Liebenau (Graz)

Liebenau
7th district of Graz

Basic data

Surface:

7.99 km²

Residents:

13,200 (January 1, 2017)

Population density:

1,645 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes:

8041, 8042, 8074

Geographical location:

47 ° 2 ' N , 15 ° 27' E Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ' N , 15 ° 27' E

Location in Graz

District Office:

Conrad von Hötzendorf-Strasse 104
8010 Graz

District Head:

Karl Christian Kvas ( ÖVP )

1. Deputy District Head:

Eduard Dorner ( SPÖ )

2nd deputy district head:

Hermann Fras ( FPÖ )

Public transportation:

Tram lines: 4, 13
Bus lines: 34 / E, 64, 72, 74 / E, 75 / U
N4, N8

photo

Merkur Arena Graz-Liebenau (still with old logo)

Liebenau is the 7th district of Graz .

location

It borders in the north on the 6th district Jakomini and in the east on the 8th district St. Peter . The western border to the 17th district of Puntigam forms the Mur .

history

The name is derived from lovely Au . A connection with County L (i) has not been proven .

Liebenau Castle (end of the 17th century), later a cadet school

It is reported about the year 1531 that Sultan Suleiman and his Turkish army set up camp in Liebenau during the invasion of Styria on the night of September 11th to 12th, which he then burned down. Covered by the morning mist, he then crossed the Mur and attacked the Mur suburb.

The Liebenau district was created in 1946 from several communities that were only integrated into the Graz city area in 1938. Today Liebenau then consisted of the community (parts) n Neudorf , Murfeld , Engelsdorf , the old Liebenau , which until 1648 Vatersdorf was called and was in 1164 first mentioned, as well as parts of the former municipality of Thondorf , whose village of today Gössendorf is managed, together . These five parts have the status of cadastral parishes today .

Liebenau was a barracks that in the era of National Socialism as one of the largest Grazer internment was used. It was designated as " Camp V " and was used as a stopover on the death marches by Hungarian Jews . In the period after the Second World War , this facility was used as the “Am Grünanger” refugee camp . 60 bodies were found on its premises, the number of those who actually died is estimated to be higher. It cannot be ruled out that there may be other graves in this area. So were z. B. found bones during the construction of the legally required protective cellar for a kindergarten in 1992, whereupon this project was canceled and the kindergarten was completed without a cellar. In July 1947, the city of Graz bought the warehouse from Steyr Daimler Puch AG.

Starting in 1941, the Thondorf plant of Steyr Daimler Puch AG was built on 300,000 m² of expropriated agricultural land as part of the Hermann Göring works . As an armaments company that mainly produced aircraft engines and armored cars, the plant was an important target for Allied bombers. The huge bunker for 3,000 people, which was built in the middle of the factory premises, still testifies to this today. In a bomb attack on July 26, 1944, 88 people, mostly foreign workers, died in the Liebenau barracks camp. At the end of the war, the factory was largely destroyed and production could not start again until 1952.

In 1982, as part of the protection of Zone IV (historic suburbs) of the Old Town Conservation Act 1980, the part of Alt-Liebenau around the former cadet school was placed under protection.

economy

One of the landmarks of Liebenau: The Puch high-rise in front of the former Puchwerk main entrance

In Liebenau there are long-established handicrafts and agricultural businesses, industrial companies ( MAGNA ) and commercial zones with new shopping centers ( Murpark shopping center with around 36,000 m², East shopping center). One of Magna Steyr's most important production sites is located in the south of the district on the site of the former Puch works .

Parking garage Liebenau
Murpark (2007)
Modern building on the Liebenauer Gürtel

traffic

In 1925 the tram reached the district border. From 1952 to 1964 a trolleybus line was run from the Liebenau tram terminus to Thondorf, which was then converted to a bus.

Public transport: The district offers connections to the following lines of the GVB (Graz AG Verkehrsbetriebe) : tram line 4 (from 7:00 p.m. and on Sundays and public holidays: tram line 13), bus lines 34, 64 and 74 as well as to the night bus line (= Nightline) N4. The most important junction for local public transport has been at the Murpark shopping center since April 2007.

Park & Ride: Accessible either via the Graz Ost motorway slip road at the Murpark shopping center exit, right next to the Murpark shopping center. The connection to the local public transport network is via tram lines 4 and 13 in the direction of the city center and via bus lines 64 and 74. At the southern exit of the city, directly in front of the Magna plant, there is the Thondorf car park of the city of Graz with a connection to the bus line.

Autobahn: The A2 - Süd Autobahn forms the southern border of the district. Liebenau can be reached from here within a few minutes via the Graz Ost exit, which cuts through the district.

schools

Engelsdorf elementary school , opened in 1893

Elementary school Liebenau

Murfeld primary school, opened in 1970

HS / NMS Dr. Renner , opened in 1951, UNESCO school , Pedagogical Panther 2000

Engelsdorf secondary school
BG / BORG Graz Liebenau (higher federal boarding school, former federal educational institution , formerly cadet school )

Attractions

Liebenau stadium tower

Buildings

Evangelical Church of the Redeemer , Raiffeisenstrasse 166, 8041 Graz
Graz-Süd (Christ the Risen)
Graz-Liebenau (St. Paul)
Graz-Thondorf (St. Christoph)
former barrack church of the Annunciation (redesigned as a communication center in 1992; a listed building)
Merkur Arena (soccer stadium) and Graz-Liebenau ice stadium , tram lines 4 and 13, stop Stadion / Liebenau - The Liebenau stadium was called the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium from 1997 to 2006 and the UPC Arena from 2006 to 2016

Main building of BG / BORG Graz Liebenau , built in 1854 on the area of the former Liebenau Castle. In the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire it was nicknamed the Cadet School and with the fall of the monarchy it was renamed the Federal Education Institute . Today's BG Graz Liebenau houses, among other things, the GAK Academy (Academy of the Grazer Athletiksport-Klub ). Bus routes 34 and 64 Puntigamerstraße and bus routes 64 and 74 Liebenau Postamt .

