775)

The community area is divided into six cadastral communities (area 2016):

• Eisbach (1,613.08 ha)
• Gratwein (455.29 ha)
• Gschnaidt (2,998.49 ha)

• Hörgas (1,297.50 ha)
• Judendorf-Straßengel (1,061.34 ha)
• Kehr and Plesch (1,235.69 ha)

Neighboring communities

	Ubelbach	Deutschfeistritz Gratkorn
Geistthal-Södingberg ( Voitsberg district )		Graz
Stiwoll	Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth	Thal

Surveys

There are some peaks belonging to the Grazer Bergland , including the “four thousand”, which together form a popular hike in the Rein Abbey area.

• Schererkogel ( 1208  m )
• Kollerkogel ( 1184  m )
• Heiggerkogel ( 1098  m )
• Pleschkogel ( 1061  m )
• Mühlbacher Kogel ( 1050  m )
• Walzkogel ( 1026  m )
• Generalkogel ( 713  m )
• Gsollerkogel ( 667  m )
• Kugelberg ( 564  m )

history

Gratwein around 1830, Lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz

The local congregations as autonomous bodies came into being after the abolition of the manorial system in 1850.

Judendorf street angel

Pilgrimage Church of Maria Straßengel

Around 860, one of the oldest documents in Austria mentions the Kirchberg von Straßengel as "ad Strazinolun". The name is probably derived from the Slavic “straža”, which could refer to a watchtower conveniently located here.

On June 11, 1147, Margrave Otakar III dedicated . the monastery Rein several towns Rotz, Straßengel and Jews village. These areas were cultivated by Reiner monks.

Settlements with the name Judendorf are mostly located on old trade routes that cross the Alps. Later on, cities and markets were usually founded in their vicinity. It is assumed that these Jewish villages are settlements of Jewish merchants who were intensively involved in the trade in goods in the early Middle Ages.

After the abolition of the manors, Judendorf, Straßengel, Rötz, Hundsdorf and Kugelberg belonged to the market town of Gratwein, which was constituted in 1849.

With the opening of the Mürzzuschlag - Graz section of the kk privileged southern railway on October 21, 1844, the Gratwein-Gratkorner basin also found its way into the "industrial revolution". As a result, economic companies settled in Judendorf, including a cement factory.

However, the people from Judendorf and Strassegler owed their economic boom to the fact that the Graz upper class had seized the area as early as 1850. In particular, the Materleitner dynasty in Judendorf, which achieved incredible wealth due to its economic activities, then pursued separatist efforts, which resulted in the establishment of a hotel (1889), a cold water sanatorium (1894) and the “Styrian Park Sanatorium Dr. Feiler ”(1901) were strengthened. Judendorf-Straßengel, at that time one of the best-known health resorts in the monarchy, was finally separated from Gratwein and was constituted in 1909 as an independent local community.

The upswing came to an abrupt end with the collapse of the monarchy and the associated loss of the economic hinterland. The community would almost have sunk into insignificance again, if not the health insurance of the Austrian. Bundesbahnen would have acquired the former park sanatorium Feiler.

After the Second World War, Judendorf-Straßengel developed more and more into a residential community, in 1981 86% of employees commuted from the former community. After the insurance company of the Austrian. Railways shut down part of their special hospital in 1989, and in 1999 it was finally over. Intensive efforts made it possible to continue the tradition of Judendorf-Straßengel as a health resort or as a place of rest and relaxation. In the first closed part of the special hospital, the "Park Residence", a senior citizens' home, was built, and a modern rehabilitation center with a focus on neurology, orthopedics, oncology and children's rehabilitation was built on the area of ​​the last part that was closed.

In 2009 the main square around what was then the community center was completely redesigned and ceremoniously opened on the occasion of the 100th anniversary.

Eisbach

To the north of the town of Rein there was a mining site for Silex ( pebbles such as chert, quartz , etc.) in the Neolithic Age, in the Lasinja culture . Tools ( hand axes , blades, scrapers , etc.) were extracted from it. Workpieces from this mining site were common up to a distance of 150 km.

Rein Abbey has shaped the development of the community since the 12th century. A number of mining operations were located near Eisbach and in its vicinity, for example on mercury and lignite.

