Aibl

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Coat of arms of the former municipality of Aibl

Aibl is a place in western Styria . Until the end of 2014, it was a municipality with 1,386 inhabitants (as of 2014) in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria . As part of the Styrian community structural reform , Aibl was merged with the communities of Eibiswald , Großradl , Pitschgau , St. Oswald ob Eibiswald and Soboth to form the market town of Eibiswald in 2015 . The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

geography

location

Aibl is located in southern western Styria at the foot of the Koralpe on the Slovenian- Austrian border. The Radlpass road connects Aibl with neighboring Slovenia. The lowest point of Aibl is 365  m above sea level. A. , the highest point is the Haderniggkogel at 1184  m above sea level. A. The wide hills and crests are characteristic of the area, but there are also narrow valleys cut into the hilly landscape by streams. The agriculturally used areas have an average slope of around 15 degrees.

structure

The following seven localities belong to Aibl (population in brackets as of October 31, 2011):

  • Aibl (504)
  • Aichberg (400)
  • Hadernigg (188)
  • Red wine (25)
  • Sankt Bartlmae (15)
  • St. Lorenzen (186)
  • Staritsch (108)

Aibl consists of the cadastral communities Aibl, Aichberg, Hadernigg, Staritsch, Sankt Bartlmä, Sankt Lorenzen and Rothwein .

Neighboring places

Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald Wernersdorf Pitschgau /
Wies
Soboth Neighboring communities Eibiswald /
Großradl
Muta / Hohenmauthen Radlje / Mahrenberg

history

In Aibl, in the north of Eibiswald, was the noble seat "Aichberg". The name of the Aibler district Aichberg reminds of him. This system had developed from a farm and became one again in the 18th century. The Aichberger farm also reminds us that it is considered the Meierhof of what was then the Edelhof. The former defense system no longer exists. An enfeoffment with the Schramphnhof am Aichperg is documented for 1427, around 1460 the court was given by Emperor Friedrich III. awarded. In 1572 the farm was called Gschloß Aichperg . In 1598 the plant burned down and was rebuilt with the support of 600 fl . In the first half of the 17th century the property had an armory and a library of 50 volumes. From 1627 belonged Valid Aichberg the basic rule Eibiswald. In 1693 the complex was described as dilapidated, and around 1780 it is assumed that the farm became a farm again.

Aichberg Castle near Eibiswald portrayed by Georg Matthäus Vischer

In the 19th century, the glass factory in Aibl supplied bottles for mineral water to Srebrenica in Bosnia , bottles for rubbing alcohol (Diana with menthol) to Hungary and beer bottles for the breweries Götz in Eibiswald and Wolfsbauer in Stainz. But it was too small for larger orders, repeatedly got into economic difficulties and had to be closed several times.

Location of the former municipality of Aibl in the Deutschlandsberg district with the municipality boundaries until the end of 2014

On January 1, 1969, the previously independent communities of Aibl and Rothwein were merged with the cadastral community of Sankt Lorenzen and the part of the cadastral community of Bachholz of the community of Stammeregg to the then new community of Aibl.

population

Population development

From 1869 to the middle of the 20th century , the population of the municipality increased, after which it declined continuously with the exception of a short period after the end of the Second World War. The decline in population could not be stopped, in 2011 it reached its lowest level in over 140 years.


Population structure

According to the 2001 census, the community had 1521 inhabitants. 96.1% of the population had Austrian citizenship. 96.3% of the population professed to the Roman Catholic Church , 1.7% were without religious beliefs.

Culture and sights

See also: List of listed objects in Eibiswald

The most important sights in Aibl are the Hadernigg natural stone and the center of Aibl.

The parish church “St. Lorenzen ob Eibiswald ” is documented in a document from 1399, it was a branch church of Eibiswald until 1790 . It was rebuilt around 1670, restored after a fire in 1807 and in 1946. The branch church of “St. Leonhard in der Ebene “ belonged to the parish Mahrenberg im Drautal until 1829 because it was located south of the border between the then Graz and Marburg districts. It is essentially Romanesque and was extended in the late Gothic style.

