Anger (Styria)

market community Anger
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Wheat
License plate :	WZ
Surface:	53.84 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 16 '  N , 15 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '25 "  N , 15 ° 41' 24"  E
Height :	479  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,995 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8184
Area code :	03175
Community code :	6 17 56
Address of the municipal administration:	Südtiroler Platz 3 8184 Anger
Website:	www.anger.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Hubert Höfler ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (21 members)	13 4th 4th 13 4th 4th  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 4 FPÖ : 4
Location of Anger in the district of Weiz
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Anger is in the district Weizmann preferred market community of Austrian state Steiermark with 3995 inhabitants (January 1, 2020).

In November 2012 the amalgamation of the municipalities of Anger, Baierdorf bei Anger , Feistritz bei Anger and Naintsch was decided unanimously, which merged on January 1, 2015 as part of the municipal structural reform of Styria to form the new market town of Anger.

geography

Geographical location

Anger is located on the Feistritz , about 40 km northeast of Graz , 13 km northeast of the district capital Weiz and 10 km south of Birkfeld . The market town extends into the Almenland Nature Park .

Community structure

Since the municipal merger in 2015, Anger has been divided into eight districts (population as of January 1, 2020):

• Anger (818)
• Former community Feistritz bei Anger:
  • Oberfeistritz (720)
  • Viertelfeistritz (300)
• Former municipality of Baierdorf bei Anger:
  • Baierdorf Village (231)
  • Baierdorf area (903)
  • Fresen (459)
• Former municipality of Naintsch:
  • Naintsch (464)
  • Offenegg (100)

The market municipality is further divided into the six cadastral municipalities (area: as of December 31, 2017):

• Anger (198.07 ha)
• Baierdorf (1,631.82 ha)
• Naintsch (2,286.57 ha)
• Oberfeistritz (347.29 ha)
• Offenegg (473.22 ha)
• Viertelfeistritz (446.67 ha)

Neighboring communities

Five of the six neighboring communities are in the Weiz district.

Sankt Kathrein am Offenegg	Birkfeld	Pöllau ( district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld )
Thannhausen	Puch near Weiz	Floing

history

Roman and Slavic settlements

Anger was settled by residents of the Roman Empire in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD . In the second half of the 6th century the Slavs invaded Styria as a ethnic group . The Feistritz river flowing through Anger means 'raging brook' and indicates a Slavic settlement.

Waxenegg Castle, church in Anger and market rights

Waxenegg Castle (today: Waxenegg Castle Ruins ) was first mentioned in a document in 1217 as "Wesseneck" and is the earliest documented evidence of the entire area around Anger and the upper Feistritztal.

Anger itself was first mentioned in a document in March 1364. A few years later in 1379 the church in Anger received parish rights. The Church itself is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Andreas . Anger was first referred to as a market in 1389 .

Steinpeißhaus (Freihaus) zu Anger, Vierzehn-Nothelfer-Kirche

Stainpeißhaus with a memorial plaque and Anger parish church in the background

The Freihaus Anger ( Stainpeißhaus, also Steinpeisshaus ), which can still be visited today, is named after the owners, the von Steinpeiss family. They were once ministries of those von Stubenberg (noble family) , later barons and counts. The house was first named in 1351, according to the plaque hanging on the house. In 1477 the Hungarians destroyed the house. In 1507 it came to the barons of Teuffenbach zu Mayerhofen, who rebuilt it from 1591 to 1617. In 1807 it came into the possession of the von Gudenus (noble family). In 1988 the renovation and revitalization of the Stainpeißhaus took place.

The second church in Anger, the Vierzehn-Nothelfer- Church, was probably built before the Reformation , as the date carved into the west portal suggests it.

Basic subservience and its abolition

In 1556 there were 23 houses in Markt Anger. In 1650 there were 18 different professions in Markt Anger such as B. Lederer, linen weaver and potter, baker, draper, blacksmith. In 1663, Waxenegg, together with the two castles and subjects, came into the possession of the barons and later counts of Webersberg, who held the castle and rulership for a century. The Werbersberg family ultimately died out. Thereafter, Johann Graf Khevenhüller-Metsch acquired the Waxenegg estate and relocated the administration to Thannhausen.

The rule of Waxenegg changed at the beginning of the 19th century. After Karl August Fürst von Brentzenheim became the owner of the estate in 1799, Ferdinand Baron von Gudenus acquired both Waxenegg and the Steinpeißhaus in Anger in 1806 .

In 1848 the abolition of basic subservience took place, peasants and citizens became personally free owners of their property. The administration was taken over by newly created local congregations. The village and market judges became community leaders and mayors.

Associations and culture

In 1888 the volunteer fire brigade Anger was founded, in 1897 the "Angerer Musikverein". Both associations still exist today.

