Althofen

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Althofen
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Althofen coat of arms
Althofen (Austria)
Althofen
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Carinthia
Political District : Sankt Veit an der Glan
License plate : SV
Surface: 12.27 km²
Coordinates : 46 ° 52 '  N , 14 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '0 "  N , 14 ° 28' 0"  E
Height : 718  m above sea level A.
Residents : 4,715 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 384 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 9330
Area code : 0 42 62
Community code : 2 05 01
NUTS region AT213
UN / LOCODE AT AHO
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptplatz 8
9330 Althofen
Website: www.althofen.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Alexander Benedikt (LFA - List for All)
Municipal Council : ( 2015 )
(23 members)
12
5
4th
2
12 5 4th 2 
A total of 23 seats
  • LFA : 12
  • SPÖ : 5
  • FAIR : 4
  • LA : 2
Location of Althofen in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district
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town hall
town hall
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria
View of the city of Althofen
Riederhaus with sgraffito frieze
Annenturm
Auer-von-Welsbach-Museum
Villas on Kreuzstrasse
Gnome fountain on Salzburger Platz
Althofen Castle
Calvary Church
Gut Rabenstein

Althofen ( Slovenian : Stari Dvor ) is a municipality with 4715 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the north of Carinthia , Austria . It is one of the oldest mountain settlements in Austria that is still inhabited today and a spa town.

geography

Althofen is located 30 km north of the state capital Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and 15 km north of the district capital Sankt Veit an der Glan , in the northern part of the Krappfeld .

Community structure

The community is divided into the three cadastral communities Treibach, Althofen and Töscheldorf. The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Aich (12)
  • Althofen (3569) including Dachberg, Oberer Markt, Undsdorf and Unterer Markt
  • Eberdorf (27)
  • Epritz (2)
  • Krumfelden (1)
  • Muraniberg (10)
  • Raven Stone (2)
  • Rain (2)
  • Töscheldorf (4)
  • Treibach (1086)

history

Two stone axes from the Neolithic and ceramics from the Late Bronze Age bear witness to the early presence of humans in Althofen. Noteworthy is a barrow from the Hallstatt period , which was found in 1900 near the train station. The Roman settlement of Althofen is evident from numerous small finds and some inscription stones.

Around 600 Alpine Slavs settled . In 1041 the place was first mentioned as Altanhouun . Around 1230, the town of Althofen was granted market rights and at that time it was an important trading center in Carinthia: It served as the main trading point for iron from the region around Hüttenberg . Historical importance in Althofen is attributed to the Counts of Egger and the Dickmann-Secherau family, who dominated the mining of iron from Treibach-Althofen in the surrounding towns, especially in the 19th century. The Counts of Egger were the owners of the “Treibacher Werke”, the forerunner of today's Treibacher Industrie AG .

Althofen - like the neighboring Friesach and the surrounding Krappfeld - belonged to the "foreign rulers" of the Archbishopric of Salzburg until 1803 .

In the 16th century, the Counts of Egger built an iron-processing industrial company near the Gurk , the Hammerwerk an der Gurk (in Treibach, at times its own municipality, today a district), which experienced its heyday in the 17th century and a few years after that which lasted until 1815 French wars was closed. In 1897 Carl Auer von Welsbach bought the ironworks and converted it into an electro-chemical test company, which was the cornerstone for the “Treibacher Chemischen Werke” (TCW) founded in 1907, which is now known as “ Treibacher Industrie AG ” (TIAG) that produce only a few flints, but a lot of catalysts for oil refining, for example.

For a long time, the residential buildings in the Treibach district, especially those on the Ringstrasse around the chemical plant, were mainly built by industrial companies. Not until 1980 was there any noteworthy residential construction by other owners.

On June 24, 1993 the market town was granted town charter.

population

At the time of the 2001 census, Althofen had 4,732 inhabitants, 96.4% of whom were Austrian citizens. 84.6% of the population professed the Roman Catholic Church, 3.5% the Evangelical Church and 1.4% Islam . 8.0% were without religious belief.

Population development


Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Althofen

Preserved Roman stones

  • On the buttress of the parish church is a well-preserved Roman tombstone with masterful decorations. The text reads: “Publius Aelius Tertullus did this for himself and for his wife Secunda during his lifetime”. The pictures on the narrow sides show a dancing maenad with a bird and a knife, opposite a naked maenad with a fruit basket on his shoulder and a branch of laurel.
  • On the north side of the church there is a well-preserved grave inscription: "Finitus, slave of Claudius Priscus, did this to the dead gods of brother Commodus and grandson Commodinus".
  • On the north side of the branch church of St. Cäcilia is the epitaph for Atticus, Quarta, Tiberius Claudius Uppius, Muso and Belatulla.
  • Above the front door of the house "Unterer Markt No. 65" there is a grave inscription for Vibena, her husband Ursus and their son Vibenus, who died at the age of 25.

Economy and Infrastructure

The city is an important business location for the entire region, especially for the surrounding valleys Gurktal , Metnitztal and Görtschitztal with the following industries:

In addition, the spa center is known throughout Austria and is the destination of 160,000 spa tourists every year. Althofen offers its guests numerous cafés and inns as well as well-known restaurants. The culinary offer is supplemented with a variety of overnight accommodations. In addition to two hotels, B & Bs and private rooms are also offered.

The center (Hauptstrasse, Kreuzstrasse, 10. Oktober-Strasse) has supermarkets and a diverse range of retail outlets.

The Treibach-Althofen station is a stop for the Railjet traffic Vienna – Bruck – Klagenfurt – Villach of the ÖBB . Here the narrow-gauge Gurktalbahn branched off from 1898 to 1972 ; Today a 3.3 km long section has been preserved as a museum railway.

politics

The municipal council has 23 members.

mayor

  • until 2015 Manfred Mitterdorfer (LFA)
  • since 2015 Alexander Benedikt (LFA - list for all)

coat of arms

Blazon : "A bundle of naturally colored iron rods in blue on a golden three-mountain, bound with two golden ribbons and topped with a golden lily."

The original coat of arms document from 11 December 1479 issued by Archbishop Bernhard von Salzburg is the oldest preserved Carinthian original with a coat of arms. The bundle of iron bars symbolizes the rise of the market as the center of the Salzburg iron trade from the Görtschitztal or from the Hüttenberger Erzberg . There are no contemporary sources for the other two motifs, the Dreiberg could refer to the mountain location of the main town, the lily to the rule of the Archdiocese of Salzburg.

The flag of Althofen is blue and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.

Town twinning

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Connected with Althofen

Web links

Commons : Althofen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Alkhofen in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of place names (PDF; 146 kB), accessed February 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. ^ Günther Jannach: The Ancient Althofen. In: Althofen community chronicle. City of Althofen, July 30, 2018, accessed on November 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ althofen.at Website of the Althofen City Archives Association> Geschichte> Neuzeit, accessed on November 26, 2014
  5. ^ Information from the municipality of Althofen, November 26, 2014
  6. ↑ Facts of the city according to self-information, accessed on July 31, 2019
  7. ↑ fahrplan.oebb.at Railjet Vienna-Villach route map, accessed on November 26, 2014
  8. ↑ FAIR website in Carinthia , August 15, 2017, accessed on September 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ Manfred Mitterdorfer: Mayor of the city of Althofen for 20 years ( memento of the original from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. List for everyone, archive page, without date @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lfa-althofen.at
  10. ↑ according to the certificate from 1968, quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: Die Kärntner Gemeindewappen . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 256