Tillmitsch

Tillmitsch
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Main town :	Tillmitsch links the Laßnitz
Surface:	15.02 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 49 ′  N , 15 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 41 ″  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	276  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,375 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8430, 8451
Area code :	03452
Community code :	6 10 43
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 87 A-8430 Tillmitsch
Website:	www.tillmitsch.at
politics
Mayor :	Erich Macher ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (21 members)	7th 4th 4th 4th 2 7th 4th 4th 4th 2  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 7 SPÖ : 4 FPÖ : 4 We for Tillmitsch : 4 GREEN : 2
Location of Tillmitsch in the Leibnitz district
Catholic branch church Tillmitsch
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Tillmitsch is a municipality with 3375 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Leibnitz district in the Austrian state of Styria .

geography

Geographical location

Tillmitsch is located in the western part of the Leibnitzer Feld in southern Styria.

The municipal area is part of the eastern foothills of the Sausal hill country (up to 340 m above sea level), but most of it lies in the valley floor (240 m above sea level).

Community structure

On January 1, 1968, the Altenberg community was incorporated into Leibnitz.

Since then , the Tillmitsch community has consisted of four cadastral communities : Altenberg, Maxlon, Steingrub, Tillmitsch.

Localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Altenberg (192)
• Groessing (111)
• Maxlon (187)
• Neutillmitsch (1327)
• Stone Pit (94)
• Tillmitsch (1464)

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (alphabetically): Gralla , Heimschuh , Kitzeck im Sausal , Lang , Lebring-Sankt Margarethen , Leibnitz and Sankt Nikolai im Sausal .

Tourism association

Together with Großklein, Heimschuh, Kitzeck im Sausal, St. Andrä-Höch, St. Johann im Saggautal, St. Nikolai im Sausal and Gleinstätten, the municipality forms the "Sulmtal Sausal - Südsteirisches Weinland" tourism association. Its seat is Kitzeck in Sausal.

history

Tillmitsch was first mentioned in a document around 1220 as "Tubnaz". In the Guidassoni brick factory, traces of iron melt from the time 1000 BC were found. Found. Illyrians operated an iron smelter there.

To the north, on the border with Lang, lies the Iron Gate, the beginning of the so-called Devil's Trench. It extends to the Mur in Bachsdorf. The Teufelsgraben is a kind of Germanic Landwehr, approx. 11 m wide and approx. 2 m deep, from the time around 750-800 AD. During this time, the early medieval settlement by the Germans began.

The local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community came to the Reichsgau Steiermark, 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Tillmitsch

politics

mayor

Erich Macher (ÖVP) was elected the new mayor of Tillmitsch with 19 out of 21 votes in the constituent meeting of the municipal council on April 17, 2015 . He thus succeeded Alfred Langbauer (SPÖ).

The community board also includes the first vice mayor Erwin Kriegl (ÖVP), the second vice mayor Ewald Schenk (SPÖ), the community treasurer Robert Gritsch (list we for Tillmitsch ) and board member Werner Langbauer (FPÖ).

Municipal council

The 2015 municipal council election was like a political earthquake. The SPÖ, which emerged as the clear winner in the last local council elections, lost two thirds of its voters and thus fell from 14 to four seats, as many as the FPÖ , which had not stood at all in the last two elections, and the list We for Tillmitsch under her top candidate Robert Gritsch, who stood for election for the first time. The winner was the ÖVP, which won seven seats.

The municipal council consists of 21 members. After the 2015 municipal council elections, it will be composed as follows:

• 7 mandates ÖVP ,
• 4 mandates SPÖ ,
• 4 mandates FPÖ ,
• 4 mandates list We for Tillmitsch and
• 2 mandates The Greens .

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	611	32	7th	0545	28	06th	0426	23	05	689	40	6th
SPÖ	409	21st	4th	1228	64	14th	1319	71	15th	901	52	8th
FPÖ	378	20th	4th	not running			not running			133	07th	1
The green	173	9	2	0144	08th	01	0105	06th	01	not running
We for Tillmitsch	360	19th	4th	not running			not running			not running
Eligible voters	2,768			2,675			2,520			2,219
voter turnout	71%			73%			75%			78%

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1973, shows: "In a shield split by a narrow silver wave pole, in front three silver fir trees standing on top of each other in a green field, behind a red, silver jointed brick wall."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Franz Feldbacher († 2019), former mayor of Tillmitsch

Web links

Commons : Tillmitsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61043 - Tillmitsch. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 323. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 630-631.
3. ↑ http://www.tillmitsch.at/
4. ↑ ^{a b} community Tillmitsch: Parish Council (accessed on 16 June 2015)
5. ↑ My week of April 18, 2015: Tillmitsch: Erich Macher was elected mayor (accessed on June 16, 2015)
6. ↑ My week of March 22, 2015: Tillmitsch: Success for newcomers to politics (accessed on June 16, 2015)
7. ^ Municipality of Tillmitsch: Municipal Council (accessed on June 16, 2015)