Afling (municipalities Bärnbach, Kainach bei Voitsberg)

Afling ( Rotte )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg , Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Bärnbach   ( KG  Bärnbach and Hochtregist )
Locality	Afling
Coordinates	47 ° 6 '18 "  N , 15 ° 7' 16"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '18 "  N , 15 ° 7' 16"  E
height	470  m above sea level A.
Post Code	8572
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Kleinkainach-Nord, Hochtregist (61626)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Afling (Rotte)
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg , Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Kainach near Voitsberg   ( KG  Kohlschwarz )
Locality	Afling
Coordinates	47 ° 6 ′ 32 "  N , 15 ° 7 ′ 14"  E
height	479  m above sea level A.
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Carbon black (61630)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Afling is a village and Rotte in the Voitsberg district in western Styria , which is in the municipal areas of Bärnbach and Kainach near Voitsberg .

Place name and geography

The stork castle in Afling

The name Afling is probably derived from the originally Slavic field name * abolnĭ with the suffix -nik , which means something like area where there are apple trees . The Slavic suffix was later replaced by the Bavarian -ing .

The place is north of Bärnbach , on the road towards Kainach bei Voitsberg . The local area is located at the mouth of the Ofenbach , also called Aflingerbach, into the Kainach . It is a street village that was built around the Storchenschlössel .

history

One of the earliest evidence of settlement in the area around Afling is a Roman coin from the third century depicting the emperor Maximinus Thrax . During the High Middle Ages there were only a few individual farms and wastelands in Afling, some of which were possibly also managed by Slavic farmers. The first documentary mention as Avelinch in the feudal book of Seckau took place in 1318. Further mentions followed in 1383 as Auenleg , in 1389 as on the Afelink and in 1450 as in Afling .

Afling belonged to the high medieval clearing area of Tregist and the place arose from the 16th century around the later Storchenschlössel . The settlers mainly included chaste and craftsmen such as blacksmiths, shoemakers, millers and weavers. The inhabitants of Afling belonged to various manors until 1848, such as Altkainach , Greißenegg , Kleinkainach and Lankowitz . For the year 1389 it is also documented that a resident belonged to the validity of the Carmelite monastery in Voitsberg . Around the year 1630 Georg Stürgkh exchanged tithes with the church valid near Graden for some land near Afling. A part of Afling and the Storchenschlössel belonged to the church of Sankt Johann am Tauern around 1750 . With the constitution of the free municipalities in 1850, Afling was divided up and assigned to the three municipalities Bärnbach , Hochtregist and Kohlschwarz .

On September 9, 1892, a flood destroyed the road to Kainach and damaged several bridges and weirs. In April 1891, the Afling elementary school was opened as a branch of the Piber elementary school . In June 1909 the Afling volunteer fire brigade was founded, which was officially approved in July 1912. A public telephone, as well as a telephone exchange and a telegraph office, were opened in June 1921. On the night of March 14, 1934, swastikas and leaflets were distributed in Afling. In December 1936 the SA-Sturm numbered 13 Afling of the Voitsberg standard, 81 men. Even before 1938 there was a rural advanced training school, which was used as a domestic advanced training school for girls in 1952 and 1953. From 1948 to 1951 the place was electrified . By a heavy storm on June 9, 1951, the streets and fields in Afling and the surrounding area were vermurt and flooded houses. Between 1957 and 1958, a deep-freeze warehouse was built in Afling . The kindergarten was opened in September 1989 and the same year the village square was redesigned.

Economy and Infrastructure

Since the settlement of the place, blacksmiths and mills have represented an important branch of the economy in Afling. The Stürkghmühle has been demonstrable in Afling since the early 17th century. For the year 1751 a stone cutter , a shoemaker, a baker, a carpenter as well as a forge and mill are documented in the Afling area . From 1802 there was the Aflingschmied a Hackenschmiede which went up in the forge Buchhaus from about 1860th The Buchhaus forge had its own puddle steel production and existed until shortly after 1950. The factory building was demolished in 1956. A sawmill, later known as the Kröllmühle, had existed since the second half of the 19th century at the latest and was bought by the Piber stud , which in its place built a house and farmyard for the stud's employees between 1953 and 1961. From 1936/37 a wage mill was added to the sawmill , which had to close in 1971 due to sales difficulties.

The Afling voluntary fire brigade has existed since June 1909. A resolution to dissolve the company that had already been taken in 1954 was not implemented. The new armory was opened in 1999. There has been a primary school in Afling since April 1891, which was a branch of the Piber primary school until the summer semester of 1899. The new school building was built between 1961 and 1964. In September 1989 a kindergarten was opened in Afling.

In the interwar period there was a river bath in Afling, but it was filled in in 1946. Today's sports field was opened in July 1965.

Buildings

The historically most important building in Afling is the Storchenschlössel , which emerged from a farm bought by Georg Stürkgh in 1611.

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 7-9 .

Web links

Commons : Afling (Styria)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61626 - Bärnbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

• 61630 - Kainach near Voitsberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 7 .
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 8 .
3. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 9 .