Population development

Culture and sights

The pilgrimage church Maria Straßengel seen from the south

Weihermühle bathing pond

See also:  List of listed objects in Gratwein-Straßengel

Buildings

• Parish Church of St. Rupert
• The pilgrimage church Maria Straßengel was built in the middle of the 14th century and is one of the most important sacred buildings of the High Gothic in Austria. The filigree tower construction, which is reminiscent of that of the Freiburg Minster, is particularly remarkable .
• The former cement kiln in Judendorf-Straßengel is an industrial monument.
• Rein Abbey , today the oldest existing Cistercian monastery in the world in Rein
• Small farm museum Eisbach-Rein
• Eisbach nostalgia armory

sport and freetime

• EC Ruffnecks Gratwein ( ice hockey ), the club founded in 2003, plays in the Styrian national league
• GSV RB Gratwein ( soccer )
• Bad Weihermühle

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Due to its proximity to Graz, the community is very well connected in terms of transport, it is not located directly on one of the main roads, but on the main road from Gratkorn to Eisbach . Via this connection the Grazer Straße B 67 can be reached. The closest junctions to the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 are Deutschfeistritz (exit 165) around eight kilometers away in the north direction and Gratkorn (exit 173) around six kilometers away in the south.

The Gratwein-Gratkorn train station and the Judendorf-Straßengel stop of the Austrian Southern Railway with half-hourly to hourly S-Bahn connections (S1) to Graz and Bruck an der Mur are located in the municipality .

The Graz Airport is about 28 km away.

Since June 2016 there has been a project for new mobility with “rufmi” and “buchmi”. Thus, at two locations electric car - car sharing a common bus for single journeys for every two euros offered and at over 100 connection points.

politics

Municipal council

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A total of 31 seats

• SPÖ : 16
• FPÖ : 8
• ÖVP : 3
• GREEN : 3
• Our Gratwein street angel : 1

The municipal council consists of 31 members and has been made up of mandates from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election:

• 16 SPÖ
• 8 FPÖ
• 3 ÖVP
• 3 GREEN
• 1 Our Gratwein street angel

mayor

Harald Mulle (SPÖ) has been mayor since 2015.

Partnership communities

• the former municipality of Eisbach
  • Ebrach (Bavaria), since 1979
• the former community of Judendorf-Straßengel
  • Komárom (Hungary)

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
• 

  Gratwein

• 

  Eisbach

• 

  Gschnaidt

• 

  Judendorf street angel

All four previous municipalities had a municipality coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on October 15, 2016.

Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In the shield, which is diagonally square with an adjoining silver cross of blue and green, above a golden cherub's head, on the right a single-leafed bunch of grapes, on the left a five-leafed beech branch, below the golden curvature of an abbot's staff."

The crook indicates the old, important Cistercian monastery of Rein.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anton Wolfradt (1582–1639), President of the Court Chamber, Cistercian, Abbot of Kremsmünster and Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Vienna, was pastor of Gratwein from 1609 to 1612
• Gottfried Prabitz (1926–2015), Austrian sculptor
• Othmar Krenn (1952–1998), Austrian artist, creator of the “Art Train”, born in Gratwein
• Gundis Zámbó (* 1966), German actress and television presenter, born in Gratwein
• Clemens Maria Schreiner (* 1989), Austrian cabaret artist, lives in Gratwein
• Christian Scherübl (* 1994), Austrian swimmer, European junior champion, born in Gratwein
• Sigrid Spörk (* 1981), Austrian actress and singer, grew up in Judendorf-Straßengel

literature

• Ingo Mirsch: Market town of Judendorf-Straßengel - The story. published by the market town, available from the town hall
• Ingo Mirsch: Judendorf in old views. Publisher: European Library , ISBN 90-288-1346-2 .
• Marianne Gerstenberger: Maria Straßengel. Editor: Parish Office

Web links

Commons : Gratwein-Straßengel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 60664 - Gratwein street angel. Community data, Statistics Austria .

• Website of the market town of Gratwein Strassengel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 3, Item 3 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria dated April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 3.
3. ↑ Decision of the Constitutional Court of October 8, 2014, G 170/2014 on the rejection of the complaint (with reference to the legal sentence to the decision of September 23, 2014, G 41/2014, which names three identical decisions).
4. ↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 25 November 2014 G 121/2014.
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
6. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017.
7. ↑ The Rehabilitation Clinic with Heart & Vision (Homepage)
8. ↑ styriagate.net
9. ↑ Michael Brandl: Silex deposits. Pp. 43-47, 67-68, 87-93 and afterword.
10. ^ Leopold Weber: The lead-zinc ore deposits of the Graz Palaeozoic and their geological framework. Archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 12, Vienna 1990, ISBN 978-3-900312-72-5 , p. 275. (29 MB; PDF)
11. ↑ Small farm museum Eisbach-Rein  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kultur.steiermark.at  
12. ↑ Nostalgie-Rüsthaus Eisbach  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kultur.steiermark.at  
13. ↑ Project start for new mobility in Gratwein-Straßengel on mein district.at on September 18, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2017.
14. ↑ Mobility / community bus ( memento of the original from July 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.gratwein-strassengel.gv.at, accessed on July 5, 2017. 
15. ↑ 120. Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 29, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Gratwein-Straßengel (political district Graz-Umgebung) , accessed on October 14, 2016.