Cadet school around 1900
former cadet school, BG / BORG Graz Liebenau (2008)
"Frog Queen" of the Graz group "SPLITTERWERK" as the headquarters of "Prisma Engineering"
Parish church of St. Christoph with chapel

Personalities

Sons and Daughters of the District:

Franz Buxbaum (born February 25, 1900 in Liebenau, † February 7, 1979 in Fürstenfeld) was an Austrian botanist
Ignaz Reiterer, gold medalist as a member of the Styrian ice rifle team in the demonstration competition of the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936
Karl Schneider-Manns Au (born September 10, 1897 in Liebenau, † October 29, 1977 in Salzburg ); Politician and Deputy Mayor of the City of Salzburg.
Hans von Zois , actually Johann Gustav Adolf von Zois-Edelstein (born November 14, 1861, † January 5, 1924), musician and composer
Christoph Leitgeb , (born April 14, 1985), Austrian football player

Persons connected with Liebenau:

Svetozar Boroëvić von Bojna (born December 13, 1856 - May 23, 1920), field marshal in World War I, was a pupil of the cadet school.

Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten (born April 26, 1861 in Pernegg an der Mur, Styria, † May 12, 1921 in Graz) was the Austro-Hungarian Colonel General and last Minister of War of Austria-Hungary and a pupil of the cadet school.

Viktor Weber von Webenau (born November 13, 1861 - May 6, 1932), General of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I and chairman of the Armistice Commission (Austria-Hungary vs. Entente / Italy) was a pupil of the cadet school.

Walter Koschatzky (born August 17, 1921; † May 9, 2003) was a graduate of the Realgymnasium Bundeserziehungsanstalt Liebenau

Walter Wolf (entrepreneur) (born October 5, 1939 in Graz Liebenau) is an Austro-Canadian entrepreneur and former racing team owner

Gert Steinbäcker (born November 27, 1952 in Graz, Styria), singer, was a student at BEA Liebenau.

Trivia

Liebenau was the name of a kkStB locomotive (kkStB 15)

Web links

Commons : Liebenau, Graz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Liebenau (Graz) in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ Numbers + facts: population, districts, economy, geography on graz.at.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Liebenau district representation. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .

^ Werner Strahalm: Graz a city history ; Edition Strahalm, Graz 1994 (2nd edition), p. 127. ISBN 3-900-526-27-3

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Walter Brunner on behalf of the City of Graz, Kulturamt (Ed.): Geschichte der Stadt Graz (in 4 volumes), self-published by the City of Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4 ; (Part 1)

↑ New details of a taboo subject in Graz , derstandard.at, accessed on May 2, 2014

^ Walter Müller: Graz builds apartments on the historically polluted area of a Nazi camp . In: derstandard . April 4, 2019 ( derstandard.at ).

^ The Liebenau camp (memorial event) ( Memento from August 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on April 16, 2012.

↑ Eleonore Lappin-Eppel: "The death marches of Hungarian Jews through Styria" ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Barbara Stelzl-Marx: The Graz-Liebenau camp in the Nazi era: Forced laborers-death marches-post-war justice. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2012. Publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, Graz-Vienna-Klagenfurt; Volume 20. ISBN 978-3-7011-0254-9 ZDB -ID 2015831-2 .

^ Liebenau Social Medicine Center (ed.): Current information on the "Liebenau camp" . SMZ Info April 2013. ZDB -ID 2627069-9 , electronic ZDB -ID 2470380-1 pp. 14-21.

↑ Innovation driver MURPARK Graz celebrates its 10th birthday with the start of the area expansion - press release of March 20, 2007, accessed on June 24, 2019

↑ The Prize Winners 2000 , elternbrief.at

^ My boarding school: BEA Liebenau, today HIB Liebenau Graz, Austria (BEA history, engl.)

^ History of the BG / BRG Graz Liebenau. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .

↑ Karin Derler / Ingrid Urbanek: Planning for Infinity - The Graz Central Cemetery; Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; 2002. ISBN 3-85489-086-9

[KatGem2004-1] Numbers + facts: population, districts, economy, geography on graz.at.

[Bezirksräte-2] Liebenau district representation. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .

[3] Werner Strahalm: Graz a city history ; Edition Strahalm, Graz 1994 (2nd edition), p. 127. ISBN 3-900-526-27-3

[Brunner-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Walter Brunner on behalf of the City of Graz, Kulturamt (Ed.): Geschichte der Stadt Graz (in 4 volumes), self-published by the City of Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4 ; (Part 1)

[5] New details of a taboo subject in Graz , derstandard.at, accessed on May 2, 2014

[6] Walter Müller: Graz builds apartments on the historically polluted area of a Nazi camp . In: derstandard . April 4, 2019 ( derstandard.at ).

[7] The Liebenau camp (memorial event) ( Memento from August 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on April 16, 2012.

[8] Eleonore Lappin-Eppel: "The death marches of Hungarian Jews through Styria" ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[9] Barbara Stelzl-Marx: The Graz-Liebenau camp in the Nazi era: Forced laborers-death marches-post-war justice. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2012. Publications of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, Graz-Vienna-Klagenfurt; Volume 20. ISBN 978-3-7011-0254-9 ZDB -ID 2015831-2 .

[10] Liebenau Social Medicine Center (ed.): Current information on the "Liebenau camp" . SMZ Info April 2013. ZDB -ID 2627069-9 , electronic ZDB -ID 2470380-1 pp. 14-21.