Towards the end of the 19th century, Anger became known as a summer resort, which was visited by many guests, especially from Hungary. The Hungarian musician and composer Béla Bartók , who stayed in Anger in 1921, was one of the most prominent holiday guests .

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In 1997 the Austrian football legend Toni Polster went on vacation to the community.

In 1911 the Feistritztalbahn was put into operation and the region was thus opened up to traffic.

Large community

On January 1, 2015, the surrounding communities of Baierdorf bei Anger, Feistritz bei Anger and Naintsch merged with Anger to form a new large community. This increased the area of ​​the municipality from 1.97 km² to 53.84 km². The population increased from 829 to 4,126 inhabitants. In terms of area and population, Anger is in 6th place in the Weiz district.

Culture and sights

Main square Anger

Anger with the ruins of the Wachseneck castle around 1830,
Lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz

See also:  List of listed objects in Anger

• Külml Castle
• Parish church Anger (with Jann organ)
• Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
• Local history museum Rauchstubenhaus
• Freihaus Anger or Steinpeißhaus

leisure offers

• Feistritztal cycle path R8
• Feistritztalbahn
• Anger outdoor pool

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Weizer Straße B 72 runs through Anger from Graz to Krieglach and the Feistritztalbahn from Weiz to Birkfeld .

Established businesses

Various small and medium-sized businesses or various local suppliers and banks. Larger companies have settled around Anger in the neighboring communities.

tourism

Together with Feistritztal, Floing, Puch bei Weiz and Stubenberg, the municipality forms the “Apfelland Stubenbergsee ” tourist association . Its seat is in Stubenberg.

education

• Kindergarten Anger
• Anger elementary school
• New Middle School Anger, Pedagogical Panther  2007
• Birkfeld Music School - Anger branch

politics

mayor

After the resignation of Josef Fetz, who has been in office since 1995, mayor is the head of the Weiz District Commission Hubert Höfler. He was unanimously elected mayor at the municipal council meeting on April 11, 2006. From January 1, 2015 until the new election, Höfler was appointed government commissioner .

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red on a silver three-mountain, a silver linden tree with its leafy branches filling the shield upwards and towards the edges."

Coat of arms history: The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on January 25, 2018. All predecessor municipalities each had a municipal coat of arms. Anger's market coat of arms can already be found on a seal stick from 1544 and shows a stylized linden tree on a hill on a red background. Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, all coats of arms lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015.

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  Anger coat of arms, officially since January 25, 2018

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  former coat of arms of Baierdorf bei Anger

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  former coat of arms of Feistritz near Anger

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  former coat of arms of Naintsch

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1968: Franz Wegart (* 1918; † 2009), Provincial Councilor
• 2017: Alois Almer
• 2017: Herlinde Almer
• 2020: Franz Neuhold, former mayor of Feistritz bei Anger
• 2020: Johann Schaffler, Former Mayor of Baierdorf bei Anger

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ferdinand Berger (1851–1925), politician ( CS )
• Josef Hollersbacher (* 1879; † 1951), politician ( CS )
• Hugo Dornhofer (* 1896; † 1977), politician ( center , CDU )
• Peter Stoppacher (* 1925; † 2008), politician ( ÖVP )
• Hannes Schwarz (* 1926; † 2014), painter
• Fritz Hakl (* 1932; † 2012), chamber actor and member of the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater
• Gerald Tychtl (* 1941), politician ( SPÖ )
• Joe Tödtling (* 1979), stunt man , stunt coordinator and actor

Personalities associated with Anger

• Lukas Schweighofer (* 1986), TV and radio presenter

Web links

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

• 61756 - Anger. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.anger.gv.at Website of the market town of Anger
• www.anger.st Website of the old parish of Anger (online, but no longer up-to-date since the merger)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 12, 2013 about the unification of the market community Anger and the communities Baierdorf bei Anger, Feistritz bei Anger and Naintsch, all political district Weiz. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 91, 28th issue. P. 552.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018
4. ↑ https://www.nachrichten.at/sport/fussball/fussball-international/90-M Minuten-die-das-Leben-des-Toni-Polster-veraenderten;art191891,1326521,C:: cme158001,1015409
5. ↑ The fourteen helpers in need from Anger ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2003 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. 
6. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 298. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 623.
7. ↑ Dr. Peter Härtel, Steirische Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft: Prize winners 2007. Contribution to the award ceremony for the winners of the Pedagogical Panther 2007, Graz-Burg, Weißer Saal, July 2, 2007 ( pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Lsr-stmk.gv.at)  
8. ^ Mayor RR Hubert Höfler. Retrieved April 22, 2019 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} 6. Announcement of the Styrian state government of 11 January 2017 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Anger (political district of Weiz) , accessed on 17 January 2018
10. ↑ Südost-Tagespost, November 19, 1968, p. 5.
11. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/weiz/c- Menschen / zwei-neue-ehrenbuerger- ernannt_a3865476 , accessed on June 1, 2020.