Althofen (municipality of Ligist)
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Basic data | ||
Pole. District , state | Voitsberg (VO), Styria | |
Judicial district | Voitsberg | |
Pole. local community | Ligist ( KG Oberwald , Steinberg and Unterwald ) | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 59 '14 " N , 15 ° 11' 49" E | |
height | 405 m above sea level A. | |
Post Code | 8563 | |
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk |
Althofen is a scattered settlement in the Voitsberg district in western Styria , which is located in the municipality of the Ligist market town .
Place name and geography
The name Althofen can be divided into two parts. The part of the name Hof indicates a noble or estate farm , while the part of the name Alt indicates an early development.
The place is located southwest of Ligist , on the state road L349 towards Ober- and Unterwald . The place is at the confluence of the Oberwaldbach in the Ligistbach . It lies on the border between the three cadastral communities Oberwald, Steinberg and Unterwald.
history
It was first mentioned in a document as Alltennhofen in 1437. Due to the lack of earlier mentions, it cannot be said whether there was an early medieval manor in Althofen or a late medieval Gülthof . At least some high medieval individual farms and desert corridors are known in the area around Althofen, which were created in cleared areas.
The residents of Althofen belonged to various manors until 1848, such as the mining office of the Hohenburg rule and the Hof mining office of the Ligist rule . The mining rights lay with the Ligist rule. With the constitution of the free municipalities in 1850, today's area of the place Althofen was divided and assigned to the three municipalities Oberwald , Steinberg and Unterwald .
In 1900 the place was already listed as an old furnace in the register of places .
Infrastructure
The children from Althofen attend the kindergarten in Unterwald.
The Althofen water cooperative was founded in 2005 to supply the village with water.
literature
- Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 12 .
Web links
- 61612 - Ligist. Community data, Statistics Austria .