Afritz am See
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Afritz am See
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| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Villach-Land | |
| License plate : | VL | |
| Surface: | 28.06 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 44 ' N , 13 ° 48' E | |
| Height : | 711 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 1,404 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 50 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 9542 | |
| Area code : | 04247 | |
| Community code : | 2 07 01 | |
| NUTS region | AT211 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Schulstrasse 2 9542 Afritz am See |
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| Mayor : | Maximilian Linder ( FPÖ ) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members) |
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| Location of Afritz am See in the Villach-Land district | ||
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Afritz am See ( Slovenian : Zobrce ) is a municipality with 1,404 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia .
geography
Geographical location
The community is located in the Umgebung Valley south of the Afritzer See in the middle of the Nock Mountains .
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are, starting from the north and clockwise: Feld am See , Arriach , Treffen and Fresach .
Community structure
The community is divided into the cadastral communities Afritz and Berg ob Afritz and comprises the following eleven localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Afritz (313)
- Afritz am See (14)
- Berg ob Afritz (86)
- Alleys (103)
- Kraa (276)
- Lierzberg (175)
- Möderboden (0)
- Scherzboden (313)
- Tassach (17)
- Diving Mountain (16)
- Tobitsch (91)
history
The area valley was not settled until the High Middle Ages , the sunny side of the valley was cleared by around 1300. The name area was mentioned for the first time in 1308, Afritz in 1450, and the church of St. Nikolaus in Afritz in 1516.
The municipality belonged to the county of Ortenburg and formed its own regional court in Afritz. At the time of the Napoleonic rule , the valley was attached to the judicial district of Villach. Between 1973 and 1990 Afritz was part of the large community of Feld am See-Afritz. 1991 Afritz was an independent municipality again and leads since 1 January 2000 the name Afritz am See , though the eponymous Afritzersee mostly belongs to the neighboring community.
population
According to the 2001 census, the community of Afritz has 1,519 inhabitants (2005: 1,487), of which 96.6% are Austrian citizens. 57.3% profess to the Protestant and 35.7% to the Roman Catholic Church, 1.0% to Islam. 4.4% of the population are without religious beliefs.
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas : The parish church is a Gothic, later partially modified building on the north-western edge of the village. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1512. The three-storey vestibule tower with a baroque onion dome and lantern was completed in 1716.
- Evangelical Church (Toleranzjubliäumskirche) west of the parish church was built from 1980 to 1981 and consecrated in 1981.
- House Porcia in Gassen : The former nursing home was owned by the Counts of Porcia from 1662 to 1848, the seat of the keepers of the Afritz estate. The two-storey renaissance building with a former continuous transverse corridor on both storeys and a rafter roof truss covered with alpine roof tiles with crooked hips on both sides has cantilevered, open gable walls with decorated corridor parapets. The facades were created around 1785, but redesigned in the 19th century. The interior underwent major changes after 1956. Above the arched portal there is a coupled central window on the first floor, next to it the coat of arms of Prince Franz Seraphin von Porcia with an inscription, inscribed 1785. On the right, the coat of arms of his wife Barbara, Baroness von Jöchlingen. There is also a mural of Archangel Michael fighting Lucifer. In both basement rooms and on the ground floor (with the exception of the room in the south corner) there are barrel vaults with stitch caps.
Regular events
- Kugelwölg´n : The Kugelwölg´n is a custom that is common in a similar form in other Carinthian communities (there as ball throwing, heeling or ball whale). In this game, which is held annually in Afritz on Easter Monday , two equipped teams try to knock over the “Krasl” (a stick that stands on three legs, a kind of tripod) with a fist-sized ball. Each hit earns one point, the Krasl is placed in a different place, and each team continues to play from the place where the ball last landed. You start from an inn, then cross-country to the next inn.
Economy and Infrastructure
According to the 2001 census of workplaces, there are 54 workplaces with 172 employees in the municipality as well as 474 out-commuters and 78 in-commuters. There are 68 agricultural and forestry holdings (25 of which are the main occupation), which together manage 2,181 hectares (1999). Economically dominant is the tourism at Afritzer See. The transport connection is via Millstätter Straße (B 98).
politics
Municipal council
(-9.49 % p )
(+ 10.50 % p )
(-1.01 % p )
The Afritz municipal council has 15 members and has been composed as follows since the 2015 municipal council election :
mayor
- since 2003 Maximilian Linder (FPÖ).
coat of arms
Afritz was awarded the coat of arms of the Princes Porcia , the long-standing court lords and landlords, with an Aquarius as a shield holder in 1960 and was initially out of use when it was merged with Feld am See in 1973, but became the new one a year later - without the Aquarius holding the shield Constituted large community Feld am See awarded.
Today's Afritz coat of arms was given to the community in the course of re-independence on September 18, 1992. It is still based on the shield of the Princes of Porcia, but the number of lilies was reduced to five and these were arranged in two rows. In addition, the heart-lily ornament was added as a local component, it is modeled on the baptismal frieze of the Afritz parish church.
The official blazon of the coat of arms reads:
- "Above a blue shield with five (3: 2) golden lilies in the golden shield head, a blue frieze of alternating upward and downward-facing hearts with inscribed lilies."
The flag is blue and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.
Personalities
- Mischa Krausz (* 1954), Austrian musician
- Rudolf Leeb (* 1958), Austrian church historian and university professor
- Claudia Strobl (* 1965), Austrian ski racer
- Helmut Mayer (* 1966), Austrian ski racer, silver medal at the Olympic Games in Calgary
- Matthias Mayer (* 1990), Austrian ski racer, Olympic champion in 2014 and 2018
literature
- Wilhelm Wadl, Thomas Zeloth (ed.): Afritz am See. Nature - history - present. Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-900531-71-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Community changes from 1945, associations, divisions, names and Status changes , accessed June 27, 2020.
- ↑ see Kurt Grafschafter: That's the custom in Carinthia . Joh. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1999, ISBN 3-85366-899-2 , p. 120
- ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 42
Web links
- Afritz am See community
- 20701 - Afritz am See. Community data, Statistics Austria .
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