The pilgrimage church of St Anton in Bachholz is one of the few churches that are consecrated to St Antonius the Hermit . It is located next to the road on the Radlpass and was first mentioned in 1617, a new building took place between 1711 and 1715. The high altar dates from 1732 with pictures (Coronation of Mary) by Johann Anton Strauss, around 1775. A pulpit is dated to 1700, the positive organ to 1720.

Landscape protection area

Aibl is located in the conservation area no. 3 "Soboth-Radlpass". This area is characterized by meadows and forests in a large-scale forest landscape, by grassland use and small-scale orchards. The protection serves to preserve the landscape character, the natural and near-natural landscape elements as well as the preservation of the landscape as a recreational area for the general public. For example, the large contiguous unspoilt areas such as near-natural forest areas, the structured cultivated landscape with its small biotopes such as bushes and groups of trees, the field and forest edge communities, the near-natural, structurally rich small bodies of water such as springs, streams, etc., the habitats for the animals and animals occurring in the protected area are protected Plant species and the near-natural stream sections.

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 34 workplaces with 158 employees in Aibl, as well as 498 commuters and 94 commuters. The most important industries are education and trade. Aibl is also an important Schilcher wine-growing and tourism community. In addition to some commercial operations, HMF Fertigungstechnik GmbH ( mechanical engineering ) and a stone and gravel plant are also located in the community . There are 171 agricultural and forestry holdings (42 of which are the main occupation), which together cultivate 3,817 hectares (1999).

politics

Municipal council

The ÖVP was able to maintain and further expand its strong supremacy in the 2010 municipal council elections. The ÖVP got 85.34% of the vote and the SPÖ 14.66%.

Aibl around 1877/78, recording sheet for the state survey
The border between the Graz and Marburg districts ran north of St. Lorenzen in the first half of the 19th century

coat of arms

Aibl's coat of arms shows three red stripes on a white shield, which run at a 45 degree angle from the upper, left side to the lower, right side. The middle red stripe shows three white grape leaves and the middle white stripe three red grape leaves. The municipality received the right to use the municipal coat of arms on October 1, 1989.

Web links

Commons : Aibl  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Geological map of Aibl and its surroundings, around 1926

credentials

  1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
  2. Section 3, Paragraph 2, Item 2 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 2.
  3. Statistics Austria, register census from October 31, 2011
  4. a b Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. Pp. 58-59.
  5. ^ Herwig Ebner : Castles and palaces in Styria. Graz, Leibnitz, West Styria. 2nd Edition. Vienna 1981, Birken-Verlag. ISBN 3-85030-028-5 . Pp. 10-11.
  6. Blatnik: glass factory. P. 514.
  7. Blatnik: glass factory. P. 519.
  8. Herbert Blatnik: On the history of the Aibl glass factory in Eibiswald. In: Gerhard Pferschy, Gernot P. Obersteiner (eds.), Meinhard Brunner (ed.): Rutengangs: Studies for historical regional studies. Ceremony for Walter Brunner on his 70th birthday. Research on the historical regional studies of Styria, Volume 54. Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, special volume 26. Graz 2010. ISBN 978-3-901251-34-4 . Pp. 512-524.
  9. Glashütte Aibl ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koralpenglas.at
  10. Law of December 3, 1968 on territorial changes of municipalities , Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of December 27, 1968, Part 22, No. 164, p. 174.
  11. ^ Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio Handbook - Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Styria (excluding Graz). Topographical inventory of monuments, ed. from the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research. Publisher Anton Schroll. Vienna 1982. ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 . Page 454–455.
  12. Dehio , page 415. According to this inventory of monuments, the patronage is the only one of this saint in Styria. Page 658.
  13. Ordinance of the Styrian state government of December 19, 2013 on the declaration of areas of the Soboth and the Radlpass as landscape protection area No. 3. Styrian State Law Gazette of January 27, 2014. No. 10. ZDB -ID 705127-x . Pp. 1-2. This ordinance replaced the ordinance on the declaration of areas of the Soboth and the Radlpass as a landscape protection area, LGBl. No. 38/1981, most recently in the version LGBl. No. 64/1981.